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Contract For Life: The S.A.D.D. Story (1984) The founding of Students Against Drunk Driving) told through a Disney.

Published April 12, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Awkward 80s Instructional Tapes, Dangerous Kids, Standard-Lowering Children's Entertainment

Journey Through Rosebud (1972) Existential hippie bullshit masquerading as some type of parable about Native American ethical and moral issues.

Published April 5, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in 70s Existential Bullshit

Lethal Pursuit (1988) Dated 80s movie about a female musician who returns to her hometown to get raped by her ex-boyfriend.

Published March 30, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Barely Justified Revenge, Extremely Dated Musical Entertainment

The Dirt Bike Kid (1985) Peter Billingsley rides a magical farting dirt bike for 90 minutes and stops a bank from ruining a hot dog stand.

Published March 22, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Coming of Age According To A Script, Standard-Lowering Children's Entertainment

Avenging Force (1986) An elite group of masked men hunt and kill not so elite maskless men in the swamps of Louisiana.

Published March 16, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in Barely Justified Revenge, Movies for Paranoid Liberals

A Night In Heaven (1983) The most depressing movie about marriage you've ever seen masquerading as a super-cheesy male stripper movie.

Published March 8, 2013February 20, 2022by Stunt Rock in My Favorite Films, Unrealistic People Falling In Love, Unrealistic Teen Fantasy

Barbie And The Rockers: Out of This World (1987) Hasbro's Jem doll line gave Mattel such a scare that they frantically scrambled to get a competing girl-fronted rock band toy line on shelves.

Published March 1, 2013November 13, 2021by Stunt Rock in Standard-Lowering Children's Entertainment

Last Plane Out (1983) The story of the overthrowing of the Somoza regime by Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua in 1979.

Published February 22, 2013November 13, 2021by Stunt Rock in Foreign Movies Made For $5 (U.S.), Insinuated Thrills - Allged Action, Movies for Paranoid Liberals

Wanted: Babysitter (1975) Confusing and uninspired kidnapping movie.

Published February 14, 2013November 13, 2021by Stunt Rock in Foreign Movies Made For $5 (U.S.), Poorly Made Films Involving Poorly Planned Heists

The Disappearance (1977) Donald Sutherland is a hitman having a soulless emotional crisis, then his wife vanishes.

Published February 8, 2013November 13, 2021by Stunt Rock in 70s Existential Bullshit, Insinuated Thrills - Allged Action, My Favorite Films

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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.

Marathon (1980) This movie is written by men, from the perspective of men, and for consumption by men. Longing for extramarital affairs, fixation on younger women, unhappiness with a spouse, disappointment with kids - it’s all here. 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.

The World Sucks Now.