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The pull of this thing for me is to be given stuff I wouldn't ordinarily watch.

I own it. I buy a lot of things that I don't need The product placement wasn't J&B but another brand. And I've only seen Zombi Holocaust because you forced me to. I actually assumed this was your pick so, in light of how much I hated ZH, I wanted the best possible version I could get so I could give a fair review. I appreciated Zombi 2 for the skill behind it and all things considered I didn't hate the film but I don't go out of my way to watch gore films. Gore in other genres isn't something I avoid and, yes, it can even elevate a film if used well. Such as in other Fulci films. Might be less of a gore thing and more of the concept of eating human flesh, whether it be zombies, cannibals, settlers, or a soccer team is completely repellent to me and almost never enjoyable to watch.

In.

It was the eightiest of 80's films.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tristan-rogers-dead-general-hospital-star-79-1236345761/ He started playing the Robert Scorpio character in 1980 when GH first began leaning heavily into the action/adventure genre and EVERYBODY was watching.

If we're not including horror then Chungking Express and Paris, je t'aime are both worth a mention. I'd also include The Beaver Trilogy. It plays like an anthology film to me, anyway.

My first exposure to Hogan came when the AWA started running Vegas when I was a teen. We had moved from Florida sometime around 1977 where we got both the CWF and Mid-Atlantic shows on TV. We only sparingly attended CWF cards because it required a long drive to Jacksonville. Vegas was very different than it is today and the best we could get as far as wrestling went was the occasional card coming out of San Francisco, with guys like Wildman Jack Armstrong and Dean Ho. It was alright but not exactly Dusty bleeding for your sins. Then the AWA All-Star Wrestling show came to our TV in the early 80's and not long after, the first Showboat card. I believe the main was Bock vs The Baron and there was a battle royale that featured Andre but I'm pretty sure the draw was an arm-wrestling contest between Hogan and Jesse Ventura, which led to a match the following month. Eventually they did the exact same deal between Hogan and Ken Patera. In the two years or so that we regularly attended those shows, I have to say, saw a lot of good Hogan matches. The Ventura one probably wasn't amongst them but everyone loved it anyway. There were also matches with Bock, Patera, Duncum, Adonis,and Saito and Shultz in both singles and handicap matches. At the time it was shocking when he jumped to the WWF. You would have thought Gagne would have done anything to keep him because he was already a different level of star than anyone else on the card. By this time though I was becoming a Bockwinkel fan and a fan of better wrestlers in general. Didn't follow WWF beyond what I read in the Apter mags and the occasional SNME or video store rental so my viewing of his major WWF matches is spotty. Didn't really start watching him again until he showed up in WCW though his act got old to me real quick until the Big Turn that made him relevant again. Didn't follow anything post-WCW. Didn't care much for Rock-Hogan, didn't watch anything from TNA or anything else. I'm too much of a film lover to ever intentionally waste my time watching Hogan movies. In the ensuing years he'd proven himself to be a less than sterling human being. But when he was big there wasn't anyone bigger. Only a handful of people had as big an impact on wrestling and realisticly only one person had more.

John Woo and Chow Yun-fat were built for this thread. https://youtu.be/jp22eg3majY?si=Qq9NOaNHOX2-QVTt

Not sure "best" actually applies to anything by Godfrey Ho. I can tell you the one that has the most re-watch value for me. Angel Enforcers which is a surprisingly entertaining Iron Angels knock-off. I'd probably put Angel's Mission as a solid #2 because Yukari Oshima.

Damn, I remember when Emily Lloyd looked to be the Next Big Thing but I guess bad luck and mental health issues derailed that train. Under the circumstances, the title of her autobiography is both heart-breaking and funny as hell. Gotta love such a high score for Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Have you by any chance seen Tokyo Fist?

He's certainly ripe for mockery.

I watched Terry Brunk-Richie Magnet from 86 in Hawaii. Seeing Sabu wrestle as an early 80's white-meat babyface was certainly something. They go to a draw in a 'scientific match'. I was thinking about two minutes in that he was giving me Rick Martel vibes and about two minutes later one of the announcers had the same opinion. I doubt he would ever been as good in that role as Martel was but he certainly could have been in a Tom Zenk or Steve Olsonoski spot. But then we wouldn't have the gift of Sabu.

Blame it on the Renaissance.

They could have started the New Year by being a little more generous with the bonuses. Some quality finishes on this show.

I'd probably go for Riders of Destiny. That Singin' Sandy was scary!