jaedmc Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 I demand more spray painted football shoulder pads as armor in my cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 I watched a kung fu film called "The Magnificent" last night. Carter Wong's final words are "The genitals!" Everything in the film leads to that. Everything. Leads. To. That. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Vigilante by Bill Lustig just got added to Night Flight Plus. Grimy as a motherfucker... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Oh man, look what I just dug up. And it fits in with my last post in this thread! I've never seen this one though I have seen the original from 1980, and it's as hard boiled as it gets. I think I remember Robert Ginty putting a pedophile in a meat grinder (!!!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 So Exterminator 2 of course was pure trash. It was a Cannon Film, after all. Apparently they had huge production woes, like as in they couldn't even figure out who to name the main villain (Mario Van Peebles!) so they just called him X. Not only that but they didn't have Robert Ginty for reshoots that were moved from New York to LA so they had to hide his face behind the mask even more and even had to import a garbage truck to LA. Anyway, it's got lots of people set on fire, Frankie Faison shows up as a grinning trashman/war vet who helps Ginty's extermination, and Peebles plays a Warriors ripoff hood leader very very broadly. Sadly, it's no Death Wish 3. I downloaded the first one so I'll let you know what that's like later. Yeah, that looks about ten times cooler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 We quote the first Exterminator in my house all of the time (mostly the way the flophouse clerk offers Ginty extra sheets.) I remember virtually nothing about the second one other than that it was disappointing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FluffSnackwell Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 (edited) I liked the cheesy video game main theme to the second one. Edited September 23, 2020 by FluffSnackwell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 I was digging the music during the final fight too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 The Exterminator was incredible, and that shit was NOT what I expected. Comparing it to its sequel is like doing the same to an Italian dinner and a Hot Pocket out of the microwave. This one is the total gritty, balls-out '70s/early '80s shit, like Rolling Thunder or Vice Squad or -- its obvious influences -- Death Wish, Taxi Driver, and the subsequent First Blood. It starts out with a Nam flashback where somebody incredulously gets decapitated from what seems like a throat slitting at first so you immediately know what you're in for. Robert Ginty was before my time, I guess he was in Falcon Crest and CHiPs and was also in Bound for Glory and Coming Home, but as a face I didn't recognize him. He plays a great role here though as a returning vet who has his best friend paralyzed by a street gang and decides to go Bronson on everyone, including mobsters and chickenhawks. So, we get into some real down and dirty, nasty stuff like a sicko burning a hooker with a curling iron (thankfully implied instead of shown) which is responded to with mercury-filled bullets and lighter fluid burnings. There is actually no flamethrower murders in the film though Ginty threatens a guy with it in one scene. The other half of the story is the great Christopher George, one of my favorites in The Gates of Hell and Pieces, as the also-Nam-vet cop charged with chasing the Exterminator down, while the CIA (!) tries to also find and cut down Ginty to the benefit of a president during an election year... hmmm... Anyway, both leads prove themselves to be no angels as Ginty picks up a prostitute and George screws his doctor girlfriend in her hospital during her shift, so there's a fair bit of gravitas here. It also features George cooking a hot dog by sticking two forks in either end of it while it's jury rigged to a light socket. Yeah... so you should watch this. Also, Christopher George had one hell of a life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 I forgot to mention the meat grinder scene! It's not a pedophile but a mobster, and it is also implied but they do a great job of making it as mean as possible without showing any more than hamburger coming out of a machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 On 9/22/2020 at 7:45 PM, (BP) said: We quote the first Exterminator in my house all of the time (mostly the way the flophouse clerk offers Ginty extra sheets.) "These are the clean ones?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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