Film: Teen Wolf (1985)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9 - Double Sided


"It's not going to well is it?"
"Well, Christ, Thorne, look at the shoes on those guys. If our guys had shoes like that there's no telling what they could do."

Review: Teen Wolf is a pleasant comedy that I have enjoyed watching on TV many times. That's it, that's my review.

"Look Scotty, I know what you're going through. Couple years back, a kid came to me much the same way you're coming to me now, saying the same thing that you're saying. He wanted to drop off the team. HIS mother was a widow, all crippled up. She was scrubbing floors. She had this pin in her hip. So he wanted to drop basketball and get a job. Now these were poor people with real problems. Understand what I'm saying?"
"What happened to the kid?"
"I don't know. He quit. He was a third stringer, I didn't need him."

3 out of 5 Stars

Film: Midnight Run (1988)

DVD: Anamorphic


"I suffer from aviaphobia."
"What does that mean?"
"It means I can't fly. I also suffer from acrophobia and claustrophobia."
"I'll tell you what: if you don't cooperate, you're gonna suffer from fistophobia."

Review: I can never get enough of road movies and this is a great one. Charles Grodin constantly annoying Robert DeNiro as they cross the country is gold. Lots of cigarettes smoked and profanity spewed.

"I never took a payoff in my life and I'm not gonna start with someone like you."
"Why not?"
"Because you're a fucking criminal and you deserve to go where you're going and I'm gonna take you there and if hear any more shit outta you: I'm gonna fucking bust your head and I'll put you back in that fucking hole and I'm gonna stick your head in the fucking toilet bowl and I'm gonna make it stay there."

"You have two emotions, silence and rage."

4 out of 5 Stars

Film: The Jungle Book (1967)

DVD: Enhanced 16x9


"His name is Mowgli, and I'm taking him back to the man village."
"Man village? They'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him."

Review: This is one of my favorite Disney movies. I practically know the film's entire dialogue by heart from the endless times I listened to the audio tape as a child. The film is filled with great characters and songs.

"Now this takes the brains, not the brawns."
"You better believe it and I'm loaded with both."

4 1/2 out of 5 Stars

Film: Commando (1985)

DVD: Anamorphic


"Why don't they just call him Girl George? It would cut down on the confusion."
"Oh, Dad, that is so old."
"Ha Ha. You know, when I was a boy and Rock'n'Roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive... Maybe they were right."

Review: This is a great over-over-over-the-top action flick with Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Commando trying to rescue his daughter taken hostage. It plays almost as a fantasy as one man takes on a hundred in a climatic battle where he hits everything he aims at and seems impervious to harm. There is a lot of humor from the one-liners and the cartoon violence.

"You scared motherfucker? Well, you should be because this Green Beret is going to kick your big ass."
"I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now I'm very hungry."

"Come on, Bennett, throw away the chicken-shit gun. You don't just want to pull the trigger, you want to put the knife in me, and look me in the eye, and see what's going on in there when you turn it. That's what you want to do, right?"
"I can kill you, John!"
"Come on, let the girl go, just between you and me. Don't deprive yourself of some pleasure. Come on, Bennett, lets party!"

4 out of 5 Stars