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Robin Hood: Men In Tights

Robin Hood: Men In Tights In his later years, Mel Brooks has proven himself to be pretty hit or miss with his irrelevant movie comedy style that was perfected by the ZAZ team, and this effort, an attempt to skewer the Costner version of the story, is no exception, coming out with an extremely unfunny […]

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Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves

Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves The story of Robin Of Locksley (aka Robin Hood) is most likely a true one, an English nobleman who returned home from The Crusades in the early 1100s to find his homeland turned inside out from greed, corruption and pure evil, only to join up with an army of peasants […]

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Robocop

Robocop Call it a Grand Masterpiece, call it a Classic For The Ages, call it whatever, but Paul Verhoeven proved in 1987 when it came to gory sci-fi, he was second to none. Combining advanced (for its time) special FX with a gritty, low budget feel to it, Verhoeven expertly tells the story of a […]

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Robocop 2

Robocop 2 With the smashing success of Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop in 1987 the studios were keen on making a sequel, and quickly. Verhoeven himself dropped out of the game right off the bat, feeling that there was no artistic value in such an endeavor. His replacement generated some excitement in the form of Irvin Kershner, […]

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Robocop 3

Robocop 3 1987’s Robocop remains one of the great sci fi action classics of all time, a raw, gritty epitome of badass that took a chancey premise and, in the hands of visionary director Paul Verhoeven, achieved greatness with a surprising amount of simplicity in its own story as well. 1990 would see the release […]

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Rock N Roll High School

Rock N Roll High School This 1979 cult classic, an attempt by Roger Corman to recreate those 1950s teenage rock films where the kids just wanted to have their music to dance to against the wishes of the stuffy town elders, until some guest rock star rolled into town and taught them that hey, rock […]

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Rock Star

Rock Star In many ways a loving recreation and tribute to the 80s heyday of heavy metal arena rock, director Stephen Herek certainly gets the look right: the screaming crowds, the pyrotechnics, and the blow-dried pretty boy singers evoke that musical phenomenon at its height. As Chris Cole, leader of a tribute band to his […]

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The Rock

The Rock Before he became obsessed with making one boring, shitty, CGI filled movie after another featuring charisma free robots who can morph into everyday household items, Michael Bay was actually well on his way to becoming the greatest action movie director to ever live based entirely on his early credits which included Bad Boys, […]

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Rocky

Rocky If there can ever be said to have been a so called feel good movie that has proved to be so defining, so untoppable in concept and execution, that it has been defined by every generation afterwards as the ultimate underdog inspirational movie with nothing really ever having taken its place, then this can […]

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Rocky 2

Rocky 2 The art of the sequel was something that was often derided by critics back in the day, at least until the unholy modern day horror of remakes became more and more a Hollywood reality. This follow up to the 1976 groundbreaker that created an unforgettable lead character and made Sylvester Stallone into a […]