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Texercise (1984) The youngest of the Mandrell sisters dives in to country-themed 80s exercise hysteria.

Published January 18, 2014February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Awkward 80s Instructional Tapes

Bubba: Until It Hurts (1985) Bubba Smith (of NFL and Police Academy fame) leads a bunch of people in leotards through some ridiculous butt clenching.

Published January 10, 2014February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Awkward 80s Instructional Tapes

Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout (1990)

Published January 3, 2014February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Awkward 80s Instructional Tapes

A TIME TO LIVE (1985) Somewhere in the mid-80s Liza Minnelli tries to raise her son Corey Haim, who has Muscular Dystrophy.

Published December 27, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Lifetime Movie Network

The Golden Seal (1983) A good movie if you find the love between a boy and a seal enjoyable and/or erotic.

Published December 21, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Animals Who Kill People Who Are Dumb, Standard-Lowering Children's Entertainment

Savannah Smiles (1982) Two escaped convicts learn to love a small Caucasian child without sexually assaulting or decapitating it.

Published December 13, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Standard-Lowering Children's Entertainment

The Earthling (1980) Ricky Schroder continues his childhood mission to make the world cry.

Published December 6, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Coming of Age According To A Script, Standard-Lowering Children's Entertainment

Right Of Way (1983) James Stewart and Bette Davis portray a married couple who want to kill themselves rather than wait for disease to ravage their bodies.

Published November 28, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Lifetime Movie Network, Unrealistic People Falling In Love

Reuben, Reuben (1983) A drab, tweed-clad, depressed, alcoholic poet makes his living scamming off of, and making love to, unhappy elderly socialite women.

Published November 22, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Unrealistic People Falling In Love

Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) Richard Dreyfuss plays a sculptor who gets paralyzed and then proceeds to fight for his legal right to die.

Published November 15, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in 70s Existential Bullshit

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The Betamax Rundown was started by failed musician and artist Stunt Rock in October of 2006, with the intent being to review and analyze a personal library of over 2100 Betamax tapes.

When not watching movies, he enjoys making artistic horseshit no one cares about.

Steve Bullyhuff is the ever-loyal proofreader and fact-checker. When not fixing drunken typos, he enjoys playing rock music.

The Betamax Rundown is updated sporadically.

Independence Day (1983) Trigger warning if your grandfather ever made you high like a tree. Independence Day (1983) Beret-clad photographer Mary Ann (Kathleen Quinlan) has lived in the same town her entire life yet still finds the energy to run around snapping photos of townspeople as she awaits an acceptance letter from a San Franciso art school, while also helping her cancer-stricken mother convalesce. We’re supposed to ignore that she’s clearly 30 and still trying to get into art school. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983) Extra Ellen Barkin appreciation post. Her performance in the first segment was described as "bruised, tough and sexy" by Janet Maslin in the NYT. Accurate. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983) Kevin Bacon, playing a young cabbie looking for love in the third story of this anthology film, sings a song, but it sound like it might be overdubbed. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983) Uneven New York anthology full of progressive themes and likable performances. Mid-Knight Rider aka Hard Knocks (1979) Some select clips: Mid-Knight Rider aka Hard Knocks (1979) HARD RECOMMEND! This movie is insane. Somewhere there has to be a proper cut where it all works perfectly, but this seventy-seven-minute cut released on home video is wild. It’s Midnight Cowboy but quickly turns into homesteading Western before dropping into First Blood territory. Foolin' Around (1980) A young Bill Macy in his first screen role! Foolin' Around was filmed in 1978 so I'm comfortable saying this even though it was released after Somewhere In Time (1980) which is technically the first appearance of W. H. Macy. Foolin' Around (1980) For the most part, Foolin’ Around is a meandering love story filled with wacky PG-level hijinx. It feels more like a 70s-era live-action Disney movie than the post-Animal House frat comedy it was marketed as.

The World Sucks Now.