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4.3/10IMDb

10%Rotten Tomatoes

78% liked this film Google users

A TV-network boss (Kurt Fuller) pits a wrestler called Zeus against a wrestler called Rip (Hulk Hogan) in a racial match.Description

Release date: June 2, 1989 (USA)

Director: Thomas J. Wright

Budget: $8 million (estimated)

Distributed by: New Line Cinema

Box office: $16 million (USA)

Written by: Dennis Hackin

Mistakes were a made and some people didn't watch the movie. So, we did a free-for-all. Let's see if it turned out.

5.9/10IMDb

36%Rotten Tomatoes

39%Metacritic

87% liked this movie Google users

A high-school hero returns from the dead to take revenge against the psychotic drag racer who killed him. The murdered boy transforms himself into a hi-tech spirit in black leathers and sets out to do battle with a gang of desert-based car thieves led by the man who destroyed him.Description

Release date: November 21, 1986 (USA)

Director: Mike Marvin

Starring: Charlie Sheen; Nick Cassavetes; Sherilyn Fenn; Randy Quaid

Movie film location: Tucson, Arizona

Featured song: Smokin' in the Boys Room

Distributed by: Alliance Communications

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6.1/10IMDb

69%Rotten Tomatoes

50%Metacritic

81% liked this film Google users

Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT work… MOREDescription

Release date: April 8, 2022 (Canada)

Director: Michael Bay

Distributed by: Universal Pictures

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6.6/10IMDb

70%Rotten Tomatoes

4.1/5Vudu

81% liked this film Google users

Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) is a Texas Ranger who has taken a very different path than his childhood buddy, Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), a ruthless drug lord. While Benteen and Bailey are on opposites sides of the law, they share a common interest in the lovely Sarita Cisneros (Maria Conchita Alonso),… MOREDescription

Release date: April 24, 1987 (USA)

Show: Cine

Director: Walter Hill

Music by: Jerry Goldsmith

Story by: John Milius; Fred Rexer

Distributed by: Carolco Pictures, TriStar Pictures

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5.3/10IMDb

3.3/5Rate Your Music

78% liked this film Google users

When the wife and daughter of Army drill sergeant John North (Brian Bosworth) are killed during an arms deal involving a crooked FBI agent named Karl Savak (Bruce Payne), John decides to take matters into his own hands, only to discover that the henchman responsible for their deaths has been put int… MOREDescription

Initial release: December 10, 1995

Director: Kurt Wimmer

Distributed by: HBO

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7.5/10IMDb

96%Rotten Tomatoes

3.8/5Letterboxd

85% liked this film Google users

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.Description

Initial release: November 19, 2020

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Box office: $7,957,296

Budget: €5.3 million; ($6.4 million)

Distributed by: Nordisk Film

Languages: Danish, English

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8.8/10 MDb

97% Rotten Tomatoes

4/5 Common Sense Media

93% liked this film Google users

In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach), form an uneasy partnership -- Joe turns in the bandit for the reward money, then rescues him just as he is being hanged. When Joe's shot at the noose goes awry during one escapade, a furious Tuco tries to have him murdered. The men re-team abruptly, however, to beat out a sadistic criminal and the Union army and find $20,000 that a soldier has buried in the desert.

Release date: December 23, 1966 (Italy)

Director: Sergio Leone

Featured song: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Music composed by: Ennio Morricone

Box office: $31.4 million

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7.5/10IMDb

96%Rotten Tomatoes

3.8/5Letterboxd

85% liked this film Google users

Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.Description

Initial release: November 19, 2020

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Box office: $7,957,296

Budget: €5.3 million; ($6.4 million)

Distributed by: Nordisk Film

Languages: Danish, English

What we watched before we watched The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.