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South Shore Movie Guild Review: The Ultimate Weapon (1998)

Dec12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, DTV, Full Reviews, Independent, Reviews Tagged absent father, bad accents, body shield, booby trap, broadsword, Canada, Canuxploitation, codenames, daughter, drive by, father, father-daughter relationship, hostage, hostage situation, Hulk Hogan, insanity, IRA, Irish, low-budget, mercenary, mine, nightmares, pimp, prostitutes, prostitution, Serbia, sidekick, special forces, SSMG, strip club, strippers, sword duels, terrorists, torture, United Nations

November 22nd, 2013: Black Belt Jones

Nov22 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Comedy, Crime, Espionage, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "martial arts", "Save the Old X", Alan Weeks, assassination attempt, bar, beach, blackmail, cash-in, Charles B. Pierce, Dennis Coffey, diplomats, dojo, double cross, drugs, Earl Jolly Brown, father, father-daughter relationship, Fred Weintraub, gambling debts, Gloria Hendry, gymnasts, IOU, Jim Kelly, karate, love montage, Luchi De Jesus, Mafia, Malik Carter, Marla Gibbs, militants, montage, Paul M. Heller, pool hall, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Robert Clouse, Robert Wall, Scatman Crothers, secret agent, sidekick, Sonny Barnes, teacher student relationship, Ted Lange, Warner Brothers

May 26th, 2013: El Dorado (1966)

May26 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Western Tagged "that girl can shoot", alcoholic, before they were famous, Christopher George, comedic alcoholic, comic relief deputy, deputy, Ed Asner, Howard Hawks, James Caan, John Wayne, knife thrower, old men, old timer, Paramount Pictures, Paul Fix, R. G. Armstrong, rancher, recovering alcoholic, revenge, Robert Mitchum, shotgun, sidekick, teens, water rights

October 8th, 2011: Better Off Dead…(1985)

Oct8 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Black Comedy, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Stop Motion Animation Tagged Amanda Wyss, attempted suicide, big dance, CBS Entertainment Productions, competition, cult, Curtis Armstrong, Dan Schneider, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, duel, dysfunctional family, Elizabeth Daily, exchange student, fantasy sequence, France, John Cusack, Kim Darby, montage, musical interlude, out of touch parents, paperboy, Savage Steve Holland, sidekick, skiing, snobs vs. slobs, sports announcer, Steven Williams, Taylor Negron, teens, training sequence, Vincent Schiavelli

September 10th, 2011: The Streetfighter (1974)

Sep10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged cash-in, double cross, grindhouse, heiress, heterosexual life partner, hit man, homoerotic subtext, Japan, kidnapping, Masafumi Suzuki, mercenary, oil company, oil crisis, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, sidekick, Sonny Chiba, stilted dialogue, Toei Company, Triad Gangsters, World War Two, Yakuza

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