Team HR Nuggets

“HIDDEN IDIOTS: Uncovered Awkwardness in Cinema”

Travolta seems to effortlessly deliver the goods in 1981’s Blow Out.

TEAM HURLEY INTEREST SERIES: Kickboxer

I saw Kickboxer for the first time while sleeping over at a friend’s house in the sixth grade. The movie had a strong ‘brother theme,’ which I obviously had zero problem relating to. When someone breaks your brother’s spinal cord, you dip your hands in resin and broken glass to fight it out with the dick who did it…it’s the brother’s code. It’s a fucking no-brainer.

TEAM HURLEY INTEREST SERIES: Sheen Outtakes

More gold from The Arrival

TEAM HURLEY INTEREST SERIES: Die Hard

I don’t remember when I first saw John McTiernan’s action opera masterpiece ‘Die Hard,’ but I do remember watching the middle 40 minutes a bunch of times on syndication before I ever saw the beginning or end of the film. For awhile, I was under the impression that John McClane was perpetually stuck in a short-straw version of purgatory, constantly walking on glass and killing off an endless stream of terrorists. Reginald VelJohnson is also great in his role of Carl Winslow, the middle-class family man with a heart of gold.

Click here to see clips from TBS’s PG-dubbed version of Die Hard 2. Featuring lines like: “If you’d have moved your fat feet when I told you to, we wouldn’t be hip deep in snow right now!”

TEAM HURLEY INTEREST SERIES: Superman II: The Dick Donner Cut

Hubley and I had to settle for extremely sub-par beer while watching this one, but in a way, it didn’t even matter. Dick Donner goes back in time to dick with a completely alternate version of Superman II…basically, attempting to fly backwards around Earth a bunch of times in order to reverse the past. Miraculously, it works. You basically feel high while watching this movie. It is a weird sensation of watching something familiar, while all-the-while being plagued with feelings of complete unfamiliarity. I wish all classics had a ‘Dick Donner’ cut. That way, we could all ‘re-watch’ our favorite movies and not have to waste money on beer.

TEAM HURLEY INTEREST SERIES: ‘Kurt Russell/The Thing’

For awhile, possibly still, ‘The Thing’ ranked upon the HR meter as ‘tightest film ever made.’ This film’s success was in part due to a talented young thespian named Kurt Russell. Russell plays the character R.J. MacReady and experiences some pretty heavy bullshit no one could possibly ever be ‘MacReady’ for. The special effects are also good.

TEAM HURLEY INTEREST SERIES: ‘The Arrival’

While most people were holding up Independence Day as 1996’s summer blockbuster, the brothers Hubley put their stock into this sci-fi alternative starring Chuck Sheen as the radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky. Sheen’s performance was on another level to say the least, giving birth to our own Charlie Sheen impression where we would both squint our eyes and talk/whisper the phrase: “what are you saying?”