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SWAMP THING, released on this day
DRACULA, released on this day
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, released on this day
THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, released on this day
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, released today
INFERNO, released on this day
BLAZING SADDLES, released today
VIDEODROME, released on this day
SUSPIRIA released on this day
ELIMINATORS released on this day
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I didn't know that one existed until reading about it just now. But looking at the specs, it looks like basically just a rehash of the Criterion release (which collected most of the great extras from previous releases) with a Tim Lucas commentary replacing the Demme/Foster/Hopkins one.
Yes! There have been a LOT of editions of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS but the 2nd Criterion release--not the 1st--is definitely the best one.
Yeah, it doesn't really seem possible, right?
It is a great movie for that season, but AIP was just releasing these Poe pictures whenever they were done--their release-dates are all over the board.
Those American-made Godzilla movies have been terrible though, so that, admittedly, is setting the bar pretty low.
They're both great but not really comparable.
And it was ridiculous before it even got that far. The central characters are absolutely losing their minds, almost from the beginning, for no apparent reason.
I stopped the original series--both watching it and writing about it--upon Rick's departure. I gave up on FTWD somewhere early in the 2nd season. I was writing about it too, and it was arguably even worse than the original. Its big initial selling-point was that it was going to show how it all started, how the dead overran the world while Rick was in his coma, then it just skipped over all that. Par for the course.
The main mujahadeen group backed by the Reagan administration was the Hekmatyar faction, out of which came most of the major leaders of al Qaida and the Taliban, including Muhammad Omar, Osama bin Laden, Omar Abdel-Rahman and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar himself. They spent more time terrorizing and murdering other Afghans--peeling religious dissenters alive, throwing acid in the face of unveiled women, etc.--than they ever did fighting Soviets.
It was a terrible movie. But unlike the 2nd one, which was also terrible, it wasn't saved by the editing (the 2nd one featured some of the best editing of any '80s action picture). It was always hilariously terrible but it became even more so after 9/11, as the "heroes" in the movie are, in effect, al Qaida and the Taliban.
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