Coincidental similarities

[Curt McGirt]

I think the only one I watched aside from Duckman and Weird Science (and Up All Night of course) was Swamp Thing. Even though I was a horror fan I didn't watch Forever Knight.

[(BP)]

Forever Knight was a great concept that bored the shit out of me in execution, at least as a kid. I forgot Swamp Thing was USA, I always watched it syndicated on a local station back-to-back with Tales from the Darkside. 

Just got wistful remembering watching the Highlander/Renegade afternoon block with my grandfather. 

[Southside Jim]

 

 

Surprised no one else mentioned this one, as it came out the same year as The Hunt for Red October.

 

It's 1989: Renegade Panamanian soldiers, loyal to Manuel Noriega, hijack a Soviet nuclear submarine and threaten to nuke Houston unless the U.S.A. abandons all plans to invade Panama.

 

The only American submarine capable of stopping them is captained by Michael Moriarty!

 

 

I only remember this film because HBO would occasionally show it as "filler" at 5AM.  It was really low budget (apparently Soviet submarines had cinder block walls).  It actually did get a theatrical release, on the dying grind house circuit.

[Unnatural]

Speaking of HBO filler does anyone remember The Immortals with Pantoliano, Tia Carrerre and Eric Roberts?

Holy fuck I loved that movie back then and would give up another toe to see it now just to see if it still holds up. Like Things to do in Denver this was one of those 90s flicks I'd stay up for just hoping to record it if I saw it listed on the tv guide. Three of Hearts with the Baldwin is another, Specialist with Stallone. So many I loved back then that I probably haven't seen in 20 years.

[J.H.]

Dark City was brought up earlier, the weird thing is the movie I thought of after seeing DC in a theater was  Beautifuk Dreamer.

James

[Southside Jim]

Cannon Films rushed the original Breakin' into production in just three weeks to compete with Beat Street:

 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie]

On 3/5/2020 at 12:03 AM, (BP) said:

I can’t believe we got this far without mentioning Wyatt Earp and Tombstone. 

I just saw this thread and that's what I had in mind.

Edited April 11, 2020 by Nice Guy Eddie

[Nice Guy Eddie]

On 3/7/2020 at 2:16 AM, Niners Fan in CT said:

Came in to say this.  Wyatt Earp had Costner behind it, everyone assumed that to be the more successful project and Tombstone had a lot of odd behind the scenes shit going on with it and yet Tombstone was the far better movie and the one most people remember.  Hell of a cast in Tombstone.  

Any chance I get to discuss it..  I love,  I've seen it maybe a hundred times.  

I'm your huckleberry.