Movies
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Star Trek 6. The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek 6 begins like many of the previous Star Trek movies with titling against a starry sky. But the accompanying music score is uncharacteristically ominous. This creates certain expectations and the movie doesn’t disappoint. This is the last Star Trek movie with the TOS crew and it ends with a thriller in whodunnit in…
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Star Trek 5. The Final Frontier
After the 3 movie story arc spanning over Star Trek 2, 3 and 4 we have an independent story again in Star Trek 5. This movie is Spock versus anti-Spock aka Sybok in search of God. Sybok is a Vulcan half brother of Spock and a heretic that adheres to ways from before the Vulcans…
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Star Trek 4. The Voyage Home
This is the last movie of the story that began in Star Trek 2. After having found the reborn Spock on planet Genesis and giving him his Katra back on Vulcan we start off where Star Trek 3 ended and Kirk and crew including Spock go back to Earth to face trial. But in the…
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Star Trek 3. The Search for Spock.
The third Star Trek movie is a true sequel to the second one so you really should have seen the second one to understand the story. The first Star Trek movie on the other hand is an independent story which you can watch on its own. With the dramatic ending of the second movie and…
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Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder came out in 1983. It stars Roy Scheider as police helicopter pilot Frank Murphy and Warren Oates as his superior. It must have been the last movie of Warren Oates as he died in 1982 after suffering a heart attack. Malcolm McDowell plays the bad guy. Of course the real star of the…
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Star Trek 2. The wrath of Kahn
This second movie came out in 1982. We meet the crew of TOS again but now Kirk is an admiral with no more active duty. A legend at Starfleet, he has made a career only to find himself growing old in a position he doesn’t enjoy. But fate smiles upon Kirk and his crew when…
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Dredd
I watched Dredd (2012) about a month ago on NetFlix. I was browsing the catalog and came across Dredd. I mistook it for the old Judge Dredd movie with Sylvester Stallone from 1997. Even though I hadn’t seen the old one for roughly 20 years probably it didn’t take long to figure out I was…
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Star Trek. The Motion Picture
I recently decided to watch the Star Trek movies again. I watched them very long ago and thought it would be a bit of ‘brainless’ fun to watch them all in a short period of time. What better time to do so than a typical dreary Belgian summer. The first movie of the series came…
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First Blood
The Rambo character recently became a news item in Belgium because of the renegade soldier Jurgen Conings. I wrote a short post about this as his supporters compare him to the hero Rambo. But in First blood Rambo is not yet the revenging hero from the later movies. When the movie came out in 1982…
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The Breakfast Club
Last weekend we watched The Breakfast Club with the family. This movie from 1985 caused quite a stir when it came out. I remember watching it at the time while being in high school myself and loving it. I watched it multiple times but it cannot have been on regular tv. Probably it was on…
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