{"id":3695,"date":"2011-05-12T23:06:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/05\/12\/stuff-received-51211-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T23:06:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:06:39","slug":"stuff-received-51211-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/05\/12\/stuff-received-51211-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff received 5\/12\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/516Tid8D2vL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gordons-War-Limits-Double-Feature\/dp\/B004RBC5H4\/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1305240256&amp;amp;sr=1-3\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Gordon\u2019s War\/Off Limits<\/span> (Double Feature)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Gordon\u2019s War<\/span>:<\/span> Gordon (Paul Winfield, The Terminator) spent four years in Vietnam as a Green Beret fighting someone else\u2019s battle &hellip; now he\u2019s come back home to fight his own. He returns to a Harlem that has changed \u2014 drugs and prostitution have taken over his neighborhood, and his wife even overdosed from drugs. Along with his former army buddies, he takes on the Mob to wipe out the corruption that has taken over the city. Also starring Carl Lee (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Superfly<\/span>), Tony King (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Bucktown<\/span>) and singer Grace Jones (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">A View To A Kill<\/span>). Directed by Ossie Davis (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Cotton Comes To Harlem<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Off Limits<\/span>:<\/span> Being a cop is tough. But in war-torn Saigon in 1968, being a cop is crazy. Someone is brutally murdering Vietnamese prostitutes with children by American fathers, and plainclothes military cops Sgt. Buck McGriff (Willem Dafoe, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Spider-Man<\/span>) and Sgt. Albaby Perkins (Gregory Hines, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Cotton Club<\/span>) are put on the case that no one wants solved. But things are never what they seem in \u2019Nam, including a novice nun (Amanda Pays), a deranged colonel (Scott Glenn) and a twisted trail of clues that takes McGriff and Perkins from back alleys to battlefields in search of a serial killer who\u2019s ready to make them the next victims. Fred Ward, Keith David and David Alan Grier costar in this explosive action thriller.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">This\u2019ll be fun. I\u2019ve never seen the nearly-legendary <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Gordon\u2019s War<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51hiWyNrqvL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transformers-Dark-Moon-Peter-David\/dp\/0345529154\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1305240847&amp;amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Transformers: Dark of the Moon<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Peter David<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>All humankind was watching that fateful day in 1969. But only a handful knew the real mission behind America\u2019s triumph in space. Now the treacherous Decepticons have set their sights on unearthing government secrets. The only hope of averting a crisis rests on the Autobots\u2014yet who knows what remains in the shadows, hidden from man and machine?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The less I say about <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Transformers<\/span> movies and Michael Bay, the happier we\u2019ll all be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">And speaking of Giant Robot flicks\u2026<\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51pxalYcteL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crash-Burn-Robot-Double-Feature\/dp\/B004RBC5OM\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1305241046&amp;amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Crash And Burn\/Robot Wars<\/span> (Double Feature)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the year 2030, and man\u2019s worst nightmares have become an oppressive reality in <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Crash And Burn<\/span><\/span>. Big Brother has come to life in the form of Unicom, an all-powerful conglomerate that emerged in the wake of a devastating global economic collapse. A group of dissenters has surfaced to fight Unicom\u2019s autocracy and stop the murderous Synthoid \u2014 a humanlike robot programmed to kill all those who pose a threat to the organization. Starring Paul Ganus, Megan Ward (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Dark Skies<\/span>), Bill Moseley and Ralph Waite (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Cliffhanger<\/span>), and directed by Charles Band.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate battle between metallic giants begins in <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Robot Wars<\/span><\/span> when a malicious foreign dignitary hijacks the last mega-robot on Earth, the MRAS-2, and threatens to unleash its crushing powers against the people of the Eastern Alliance. There\u2019s only one force magnificent enough to stop the MRAS-2 \u2014 a MEGA-1 robot hidden under the city. It\u2019s up to a renegade pilot, his engineer and a brilliant archaeologist to revive the MEGA-1 and reestablish world peace. Starring Don Michael Paul (writer\/director <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Half Past Dead<\/span>), Barbara Crampton (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Re-Animator<\/span>) and Lisa Rinna (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Melrose Place<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">While I haven\u2019t seen either one of these robot &ldquo;epics,&rdquo; I\u2019m sure they\u2019d match or surpass the script, acting, and direction quality of the first two <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Transformers<\/span>. Oops.. said I wasn\u2019t going to discuss the &ldquo;T&rdquo; word again. At least I didn\u2019t directly accuse Michael Bay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/05\/12\/stuff-received-51211\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff received 5\/12\/11<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. 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