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klu9 ,
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I love Encounters , adding Basket Case to my wishlist

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Hmmm, the opposite end of the spectrum from "ultra"? (Ultraman was also taken)

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I just realized the people below the title on that poster look like they're from Logan's Run.

klu9 ,
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Just watched & enjoyed it. Definitely better than much of Full Moon's later Romanian output.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/9d7b192d-e0e6-4bb6-ad50-01ed590e6a27.webp
Stop-motion dino skeleton chomp!

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b9a35d77-1f8a-4782-934c-2112818fa9fc.webp
Mordrid in his Cuban Pete outfit. Boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom!

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/31257318-87ca-4a53-81ca-367a60b7043b.webp
Kabal will devastate the mortal world with the power of mullet!

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b9fd63aa-94dc-41f4-8ab8-021f82b0a8d3.webp
Even Little Mullet Boy is awed by Kabal's mullet

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It's definitely the one you should show if the kids ask for Minions :D

klu9 OP ,
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I missed it myself because that's when the washing machine repairman finally arrived.

klu9 OP , (edited )
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As perishthethought said

  • prepare to watch the movie itself whatever way you can/want (your own physical media, locally stored file, whichever streaming service offers it in your area)
  • everyone starts the movie when the 'host' posts "press play now" on Mastodon
  • participants proceed to post about it on Mastodon, including in their posts the hashtag (and sometimes also a hashtag with the name of the movie)

For , the rotating 'host' of the party (the person who chooses the movie) often includes a streaming link in their Mastodon announcement or in the event details in the watch party calendar (go down to the calendar, scroll calendar to the relevant date, then find and click on the event name; a popup will show more info on the event. E.g. a copy of the movie on YouTube https://youtu.be/xxeDmjgSS1I )

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Post body originally said "Saturday 18th August", now corrected to Monday 18th August.

klu9 OP ,
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AAA all-time fave, hopefully appeals to folks here who'll join in the watch party tomorrow

klu9 OP ,
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Ghosts of Tsushima is from 2020, but Victor Wong (Egg Shen in BTiLC) died in 2001. But who knows with AI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Wong_(actor,_born_1927)

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No, not a B movie but I thought there might be fans here who'd like to join in.

The watch party is over now, but we all had a great time watching it.

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Someone in the watch party said their local cinema in 1986 showed BTiLC and Highlander (also from 20th Century Fox) in a double bill all summer, didn't say which came second.

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No worries!

BTW there will be a next time, as an August 'season' of BTiLC & other Kurt Russell movies are an annual event. (Tomorrow on will show Used Cars and for it will be Escape From New York see https://piefed.social/post/1154200 for more info

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Thanks, fixed it by just doing sudo apt update and trying again.

klu9 ,
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Just watched it.

The plot, the acting, the effects, the pacing... none of them were anywhere near as bad as I was expecting. They were often downright good. Is this movie... kind of great???

Thanks so much for the recommendation!

Scene from the movie 'Eliminators' - Nora looks coquettishly at John - the caption reads "Oh boy, I sure hope this one's fully functional!"

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In hindsight, that could look a bit like a corpse, so let me say that's Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 2 (1994) and his character there is alive. Just passed out after a night of heavy drinking, after which the baddies humiliated him by leaving him like this.

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That final fight with Ken Lo is simply astounding and why I just rewatched DM2. There's a video breaking it down as the best fight scene of all time (it took four months to shoot).

So I watched the whole film again last night. An absolute delight.

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Yeah, I've never seen her in anything else and she doesn't even merit a Wikipedia page. Although she has more credits than I expected on IMDb. (Of course, the top feature of that page is the trailer for Laser Mission. :D )

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Glad you're enjoying it :D

klu9 OP ,
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Enjoy!

(Although I may have oversold the repartee...)

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This came out the year after, I think.

There's an alternate poster, but still focused on climbing (which is like 0.001% of the movie).

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/c8bd2071-7b46-4825-94e3-48627f2164f1.avif

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:) Glad you enjoyed it.

klu9 OP ,
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Which link got redirected there? Tubi? Plex? Other?

klu9 OP ,
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Oh.

I mean, Arrr, matey. :)

Totally not bookmarked.

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For us Gen Xers, there were a hell of a lot of cheap scifi action flicks in the video rental heyday of the 90s. Including quite a few in the Venn diagram overlap of "future dystopia" + "cyborgs" + "kickboxing".

I always assumed it was Albert Pyun movies like Cyborg (JCVD) and Nemesis (Olivier Gruner). (Pyun was casting kickboxers as movie leads practically until he died in 2022.) However I see the Community wiki says (but without any citations) Robocop and Cyber Tracker (Don Wilson) (it is now in my watchlist). And then I found this other Don Wilson movie with the "future dystopia" + "cyborgs" + "kickboxing" overlap.

Unless the writers come out and tell us exactly which movies inspired Kickpuncher, we're left guessing.

PS I wonder if they have, maybe answering audience questions at a convention.

The artist of the Kickpuncher comic doesn't clear up the issue here:

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You're welcome :)

klu9 ,
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Watched and enjoyed this the other night. Too much fan service from Newmar & Takei, not enough Divoff and Vander (vamping and hamming to the moon and back), just the right amount of Shatner.

I also watched the Rifftrax version... chuckled maybe 3 times.

Screenshots

shatner-stein
Captain Kirk does his cowboy-themed intro

Mr Homn
Mr Homn makes his Western-themed entrance

Jim Beam
Lieutenant Sulu does his Trek-themed self-abasing fan service

Red Eye gang
I'm not saying Musetta Vander's costume reveal is the single greatest moment in cinematic history... but it's damn close!

Night scorp
Night scorp! (during the daytime...)

Divoff prospector
Andrew Divoff played alien bad guy Red Eye but also cameoed as this crazy prospector I wish had got his own spinoff sitcom.

klu9 ,
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Awesome recommendation, thanks! Gotta watch some more of those Triple B movies.