All the hyperbole flowed through me this rewatch, just as it always does. All the crazy things I think about this movie every time I throw it on and bask in its blockbuster perfection. Insane things like the last hour of it being better than Goodfellas. Like the edit from Thor on Wakanda bellowing, “Bring Me Thanos!” to Thanos emerging from his purplish portal on Titan being better than the cut in Lawrence of Arabia between O’Toole blowing out the…

The first movie that captured my imagination as a child, viewed by a 7-year-old yours truly in the fall of 1984 on Count Dracula Presents, a horror host show here on our local MN UHF station. 41 years later I showed this and Bride of Frankenstein last night to my kids as part of a glorious double featch. They both claimed they didn’t want to watch a black and white movie, but by the end of it conceded that the…

It’s hilarious that Michael Berryman is the face of this franchise considering he’s about the least threatening or dangerous of any of the Hill Clan. He gets his ass kicked by a dog in the first movie and by his little sister in the second. Dude is absolutely worthless. 

Anyway…this movie sucks pretty hard. It’s a relief that Robert Houston sits this one out due to his PTSD from the first film, but the dipshit dirtbikers are almost as obnoxious…

Solidly well made film about desensitization and dehumanization. Slur machine Paxton is everything wrong with the grotesquely entitled sensibilities of the sexually nihilistic young American men that flourished during the Girls Gone Wild Bush aughts. It was unsettling to watch the attitudinal shift in this country away from the inclusive, Lillith Fair late 90’s to the aggressively misogynistic and homophobic date rape Nu-Metal mindset. We made enemies abroad while we waged war on women’s propriety at home as Maxim and…