Comments on: Remember "Remo Williams"? I Didn't Think So.

By: Bittersweet

Bittersweet — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:20:23 +0000

What if I'm old enough to have watched this movie on Betamax but young enough to still buy things and think Viggo would totally kick Fred Ward's ass? Does that work?

By: suaveydavey

suaveydavey — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:40:38 +0000

No, but the trailer reminds me of this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm8txY989Iw&feature=related

which I rented on VHS in the 90's.
Since my mind is going, I'm an old too, can someone help me? I remember a movie with Jeff Goldblum from around this time period where at the end, he gets a bag of money in a cheesy airport motel. IMDb offered no help.

By: chrismohney

chrismohney — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:51:32 +0000

Not only did I see this movie in ye olde theatre — but by the time I did, I had already stopped reading the dozens (hundreds?) of Destroyer books on which it was based. Sort of a bloodthirsty nincompoop's Nancy Drew, the books were a group-written hodgepodge of 70s serial crap. Wonderful stuff for a nine year old who couldn't get into "Mack Bolan: Executioner". Chiun had an evil twin named Nuihc; it was eventually revealed that Chiun's real name *was* Nuihc, and the nova-Nuihc was an evil student of his that took his name, and so, to distinguish between himself and his evil student, old-Nuihc reversed his name to Chiun. I also remember Remo losing interest in sex because he had mastered the instant-orgasm-touching thing in so many ways that making a woman come was too easy and boring for him (as was killing people), so he really had no outlet for his many frustrations. I think there was also a killer android that Remo eventually befriended. And there was a billionaire villain who offered people outrageous sums of money to do the things they claimed they'd never do; he offered a fortune to a thug if said thug would beat his (the thug's) grandmother to death with a twig. Thus ends my Remo Williams memory dump.

By: brent_cox

brent_cox — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:23:28 +0000

I did see it — it was a slow warm-up for "Big Trouble In Little China", which was "Reno" times a million. And I'm happy to masquerade as whatever age you tell me in a survey.

By: monkeyajb

monkeyajb — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:08:45 +0000

Not only do I remember and love this movie I AM STILL WAITING FOR THE SEQUEL THEY PROMISED DURING THE CREDITS!

By: dinosaur_senior

dinosaur_senior — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:03:32 +0000

I'm an old, don't remember this and love to buy shit.

By: boricuaintexas

boricuaintexas — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:42:03 +0000

When are you going to cover "Howard the Duck?"

By: My Number Is My Address

My Number Is My Address — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:42:31 +0000

Fred Ward is the rich man's Fred Dryer.

By: blatanville

blatanville — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:51:09 +0000

no, Stingray for the win!

By: zidaane

zidaane — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:49:43 +0000

I used to block ashtrays from the wife with a remote.
The remote had special tape…

By: zidaane

zidaane — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:41:52 +0000

The thinking mans Karate Kid.
I watched this like 5-6 times but don't remember much.
I'm Olds.
I still buy newspapers.

By: tfey_hawbz

tfey_hawbz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:08:54 +0000

Does remembering Wilford Brimley make me a Semi-Old? Cuz, yeah.

By: MoMan

MoMan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:50:31 +0000

Those were some fun replies. I remember that I liked this movie when I saw it as a kid – And I still cracked up in the trailer when he kicked him in the crotch. "I did not tell you to keep them up." :)

By: Krugmanic Depressive

Krugmanic Depressive — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:43:21 +0000

My sister and I spent at least a year dodging bullets Chiun style. Came in handy when the old man threw his empties at us. Good times.

By: jackvinyl

jackvinyl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:34:53 +0000

-> the voice has evolved away from Chiun's and into an old Jewish lady's… in my childhood anyway…

By: jackvinyl

jackvinyl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:33:27 +0000

By the time my brother and i wore out our VHS copy of Remo, the quote, "It is apparent to me that you know less than nothing!", had become so ubiquitous in our household that my step-grandma called out my aunt with it at Sunday dinner.

By: satyricrash

satyricrash — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:08:23 +0000

This is about the only horrible movie I didn't watch in theaters from 1983-1988. When we were kids we would go to the movies three or four times a week and would see anything, and I mean anything, from Out of Africa to Police Academy 3. ::shudder:: Now it's just a pain in the ass. PEE ESS I like to purchase all kinds of things, like pot and acid and pills that don't relate to female reproduction.

By: CaptainFantastic

CaptainFantastic — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:01:19 +0000

Hunter, for the win.

By: kitten_witawip

kitten_witawip — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:21:02 +0000

My father used to say people told him he looked like Edward Woodward.

By: sigerson

sigerson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:12:47 +0000

I remember this but I was more of a Dr. Who kind of kid. That and "The Young Ones" marathon on MTV. Plus, Hunter and The Equalizer (even back then, I thought it odd that an aging, fat English dude with a corset was some kind of invincible tough guy).

By: TerseNursePornstein

TerseNursePornstein — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:14:43 +0000

Hallo, schmutzigen Jungen!

By: IBentMyWookie

IBentMyWookie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:04:05 +0000

More posts on Jake and the Fatman, please.

By: SarahHeartburn

SarahHeartburn — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:02:36 +0000

I was older than your demographic when the movie premiered. Now I'm really depressed.

By: atipofthehat

atipofthehat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:02:23 +0000

When you approach middle age, there is a tendency toward bruising, my son.

By: atipofthehat

atipofthehat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:49:42 +0000

OMG!

Is is about diabeetus!

And the Wonder Wheel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_v5HzP9F0&feature=related