Reaction & Review | Tekkonkinkreet

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering an animated film from 2006. That movie is "Tekkonkinkreet".

Now, I heard about this movie thanks to watching the previews for it every time that I would watch "Paprika". And it looked really interesting, too. So when I finally found a copy of it at one of my local video stores, I immediately jumped on it and bought a copy of it for myself.

Now admittedly, I don't really know anything about the plot, but I am aware that this thing is based off a manga from the early to mid 90's. So if this movie is any good, I may attempt to check out the manga at some point. Though I'm curious to see what the movie can do on it's standards. So I may as well just shut up, so I can push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "Tekkonkinkreet".

8 minutes later

Okay, so our two main characters, Black and White, are chasing after Dusk and Dawn. And while all this is happening, our characters are just either standing on top of moving cars or, in the case of Dusk and Dawn, they're just hanging on the front of a bus. And, aside from one person, nobody else is telling them to get off their cars! Is that, like, a normal thing that just happens in Treasure Town? I mean, OK, I know Black and White are delinquents and they do whatever they want, but I figured at least they would have some common sense to not do this while on moving vehicles. But perhaps that's just me.

20 minutes later

Sorry, guys, if I'm not saying very much at the moment, but I'm really getting sucked into the story here. It's really fascinating so far and I'm hoping it continues to stay this way.

20 minutes later

Well...for the first time in this whole movie, Black has finally taken actual damage from this giant purple dude. And also White, too. But still, I'm curious to see how exactly they're gonna fight back against this dude. Especially knowing that there's 3 of them out in the whole town, too.

9 minutes later

Well, guys, I can comment on one thing, so far. The animation in this movie, specifically the ones where it looks as if it was colored and drawn with crayons, looks really fucking beautiful. I'm really impressed with how good it looks. Just thought I'd share that with you guys.

20 minutes later

Once more, guys, I'm really sorry that I'm not saying very much about the movie itself. Like I said, I've been sucked into the story itself and it is so damn compelling that I'm really interested in seeing where it's going to go next.

The Review

Well, guys, that was "Tekkonkinkreet". Let me go ahead and shut the movie off here...OK. So...where to even begin here? Well, you guys maybe already caught on that I didn't have a whole lot to say about the movie itself. Now sometimes when I do that, it could mean either the movie's really good or it's just boring me to tears to where I just want it end as soon as possible. And in this case, it's most definitely the former. Because this movie is really good. I cannot begin to tell you guys how much I enjoyed this movie.

So, let's dive right into this thing and see what I can tell you guys without giving away spoilers here. Let's start with writing. Now, as I mentioned way early on, this movie is based on a manga I have never read. So obviously, I can't make any comparisons between that and the film. However, as is a staple of mine, I always like to go into any sort of adaptation on it's own standards. And if this movie is anything like the manga, I'm definitely going to try and track down the manga at some point. Because, one, this movie motivated me in wanted to check it out in the first place. And two, I'm also really curious as to how much this movie was able to work with in under two hours, because I'm mostly positive that there was a lot more in the manga that wasn't in the film.

But anyway, setting aside that, on it's own standards, the writing here is really strong. And from the moment that the movie starts, you're going to be sucked into it's atmosphere, mostly centered around Treasure Town, which is the town where our two main characters, Black and White, are mostly scavenging around trying to survive, since they're orphans. They don't have any real parents, who I'm going to assume are dead. The movie doesn't flat out state that, but it is implied by an old man that Black and White befriend. But still, this is where the movie mostly shines as it mostly focuses on the relationship between the two characters. Both of them are deep and fleshed and you're going to care about them as the movie goes on.

And what's interesting about both of them is that they represent the yin and yang between each other. With Black, he's somewhat more of a cynical character. He doesn't really show much emotion and it's prevalent later on when he slowly starts to go down the deep end by embracing the darkness within him. And with White, it's obviously more on the lighter side as it shows more of his childhood innocence. And there are some moments where Black will tell White to think of happy thoughts. And that's probably because he doesn't want White to become exactly like him. It's a really interesting dynamic and it makes for very compelling writing.

If I had to pinpoint any sorta negatives about the writing, I would say there are two, and they're both really minor. One of them has to do with the ending. Not so much before the ending credits show up, but before that, where we see Black trying to be consumed by his own inner darkness. The whole scene involving that could be interpreted as just being kind of art-housey, where it's all weird and artsy. It's sorta like the ending to season 2 of "Tokyo Ghoul", where the whole thing felt like pure art house bullshit and it soured my interest in that series. This movie, however, handles that much better, although it could potentially be seen by someone as just being too artsy for it's own good. The other minor nitpick involves a subplot about a yakuza who's working for the villain of the movie who's trying to build an amusement park in the center of Treasure Town. And really, the only thing I kinda didn't like about it is it's ending. It just ends somewhat abruptly as he's trying to get out of town with his pregnant wife, and you don't get to see the aftermath of what happens. Now perhaps it might be explained more in the manga, but still, I would've like to have seen some sort of closure to that subplot rather than just ending with no actual followup.

But aside from that, guys, the writing here is still really strong. Like I mentioned earlier, it's gonna suck you in the moment the movie starts up. It's very compelling and you're gonna be hooked into it for the entirety of it's near 2 hour run. The writing is just really that good. Now as for the acting, I opted to watch the official English dub for this movie, and I will say that it's really good, too. A lot of the actors that they got here are veteran voice actors such as Scott Menville, who voices Black, Yuri Lowenthal, Keith Silverstein, and Steve Blum, who I've criticized in the past for just phoning in the same showing he's done throughout most of his voice acting career, but he actually does turn in a halfway decent showing. Then again, he only voices minor characters in this film, so that, to me, is a huge plus.

The only voice that you're probably going to have mixed feelings on is White's voice. See, White's voice actor sounds a little bit flat. Now what I mean by that is that White's voice sounds a little bit on the monotone side. Now I understand that it is rather difficult to replicate a child's voice, especially when you're voicing a character who's suppose to resemble a child, so when I first heard that voice, I wasn't really sure if I was going to either get use it as the film went on or I would wind up kinda hating it. Well thankfully, I don't have to worry about hating, because White's voice actor definitely improves later as the film goes on. The voice has more of a range thanks to the facial expressions of the animation involving White. So White's voice actor definitely had a lot of room to improve and took advantage of it. So yeah, I can definitely say that the English dub here is really good and I'm happy that I stuck with it. Now, of course, if you're not into English dubs, there is an option to where you can switch to it's original Japanese audio. Or if you're feeling different, you could also watch it with it's Spanish audio instead. So hey, at least there's more than two options on how to watch the movie. Still though, I would say the English dub here is really solid.

Animation here in this movie is amazing. The first thing that's gonna catch your attention is Treasure Town itself, with all of it's detail and aesthetics with the color palettes. If this is were a real location, I would love to visit it, aside from the occasional yakuza baggage, but still. The entirety of Treasure Town looks great. They even implement CG here that blends in with the traditional hand drawn animation. It looks fantastic, and it's one of the better animated films that I've seen which utilizes both mediums of 2D and 3D animation very well. The dream sequences that happen a lot of from White's point of view looks great, too. I'm referring to the ones that look like it might've been drawn from a crayon. It most likely had to have been colored pencils, instead. Which, either way, they still look really good, even though at times they can be a little bit on the artsy side. Still though, they look great here. Character designs here are also really good, too, as they all have their own unique design. Which is great to see. So overall, the animation here is fantastic.

Sound-mixing here is mixed fine. The music here, mostly in terms of it's score, is also really good, too. It was done by a group called Plaid, which only consists of two people, and the music that they do here is really fucking good. All of it sounds unique and, much like the animation in this movie, it brings it's own unique vibe to this film that helps make it stand out. It is great music here, and it's one of the best things about this movie, right next to it's awesome animation.

I believe that pretty much sums up what my answer's gonna be, guys. So when all is said and done, am I able to recommend "Tekkonkinkreet"? Oh absolutely, guys, this movie is fucking amazing. I would definitely recommend it, especially if you're a fan of anime, or even if you're an animation buff in general, this movie is a treat to watch. Nearly everything about the movie is great, despite a couple of minor nitpicks I had with the film's writing. Even so, I enjoyed this movie immensely, and I'm totally gonna be adding it to my ever growing DVD collection. And speaking of great anime movies, I mentioned at the start of this thing that I discovered this movie thanks to the previews I would always see for it every time I watched "Paprika". And you know what? I'm really kinda in the mood to watch that one again right now. So yeah, I'm gonna go watch "Paprika" after I get done with this review.

And with that, guys, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.

Reaction & Review | Schizo

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering a British psychological horror movie from 1976. That movie is "Schizo".

Now, I'm actually kinda looking forward to watching this movie. Simply because of it's premise where our female lead is being stalked by somebody who killed her mother when she was a kid, and is also being stalked by him as an adult. This might prove to be really interesting and I'm curious to see if the movie will actually do anything good with this premise.

I can also tell you guys two things about this movie that I picked up on from the back of the film's DVD case. The first thing is that this movie promises a twist ending. Which, I'm not sure if that's gonna be a good thing or not, especially since this DVD comes out and advertises it very casually. However, that could just be me nitpicking there. Now the second thing is something that I found a little humorous. According to the synopsis on the DVD case, near the end of it, it says that this movie was so frightening that squeamish theater patrons were promised free smelling salts if they fainted. Which sounds really stupid, but at the same time, I wonder how much of a common practice that was back in the mid 70's. Where if a horror movie was so scary that pussified theater patrons were promised to get free smelling salts if they ever fainted. Maybe that was just a British custom back then for movie theaters in the U.K or something.

Now beyond those two things, I'm really looking forward to watching this movie. I hope that it's really good and I'm hoping that this movie will deliver on it's really interesting premise. I don't know if it will or not, but that's what I'm here to find out. And the only way I'm gonna find out if this movie is any good at all is if I shut up and I push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "Schizo".

18 minutes later

So, guys, we're still early into this movie and I can tell you that nothing of interest has happened. I mean literally nothing has happened yet. I'm kinda hoping the movie will pick up sooner rather than later, eventually, but right now, this movie hasn't really given me much to work with at the moment.

18 minutes later

OK, how the hell did that meat cleaver get inside Samantha's cart? There was no indication at any point to where she grabbed it and put it in her cart. It doesn't make any sense. And also, this movie is really starting to drag a little bit. I'm still hoping that it'll pick up soon, because, otherwise, I'm slowly starting to fall asleep from boredom.

20 minutes later

So, guys, I got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we finally have our first kill of the movie from our stalker. At least I think so, the movie never showed his face. But I'm going to assume that it is the same person that has been stalking Samantha. Bad news is that it took almost an hour to get to this point in a movie that has less than an hour left. This film's pacing is just becoming horrible and I'm starting to lose patience by how slow this movie is going.

19 minutes later

OK, that actually is a little bit creepy with this girl's eyes bugging out all wide-eyed like that while also being possessed. It's just a pity that it took the movie this fucking long to finally start getting interesting at this juncture. So really, it's just a case of too little, too late, guys.

The Review

Well, guys, that was "Schizo". And apparently, the movie doesn't have any ending credits. It just goes straight to the scene selection on the menu screen. So, I'm gonna go ahead and shut the movie off here...OK. So, about that "twist ending" I mentioned earlier. This movie promised a twist ending and, without spoiling what it is, I'm gonna let you guys know now that it isn't even a twist. And if you want proof, the hint is in the movie's title. And if you still haven't figured it out by the time the movie reveals it's twist, then you probably should get yourself educated on what the definition of the title really means.

So now, let's get into this review here. Let's start with writing. Now if I had a time machine, and if I had a choice on what year I wanted to travel back to, I would go back to 1976 around the same time that this movie was released. I would then ask the theater patrons, the ones who got so "frightened" by this movie and ask them what the hell did they see in this movie that I didn't that was suppose to be scary? Because, I'm gonna tell you guys right now that, outside of a couple of creepy moments, this movie is in no way scary. It is never frightening in the slightest. In fact, it is probably one of the most boring horror movies I have ever seen in a long time. And that's saying a lot because I reviewed another British horror movie not too long ago called "The Godsend", and as bad as that movie was, at least it kinda kept my interest for a bit. This thing, however, was so fucking boring that I almost fell asleep at one point. Which is a terrible thing for a horror movie, because those things aren't meant to be boring! But this thing, somehow, found a way to be boring throughout almost the entirety of it's hour and 50 minute runtime.

In fact, let's start with that, shall we? This movie's pacing goes at a fucking snail's pace. It is so damn slow that it's filled to the brim with so much padding! You could've honestly cut about 20 minutes of filler from this movie that you wouldn't miss a thing. I know I've stated in the past that I don't mind slower paced movies as long as you have somewhere to go with it, but this movie has almost nowhere to go with it's pacing. The kills, in particular, are vastly spaced out. Because, first of all, there's only 4 kills in the entire movie out of it's near two hour runtime. I'll get a little more in depth about the victims later on, but as for how the kills are laid out, the first one doesn't happen until almost an hour into the movie. And then the next one doesn't happen until about 25 minutes later followed by two more after that. It's that poorly paced out, as is the entirety of the movie. Like I said, you could've cut out about 20, probably 25 minutes worth of filler, and you'd have a much better paced movie.

Now, before I get to the victims themselves, I want to touch upon something that I found when I was reading the synopsis on the back of the DVD case for this movie. It says that Samantha's friends are murdered one by one and is convinced that the stalker isn't a stranger. I'm gonna tell you guys right now that out of the 4 people that are killed in this movie, only 2 of them are actually Samantha's friends. Those two people are Leonard, the psychiatrist, and the housekeeper lady. I don't know her name, but I think she's suppose to be her housekeeper or maid. I'm not totally sure which one exactly. Doesn't matter, though, because she's the second to last victim. The other two victims are Joy, who is the housekeeper's daughter and also a psychic, and the stalker. Again, I won't say who it is but that person is also dead. The latter aren't really friends because she barely knew Joy, and the stalker, well, obviously, she has a history with. But yeah, 4 people are dead, in a horror movie that's nearly 2 hours long. And the fact that the first kill doesn't happen until nearly an hour in is just bullshit.

As for the characters themselves, none of them are really all that interesting, and that includes our main character, Samantha Grey. You would think that, with our main character being stalked by this guy, you would find a reason to care for her and hope that she gets out of this scary situation. But no, that doesn't happen, because Samantha's personality has all the personality of burnt toast and her backstory is also equally rather stupid, too. I'm almost tempted to spoil it, seeing as how it's a 50 year old movie and all, but part of me is going to be somewhat nice to it, so I won't do that here. So yeah, all the other characters here aren't very interesting. The only one who I kinda sorta liked was Leonard, because he actually had something resembling an interesting personality. Yeah, he's a little creepy with how he handles women, but that's more personality than almost any other character that this movie had. And the moment that he was killed, my interest slowly started to die off. Though then again, with how boring this movie really is, that wasn't really too hard for this movie to accomplish in the first place.

So, overall, guys, the writing in this movie is just bad. It's worse with the horrendous pacing that you're almost guaranteed to fall asleep with how boring the movie is. Although I'm sorta getting ahead of myself here. Let me back this up a bit so I can talk about acting next. The acting here was actually okay. It wasn't great by any means, but at least most of the actors here tried to work with what they were given. The best actor would have to be Leonard's actor, since it seemed like he was actually having fun with his performance and all. The worst actress would actually have to be the one playing Joy. She sounded terrible, though I think that's mainly for when she has to speak as one of the heads of this "Psychic Brotherhood" for when they're trying to perform a seance. It kinda sorta makes sense in context. Though that's not saying very much. So, besides her, everyone else did okay with script that was given to them. So that's sort of a plus from me.

Special effects, I will say, are actually pretty decent. I'm gonna take a guess here and say that this movie was filmed on a low budget. And for what it is here isn't really too bad. Although I would say that the blood effects can vary because some of it, when viewed up close anyway, actually looks like jelly. And for what little gore is here is not too bad either. The one effect that I actually did think was impressive was when Joy's eyes are bugging out after being possessed. That actually looks really cool and it was one of the only interesting things that happened in this movie for me. So yeah, I can say that, for the most part, the special effects here are decent.

Camerawork here is pretty good. Lighting here is also pretty good, too. Sound-mixing here is mixed fine. The score here is also decent, too. There's not a whole lot of music to go on, but what little is here does work fine. So, I can say that the technical stuff here is another positive.

Now with all that said, when it comes down it, guys, can I recommend "Schizo"? No. I honestly can't find a reason to recommend this movie to anyone. Really, what's holding me back from actually recommend this movie is the god-awful pacing. It is so bad and so slow that you're gonna be fucking bored with it and you'll potentially fall asleep from trying to watch the whole thing. Like I mentioned earlier, I was almost tempted to fall asleep because the movie is just so fucking boring. Now is it one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen? Fuck no! This movie is nowhere near in contention for that title. So far, the worst movie I've ever seen belongs to "The Item". But then again, I don't think any horror movie is ever gonna be contention to take that movie's title. But still, this movie is still really bad and it's not even scary in the slightest. So no, I can't recommend this movie to anyone. And so far, I've not had a great track record when it comes to British horror movies. That said, I'm gonna go and watch one that actually is pretty good, and is also funny too. I'm gonna go and watch "Stitches" again because I need to watch something better at this point.

So anyway, guys, with that, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.

Reaction & Review | Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering a Spanish western comedy from 1984. That movie is "Yellow and the Fortress of Gold".

I'm gonna tell you, guys, the only reason why I bought this movie at one of my local video stores was because of it's title. Something about it just sorta leaped out at me so I decided to purchase a copy of it for myself and thus here we are.

Now, upon doing a little bit of research going into this movie, I can tell you guys a couple of things. First of all, even though the movie is technically a Spanish film, the movie is still done in English. So there's a good chance that this movie will probably be dubbed over. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but then again, considering this thing came out in the 80's, I'm gonna suspect that it probably won't be. But hey, it could still either be decent or perhaps even funny by how laughably bad the dub is. I don't know yet, but I'll find out shortly.

Also, you probably noticed the title and how it's worded with it's font and everything, this movie is trying to cash in on the success of "Indiana Jones". In fact, this movie came out the same year along with Indy's second film "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". Also, I'm looking at the cover of the movie right now and our main female character is also holding a whip, which...yeah, the subtlety is ever so cleverly hidden. Also also, I find it really hilarious how this movie already attempted to do a female version of Indy nearly 4 decades earlier until Disney tried it in 2023 when they attempted to replace Harrison Ford with a shoehorned in female character and tried to make her a mary sue. And no, I'm not using the term "girlboss" because it's so overused and I really don't like using that term anyways. I'm kinda old school when it comes to using terms that I grew up with, dammit.

Anyway, I'm getting way off topic here. My point is during that whole rant there, this movie already tried to do a female version of Indiana Jones and I'm curious to see how they pulled it off here. I don't know if it's going to be any good, but I'm gonna find out right now. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold".

2 minutes later

Wait, so on the very first wording of this opening text for our prologue, it says "In the last episode". Was there more to this than I didn't realize? Because when I did my small research on this movie, I don't recall a prequel movie/or series ever being made. I guess, maybe, this was meant as some sort of inside joke, but its still kinda odd to see those words at the beginning of your text based prologue. Perhaps maybe that's just me, though.

2 minutes later

And someone just fell off their horse and also the cliff. And damn, him hitting the cliff before being killed was actually pretty painful there. And the riders don't seem to care that one of theirs is dead. I will admit, that actually is a little bit funny. So, at least this movie's comedy is off to a decent start.

6 minutes later

OK...I've never seen someone have their face covered in some kind gold plating and then you can just chip it off like it's nothing. That certainly is a fucked up way to die, I'll say that much.

15 minutes later

All right, guys, this is starting bother me slightly. I don't know why this is happening, but for some reason, there's some kind of weird motion blur going on with the camera when it's moving. And it's been doing that, mainly for darkly lit scenes. I'll try to get more into it a little bit later on, but I'm gonna let you guys know right now that the camerawork is a little bit on the uneven side.

19 minutes later

OK, I have a question here. Admittedly, it's a stupid one, but I'll ask it anyway. So Pecos has left the poker table and says that he'll be right back after he meets his, uh, girlfriend, I guess, to get the gold nugget back that he lent to her. If he's not coming back to the poker table, why don't you just disqualify him and leave his winnings to forfeit? I admit, I've never played real poker, for actual money anyway, but I do know that if you decide to leave the table, you normally take whatever winnings left you have with you. Either that, or, like I said, just disqualify Pecos for being away from the table for too long. At least, that's what I would do anyways.

12 minutes later

OK, as much as this movie has been more on the dull side for the last while now, I will say that Flores shooting that girl out of nowhere was actually really kinda funny. So, I gotta give them a little credit there.

14 minutes later

OK, that's sorta new. I've never seen anyone put rattlesnakes inside a tumbleweed and just rolling them down the hill towards our heroes, who are currently in hiding. That certainly is a creative method, that's for sure.

The Review

Well, guys, that was "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold". Let me go ahead and shut the movie off here...OK. So, where exactly do I start here? Well, I guess I can let you guys know that the movie is just OK. It certainly isn't great, but I wouldn't say it's completely awful either. It sorta ranges in the middle here. So yes, the is kind of enjoyable. However, I personally don't see myself watching this movie a second time. Mostly because, the movie is sorta dull. I'll get to why later, but just to let you guys know that while I did kinda enjoy the movie, it's not enough for me to keep rewatching it on multiple viewings.

So anyway, let's go ahead and start this review off proper here. I'm gonna start with writing, specifically, I want to start with the humor first. Since this movie is labelled as a comedy, I feel like it's important to gauge on how well the humor is handled here. Now I will say that, unlike previous movies where they were suppose to be some sort of comedy but didn't really have a whole lot of laughs, this movie was able to get a couple of laughs out of me. Which is totally cool, because that's what comedies are suppose to do. And while most of the humor here doesn't exactly land, there were a couple of moments here where it was actually really funny. And the reason why I thought those couple of laughs got to me was because the timing of these particular moments came out of nowhere. Which is what makes the humor all the more funny. And if the movie did more of that, I would've loved the humor here. That being said, what they did get out for jokes and everything was still sorta funny. So, at least there's that.

However, it's here where I have to start picking apart the story. OK, I understand that this movie was not only trying to cash in on the success of Indiana Jones, it also was suppose to be a homage to serial films from way back in the day. In fact, at the very beginning of the movie, it shows a bunch of the kids in the theater kinda horsing around until the movie starts playing and they introduce our cast of characters with captioned texts, while the kids cheer the heroes and boo the villains. And that certainly is a rather nice touch. But I have a feeling that if you showed this to kids nowadays, and unless they were into westerns like I was back then, I'm not sure they would be that interested in it. Not just because they're into the next flavor of the month movie that's currently out, but the movie itself is, as I've stated a couple of times already, really kinda dull overall. And even for someone like myself who grew up watching westerns and kinda enjoyed watching the movie, even I found the movie to be rather dull at times. Which is saying a lot, personally speaking.

Now one of the reason why this movie is more on the dull side has to do with it's runtime. This movie clocks in at about 101 minutes long, and that is just way too long, even for a comedy. This movie has quite a bit of padding to it, and I feel like that they could've trimmed the movie down to about 15 to 20 minutes and it would've flowed better. To give you guys an example, our opening prologue has Flores and his men trying to enter the mountain where the gold is hiding. And that scene by itself takes up about 10 minutes or so. And if it didn't have that out of nowhere kill, I probably would've said that you could've cut the whole scene and you really wouldn't have missed much of anything. I feel like they could've just trimmed it down by about 5 minutes or so and, like I said, the scene could've flowed better.

As for our characters, well, I would love to tell you that Pecos Kid and Yellow Hair are the most interesting characters of the entire movie, however, I would only be half lying to you guys. Because of our two leading characters, Pecos is the more interesting of the duo. He actually has something resembling a likable personality that makes you interested in him. Yellow Hair, on the other hand, doesn't have that same luxury. Even when you eventually learn her origin story from some blind old guy, it still doesn't give you enough reason to care about her. She's really bland both in personality and in depth. And it just really made want to see more of Pecos rather than Yellow Hair because she's that bland. And our villains are no different. Our enemy general borders on being cartoonishly evil, while Flores doesn't speak because he's mute throughout most of the entire movie. In fact, not only is he more interesting as a villain, but he also has more screen time than our enemy general, who disappears throughout most of the entire movie until the end.

So, to summarize for you guys, the writing here kinda ranges being kinda average. It's not entirely a bad story. I mean, it's about our characters trying to find gold. There's not much to fuck up with that sort of plot. But at the same time, it's not really all that engaging either. Especially if you were trying to show this movie to younger kids, unless, again, they were raised on westerns like I was. But that's just more speculation on my part regarding the latter. Now, let's talk about the acting next. Now earlier, I theorized that since this movie was made in Spain, part of me felt like this movie was more than likely going to be dubbed, as how a lot of spaghetti westerns were like back when they were filmed in Europe during that time. But surprisingly, outside of maybe two or three actors who are dubbed over, most of everyone else here actually speaks English. And as for the acting itself, well, it actually is OK. None of it is great, mind you, but it's not exactly bad either, like how I was predicting earlier. The only actress who I think sorta fumbles is the one who's playing our titled character Yellow Hair. Her acting ranges on being rather wooden. And that, in part, has to do with the script that she was given. Since her character is really kinda dull, there was only so much that she had to work with, given the script and all. So I can't necessarily fault her performance entirely here.

Costuming here is pretty good. I will also say that the stuntwork here is actually really good. The best one, in particular, I would give to the stagecoach chase. I couldn't even begin to imagine how many takes they had to do in order to get that successfully. And I would be shocked if it was done in only one take. Either way, though, it's still a really good sequence, probably one of the best scenes in the entire movie. Special effects here are also decent. Given that this movie was filmed on a rather low budget, the filmmakers did as much as they could to make due with what they could for special effects. And I would say, for the most part, the special effects are rather decent for it's time.

But now, let's get to one of the big problems with this movie, and, for me, anyway, is gonna be a deciding factor on whether or not I can recommend this movie as a whole. One of the things that bothered me about this movie is the camerawork. Now, it's not like it's filmed poorly or that you can't see anything, but one thing that really bugged the shit out of me about it is the fact there's a lot of motion blur in this movie. It's especially noticeable whenever there's something being filmed over a dark spot. Because whenever an actor is moving themselves, you'll notice a blur that follows the actor's exact movements and it's gonna stick at you really quickly. And I thought to myself that maybe this was only an issue during the first third of the movie, but no, it's prevalent throughout the entire movie! The only time that you don't notice these issues is whenever the movie is shot during the daytime in a clear background, like the sky, for example. You don't notice these issues because it's not filmed during nighttime or whenever a character is standing behind a dark background of sorts.

There's one scene in particular that really stood out at me as it being an issue. And it's the scene where Yellow Hair is trying to break Pecos out of jail. Now there's an Indian who is kinda sort of an ally to Yellow Hair who also tries to help out. And it's here where the motion blur really starts to become an issue. So, the Indian is trying to sneak past a guard. And there's a large wooden door that he's trying to get to, which is also covered in shadow. The moment that our Indian steps inside the shadow, that's where the motion blur really comes into play because you see it move along with the actor, as he's busily sneaking around. And at one point, I swear to god, it looked like the actors were moving in slow motion! It looks so fucking jarring that I had to wonder what exactly would be the cause of this sort of thing to happen.

Now, I do have a few theories regarding that. The first one would be that it's just how it was made during filming. Which, I could see that as a possibility, although I do have to question that if there was so much motion blur in this movie, was that also intentional because other serial movies of the time had that sort of motion blurs as well? I don't know, because I haven't seen very many serial films, so that leaves me wondering there. Another theory could be simply because this was a technical issue on my end. The third issue could be that this might've been a slip up regarding it's new digital transfer. Because, according to the back of the DVD case, this movie had a new digital transfer from when it was being filmed with a 35mm camera. And somewhere along the transfer, these motion blurs started to occur and the people over at Rhino Home Video didn't want to mess up the transfer, so they didn't have any choice but to keep the motion blurs in. I don't know. Perhaps maybe I'm just thinking way too deep into this, but it's really damn noticeable to not make mention of. Because the motion blurs really bugged the shit out of me throughout most of the entire movie. And there's no way in hell that, if you ever decide to watch this movie for yourself on DVD, I guarantee that you'll notice it as well and they'll stick with you throughout it's 101 minute runtime.

So anyway, camerawork here, minus the motion blur, is halfway decent. Lighting here is good, as long as you're not filming anything with a dark background, because the motion blur will definitely rear it's ugly head in. Sound-mixing here is actually competent. And the score here is also decent. So, I'd say the technical stuff works OK for the most part.

Ultimately, guys, when everything is said and done, can I recommend "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold"? Um...kinda, sorta. I can't entirely say no here, because the movie is still OK despite all of it's faults. I would say that if you're into westerns, or if you're somebody who has children that are also into westerns, then I would probably say go ahead and give this one a look. Just don't expect anything special here. Also, the movie is sorta dull, even for someone like myself who enjoys westerns. And even though I've already said this earlier, I'm not gonna be rewatching this movie again because of it's dullness. It just slightly outweighs it more than the enjoyment here. Which is unfortunate to say, because I was really curious about it, and wanted to see if it was actually any good. And well...it doesn't really meet those standards, at least for me, anyway. Now...I'm gonna go and watch another western. In fact, I kinda want to watch a western comedy, and I kinda want to see "The Villain" again. I haven't seen that one in quite a long time, so I'm gonna go and do that next after I get done typing this review up.

Anyway, guys, with that, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.

Reaction & Review | The Day Time Ended

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering a science fiction movie from 1980. That movie is "The Day Time Ended".

Now as I stated back in my review of "Skull Heads" a little while ago, I wanted to give more spotlight to movies from Full Moon Features, because I hadn't covered any of their films in a couple of years ever since my "Full Moon vs. Troma" marathon. So for this year, I decided that I'm going to be spotlighting more Full Moon movies to make up for that. So just to let you guys know now, you're gonna be seeing quite a bit more Full Moon movies being featured this year for Reaction & Review.

Now as for tonight's movie, I really don't know very much about it, outside of it being published by Full Moon Features. I can take a guess here, though, and say that the movie's gonna have some sort of time travel gimmick implemented. Which could be interesting, though, personally speaking, I'm not the biggest fan of time travel movies, so I'm not sure how much this movie is going to appeal to me.

But hey, who knows? This movie could still be really interesting, and perhaps it could actually be really good. I don't know if it will be or not, but that's what I'm here to find out. And the only I am gonna find out if this movie is truly good or not is if I shut up and I push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "The Day Time Ended".

3 minutes later

Guys, I'd love to hear what this narrator is talking about, however, I can't hear very much of his dialogue because of how quiet it sounds. You guys can't hear it for obvious reasons but this sound is so quiet that, even with my volume at full max, I still can *barely* hear what he's actually saying. I'm hoping that this isn't a sign of things to come already, but we are off to a little bit of a rocky start here.

9 minutes later

OK, so this little girl, upon chasing after her pony that suddenly ran off from her, ends up discovering some big glowing green thing. And she doesn't immediately ask what this thing is or even call out to her parents or anything? I really think something that big would...OK, so now the thing just spawned the pony right next to her after saying that she wanted her pony back. And she *still* isn't curious about what that thing was other than saying "thank you" to it! I gotta say, she's kinda sorta stupid at the moment. Just saying.

5 minutes later

OK, so Jenny did try to show her mother and grandfather the thing that she found at the back of the barn, only for it to conveniently disappear. Well, it didn't *really* disappear, per se, it just shrunk itself into a small glowing green rock. I'm curious if she'll actually show them this at some point, or she's just gonna keep it to herself, but I will retract my statement a bit about her being a little stupid...for now, anyway.

11 minutes later

So this is the second time that this little alien has appeared and it's now on the bed of Jenny's grandparents. And either this alien has the power of flight or that composite shot there looked kinda terrible. Either explanation I'll take, but still, the effect doesn't look very good.

14 minutes later

So this, I guess, alien ship, can stop bullets in mid-air and can also disintegrate them, as well. That's sorta cool, I guess. I'm still not really sure if that thing is suppose to be an alien ship or not, but at least the design of it is pretty neat. So that counts for something.

8 minutes later

And now we suddenly have a giant kaiju monster. Two of them, actually! And one of them kinda looks like Godzilla's distant cousin, only he looks a little bit more bulkier and goofier, too. Wasn't really expecting that, honestly.

18 minutes later

Guys, I'm just gonna say this right now, this movie is making less and less sense as it goes on by, and I'm honestly kinda happy that the film's almost over. Which is good, because there's only about 12 minutes of film to go. However, I have to end up talking about it once it's done. And that's gonna be kind of challenge, really.

The Review

Well, guys, that was "The Day Time Ended". Let me shut the movie off now...good lord. I don't even know where to starts, guys. This movie is just really fucking disappointing. I'm almost tempted to say that it sucks, but...actually, fuck that, it really sucks! Almost nothing about this movie is redeemable, save for a couple of things that I'll talk about later on.

For right now, however, let's just get right into this film here and see what I can actually start with. I may as well just talk about the writing, seeing as how I do that for a majority of my reviews anyway. The writing here makes no sense whatsoever. In fact, this movie borders on being plotless because almost nothing of interest happens here. Yeah, shit happens in this movie, but there's no context to it, and you're just left with mountains of questions that never get answered. This movie basically just wants you to not think and accept it for what it is. And if this were a mindless action film, I could probably let that slide. Because a lot of action movies don't have much plot anyways, with some exceptions of course, but still. However, when you have a movie that involves time travel and weird stuff is happening, you would expect the movie to try and be a little smart with it's writing and maybe explain a couple of things that you might have some questions about it. But that doesn't happen here, and it's rather infuriating when you don't get anything explained, especially for a movie that involves time travel and other weird shit happening. You would at least expect something out of this movie, but you don't get jack shit out of it.

To further prove this, I'm gonna go over a couple of things that the movies refuses to explain. First off is that big green glowing temple structure that Jenny found around the back of the barn at the beginning of the movie. Like I mentioned earlier, it didn't exactly disappear after Jenny couldn't convince her Mom and grandfather to look at what she found, it just shrunk, and that's when Jenny decides to pick up the thing and put it in her pocket. And it's here where I have to let you guys know that this temple-like thing Jenny finds is *never* explained at all. And what's worse about this is Jenny never tells her family about this even after she first tried to show it to them. You'd think by the point where they're at the car and things start to go weird for them, and that Jenny actually convinces whoever she was talking to actually stop because they were scaring her Mom, things just stop, that they would actually ask Jenny any questions, right? Well, no, because apparently, they don't think that's odd whatsoever.

Another thing that this movie refuses to explain is the ending. So, through a "time warp continuum" that the grandfather somehow deduces, both Jenny and Beth, AKA the mother, end up falling into it. And near the end, Jenny ends up beamed towards them and tells them that she and Jenny are fine. To which, Beth's mother asks her is that really true and how can they be sure that these aliens don't mean any harm? Well, Beth gives out the most half-assed answer I have ever heard in a movie in a long time. Basically, she has a "feeling" that she can't quite explain it, but there was a warmth that felt good and that she has a gut feeling that everything's going to be all right. Which then prompts Jenny to appear out of nowhere, followed by her Dad, Richard, who's been trying to contact the family throughout the entire movie and decides to travel to his Dad's home, in which case things led up to him being on a horse. And right towards the end of the movie, the whole family comes across a kinda futuristic city in a pod. And somehow, the whole family sees this as a good thing and the grandfather sums up that perhaps this is what was meant to be and doesn't question it whatsoever. Thus, our movie ends with our family heading toward this out of nowhere city.

Yes, guys, this seriously how the movie ends, and the whole thing just feels like a fucking cop out. It makes no sense whatsoever. I mean, how the fuck do you find a futuristic city set out in the middle of nowhere to be good thing? I'm gonna tell you, guys, if I actually saw that, I would be fucking terrified of it because I don't know what the fuck is over there! But this family is stupid as shit and decides to head on over there to end the film. It's basically similar to the ending of "Millennium", although not as convoluted as that movie's ending was. And also, those little aliens that I briefly mentioned early on? They never get explained at all about who they are and why exactly they befriend Jenny. Again, this entire movie wanted you to not think about anything and just watch it for what it is. And I'm not doing that, because what this movie's excuse really is for not explaining shit about anything boils down to five words. And those five words are 'fuck you, that is why'. You could've put that as a tagline for the movie and it would've worked perfectly to sum up all the nonsensical bullshit that happens in this film.

Now, what about the characters? Are there any characters that are worth caring about? Well...no, not really. There is not a single character here that you're gonna give a fuck about. I was gonna give Jenny a pass on this, because she's just a child, however, I also have to remember that she was the who kept quiet on the whole thing regarding the glowing green temple that she discovered and never again attempted to explain about what she saw or found. So she's back to being stupid after I rescinded my previous statement about her being stupid. Everyone else here I could just write off as bland and shallow. The only character who I could kinda like is Richard, though that's mainly because of his actor, who I'll talk about in a second here. But yeah, all the characters here are shallow, boring, and aren't really interesting in the slightest.

And that summarizes the entire movie in a nutshell. The movie is uninteresting, and because it refuses to answer any sort of questions that I had about the story, it makes the whole thing infuriating to watch and it just kinda makes me despise it even more. The writing here is that bad, guys. The acting here is also kinda on the same level, although I'm gonna give a pass to one actor in particular. And that would be Christopher Mitchum. For those of you who don't know, Christopher Mitchum is the son of legendary actor Robert Mitchum. And he's also been in a few John Wayne westerns, such as "Chisum" and "Rio Lobo". The latter being one of my favorite John Wayne movies of all time, so seeing him in this movie is actually a little bit of a treat. Plus, he's the only actor here who seemed like he cared. Everyone else, I can't say the same for. Most of everyone here sounds horribly stilted or wooden. The worst actor, unsurprisingly, is the child actress playing Jenny. Although I can't fault her too much, since she didn't have very many lines to begin with. But still, she was pretty terrible. And that goes for the rest of the cast that isn't named Christopher Mitchum.

Special effects are decent for the most part, with the one exception involving the composition of one of the aliens. Although I'll get to that in a bit. But first, I will say that when it comes to the visual effects, they look pretty decent. I mean, this isn't amazing or anything, but for low budget standards, it looks halfway decent. The best special effects come from the stop motion, specifically, when it comes to the aliens and our kaiju knock-offs. This is some really good stop motion animation for it's time, and I would say that, if this were in a better movie, I would totally watch it. However, being that they're kinda stuck in this movie, I can only regulate one positive to just the stop motion animation. It's really good, and it's the only thing that makes this movie stand out.

But now let's talk about the effects involving the aliens. Now as I just said, the stop motion on the aliens look really good. However, it's where they're moving that kinda hurts it a bit. Now with the first alien, it's not really noticeable. In fact, the effect where he crashes into a plant and knocks it down looks really good. However, it's the second alien that you kinda notice the problem. Mainly, when it's feet are moving, or sliding in this case, it's suppose to be on the bed as it's walking. However, at one point when it stops, it's feet are not touching the ground, which is suppose to be the blanket that it's suppose to be standing on. Now it's very well possible that my other theory of it floating could just be a natural power of his. However, with the way that it's not standing on the blanket on the ground makes the compositing of the shot look kinda terrible. Granted, it's not exactly the worst thing to notice, but it's still enough for me to make mention of. So yeah, the special effects here are OK, but still kinda heavily flawed.

Speaking of which, that brings me into the one of the biggest problems this movie suffers from the most: The picture quality. I've kept quiet on this one until now, but it definitely deserves to be mentioned. See, from the very moment of the opening shot, you can totally tell that the movie felt like it came from a VHS. Because the entire film is filled to the brim with so much graininess that it makes me wonder if someone over at Full Moon just took a dazzler and imported all of the footage from VHS to DVD without even attempting to clean it up. It looks really terrible, and there are even a couple of shots here where the video quality will take a nose dive and look even worse than usual! I really don't know if that was just because it generally looked like that when it was on VHS or if that was just a poor transfer job on Full Moon's part when they put the movie out on DVD. Now I have no idea if they cleaned up the footage on Blu-ray or not. If they have, and if you seriously want to suffer through this thing, then you might want to get it on that format, because the picture quality on this DVD looks grainy as shit. And mind you, I watched "The Outing" not too long ago. And despite the VHS quality there, it looked a hell of a lot better when compared to the grainy shit that's on this DVD. Which is really fucking sad, really.

But anyway, setting aside the awful picture quality, the camerawork here is fine for what it is. Lighting here is decent. Sound-mixing here is also decent. The score here is OK, as it was done by Richard Band. However, I wouldn't say it's one of his best scores either. It's just OK for what it is.

So, guys, when everything is said and done, can I recommend "The Day Time Ended"? No. In no way can I recommend this movie to anyone. It refuses to explain shit about it's plot holes and logic issues. To a point where you're gonna be infuriated to continue watching this movie. Now I am aware that this movie was riffed by the folks over at Mystery Science Theater 3000. Perhaps maybe you'll find some joy there with them riffing on the movie. I personally have no interest in rewatching this thing again, even with the MS3TK commentary. I just don't see the point. Maybe if I had seen it through their lens instead of my own, I probably would've done that. But as is, I'm not gonna rewatch this movie ever again. And it kinda sucks to say that because it featured an actor that I really liked, which was, of course, Christopher Mitchum. But that's OK, because I still have "Rio Lobo" on DVD, so I'm gonna go and watch that again right now, just so I can be reminded of a better movie with a great actor in it.

So anyway, guys, with that, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.

Reaction & Review | The Day of the Dolphin

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering a science fiction film from 1973. That movie is "The Day of the Dolphin".

Now, I learned about this movie thanks to me watching one of Emer Prevost's old game livestreams called "Fibbage", which came from one of the Jackbox Party Pack games. Now the premise of "Fibbage" was that you had to come up with a lie for an answer to a question, and if any of the other players picked your lie answer, you would get the most points for that question. Now if you really want to know more about "Fibbage", I would suggest you look up any playthrough of the game on YouTube.

But getting on back topic, as I said a moment ago, I learned about this movie from watching one of Emer's streams of this particular game. And one of the questions that they showed was about this movie. Specifically, it had to do with the film's tagline. The tagline of the film is "He unwittingly trained a dolphin to kill the President of the United States". And that got me curious on finding out more about this movie. So when it finally came to me finding a copy of this movie at one of my local video stores, I bought it and now I can finally cover it for this series.

Now aside from the tagline, the only other thing I know about this movie is that it stars George C. Scott. Which is great, because he's a great actor, and I'm hoping that he'll do something good here in this movie. In fact, I want this movie to be great, but I'm not sure if it will be or not yet. The only way I'm gonna find out is if I shut up and I push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "The Day of the Dolphin".

6 minutes later

So, guys, I just learned how dolphins give birth. Apparently, they just swim around in the water until their baby just hatches out of their body. It actually is rather interesting to know that. I would've never have guessed.

12 minutes later

Well, guys, I am willing to say that, while the film is a little slow moving right now, the music here is really good. You guys can't hear this for obvious reasons, but I really like the score for this movie so far. It sounds very relaxed and soothing. Which is something that I don't say very often about scores in movies, but this one, so far, is definitely on that scale.

10 minutes later

You know, guys, as cool as it is that the dolphin can actually count to the number 10, his voice is also kind of annoying. Yes, I understand it's a dolphin, so it's not just gonna naturally speak our language fluently. I just wish his voice wasn't kind of irritating to listen to. Just saying.

19 minutes later

Well, guys, Alpha's not too happy right now, considering that he has been cut off from his mate from that metal door and is trying to sorta slam into it with his tail, and has been doing this all day and night, too. I'm not totally sure why exactly Jake did that, but I'm willing to see where this is going.

2 minutes later

OK, so he did it to get Alpha to talk, which he actually did. Thus, Jake finally releases the door to let Alpha and Beta reunite together. Well, as kinda messed up as that method was, at least it actually worked. So, gotta give Jake some props there.

10 minutes later

Well, I actually didn't think those dolphins would come back in their side of the water after hearing one of the guys there saying that there's a shark in the tank. I thought they would've just swam out to sea and never be heard from again. But I guess I was wrong there.

19 minutes later

O...K...I was not expecting a dead body to appear like that in the tank. That certainly was a rather unexpected thing to see in this movie. That definitely caught me off guard a bit.

The Review

Well, guys, that was "The Day of the Dolphin" Let me go ahead and shut the movie off now...OK. So, where exactly do I begin here...? Well, I guess I can say this first. The movie was actually pretty good. Now mind you, it isn't great by any means, but I do feel like the movie has some kind of weight to it, to where I can't really say that the movie is disappointing. Yeah, the premise is goofy and sorta stupid, but I feel like the filmmakers put in a remarkable effort to make this film work in their favor.

Why don't we go ahead and start this review off proper by first discussing the writing. Now, first off, I should probably address that tagline that I mentioned at the start of this thing. "He unwittingly trained a dolphin to kill the President of the United States". First of all, that tagline, to me, is an instant grabber. How exactly do you train a dolphin to kill the President of the United States? Well, I can tell you guys this. The method of it how it's done is actually pretty simple. And without spoiling exactly how it works, I will say that it's not like if someone trained Jaws the shark to where they savagely kill the President of the U.S. by dumping him in the water and just letting the shark eat him. It's nothing like that at all. It's actually a rather unique method, and part of that has to do with our main character, Jake, training the dolphin on how to speak our language. Like I said, I won't spoil the entire method of how exactly it all works, but it actually is a really unique and simple method and it does make some level of sense.

Now with that said, I want to talk about the biggest problem with this movie's writing. And it's not the premise itself, such as George C. Scott trying to talk to dolphins, or the tagline of the movie itself. To me, those aren't really big problems. No, the biggest problem with this movie's writing is the motivation for killing the President of the U.S.. Basically, guys, the whole thing boils down to a political conspiracy that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. And the worst thing about this is that all of it is done through exposition. You're just being told about it rather than being shown anything. Which, OK, for a movie about dolphins being trained to talk our language, probably would be something that would come out of left field anyways, but I still think they could've done something better with it. Instead, the whole motivation just felt like it was tacked on just so we can have our tagline exist in the first place. And also, I don't even remember the President of the U.S. being mentioned about this whole political conspiracy. Now I could be wrong on that. Maybe if I end up watching this movie a second time, they might mention him in the conversation. But still, whether the President was mentioned or not still doesn't really make very much sense in that conversation.

One other problem that this movie kinda suffers from is it's runtime. This movie clocks in at about 104 minutes long. And you can tell that this movie feels a bit too long, especially when you exclusively focus on the dolphins for a few scenes. Those scenes, in particular, felt like padding. Perhaps if this movie trimmed down on those scenes a little bit, the film could've probably flowed better. And somehow, I just felt like a made by pun there with the word 'flowing', and I'm kinda sorry for making that just now. Oh well.

Anyway, those two issues aside, the writing here is actually really decent. Even for a goofy premise like this, it still has quite a bit of heart to it. Our characters here are likable and fleshed out. The latter going to Jake, because he has quite a bit of character depth in this movie. And the relationship he has with Alpha, the dolphin, is really good. And you do care about both of them as the movie goes on. Now I suppose that if you find this concept of Jake training his dolphin to talk in the human language is too ridiculous to your liking, then there's a good chance that you'll end up hating this movie. And I can't really say that it's not possible. Because in my experience in watching movies that have really odd or creative premises doesn't always make for a good movie. And for some people, they'll probably think that way about this movie, too. But like I said, despite all that, I really think the premise did end up working to a degree. The only thing that doesn't exactly work is the motivation for killing the President of the United States. Again, I felt like that was just tacked on just so we can have this premise to begin with.

So anyway, writing here is still pretty good, as long as you're able to tolerate this odd concept. For me, I was interested in it long ago and now that I finally got to see in it's whole context, it actually did kinda work. Speaking of which, the acting here is also really good. The best actor, by far, would have to go to George C. Scott. He easily makes this movie work and is the biggest standout of the whole film. Now admittedly, he does have a tendency to ham up his lines a couple of times when he has to raise his voice, but still, he did an amazing job here for what he had to work with. Same goes to everyone else here. Everybody pulled in their weight in this movie and they did a really good job here. So, kudos to the entire cast here. You guys did a fantastic job in this movie.

Camerawork here is really good. The lighting here is great. Although considering most of, if not the entirety of this movie, was shot outdoors, it was probably to be expected for the lighting to be really good. And it would've been some sort of crime if the lighting was shit. Sound-mixing here is really good. The music here is great. Like I said earlier, the score here sounds very relaxing and smooth. And after looking up the person behind the music, I can tell you guys that the film's score was done by a man named Georges Delerue, who had a shit ton of music for a bunch of movies and TV shows for nearly 50 decades. Which is outstandingly bonkers! Now admittedly, it's for stuff that I had never heard of. But still, with how much he had done over the years, it's pretty cool to hear something from him for the first time coming from me, and I can say that I'm very impressed with it. So yeah, the music here is really good.

Overall, guys, when all is said and done, can I recommend "The Day of the Dolphin"? Well, like I said earlier, if you're able to tolerate this rather goofy premise of George C. Scott training a dolphin to talk our language or even the tagline of what the premise eventually leads to, then you might actually end up enjoying this movie. However, if you're not able to do that, then that's totally fine. Because I know some people care for something that's, well, safe and standard, I guess. And I don't mind that myself every now and then, but I do like it when movies like this try to go for something that's kinda out there. And they did manage to make it work for the most part. Again, the motivation for the plot is tacked on, but just about everything else works pretty well. So for the most part, I can recommend this movie to you guys, as long as you're able to, you know, tolerate the concept of this movie well enough. And for me, I was able to tolerate it enough to hold onto for my DVD collection. I'm curious to see how well this movie holds up on repeat viewings for me. But until then, I'm gonna go watch something else. And considering that this movie had a rather goofy premise, I'm gonna go and watch "Chopping Mall", because that's one other ridiculous premise for a movie that I really do like. So, I'm gonna go do that next as soon as I get done with this review.

And with that, guys, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.

Reaction & Review | The Outing

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering a horror movie from 1987. That movie is "The Outing".

Now, I should first let you guys know that this film is part of that 4 movie combo pack I mentioned back when I reviewed "The Godsend", and it's also the last one, too. And I'm hoping this one might be decent, though I can't say for certain yet.

Now, I've read the synopsis to this movie, and I'm gonna tell you, guys, that this film has the potential to be so stupid that it'll end up being really funny. Essentially, guys, the movie's about a girl who ends up becoming possessed by a genie from an ancient lamp, as she and her friends are all spending the night over at a museum. And what comes after, I'm going to assume, will be all hell breaking loose between our main cast of characters and this demonic genie.

Now I say it might be so stupid that it's funny is because the whole idea of this premise sounds dumb as shit. But at the same time, I can't help but feel that I'm underplaying it a bit here. Because this movie might actually end up being really cool and amazing. However, I'm not really sure if that's actually going to happen or not. I haven't seen any trailers or clips from this thing, so I can't know for sure if this movie will swing either way. Or if it'll end up totally sucking.

Really, guys, I don't really know what to expect from this movie, outside of knowing it's premise. I'm just gonna go into it here and see what this movie can do with it's interesting premise. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "The Outing".

13 minutes later

So, guys, even though we don't see this genie yet, it's been released from it's lamp and is already killing off our three thieves. Well, the third one's about to be killed anyway. She's too busy screaming while running upstairs topless and in her underwear. I'm kinda hoping, maybe, that we get to see this genie in it's physical body sooner rather than-oh, now she's being killed off and it's by hanging...I guess. Either that, or she's being choked to death by the genie while being invisible. Not sure why there are sparks going off all over near her feet. I will say, though, at least the kill is effective. So, whatever works for our genie, I guess.

10 minutes later

Jesus Christ! Guys, I've hardly ever used toasters before, but I've never seen one pop up toast to where it was on fire. And I can't exactly blame this on the genie's 'magic' or anything, because that came out naturally on it's own like that. I don't even know any toasters that can do that, let alone ones that came out in 1987. That's honestly new to me, guys.

10 minutes later

Hold up, I just realized something, guys! So our main character's name is Alex, and she's asking her teacher if a magic lamp ever existed. And the teacher's response is her talking about an evil spirit known as a Djinn. My god, this is basically "Wishmaster"! Except, this came out before "Wishmaster" did, so I can't really call it a ripoff...huh. You learn something new everyday, don't ya, guys?

6 minutes later

OK, so the sparks I mentioned earlier about why exactly they were even there is basically an indication that the genie is near someone. Granted, it still doesn't exactly make a whole lot of sense, but at least it's something resembling an explanation. So, kudos to the movie for answering that thought I had.

15 minutes later

You know, guys, who's starting to get on my nerves right now? Besides Mike and his idiot friend, it's this singing cop. He's been singing since the museum's closed and I would be deeply shocked if he survives. I have a strong feeling he won't, but I would be shocked if he did. I'll just have to wait and see though.

4 minutes later

Well, guys, I called it. The singing cop is now dead and killed with a spear, too. Hopefully, Mike and his dumbass friend is next. Cause those two are even more irritating than the singing cop, and I hope their death is as painful as possible. Looking forward to that.

7 minutes later

OK, that's sorta new. I haven't seen that much blood on a body before from a bunch of snake bites. Granted, I've never been bitten by a snake, thank god, but I don't think that much blood would come from small snake bites. But maybe that's just me.

4 minutes later

Well, guys, I got great news. Mike and his douchebag friend are now dead and it's almost exactly as I hoped it would turn out for them. Granted, I could've wished for a little more pain on them, but you know what? I'll happily take what I can get out of it. It was totally worth it.

7 minutes later

Well, guys, it took a bit of time, but I finally get to see the genie in it's physical form...and he actually looks pretty cool! Granted, I can't exactly hear what he's saying, since his voice is so fucking filtered it hurts, but the design looks really cool, so at least there's that.

The Review

Well, guys, that was "The Outing". Let me go ahead and shut the movie off here...OK. So, where do I begin here? Well, I guess I can answer something that I brought up way early on. Is this movie as dumb as I thought it was going to be. Oh, most certainly. This movie is dumb as shit. Is it also so dumb, it's funny? Oh yes, at times, it really is. Is this movie good? Eh...not exactly, no. But I can't deny the fact that I really enjoyed this film. This thing surprised me on how interesting it really was. I really was not expecting that kind of thing from this film.

So anyway, let's go ahead and dive right into this thing and talk more about it, shall we? Let's start with writing. Now earlier, I brought up the comparison between this movie and "Wishmaster", because our main character has the same first name and is also connected to the djinn, in a way. And you'd think, considering this movie came out a decade before "Wishmaster", how much of the similarities are there between the two films? Well, while there are a couple of similarities, most of everything else is it's own thing. The only real differences that I noticed is that the Djinn in "Wishmaster" came from an ancient jewel, while with the genie in this movie came from a magic lamp. Also, the genie in this movie can only be destroyed by destroying it's lamp, while with the Djinn in "Wishmaster", they kinda jump around it from it's sequels. Thankfully, there's only one good sequel, however, I'm not gonna muddy things up here by talking about the awful "Wishmaster" sequels after 2.

So yeah, while both movies have similar ideas, they're not enough to where I can say "Wishmaster" ripped off this movie or vice versa. Not that I can do that for the latter because, again, this movie came out long before "Wishmaster" did. Which still kinda floors me a bit. But anyway, setting the similarities aside, what about the rest of the writing? Well, the setup is honestly nothing special. Apparently, Alex ends up seeing the lamp at her father's museum and she accidentally opens it up after coming into contact with one of the items that is related to the genie, AKA the bracelet, which was also seen in the prologue of the film. She puts it on and realizes that she can't take it off. It's forced upon her. And somehow, she was able to keep this hidden throughout the entire movie without her Dad, or anyone else, realizing this. I would've thought that, when her father's assistant was showing him an old photo featuring the old lady from the prologue when she was younger, that he would've also pointed that out. But instead, he only wanted the father to focus on the lamp that was in the background. I'd have to check again to see if the bracelet was present on her or not. I'm not entirely sure on that.

But anyway, going back to the setup of this film. It's later on, during the school field trip, where Alex, who later gets possessed by the genie after she releases it, goes along with her friends suggestion that they should stay at the museum overnight simply because. Yeah, there's no real explanation beyond that. And it's here where I should also say that we've seen this kind of setup before in other horror movies, where a group friends or colleagues get together in some place and stay overnight there. I'm thinking of movies like "Chopping Mall" and "Shakma" for example. Those are two movies I can think of where they had that same kind of setup. And while this movie is nowhere near the level of how good "Chopping Mall" did it, it's certainly a lot better than "Shakma". Simply because they were in a museum the whole night, while with "Shakma", it was regulated to a laboratory. That, and the premise in that film was kinda poorly handled. Here though, they were able to do a lot more creative things, thanks to them being in a museum. Though I'll talk a little more about that when I get to special effects.

Our characters really don't have any sort of depth that is interesting or likable. The latter in which it includes characters like Mike and his douchebag friend. I really thought that, after what happened in school, that they would be expelled and would get sent to jail. Well, the former does happen, however, for some reason they're *still* set free and go after Alex and his friends for what happened early on in the movie. Long story short, Mike and his douchebag friend end up in a mini car chase against Alex and her boyfriend Ted. And we learn from Ted that Mike was Alex's former boyfriend. What the fuck Alex saw in Mike I'm not even going to question. But regardless, Mike and his friend end up getting stopped by the police and are taken away. Well, I guess that wasn't enough, because they are somehow released, probably on bail by their parents, and are back in school as they get into a fight with Ted, and it soon ends up with Mike pulling a knife out during the fight. Alex's teacher steps in and reprimands them, which causes the principal of the school and the police, who I guess someone called them while the fight went on, and they're finally taken away again. And they probably should've stayed there, too. But I guess we can't always have nice things all the time.

So yeah, Mike and his douchebag friend are the most unlikable characters in this entire movie. Our other characters aren't really all that interesting. Alex, our main character, is kinda bland overall. Her father is in the same boat. And at first, I thought they were going to do something with their relationship, because they talk about how her Dad is always focused on work and she never feels like she's a free person. And at one point, she even mentions, or jokes for that matter, that her father would just disappear or even die. Then a moment later, they do a 180 on this and immediately makeup. And what she says about her father doesn't get mentioned again until much later on in the movie. However, I'm not gonna get too deep into that one for the sake of spoiling the whole movie. It's also been noted that Alex's Dad is also going out with her teacher. Now that's not really much of an issue, except when she and her Dad are out at dinner together, he begins to say that he's going to marry her and that he'll tell Alex the next day. Which I find a little odd, because Alex already knows that he's in love with her teacher to begin with. So I don't think she would've reacted differently to this whether he told her or not. But that's just me, personally speaking.

So, overall, the writing here isn't really anything really special. But even so, it's rather decent on it's own standards. Yes, it's still dumb as shit and it can also be funny as hell at times, but I'm still really surprised that the movie was able to keep me invested in what was going on. And it's never boring either. Admittedly, it does have a little bit of a slow boil to it, but I can assure you that there is quite a bit of payoff towards it's final climax, and I'd say it was totally worth it. Now, in regards to the acting, it's kinda decent for what it is, though it does range on being laughably bad. Some of the actors tried to ham up their performances, which I'm totally cool with as long as they don't go overboard with it. And it does kinda work. I'd say the weakest performance here would have to be the actress playing Alex. I don't really know what it is exactly, but there's just something about her performance that seemed slightly off to me. Now I will say that her performance here isn't completely god awful or anything, however, there are times where she will sound either flat or will try to overact a bit. The latter isn't really that noticeable, apart from where she tries to yell during the final climax of the film, but the rest of her acting isn't really all that good, especially when she tries to sound possessed. It just didn't exactly sound right to me is all. That said, her acting here is still passable for what she tried to work with, but it still isn't really that good either. So it's just something that you kinda have to tolerate for what it is.

Special effects here are a very mixed bag. Now obviously, this movie was made on a rather low budget, so you really have to work with what you're limited to. And the one effect that's going to stand out at you the most is the genie, when he's in his physical form. Now when it comes to the puppetteering on the genie himself, it actually looks pretty good. The design looks pretty good, too, for something that looks like a demonic djinn, anyway. However, when it's not in it's physical form, it will travel invisibly and will also possess people on occasion. And when it happens, you'll notice how their eyes turn full green. Now those kind of effects are cheap and really kinda shit, as are most of the visual effects in this movie. But aside from that, the blood effects are pretty good for low budget standards, as are the gore effects. Granted, there's not a whole of them, but for what few that do exist here, is still pretty good. So, special effects are still a mixed bag. That said, even though the visual effects are terrible, as are the green glowing eyes, I still kinda liked it, as it does bring out a certain charm to the movie overall. At least, that's how I feel about them anyways.

Camerawork here is pretty good, but I do have to comment on the picture quality for just a moment here. You see, this version of the movie that's on this 4 movie combo pack that I have, feels it came from a VHS port of the movie. And you can totally tell that because of the graininess that appears on screen. I feel like someone over at either Scream Factory, who put out this 4 pack, or MGM, who originally distributed the movie, took a dazzler and just transferred this movie from a VHS and just ported over onto DVD without cleaning any of the footage up. Now mind you, the movie's not completely unwatchable or anything, but I do have to warn some people in advance that the picture quality of this movie from this 4 pack isn't going to be high quality standards or anything like that. Now I do know that this particular movie was released on Blu-ray, where it also has it's original title known as "The Lamp", and the copies of it on Blu-ray are rather limited. So if you can somehow find a copy of it somewhere, go ahead and pick it up, because I imagine that the picture was cleaned up a bit more, seeing as how it's also on Blu-ray and everything. But still, like I already said, the movie is still watchable on the 4 pack. Just, again, don't expect high quality stuff there.

Lighting here is pretty good. The score here is nothing special, although there's one track on the very opening credits that sounded very annoying, because it kept looping the same sounding tune over and over again. It really sounds like something that would come from a casio keyboard, honestly. And I would not be surprised if that actually was the case. I could be totally wrong there, but still. The sound-mix here, though, could've definitely used some improvement. The biggest one being the genie's voice. And I didn't comment on this when I was talking about acting because the genie speaks with a filtered demonic voice. And I would've been totally fine with that...if I could actually understand what the hell he was trying to say. Again, guys, this genie's voice sounds so filtered that I couldn't understand a lot of what he was trying get out. I could, maybe, make out a few sentences here and there. But aside from that, you're not gonna understand a lot of the genie's words here. And I'm not totally sure if I should be blaming the actor voicing the genie or the sound editor who didn't try to find a balance on making the genie sounding a bit more listenable. So yeah, they definitely could've fixed that a bit. Some of the sound-mixing in other scenes isn't great either, but the genie's voice is the biggest offender when it comes to the sound-mix.

Ultimately, guys, when all is said and done, am I able to recommend "The Outing"? Yes, I totally can recommend this one, for sure. As long as you're able to overlook the somewhat low quality that is on this version of the movie. If not, then you might just want find a copy of one of the limited Blu-ray releases, if you can. But if you still want to take the chance with the former, then by all means, go ahead and do that. Now I'm not sure if it does have a standard DVD on it's own. Which, if not, then I would totally try to find the 4 pack that it's on. In fact, I would say that this 4 movie combo pack is totally worth it. At least for 3 of the 4 movies. The only one I would try to avoid on it is "The Godsend", since that's the only one I didn't like. But that's just me, personally. If you want to take a chance on that movie, then that's totally on you. Still though, this 4 pack is worth the purchase, and I'm totally happy that I was able to snag this combo pack at my local mini mall last month. Now...seeing as how I just got finished watching a movie about a demonic djinn, I'm gonna go and watch the first "Wishmaster" movie again right now. And if I'm up for it, maybe I'll just marathon both this and the second film right afterwards. So yeah, I know what I'm gonna be doing next after I get done with this review.

And with that, guys, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.

Reaction & Review | The Calamari Wrestler

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to an all new Reaction & Review. Tonight, guys, I'm gonna be covering a Japanese film from 2004. That movie is "The Calamari Wrestler".

And I believe that titles summarizes everything I know about the plot to this movie. Which is about a wrestler who's also, apparently, a calamari. And yes, I know that it's suppose to be a guy in a calamari suit, but unlike modern wrestling, I.E. WWE and AEW, who constantly go out of their way to destroy kayfabe, and have to keep beating you over the head about it, I like to try to broaden my imagination a little bit when it comes to professional wrestling and it's kayfabe.

So anyway, now that I've gotten that mini rant out of the way, I'm gonna tell you, guys, I'm really looking forward to watching this movie. In fact, I've been wanting to watch it for a few years, however, thanks to scheduling conflicts, I didn't get a chance to do so, which is why it kept getting pushed back. But now that I finally have room for it in the schedule, I now get to see what this movie can do with this sort of premise. And the only way I'm gonna know if this thing is any good at all is if I shut up and I push play, and I'm gonna do that right now. So, without further ado, it's time to kick back, relax, and check out "The Calamari Wrestler".

5 minutes later

All right, guys, allow me to summarize everything that's happened within the first 5 minutes or so of the movie. Two wrestlers battled it out for the title. One of them wins with a submission hold, and then soon after his victory, our squid wrestler appears in the ring and challenges him for the title. And long story short, the squid wins with a Northern Light suplex pin, thus winning the title from our newly crowned champion. And the only thing I have to point out here is that *nobody* is questioning the fact that a squid just won your world championship title! But hey, as I said earlier in my remarks about kayfabe, I'm going to give this movie the benefit of the doubt and see where they go from here.

13 minutes later

Wait, so let me if I understand this. So the head guy of Super Japan Pro Wrestling is comparing our calamari wrestler to stuff like nuclear war, terrorism, mysterious viruses, the economy, politics, and all this other shit, to anxieties of the people of Japan in hopes that a Japanese wrestler beating the calamari wrestler will raise their spirits. Dude, what kind of drugs are you on to compare heavy shit like that to a squid wrestler beating another wrestler? I mean, I can kind of understand what he's actually trying to convey here, such as when an American defeats a foreign heel for national pride or something, but it's still a really stupid comparison. Just thought I'd mention that.

18 minutes later

You know, guys, what's really making this film stand out so far? The fact that they're just kinda playing it straight up, what with them acknowledging the squid wrestler as if it's some normal entity, is what's making the whole thing even funnier. I'm really liking how they're handling the writing in this film. It's really good, so far.

4 minutes later

OK, guys, I was just about to comment on a really stupid pun...but I'm gonna ignore that because, holy shit, it's Yoshihiro Takayama! Dude, that is an awesome cameo appearance we're getting from him. If you don't know who Takayama is, go look up some of his matches sometime. They're really good.

12 minutes later

O...K...I was totally not expecting that appearance from Taguchi. I'm curious as to how that happened to him, but still, I was really not expecting that kind of change. And no, I'm not gonna tell you what that change is, guys, you're just gonna have to watch the movie for yourself.

9 minutes later

OK, now we have a...bug kind of creature beating up our calamari wrestler with boxing gloves...and it's known as the Squilla Boxer. What the fuck am I watching?!

The Review

Well, guys, that was "The Calamari Wrestler". Let me shut the movie off now...OK. Wow, um...I'm trying to figure out where to start with this film? So, you guys remembered earlier when I said that I kept putting this film off? Well, I probably should've seen it earlier, but I guess now is a better time than any. This film is great! I really enjoyed this movie a lot, guys.

So, why don't we start thing off, as usual, with where I normally start with these reviews. Let's start with the writing. Now the main thing you have to take into account here is the fact the premise here is overly ridiculous, and the filmmakers knew this going in. There's no way in hell that you're gonna take a movie with this sort of premise and turn it into a serious movie. Now yes, there are some moments in here where they add in some serious bits, but it's never heavy handed and it doesn't weigh the down the film's tone at all. This film is a comedy first and never shies away from it. The filmmakers took a ridiculous premise and ran with it, and thus the result is what you get with this movie.

Now since I'm on the subject, let's talk about the humor in this movie. The humor here is great. It's very sharp and, although there may be one or two jokes here that are kinda shit, and those are mainly puns, everything else here is funny as hell. It's very sharp and witty and you're guaranteed to get a laugh out of it. That's how good the humor is. Also, and I'm probably the one who kinda noticed it, they even referenced some of the "Rocky" films to an extent. You have the first, with the calamari wrestler winning the big title in semblance with Rocky winning his first big championship. Then you have the big rematch between the calamari wrestler and Taguchi, which is also similar to the rematch between Rocky and Creed in the second film. And they even referenced the third film, where you have Taguchi training the calamari wrestler for the next upcoming big fight, which is also similar to Apollo Creed training Rocky. Now if you've never seen any of the "Rocky" films, you probably wouldn't notice these references. As I said, I'm probably the only one who notices some similarities between those films and this one. But still, it's very brief, and also really good stuff, too.

Our characters here are also very interesting and very likable. In fact, damn near the entire cast is very likable and have tons of personality. Which is something that I haven't seen from a lot of movies nowadays, though that's just a personal thing. This movie has a ton of charm and personality that really makes it stand out in a positive way. And on the subject of our calamari wrestler, I should mention one thing about him. Without spoiling anything, they give out a twist about our calamari wrestler, and they do it pretty early on, too. And it's something that you're either gonna get use to or you're just going to flat out despise it. I say this, mainly because, again, our plot is about a squid wrestler, and it does have a backstory that if I tried to go into detail about, I would already be giving away the big spoiler. However, I'm not sure if it's really as big as I'm making it out to be since, again, they reveal it pretty early on. And they also give you hints very early on, too. So it's not like you're gonna be lost or confused about the origin of this calamari wrestler. It's just something that you have to take for what it's worth. It really just depends on how much you can suspend your disbelief about a movie involving a squid wrestler.

Guys, I'll just summarize here: The writing in this movie is great. Not just in terms of humor, but it also has a unique charm to it that will suck you in, especially if you're a fan of professional wrestling. That's part of the reason why I wanted to check this movie out in the first place because I am a wrestling fan. Granted, I don't really follow much of modern wrestling nowadays, but I still enjoy it from a time when it was actually interesting. And this movie is definitely on the high interest scale. It is such a good movie. Now, the acting is also pretty good, too. Mind you, there's no English dub here, as you only get it's original Japanese audio with English subtitles. But what you got here is all of the actors just livening it up and having a blast with their roles. No one here is phoning it in and I would imagine that if you tried to phone it in for a movie like this, then you have no business being in this film. Every actor gives out a 100% in their roles and they do a really good job with it.

I haven't had a chance to talk about this very often, but I want to mention the fight choreography. Because, since this movie involves wrestling, you would naturally have to consider how to incorporate it with our titled character. And I'm gonna tell you guys, right now, the fight choreography is really fucking good. All of the matches in this movie, what few there are, are very entertaining and you do get a taste of how our calamari wrestler...well, wrestles. He does have some standard wrestling moves like suplexes and rest holds, but he's also a capable fighter, too, as you get to see him striking his opponents with his tentacles. It's really good stuff, and I gotta give a ton of props to whoever it was in that costume doing the choreography the entire time. I gotta imagine that it must've been hot as hell in that suit, but I'm sure he had to have a lot of fun being in it, too. And that definitely counts for something.

And since I'm on the subject, let's talk about the costuming here. Costuming in this movie is fantastic. The details on our titled character looks great, as is that Squilla Boxer I mentioned a while back. This is some very creative stuff here when it comes to costuming. All of the suit work involving these costumes are great and if it's possible, I would love to see how they came up with this stuff behind the scenes. And I do believe the DVD does have that option, so I'm gonna have to check that out at some point whenever I get the chance. But yeah, guys, costuming in this movie is fantastic.

Camerawork here is really good. Lighting here is perfect. The sound-mixing is great. And the score here is also really good, too. In fact, there was one track that played during the ending credits that I listened to for a bit before shutting off the movie to do the review, and it sounded really good, too. So I'm probably gonna have to listen to more of that at some point on my next viewing of this movie.

And I guess that more than gives away on what I'm about to say next. When all is said and done, guys, can I recommend "The Calamari Wrestler"? Oh, you bet your ass I'm gonna recommend it. This movie is great. It's great as a comedy, it's funny as hell, and it's also a big love letter to professional wrestling. If you are a wrestling fan and you're interested in checking out some wrestling movies that you haven't seen before, then I would *highly* recommend this movie. It is amazing, and I'm proud to finally own a copy of this movie on DVD for my ever growing collection. So now, I'm gonna go and browse some older wrestling DVDs that I have and watch one of those. I'm not sure which one yet, but I have plenty of options, so I'm gonna go do that next after I get done with this review here.

And with that, guys, we come to the close of another Reaction & Review. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, take care, and I will see you all later. Peace.