A likeable concept with a nice cast of characters, Jocks is a movie ruined by its plot so thin and incoherent it feels like they made up the manuscript and dialogue as the film was rolling.
80s-o-meter: 81%
Total: 47%
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#161 The Burning (1981)
A clone of the slasher genre classic Friday the 13th this blatant would usually be sacrilegious – but luckily The Burning manages to improve on its role model in almost every aspect.
80s-o-meter: 61%
Total: 68%
#160 Blue Steel (1989)
Blue Steel, a promising concept of a fresh-out-of-school cop getting involved in fatal shooting takes a wrong turn to the Hollywood fantasy land and ends up being very generic – and highly unrealistic.
80s-o-meter: 81%
Total: 55%
#159 D.O.A. (1988)
As stylish a remake of a 50s film noir classic D.O.A. might be, it clings on too much in its original roots and never really invents itself in a positive way.
Meg Ryan who is usually strong in her roles is totally lost here in her leading role as the femme fatale.
80s-o-meter: 44%
Total: 61%
#158 The Big Town (1987)
Matt Dillon – who just might be the coolest white dude alive – plays the role of a small town hustler gone to big leagues immacutely, and makes this retro noir single handedly worth watching.
80s-o-meter: 17%
Total: 82%
#157 Turner & Hooch (1989)
”That other dog buddy-cop movie of 1989″ is pretty much on par with James Belushi’s K-9, but Tom Hanks’ comedic ingenuity ensures that Turner & Hooch ends up being the superior one of the two.
80s-o-meter: 88%
Total: 84%
#156 K-9 (1989)
K-9 is an eighties buddy cop action comedy with a canine twist, and a professional piece of work from start to finish – albeit somewhat predictable and unimaginative.
80s-o-meter: 85%
Total: 79%
#155 Night Train to Terror (1985)
Everyone likes a good horror anthology so I did not initially mind firing up Night Train to Terror. The movie’s setup and premise is an interesting one: God and Satan are on board of a train on its way to eventual destruction, having a conversation and sharing stories. Also on the board is some sort of pop band, whose dull performances we are subjected to watch throughout the movie – the first shortcoming of the movie in the long list of forthcoming faux-pas.
Instead of being a real horror anthology the movie presents us with three full length movies – some previously unreleased – cut down to short story form. Although many of the horror movies I’ve seen to date would’ve worked much better in a shorter form before turning repetitive, here the end result is just odd, with the plot becoming really hard to follow. To overcome this the director had to resort to dubbing in a narrative voice, which is always something of a panic design choice.
Out of the three segments the first one is totally unwatchable mess, second one has an interesting premise of something of a suicide club, but tries to cram in far too much content into its short running time. The final part is the least outrageous, but also seems to be the best movie of the bunch and is cut in a way that still seems to make sense.
The main effort in the cutting room has seemed to gone into including all the gory special effects – and admittedly they are the best aspect of this uneven mess of a movie.
80s-o-meter: 80%
Total: 38%
#154 Body Slam (1986)
A scoundrel of a rock manager gets into wrestling business in a 2-bit comedy called Body Slam that on surface has failure written all over it, but manages to be pretty loveable and entertaining experience.
80s-o-meter: 89%
Total: 79%