WTF is up with those #UniversalSoldier sequels?

The first one came out in 1992 when Van Damme was kicking ass. It's an okay film. I'd see them selling copies of it all the time at the grocery store back in the day.

Six years later, they did 2 back-to-back DTV movies. I finally watched them. The second was okay at best, featuring Gary Busey as the main villain and a recast Luc Devereaux. The new guy did an okay job as the stoic bad-ass. The third one kinda sucked, though.

This was 1998 mind you, and these two films were chock-full of 90s alternative music to the point of being distracting and feeling out of place. My sister and I were laughing at their failed attempts to be cool.

Both sequels featured Burt Reynolds as the bad guy pulling the strings. They set it up for a TV show continuation, but at that point, nobody cared to follow up that thread, because while they were making these shit-shows, Van Damme was making his own proper sequel. That's why I find this whole mess so confusing.

So Van Damme comes back to put the series back on the right track. It's not exactly the same vibe as the original, but I still enjoy the movie. Audiences, however, did not, and the movie killed the franchise for another 10 years.

So Van Damme comes back to put the series back on the right track. Again. This time is more fitting because it's violent and also has Dolph again, even though it makes no sense how they can keep bringing him back after he gets obliterated, but whatever. It's a decent entry.

Then, they throw all that out the window and make Van Damme the bad guy for the next one, and Scott Adkins (usually a bad-ass) is constantly getting his ass kicked throughout the entire movie. And Dolph is back again when there's no plausible way for that to happen. So yeah, I'm not sure wtf is going on with this series.

Happy #FridayThe13th!!

The first of three this year: February, March, and November. Allow me to blather on, because there's some "news". As for stupid things, the short film "Sweet Revenge" was taken down a while ago and for no reason, so if you didn't see it when it came out, you're fucked.

The TV show is still in the works, but Harry Manfredini is reportedly attached to do at least some small bit of the score, which is awesome. A Jason movie isn't a Jason movie without his score, as evident with the 2009 movie. This show will probably get released in another 10 years at the rate it's been going.

Since the lawsuit is apparently over, there are murmurings of a new movie. I wont hold my breath just yet.

And NECA is finally putting out a Part 8 and a Jason Goes to Hell figure (versions from "The Game"), so they already have my money. I recently grabbed a re-release of the Part 3 figure, because I'm such a sucker.


Now, the hardest part of my day... figuring out which of the movies I'll watch tonight...

TV Challenge 2026

Watch as much TV as you possibly can throughout the entirety of February and get 1 point for every minute watched.

Can be TV shows or documentaries. But no YouTube stuff.

Some possible bonus points:

If you watch an entire season of a show, in which each episode lasts over 40 minutes, you can claim an extra 50 bonus points per episode. For any show over 20 minutes, 25 bonus points per episode.

Starts today and ends on 28th Feb at 23:59 hours.

‘Friday the 13th’ Composer Harry Manfredini Is Working on ‘Crystal Lake’
https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3935678/friday-the-13th-composer-harry-manfredini-is-working-on-crystal-lake/

Original Friday the 13th composer Harry Manfredini is heading back to “Crystal Lake.” Brad Caleb Kane (“IT: Welcome to Derry”), showrunner of A24’s upcoming prequel series, shared the news on Instagram. “Lunch with the maestro and composer of the iconic [Friday the 13th] Ki Ki Ki Ma Ma Ma theme [Harry Manfredini]. Cookin’ up some […]
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#HarryManfredini #BradCalebKane #FridayThe13th #TV

#NewFeature: Multiplayer Games

Not exactly new, but an improved version of the casino games that used to be on here, and a few more. Also included is the return of the infamous shoutbox, but only for game lobbies, and the chats only retain the latest 20 messages. I'm calling you out, @VincentPriceIsRight.

The games include the following:

#Battleship: Position your ships and alternate attacks on coordinates to sink each other's boats. Just like that stupid game, but simple games are good coding practice.

#Blackjack: 1 to 4 players with the lobby host as the dealer. Same as before with a few fixes and "splits" work now.

#Checkers: Regular checkers with a few visual updates.

#Chess: A game I originally put up on TE years ago, but now it's more efficient and probably coded more accurately.

#Connect4: I remember znep mentioned we should have this, and he never played it when I put it up. Not once.

#GoFish: 1 to 4 players. Ask a specified player for a card to get the most books. I don't hate this game.

#GuessWho: This is a pretty stupid game, but I made it somewhat more interesting by adding custom character sets. You can guess characters from Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. First to win 5 rounds wins the game.

#WheelOfFortune: Another returning game where the host can input a custom puzzle or have it selected at random from a few themes: It's Always Sunny, Trailer Park Boys, Rickyisms, and Terminator. Feel free to recommend more.


I have a few more complicated ones in the works, which I'll probably forget about. I've tested these games, but there may be bugs here and there. If you encounter any errors and you're on desktop and familiar with developer tools, report the console errors to me so I can fix it.

#RIP James Van Der Beek. I never watched Dawson's Creek because I'm not a chick, but he was great in The Rules of Attraction. Cancer is a bitch. It also got the singer of 3 Doors Down Brad Arnold. A two or three hit wonder as far as I'm concerned, but still good songs.

@Tromafreak, what's the verdict on Marshmallow? I saw it streaming somewhere and had a vague interest.

What's going on...at Nuke 'em High?

It's been a number of years since I had last seen the original Class of Nuke 'em High, but I watched it three times in the past week, because my wife fell asleep the first two times, and she wanted to finish it.

I now feel a greater appreciation for it than ever before. Of course it will always live in the Toxic Avenger's shadow, but I think it's a minor classic in its own right.

First of all, the soundtrack fucking rocks. And the monster actually looks really cool. It helps that you never really get that great of a look at it.

And of course The Cretins are fun. They're over the top ridiculous, as any badass gang in an 80s movie should be. I like that they each have their own unique look and personality. One of them is just a normal looking guy with tits (gender bending was about as outrageous as you could get at the time). I really like the girl Cretin, Muffey, who seems to be fucking all the other Cretins. She has my favorite line in the movie. "God bless America, limp dick!" Her perfect delivery is what really sells it.

And I like Warren's idiot friends, Eddie and Greg, who would be right at home in any of the millions of sex comedies that came out in the 80s.

Oh and Chrissy is so incredibly fucking hot. I remember when I first saw it thinking her nipples were really weird. I was very young and very stupid.

It does have a fair amount of plot holes, and a lot of funny sounding ADR lines but as Eddie said about the radiation in the school, "Who gives a shit?!"

#Kickboxer5 (1995)

The subtitle is "Redemption", but it's hardly that. The movie begins and already, we killed off the protagonist of the last 3 movies off-screen. WTF is this shit? This franchise seriously has no integrity at this point. Just because the star isn't able to come back doesn't mean you have to demean all their progress. I'm electing to ignore that plotpoint and assume he faked his death or some such nonsense, because he was already working for the government in some capacity in the last film.

Anywho, Mark Dacascos takes over as the lead character, but there's never any real kickboxing tournament. They talk about one, the guy refuses, they decommission him, so Dacascos seeks revenge on his behalf. He's actually a martial artist in real life, so he seems more legit than David Sloan, who never fully had me convinced that he knew how to fight. But again, no real kickboxing here, and did I mention how DTV this movie felt? The full frame, grainy video, and small scope don't do this movie any favors.

I just watched a movie called #Terminator2. Perhaps you've heard of it? Well, I read an interesting theory not too long ago in regards to people nitpicking that T2 shouldn't exist based on the events of the first movie, particularly Reese's line about them sending, "just him... and me".

When T2 starts, that idea is thrown out the window when Sarah says Skynet sent back two terminators. One could argue why they didn't send the T-1000 back to kill Sarah when she would be less prepared for it. The solution to this dilemma was actually pretty simple. Most people assume they were sent back in the order of the films: The T1 characters sent first, then the T2 characters. It actually makes sense to think of it the other way around.

Skynet sent back their best prototype to kill John directly, so Tech-Com sends back the best bet against it, a reprogrammed T-800. Then, Skynet has nothing better than a T-800, so they try sending that after Sarah as insurance, and Tech-Com has no time to set up another T-800, so they send back Reese. That could explain him not knowing about Uncle Bob.