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The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The most fun marketing scheme ever!
I used to watch Transformers religiously as a child of the 80's. It blew the pants off every other cartoon with regards to character development, storyline, and good clean gun-fighting action. Yes, you know you're watching an 80's-era cartoon when you see guns, guns, and more guns! Yippee!
The movie itself was a blast when I first saw it. I couldn't believe my eyes--most of the autobots actually died! In retrospect, this was probably a clever marketing ploy in order to introduce a whole new and completely different line of products for kids to buy...but I didn't think about those things back then. Instead, what I noticed were the deep emotions this movie brought out of me. I mean, who else got that warm feeling when underdog Hot Rod proved himself a hero against the mighty Galvatron? Who else felt no sympathy for that stuck-up Optimus-matrix-designate loser Ultra Magnus? I'm sure I'm not alone.
Brother on the Run (1973)
black force two???
I'm surprised this movie has less than five votes, considering the gobs and gobs of cheese in this flick.
Brother on the Run aka Black Force 2 is a generic 70's blaxploitation flick about a professor who just oozes coolness. How cool is he? While constantly on the run from law enforcement, he manages to give some fine ladies a taste of his coolness. Then he's on the run again with no time to waste.
I agree with the previous poster that this film really needed a better editor. The same 5-10 minute sequence is repeated twice in a row! And believe me, it's VERY noticeable.
Some strange things about this film. When it was released to video after fifteen or so years, the distributors apparently changed the title of the film to Black Force 2. Never mind the fact that a movie called Black Force was released several years AFTER Brother on the Run. Also, the cover box of the video shows a guy sitting on his motorcycle looking very full of himself. However, as far as I know, this person does not appear in the movie at all! Makes you wonder...