The VHS Strikes Back

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Dave’s choice this week, he knows Chris hates horror movies so he’s picked Hellraiser (1987). Chris gets his notebook out. Thats not aways a good sign. Plot Summary: When Kirsty's father, Larry, and stepmother, Julia, move into Larry's childhood home, Kirsty and her boyfriend take a room nearby. Unfortunately for all involved, Larry's house is already occupied: before the family's arrival, Larry's disreputable brother, Frank, used a supernatural puzzle box to summon a gang of other-dimensional demon sadists. Now, Frank requires a series of blood sacrifices to escape the clutches of Pinhead and the cenobites. Rotten Tomatoes: 70/100% Imdb: 7.0/10 Metacritic: 57/100% If there are any movies/tv shows you want Dave and Chris to review please contact them on the following links: email: [email protected] twitter: www.twitter.com/vhsstrikesback

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Chris picks a classic from his youth - Over The Top (1987)) starring Sylvester Stallone. This arm-wrestling romp was a childhood favourite of Chris’ but Dave doesn’t remember it as well. Plot Summary: Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind 10 years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son does not think too highly of him until he enters the World Arm Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas. His hope is to receive the grand prize of $100,000 and an expensive current custom semi-truck and thus start his own trucking company. Rotten Tomatoes: 27/100% Imdb: 5.8/10 Metacritic: 40/100% If there are any movies/tv shows you want Dave and Chris to review please contact them on the following links: email: [email protected] twitter: www.twitter.com/vhsstrikesback

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Dave ends his trilogy of movies with the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy Dumb and Dumber (1994).

Plot Summary:

Harry and Lloyd are two good friends who happen to be really stupid. The duo set out on a cross country trip from Providence to Aspen, Colorado to return a briefcase full of money to its rightful owner, a beautiful woman named Mary Swanson. After a trip of one mishap after another, the duo eventually make it to Aspen. But the two soon realize that Mary and her briefcase are the least of their problems.

Rotten Tomatoes: 67/100%

Imdb: 7.3 /10

Metacritic: 41/100%

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Dave and Chris bring From Dusk till Dawn (1996) to the table with this review. a Culture classic with famous Salma Hayek snake dance that made her a household name. Does it hold up 24 years later?

Plot Summary:

After a bank heist in Abilene with several casualties, the bank robber Seth Gecko and his psychopath and rapist brother Richard Gecko continue their crime spree in a convenience store in the middle of the desert while heading to Mexico with a hostage. They decide to stop for a while in a low-budget motel. Meanwhile the former minister Jacob Fuller is traveling on vacation with his son Scott and his daughter Kate in a RV. Jacob lost his faith after the death of his beloved wife in a car accident and quit his position of pastor of his community and stops for the night in the same motel Seth and Richard are lodged. When Seth sees the recreational vehicle, he abducts Jacob and his family to help his brother and him to cross the Mexico border, promising to release them on the next morning. They head to the truck drivers and bikers bar Titty Twister where Seth will meet with his partner Carlos in the dawn. When they are watching the dancer Santanico Pandemonium, Seth and Richard fight with three bodyguards. But soon they discover that the bar is a coven of vampires and they need to fight until dawn to leave the place alive.

Rotten Tomatoes: 57/100%

Imdb: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 62/100%

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Dave gets his wish and brings to the table one of his favourite Kung-Fu movies of all time - Snake in the Monkeys Shadow (1979). 

Chris - well I would give the show a listen....

Plot Summary:

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert leaves vowing vengeance. A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen seeks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. The boys learns and eventually meets and befriends the monkey style expert. When the boy beats up his previous tormentors, the nobles patriarch challenges the boys teacher, the drunken master, who defeats the lot of them. Embarrased, the nobles retain two hired snake style killers, one of whom is the expert that that was beaten by the monkey style. They kill everyone except the peasant boy, feeling he is to weak and unskilled to be worth their honour. The peasant combines drunken' boxing with monkey style in an attempt to put down the snake killers.

Rotten Tomatoes: 60/100%

Imdb: 7.0/10

Metacritic:  62/100%

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This week Chris and Dave are back reviewing the 1989 classic - Roadhouse starring Patrick Swayze. Chris has fond memories of this film and many a bad shoulder injury due to some of the memorable scenes. Dave hasn't seen this for years but does it still stand up? 

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Chris and Dave review the absolutely epic Gangster movie - The Godfather (1972). Dave has never seen this classic and Chris ranks it in his exclusive top 5 movies of all time!

Plot Summary:

The Godfather "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia family in New York. He is at the event of his daughter's wedding. Michael, Vito's youngest son and a decorated WW II Marine is also present at the wedding. Michael seems to be uninterested in being a part of the family business. Vito is a powerful man, and is kind to all those who give him respect but is ruthless against those who do not. But when a powerful and treacherous rival wants to sell drugs and needs the Don's influence for the same, Vito refuses to do it. What follows is a clash between Vito's fading old values and the new ways which may cause Michael to do the thing he was most reluctant in doing and wage a mob war against all the other mafia families which could tear the Corleone family apart.

Rotten Tomatoes: 98/100%

Imdb: 9.2/10

Metacritic:  100/100%

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Chris gets his wish and concludes ones of his greatest trilogies - No Retreat No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers. The guys rip this to pieces but does it turn Dave from being a bad movie to something he liked?

Plot Summary:

Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.

Rotten Tomatoes: 52/100%

Imdb: 5.2/10

Metacritic:  30/100%

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For our Christmas Day movie review we have gone back to Eddie Murphys breakout role in the 1983 Trading places with co-star Dan Aykroyd. Does this movie stand up and will Chris finally enjoy one of these festive period movies Dave had chosen?

Plot Summary:

Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.

Rotten Tomatoes: 87/100%

Imdb: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100%

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As we are in the middle of Christmas season we continue our reviews on the theme with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. A movie both of the guys loved but years later does it still hold up? Plot Summary: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon. Rotten Tomatoes: 65/100% Imdb: 7.6/10 Metacritic: 49/100% If there are any movies/tv shows you want Dave and Chris to review please contact them on the following links: email: [email protected] twitter: www.twitter.com/comicsinmotiop