(Ep. 108): Uncle Sam - Movie Commentary: July 2018

Uncle Sam

R 1996 ‧ Slasher/Horror ‧ 1h 30m

A Gulf War veteran rises from the dead to wreak vengeance upon unpatriotic residents of his hometown.

Initial release: 1996

Director: William Lustig

Release date: 1996 (Greece)

Budget: 2 million USD

Screenplay: Larry Cohen

Because you asked for it, here it is... Uncle Sam! 

The classic blockbuster video rental slasher is a great way to celebrate America's birthday! Nothing like some patriotic killing to make us American hard. Okay children grab that flag and those sparklers, bite into your U.S. grade hamburgers and pop in Uncle Sam...This is Simplistic Reviews Movie Commentary!

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A Simplistic Review: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

I guess to get to the good stuff...you have to go by the numbers and set a baseline. Having just seen "Ghost Protocol" for the first time, I understand the problem it had when it came out. It really only works as a companion to the following film, "Rogue Nation" and it had to follow up the best in the series, for my money "M:I III." This one reminds me too much of the 1996 original and it comes off feeling procedural and flat

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A Simplistic Review: Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Same director...same cast...same crazy sh*t, but why didn't people like this "Kingsman" as much as the last one? Snobs, and who knows...Sure. would I say this one takes a step back from it's predecessor...maybe, but it's not by much. Mark Strong is so good btw...

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24: Season Two

When you follow a historic season things seem like they would of been tough. But for 24: Season Two everything came off way too easy and instead the writers wrote an even better season.

For fans of 24, Season 2 will always be the reason George Mason will never leave our minds. Thanks Mason!

The second season is set 18 months after season one. The season's main plot follows the work of now-U.S. President David Palmer and agent Jack Bauer to stop terrorists from detonating a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Introduced into the situation is Kate Warner, a woman who ends up getting vital information related to CTU's mission.

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A Simplistic Review: Back to the Future III

For all the confusion you might run into with the "Back to the Future" series with it's time travel problems and breaks in scientific logic, you have to admit that "BttF III" is tons of fun and the easiest to follow.

Sure, it has it's flaws of weaving in a weird love story for Doc Brown, but anything in the Wild West is fun and hits a Bullseye despite what Bob Gale might say.

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S1 E1 - Simplistic Reviews Show Live!

Welcome to our new live show 

Simplistic Reviews Show Live!

Ep.1 is here...

Today we talk all things Comic Con

Look at some odd news in this crazy world we live in

and play the game, "Are They Dead Yet?"

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A Simplistic Review: Hannibal

One day, we'll look back at the fact that "Hannibal" is actually very very good despite what book snobs might consider an inferior ending, but do most people know how the book actually ended, and could you believe the uproar! Oh, and btw, Gary Oldman...is well...great...

I'll even go as far as saying I enjoy this more than "The Silence of the Lambs" but again, the more gore, the better, and "Hannibal" has crimson stuff to spare.

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24: Season One

Premiering November 6, 2001 - 24 aired it's first episode marking the beginning of one of the greatest shows to ever appear on TV. Season one is simply "Historic".

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season. Jack deals with assassination attempts, nuclear attacks, bioterrorism, torture, traitors, sleeper cells, other bad guys and the alarming tendency for his romances to end badly -- very badly.

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A Simplistic Review THROWBACK: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

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(Ep. 107): The Simplistic Reviews Podcast: July 2018

 It's July, so that means it's time for a Summer blowout episode of the Simplistic Reviews Podcast. We broach many subjects including Star Wars' big problem, Robocop reboots, Chris Hardwick's troubles, and the Naked Gun. Yes...that assortment of subjects has never been collectively tackled before.

Also Justin is put on the hot seat for the new segment 'Questions From The Crowd.'

DJ and Justin go crazy with their love for the television show, '24.' And the boys try and figure out films by their last line in the new game, 'Simplistic Last Lines.' All that and more on this new episode of the Simplistic Reviews Podcast.

NOTES

Jack & Nina

The End Of Every Episode Of Police Squad

MUSIC

Fast Times Club By Idols

Gold Medal By Sounds Like Sander

4. For Losing It By The Triads

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(Ep. 106): Ring of the Musketeers - Movie Commentary: July 2018

Ring of the Musketeers

PG-13 1992 ‧ Action/Adventure ‧ 1h 26m

As descendants of the original Three Musketeers, Peter Porthos (Thomas Gottschalk), John Smith D'Artagnan (David Hasselhoff) and Anne-Marie Athos (Alison Doody) are continuing the chivalrous tradition of protecting those who can't protect themselves, carrying it into the modern age. Rather than fighting lords and counts, these Musketeers have the Mafia to deal with, but they're aided by reformed burglar Burt Aramis (Cheech Marin), the newly knighted fourth Musketeer.

Initial release: December 1, 1992 (Germany)
Director: John Paragon
Production company: Motion Picture Corporation of America
Screenplay: John Paragon, Joel Surnow
Producers:Brad Krevoy, Steven Stabler

Plug that VHS player back in! It time for some David Hasselhoff! That's right, today we watch the Ring of the Musketeers. A made for TV film that... well... nobody remembers.  But when you have a modern day (90's) Musketeers film that has a cast that contains the Hoff, Cheech Marin, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Corbin Bernsen, Timothy Stack, Ricky Jay and Branscombe Richmond. You pretty much stop whatever you are doing and pop this VHS in.

So fix that tracking and enjoy that mono audio (yes this VHS wasn't in stereo) and repeat, Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno! Because we do this together ladies and gents! This is the Simplistic Reviews Movie Commentary of Ring of the Musketeers!

                       

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