Showing posts with label 1980s Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s Movies. Show all posts

Friday, April 3, 2020

The Dead Zone - A Quite Intelligently done Psychological Thriller adapted from Stephen King's novel with Good Performance from Christopher Walken

During the past 2 weeks while the whole day I worked from home, the rest of the time I spent it by catching up various TV series and watching cable TV. There was 1 channel that I like named Hits Movies which specifically shows movies from the year 1990s and before. It was good for me as it has some movies that I could rewatch or some that I had never seen. Like last night it showed this movie adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same title. Anyway, I really felt like writing this one. So here goes.

Brief Story Line

John Smith (Christopher Walken - The Jungle Book live version, Catch Me if You Can etc) was a school teacher who was in serious relationship with fellow teacher named Sarah (Brooke Adams - Invasion of the Body Snatchers etc). After involved in a heavy accident, John was in a coma for years and being treated in a hospital managed by Dr. Weizak (Herbert Lom). When he finally woke up, John found that everything has changed around him. But the biggest change was he had some kind of psychic ability where he could see someone's past or future.

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Blade Runner 1982 Uncut Version and A Cult Classic

I knew that there would be a sequel of this movie to premiere in Indonesian theaters on Friday, but as I have completely forgotten the story, I thought it would better for me to see this again to refresh my memory. So I looked around in the internet and managed to find it online and saw this without hesitation. Now what was the movie all about? Let us find out more.

Brief Story Line

The story was told in the year 2019 where a group of humans created through bio engineering and called "The Replicants" were sent to do space colonization. The Replicants were created by Tyrell corporation led by Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel - The Shining etc). When four of the Replicants led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer - Blind Fury, Batman Begins etc) fled from one of the colony to earth, a retired cop specializing in capturing Replicants and referred to as Blade Runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford - no intro necessary) was assigned to recapture those four.