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Stand by Me (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
Stand by Me
8.1 (14 ratings) director: Rob Reiner actor: Wil Wheaton / River Phoenix
other title: Conta Comigo / Stand By Me - Das Geheimnis eines Sommers
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys’ adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
Snuff Bottle Connection (1977) IMDb WikiData
Shen tui tie shan gong
director: Richard Tung Chin-Hu / Lily Liu actor: John Liu / Hwang Jang-Lee
other title: Eine Prise für tödliche Pfeifen / La Conexión del Frasco de Jade
As China and Russia's governments are talking peace, traitorous agents on both sides seek war. Enter John Liu as a special agent sent to identify who the Russian traitor is, and who his contact is within the walls of the Forbidden City.
Jan. 18, 2026 watched
Kung fu film about treacherous imperialists, light on plot but strong on fights (thanks to action choreographer Yuen Wooping).

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
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Dark Breed (1997) IMDb WikiData
Dark Breed
director: Richard Pepin actor: Jack Scalia / Lance LeGault
other title: La stirpe / Dark Breed - Invasion aus dem All
Captain Saxon, an agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all infected with an alien parasite, and they were trying to bring its eggs back to Earth. The eggs were lost in an accident, and both Saxon and the astronauts are trying to locate them.
Rambo III (1988) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rambo III
director: Peter MacDonald actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna
other title: Rambo 3
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
Hot Fuzz (2007) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Hot Fuzz
7.5 (19 ratings) director: Edgar Wright actor: Simon Pegg / Nick Frost
other title: Hot Fuzz - Esquadrão de Província / Hot Fuzz - Zwei abgewichste Profis
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Jan. 16, 2026 watched
A parody of action movies while also a loving homage to action movies, with not one wasted line or frame!

Rewatched in #Comedon watch party on Mastodon
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New World Disorder (1999) IMDb WikiData
New World Disorder
director: Richard Spence actor: Rutger Hauer / Tara Fitzgerald
other title: File: programma mortale / New World Disorder - Das Killerprogramm
A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own plans for a security microchip worth millions of dollars. Psychopathic Bishop raids the Dynaphase facility and downloads the mainframe before the employees have a chance to completely erase their work from it. When Bishop discovers the value of the stolen, but partially erased information, he sets out after the rest of the chip design, letting nothing stand in his way.
Godzilla (1998) IMDb NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB Douban WikiData
Godzilla
director: Roland Emmerich actor: Matthew Broderick / Jean Reno
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
Jan. 12, 2026 watched
Long, limp facsimile of a Godzilla movie ripping off also Jurassic Park, Aliens etc while including as much corporate promotion as possible. Broderick, in particular, underwhelms.

Godzilla 98 is the Woodstock '99 of monster movies.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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The Sure Thing (1985) IMDb WikiData
The Sure Thing
director: Rob Reiner actor: John Cusack / Daphne Zuniga
other title: Sacco a pelo a tre piazze / Garota Sinal Verde
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures complement each other. Now they need to realize what they've already found before it's too late.
Code of Silence (1985) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Code of Silence
director: Andrew Davis actor: Chuck Norris / Mike Genovese
other title: Il codice del silenzio / Politiets Hemmelige Våben
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Jan. 11, 2026 watched
Why have Chuck Norris in a movie and NOT have him Chuck Norris the hell out of the baddies??? There was ONE punch in the 1st hour, and ONE actual fight scene in the last half-hour.

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party

Legit stream in MX:
Jan 2026: Prime (careful, there are two versions, one is dubbed)
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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Rambo: First Blood Part II
director: George P. Cosmatos actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna
other title: Rambo 2 - La vendetta / Rambo - First Blood 2
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Jan. 10, 2026 watched
Bombastic right-wing fantasy with one bemulleted, besteroided manly man single-handedly undoing the US defeat in Vietnam caused by, you know, people not "Real American" enough. (Yeah, my comment's a little bit political. But just a tiny sliver compared to the politics of the Rambo franchise.) But I loves me some action!

Re-watched in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon
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Hot Shots! (1991) IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban
Hot Shots!
6.5 (8 ratings) director: Jim Abrahams actor: Charlie Sheen / Cary Elwes
other title: Ases Pelos Ares / Hot Shots! - Die Mutter aller Filme
The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Joker's Poltergeist (2015) IMDb
Joker's Poltergeist
director: Christopher S. Lind actor: Eric Roberts / Lacy Marie Meyer
other title: American Poltergeist 4 - The Curse Of The Joker
After a clown-masked assailant guns down Aurora's Place, the resident theater owner fights to re-open her business.
Clue (1985) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Clue
7.5 (6 ratings) director: Jonathan Lynn actor: Tim Curry / Eileen Brennan
other title: Signori, il delitto è servito / Clue - O Jogo do Crime
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
霹靂十傑
director: Lau Kar-Leung actor: Hsiao Ho / Gordon Liu Chia-Hui
other title: I discepoli della 36a camera / Die Erben der 36 Kammern der Shaolin
Monk San Te tries to support and protect Shaolin and her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt Ching officials.
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
少林三十六房
director: Lau Kar-Leung actor: Gordon Liu Chia-Hui / Lo Lieh
other title: 36ª camera dello Shaolin / A Câmara 36 de Shaolin
During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.
Jan. 3, 2026 watched
Absolute classic of kung fu movies by Lau Karleung, starring Gordon Liu & Lo Lieh.

First watched in the 90s, rewatched ahead of #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon showing the loose sequel Disciples of the 36th Chamber.

Legit stream (as of Dec 2025):
https://youtu.be/NH4tL14PZvg
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First Blood (1982) Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB
First Blood
8.0 (6 ratings) director: Ted Kotcheff actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna
other title: Rambo / A Fúria do Herói
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Time Trackers (1989) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Time Trackers
director: Howard R. Cohen actor: Ned Beatty / Wil Shriner
When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, pursues him back to twelfth century England where - disguised as a damsel in distress - she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
Time Walker (1982) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Time Walker
director: Tom Kennedy actor: Ben Murphy / Nina Axelrod
other title: Pasajero del Tiempo / Time walker (Pasajero del tiempo)
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
Four Rooms (1995) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Four Rooms
director: Allison Anders / Alexandre Rockwell actor: Tim Roth / Jennifer Beals
other title: 4 Quartos / Groom Service
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.