FishyFish

The first reply to the tweet made me laugh.

After millenia of peaceful rest on their beautiful red homeworld, the denizens of Mars must fight a terrible, bloody war to rid themselves of violent invaders from a nearby world. But one of the bastards just won't die.

Thats pretty shit. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but I wish it had been yours, fella.

It's ace. I mean, it's stupid too, but ace stupid, and at an hour and a half it never drags. It's takes the Die Hard, one man against the odds riff, including some bits that seem to be pure homage, adds in a bit of The Last Boy Scout for good measure, and has fun with it. I was grinning and loling throughout.

This is fucking epic!!!! I feel like I should have rented it on VHS or something! It’s on Sky Premiere from today, and also in cinemas apparently. ”It’s not soccer. It’s football!” The trailer, in case you want to spoil it for yourself:

He always seemed to be one of those “forever young” types so it just seems wrong for him to have died. 80s video shops would never have been the same without The Cannonball Run and a host of other boxes with his moustachioed face grinning from the covers. While this is sad news, I saw the following post on Reddit this morning and it made me smile to wonder how an alternate version of John Carpenter’s The Thing might have played out with Burt in the cast... RIP Burt. What a guy.

Prog Rock by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

Richard Dreyfus investigating the attacked boat in the dark was a real winning sequence for a six year old.

My dad took me to see Jaws on initial UK release. I was six years old. After that, loads of stuff... Star Wars (all the OT} Close Encounters of the Third Kind Raiders of The Lost Ark Day of the Dead Hellraiser Die Hard Predator Robocop Starship Troopers ...

Olympus OM-1 Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 Fujifilm Acros 100 FILM - Triple Morris by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr FILM - Plymouth by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

Lady in red by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr Night shopping by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

At Marina Grande, Capri by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

I've only seen Trancers the one time, probably about thirty years ago now. My main memory of it is that it was constantly trailed alongside Runaway starring Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons from Kiss.