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I didn't put The Gong Show Movie as a Favorite Film to be ironic. I'm good like that.

Favorite films

  • Blade Runner
  • A Boy Named Charlie Brown
  • Schindler's List
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★★½

  • Demolition University

    ★★½

  • Demolition High

    ★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★★

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  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024

    ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

    The movie's provenance is cloudy. It started life as an HBO Max premiere, was scrapped for that, and then was sold to a distributor named Ketchup for theatrical release. (I know they've done more than just this, but Ketchup also released that orphaned Ben Affleck movie that I am too lazy to go look up--it was the one Robert Rodriguez directed. But I digress.)

    I am not super-sure why Warners decided this was not a project they wanted much to…

  • Demolition University

    Demolition University 1997

    ★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

    So, in the same way Sean Connery returned to James Bond in 1983 for Never Say Never Again, Corey Haim revisits his role as Lenny Slater, last seen in Demolition High a year earlier. (It's his second sequel, having given us another adventure as Dinger in Dream A Little Dream 2 in 1995, which was about, like, sunglasses that could tell the future or whatever.) It probably won't surprise you to learn he is again caught up in a bit…

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  • Demolition High

    Demolition High 1996

    ★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

    Jim Wynorski makes the most "Die Hard On A--" movie in the genre. Essentially the makers of this saw the 1988 Bruce Willis classic and possibly a news story about a high school shooting and "peanut buttered into chocolated" it into this admittedly non-classic.

    Corey Haim, in his "direct-to-video action movie dibble dabble" era, at age 25, plays Lenny Slater, a new kid in town who we learn...um, nothing about. Oh, fellow Canadian cut-up and partially responsible for Kirk Cameron…

  • The Bonfire of the Vanities

    The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990

    ★★★½ Rewatched 15 Jan 2025

    Hollywood debacles are interesting. Some movies that are colossal bombs (critically and commercially) manage to escape that as what defines them. Heaven's Gate (1980) was THE bomb (and is still referenced as a defining film of the type) but would later go on to be reappraised as a classic (even making it to the hallowed halls of the Criterion Collection). This film, however, has had no further evaluation. It is barely ever mentioned, except as a low point in all…

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