#Kickboxer (1989)

Van Damme seeks revenge against a kickboxer in Thailand who paralyzed his brother. He must train with a Mr. Miyagi type in a situation similar to Karate Kid and even his own movie Bloodsport from the previous year.

He trains in an Asian location and falls for a local girl, much like Karate Kid Part II. You know, these movies are all basically the same, but they work in the 80s.

Training montages are fun. Van Damme loved showing off his ability to do the splits, but it's taken its toll on him at his age, and he walks funny now. Still, these movies make me ashamed of how unathletic I am. If I took one hit to the shin, I'd be out for a week, but he's able to kick down a tree? I know it's just a movie, but still.

In the end fight, they put glass shards on their gloves to make things extra dangerous. The parody scene from Hot Shots! Part Deux instantly comes to mind. But after getting beaten mercilessly in the face with these punches, Van Damme barely has any wounds, which is kind of funny.

So once his brother is rescued and arrives to support him at the fight, all the stakes are gone. Van Damme simply beats the living tar out of this joker, despite being on the brink of a K.O. moments earlier. Don't you just love that second-wind logic?

What's the word on the sequels? I'll probably check 'em out some century.

Kenan Thompson & Kel Mitchell to Reunite for ‘Kenan & Kel Meet Frankenstein’
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3930192/kenan-thompson-kel-mitchell-to-reunite-for-kenan-kel-meet-frankenstein/

’90s teen comedy duo Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell are gearing up for a monstrous reunion. Mitchell joined Thompson on his Prime Video talk show “Good Sports” to break the news that they’re working on Kenan & Kel Meet Frankenstein. The former Nickelodeon stars will play delivery drivers whose routine drop-off takes a terrifying turn when […]
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Celeb Death Watch 2025 - We're coming for your grannies edition

Rules are simple:
Choose 10 celebs who you think will die in 2025 (must be alive at the time of posting)
scoring based on their age

10 = <20
9 = <30
8 = <40
7 = <50
6 = <60
5 = <70
4 = <80
3 = <90
2 = <100
1 = >= 100

CURRENT SCORES


Tromafreak 2 points

#RIP Bob Weir, singer and founding member of #GratefulDead.

This happened a few days ago, but I just heard about it. Some of their stuff was kinda weird, but American Beauty was a great album. He lasted 30 years longer than Jerry did.

Iran is in the middle of a revolution. Their power and internet has been cut, but Musk gave them free starlink so they can show the world what's going on. They're rejecting Islam, destroying mosques, and taking back their country. It's pretty wild and I'm all for it.

Wow! @Tromafreak gives Pearl a 10 star rating?! Where do you stand on X? I was personally underwhelmed by MaXXXine.

I watched a 5 hour sci-fi doc called #InSearchOfTomorrow (2022). It covers some of the roots of the genre, but focuses mostly on the 80s.

I like a lot of sci-fi, but this era is peak. My favorites lean into the more dark and dystopian. I've always really loved Alien, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Predator, RoboCop, and of course... Terminator. Robotics and tech have always fascinated me, and space stuff is really cool, too. Escape from NY and Mad Max 1 tend to get the sci-fi label, and they're great, but they're not very sci-fi other than that label of "Speculative Sci-Fi", but somehow, they fit right in.

Time-Travel is another great genre, though usually more fantastic in terms of not being feasible. Traveling faster than the speed of light? There's no sign of that happening any time soon, but it doesn't make movies like Back to the Future and Terminator any less fun.

I've never been on board with the Star Wars hype, but I will admit the first 3 movies are fun enough. They paved the way for space travel, aliens galore, robots, and planetary stuff to become common place in anything and everything after them, and it's literally about world-building, but they became pretty underwhelming after saturating the marketplace, especially recently.

Enough rambling on my end. What are your favorite sci-fi things? Movies or shows, specific eras, whatever. Lay it on me.

#PutHerInABikini is the latest AI prompt trend on X. You attach an image of someone and ask it to put her in a bikini and bam. It generates an image of said woman in such attire.

I'm a little peeved by it, because it seems to shrink every woman's breasts. Grok has a hard time believing certain women are as busty as they are, and sometimes when the breasts are excessively large, it generates a mutant.

AI is on a roll lately. Recently, you could ask Google "Is it 2027 next year?" and it would spit out this:

No, 2027 is not next year; 2027 is two years from now, as the current year (2026) is followed by 2027, and then 2028. Next year will be 2028, with 2027 being the year after that.

Be careful. These big tech corporations are going to take your job.

Let's talk about your DVD collections.

I'll be selling a bunch of mine soon. I can't justify having all these items taking up space in my room that I ignore forever, especially when streaming has made these collections completely obsolete. Obviously, I'll keep the classics and stuff I'll love forever, but I'm totally willing to part with a good chunk of it.

Some movies you love, and you gotta keep. Some movies you like, and that's not good enough anymore. It's weird how much the movie industry has changed, and how meaningless most of my collection has become. It's not like I watch the extras anyway, for 95% of them. And considering Hollywood is filled with so many elitist pieces of shit, I just don't have the appreciation for these actors and filmmakers that I once did.

What about you? Is your collection bloated, or are you efficient?

Thomas Dekker to Star in Giallo Short ‘Artichoke’ Produced by Dario Argento’s Granddaughter
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3923809/thomas-dekker-to-star-in-giallo-short-artichoke-produced-by-dario-argentos-granddaughter/

Anna Lou Castoldi, granddaughter of Italian master of horror Dario Argento and daughter of actress Asia Argento, will executive produce and narrate the giallo-inspired short Artichoke, Deadline reports. Alyson Gorske (“Obliterated”) is set to star as Cynara, a young woman trapped in a macabre fever dream, alongside Thomas Dekker (“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” A Nightmare […]
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