My friends and I stumbled upon another classic film last night. Silent Rage, which starred Chuck Norris. Nothing like watching a Norris film, the man is arguably on of the finest actors to ever grace the silver screen.
The film was originally released in 1982, and it shows. From the attire to the hair, clearly the wonderful early eighties. The plot involves the sheriff of a small town played by Chuck Norris who finds himself face to face with an unstoppable (until he met Chuck of course) bionic killing machine.
The fight scenes are vintage Chuck Norris. The music is really cool, lots of Casio synthesizers. Unfortunately we did miss the beginning, so I’m not too certain how John Kirby (the bionic killing machine) became the unstoppable force that he was in the film. This was a very entertaining film, mostly for the wrong reasons, but entertaining nonetheless.
I’m not sure how or why, but I wound up watching many very bad B horror films this weekend. The one that really stood out amongst the crop was Blood Diner. Scott picked it from what was available On Demand, and we all just sat there and watched. Apparently the film was form 1987 and involves two brothers who open a diner and kill people in hopes of resurrecting an Egyptian goddess Shitaar. Oh yeah, under the guidance of their uncles’s brain that lives in a jar.
There was also a wrestler by the name of Little Jimmy Hitler. So as I’m sure this post makes no sense, the film made even less. This movie was horrible, one of the worst I’ve ever seen. But the name Shitaar will forever be etched in the minds of those whom braved this film on that night. Looking for a really bad B horror film to laugh at then this gets the highest of recommendation.
Was hanging out with the Shepherd this afternoon and while thinking of something to do, he remembered that he had some movie passes that were due to expire soon. It would be just wrong to let something free go unused. So the big decision of what film to witness was now upon us.
After seeing that Rambo was showing at 3:50, without a moments hesitation it was decided that the film Rambo would be seen on this day. I grew up admiring and hoping to grow up to be a one man killing machine like John Rambo since Rambo: First Blood 2 came out back in 1985 (hard to believe it was that long ago).
The movie wasn’t that bad. By no means was it a great film that I would recommend that you must see, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. Granted it was one of the most violent films I’d ever seen. I couldn’t begin to try to count how many deaths occurred in just an hour and a half, but for an action film it rarely got dull. My favorite scene of all was when he detonated the WWII English bomb with the claymore. It was Rambo carnage at it’s finest.
