Movies

#79 – Number One with a Bullet

Movie Nerds, Last week we finally got around to watching another forgotten Cannon Gem from the 80’s. “Number one with a Bullet”. A hard boiled cop thriller with a conspiracy that goes ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP. We initially assumed that Billy D WIlliams was going to be the star of this film, but we were mistaken it’s ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ star Robert Carradine  doing his best BAD BOY COP WHO PLAYS BY HIS OWN RULES. But he pretty much just sounds like a whiney jerk the whole time.

#78 – Life Force

Movie Naked Vampires,  Another Cannon masterpiece of 1980’s schlock. This movie is a little bit of everything, star wars, alien, zombies, vampires, poltergeist, young patrick stewart, BEWBS, loads of SWEET BEWBS.  What started out as an attempt to screenshot all these sweet boobs turned into me trying to explain in image form why these people were screaming at each others faces and then running around London. 

#77 – The Ice Pirates

Movie Pirates,  We did it again, another loop around the list. We were firmly in the grasp of the Nostalgia Bill’s with this pick. Ice Pirates from 1984! Which I discovered in a video store sometime in the mid 90’s I remember thinking, hey, this is fun! and then instantly forgot it existed for 20 years. 

#76 – Death Race 2050

Movie Drivers,  Last week we watched Death Race 2050… man I don’t remember anything great about this movie. I think it’s one of those horror comedy sequels that once had some kind of subversive message in the 70’s but that has been lost with each generation. This isn’t a sequel to Death Race… or Death Race 2… or Death Race 3 : Inferno. It’s a true sequel to Death Race 2000 from 1975. and it’s got that same ‘murder is funny’ / ‘fans of this race being suicidal weirdos’ thing that never makes sense in any movie.

#74 – Stryker

Movie Desert Warriors,  Last week Q picked a movie from the catalog of forgotten 80’s knockoffs and it did not disappoint. Stryker from 1983 is a movie that combines some (the best?) parts of Star Wars, Mad Max, Flash Gordon, A boy and his Dog, and just about any other 80’s sci-fi fantasy. 

#73 – Rad

Movie Night BMXers, Well it finally happened, We came to the point where I could no longer let you guys continue on without seeing RAD. This was my favorite movie when I was 8-13 years old. But I don’t think I ever actually owned a legit copy. We rented it almost every week from the video store on VHS, then eventually I think my dad taped it off of HBO. 

#72 – The Thing

Movie Viewers who are secretly infected by an alien virus,  Another week, another movie, another good movie! We watched ‘The Thing’ from 1982. We watched mostly for Kurt Russell’s amazing hat, but the special effects also held up really nicely. There can be shitty physical effects from the 80’s that don’t hold up, these are awesome. 

#71 – A Boy and his Dog

Movie Apocalypse Survivors,  Last week in the year 2017 we watched what will happen after World War 4 in 2024. We took down an epic movie night albatross that has been tempting us from the beginning. A Boy and His Dog (1975)Like most movies from 1975 this one dragged in places… but also had things that you’d never see in modern movies (so much cheerful rape!) but that ending thou…