*Add to that the fact that the previous seven years had been ass and
elbows absorbed into a relatively well known and cherished film
franchise called Star Wars, and Dune likely felt like The Beastmaster did for audiences after seeing Conan The Barbarian*

I recall at least one scene from the screenplay that didn't make it to the screen, but sounded like it would have been pretty cool. If they really were going to revisit that sort of stuff, it might be worthwhile, but that line about it being a “a modern-day paranoid action thriller about two brothers” makes it sound…

I don't think there was much about the Vietnam angle that wouldn't work equally well substituting Afghanistan or Iraq. As others have pointed out here, the original was set a few years in the past to make its Vietnam angle work. There's no reason this couldn't be done as a period piece in order to optimize the New…

The Car was originally released in theaters (oddly enough, given the production values). The others were, indeed, made-for-TV.

I made that observation back when this first appeared at festivals, and based on this review I think it's part of the conceit here — that the character won the medal as a teen before she developed, and that her subsequent "balance" issues ended her career as much as did the injury.

Heroin chic before it was chic?

But we've already leased the McLaren!

Speaking personally, that story is timeless.

I took a course in the early '90s with an attorney who'd been handling pro bono criminal defense cases with a top-tier Philadelphia law firm since the 1950s. He thought it was puzzling how the public had the impression that the legal system had "gotten soft" in the '70s because, in his experience, the courts in those…

You can have cookies while watching Dirty Harry. I'm pretty sure I've done it myself.

His story is even more tragic than the invasion of the Fackland Islands…

Stimpy's "I made them myself" line is one I often reference on the rare occasions I make something myself.

I enjoy How It's Made, but I kind of wonder how much of it's originally produced, and how much is just re-edited industrial films. At worst I guess it's still a good venue for those sorts of things that you used to have to catch at 3:00AM on commercial TV back in the pre-cable days.

Seems silly to me too. You never see the sci-fi fans half-assing their cosplay like that.

I note that the costumers put the armband on the wrong arm.

When I originally saw it in the theater, there was a guy who'd brought two kids in the 8-10-year old range, who were kind of loud and annoying until it started, but very quiet thereafter.

Meps!

That's a pretty great action movie concept, that I hope gets reused, unlike the many lame ones that often are anyway.

Which, of course, should have been your cue to mumble "No autographs…"

I still occasionally drop the line: "Port of Call: Bayonne, NJ".