What a class act this guy was...so many memorable movies, Nighthawks, Blade Runner, Split Second, Hobo with a shotgun, The Hitcher and so on.... absolutely legendary actor.
And don't forget Season 3 of 'Channel Zero' - "Butcher's Block" (see my tediously long-winded comment as to WHY everyone shoukd watch it, posted in the comments section - bring your No-Doz though, cos it's LONNNG...LoL!) Cheerz from Wellywood, Aotearoa NZ 😀
Love this flick. It was on HBO pretty regularly after it came out and I must have caught every showing. And my brother and I would quote "SHITFUCK" into adulthood. Another great review, boys!
Tector and Lyle Pike were the names of the Gorch brothers from the western, the Wild Bunch. Their last name Pike, was connected to William Holden's character from the same film, Pike Bishop.
@@Madbandit77 He did? I must go re-watch that one, even though I know I've seen it at least twice (it could just be ME, but the '70s seems to be travelling further & further into the past with EVERY passing year, mind. Soooo...). 😄
RIP Rutger, what a bloody legend! A hero from my childhood who will never be equalled. By far my favourite performance of his was as Roy Batty from Blade Runner. He will be missed. Deeply.
Ah, you guys are SO so great! Your enthusiasm for films is infectious, and I love how you both interact. For a hermitty old 58-year-old fart like me, who's seen FAR too many films & TV shows than is recommended by most Surgeon General's Warning label writers, it's like watching Good, Bad OR Fugly flicks with a couple of like-minded mates! Keep up the great work!!! In axual fact, I was gonna give 'Blind Fury' another go recently, as I was a bit "meh" on it when it was first released - I wanted the "cooler' Rutger - y'know, the Replicant and Hitcher versions that I loved so much - but watching it again all these years later with you both made me realise how that bias of mine had spoilt my enjoyment of what is, let's face it, a "bit" of a batshit-bonkers premise to BEGIN with, but MOA than stands on it's own merits for a fun-sized knowingly-ridiculous rollercoaster ride! (& I LURRRVE Trash, trust me on that! LoL) So, THANK YOU for that, fullahs! :-D Oh, btw, if you've not already seen Rutger in one of his very last roles, that sadly seemed to fly under most people's radars, check him out in Season 3 of the UTTERLY BRILLO Creepypasta TV adaptations of 'Channel Zero' (R.I.P), namely "Butcher's Block" - it's GREAT (though MY personal fave season was #2 - "No End House"). ALL 4 seasons have been some of THEE very best horror/sci-fi productions I've seen in frikken DECADES (with possible exception of Season 4, which was only EQUAL to the very best of 'American Horror Stories' and 'Stranger Things', sadly. Oh well. 3x perfection is STILL a great run, so rare as to be mathematically IMPOSSIBLE, yet what does fuggin Einstein know (rhet.)??? ). At the risk of harping on & on oops too late cuz Here. We. Fukkin. Go. AGAIN: Channel Zero was a TRULY original show, with amazing creepy & unpredictable tales, with high production values, (mostly) excellent acting & skilled direction - I cannot recommend 'Channel Zero' highly enough, in fact, & it STILL mystifies me why the show was unable to garner a stronger & bigger audience, especially compared to ludicrous trash-fire shows like 'American Horror Story' (written mostly "as they went along", with plot-holes big enough that whole planets have been known to pass thru without "touching the sides"), and underwhelming 80s nostalgia-fests like zzZzZZzz 'Stranger Things' - maybe coz 'Channel Zero' was on the less-than-quality-assured SyFy channel? Maybe it was marketed incredibly badly? Maybe because most viewers confuse Shinola with SHIT, with their brains in their collective arses? Or D: ALL of the above? YOU decide! ("Kind of" apologies to those fans of AHS & Stranger Things - I have enjoyed AHS seasons 1 & 5, and ST had some cool bits (despite Winona Ryder having somehow forgotten how to ACT), but neither show holds a candle to the sheer CLASS of 'Channel Zero', and like it or not, that's also a Peer-reviewed Scientifically Proven FACT**) (**9 out of 10 Lab Rats who watched each show at the time ONLY blew their tiny rodentian brains out whilst viewing AHS & ST at all the numerous utterly gormless parts, while only ONE Lab Rat hung itself off the little 'hamster wheel' in their viewing cage with Channel Zero, and ithat was only cos the human cannibal scenes in Season 3 triggered his PTSD over his involvement eating the bodies of his rodent family in the aftermath of the infamous Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 plane crash of October , 1971 (as detailed in the docu-dramas 'Survive!' (1976), and the better-known American film 'Alive' (1993).) Well, that was if the dead rodent's suicide note was real, and NOT a forgery (as some critics later claimed, understandably pissed off that 'Channel Zero' had so convincingly trounced the competing 2 shows in EVERY single category, INCLUDING Catering AND Complimentary Hookers for TV Critics and Laboratory Rodents). Peace, all fellow "Shelfies" - INCLUDING all those of you who will (erroneously) think I have Shit 4 Brains (but like i said, the Science speaks for itself), and in the immortal words of Lux & Ivy - "Stay Sick!"* (*NOT Covid-sick, mind, witch goes without saying, but I'm saying it anyway! LoLoLoL)
Is understandable why this was made, the main concept sound badass for a movie, but on top they added a mix of genres and the tone is all over the place. Is entertaining however some choices in editing and direction made it bizarre and silly even for the 80's. Is a shame it did not succeed, is a fun movie with a lot of potential.
Aaaaaaand.... yet again...! Gary and Iain introduce me to a movie that should have been in my life... YEARS AGO!!! This is gonna be so fucking rad. I can feel it.
22:39 It definitely is producing different sounds. I spent a lot of time on the phone in the 90s, and I could also tell you which key is making which sound.
just found this channel not long ago, witch is good and bad, good that there is tons of reviews to watch, but sort of bad that im kind of late to the party, but i been on a marathon watching all the reviews, and man you 2 guys are awesome reviewers, it's like the perfect team, keep up the good work, especially enjoy watching the horror movie reviews, for super old stuff, the older I get, i find it almost better to watch the reviews of movies instead of just watching the movie again, it adds so much more to it, cause for 1 i can watch it much faster, not deal with the boring parts an you get awesome commentary throughout from people that are just as into cinema as you are, on top of it being funny and pointing out the flaws in them, i would love to see a review of children of the night, from 1991 sub species from 1991, night of the demons remake from 2009, all different levels of bad an campy, but definitely fun watches, and the scream film's,
Great review guys love this movie, am a big fan of Rutger Hauer and this is my right up there with his best films. Saw an interview with him where he said this was his most challenging role.
Thank you both for another great n depth film review. I just watched this movie with my brother and I absolutely loved it. The film is definitely of the 80s but that is why I love this film so much. And of course because of the late great underrated Rutger Hauer.
I grew up with this movie also! Sooo good! Underrated Classic. Also, the Pike Bros elevator scene is my favorite and has stuck with me all these years later.
@Off The Shelf Reviews Never heard of this film, but I picked it up immediately on iTunes after watching the review! Another awesome upload gentlemen!!! 🖖
Feet are hands. They have the same sensory capability, but in a blind person this must be magnified extremely. And then they are made doubly blind by wearing shoes and having a stupid numb stick instead to feel their way around. What a shame! It is a tragedy that so many people have had their feet stolen, but blind people having that also taken away is MONSTROUS!
Such fond memories of this one, great review and pick! Regarding Japanese films, did you ever see the Ito Ogami (Lone Wolf and Cub series)? A couple of the films were edited together in the 80s and brought to the west as Shogun Assassin
One childhood favorite Rutger movies. I would watch this movie as a kid any time it came on tv, no matter if it was the last 10 mins of the movie or 25 mins in I gladly sit and watch this movie and sit through 38mins of shitty 80s commercial ads.
I'd love to see you guys review yet another Rutger Hauer (kinda) movie from the 1990's: Crossworlds. It is just....so bad it's fun to watch. Terrible 90's CGI effects? Yep. Bad dialogue and a scene-chewing main villian? Yep. Nonsensical plot and MacGuffin? OH YES. Also: I'm pretty sure the first ever acting role for Jack Black (talking way before Tenacious D).
So it's the western zatoichi the blind swordsman lolz, their can never be enough of those movie I'll have to watch this one looks really good, and I have never heard of it before
There's 36 Zatoichi films starring the awesome Shintaro Katsu. It's pronounced Zatoeechee. This was a good example of a US reinterpretation. Kill Bill is nothing compared to Zatoichi or Lone Wolf & Cub.
Had this movie when I was a kid , watched it numerous time's. Just found it about 3 weeks ago at a pawn shop . Still love it . Side note The Hitcher is another Rudger classic. The remake was AWFUL
I find it rather interesting that when current era movies try to emulate this stuff they very PURPOSEFULLY go for blood and guts just runnin' down the walls of every damn scene. "Remember?? This is how they USED to do it! We're being just like the--" No. All that mess reads like some kind of gross-out "reality ensues" statement AGAINST these kinds of films. These are known as they are, and the outcry against them in their OWN time was for the exact OPPOSITE REASON!! You can play with a sword blind and win! You can successfully drive while blind! You can hack people to pieces, they'll just bloodlessly pick up their own body parts and call you an asshole-- AND KIDS WERE WATCHING THIS STUFF, AND SOME OF THEM EITHER WERE OR WERE THOUGHT TO BE LEARNING BAD LESSONS. Yet in today's callbacks EVERYBODY absolutely dies from barely being tapped, blood goes sprayin' all over the place if anybody so much as loses a FINGER-- and somehow THAT'S now allowed, just as long as the person doing it ISN'T a typical action hero role model because THAT is now somehow the thing that is bad to show. He can't be a badass, there's gotta be a stronger, tougher woman pulling the strings, and anybody they touch has to instantly EXPLODE into a fountain of gore. It's literally the exact INVERSE of the very thing it claims to be "bringing back", and it honestly plays as an attempt at stealth critique. That's all fine, and it CAN be entertaining-- but to frame it the way they do is also HIGHLY disingenuous and REEKS of an agenda.
What a brilliant Actor Rutger Hauer was..
R.I.P
What a class act this guy was...so many memorable movies, Nighthawks, Blade Runner, Split Second, Hobo with a shotgun, The Hitcher and so on.... absolutely legendary actor.
Don’t forget Kylie Minogue video “on a night like this “ 👍
And don't forget Season 3 of 'Channel Zero' - "Butcher's Block" (see my tediously long-winded comment as to WHY everyone shoukd watch it, posted in the comments section - bring your No-Doz though, cos it's LONNNG...LoL!)
Cheerz from Wellywood, Aotearoa NZ 😀
i notice you mentioned his most memorial films and not his worst and he did do a lot of bad films
Ladyhawk.
Yesss! This movie was such a blast! Can't go wrong with Rutger Hauer. 😊
Macready (Noble Willingham) survives and becomes a bar owner in the Chuck Norris tv series Walker Texas Ranger.
An absolute classic! Thanks so much guys! Rutger Hauer is truly missed!!!
This is a guilty pleasure of mine.. I too grew up watching this movie. If only there was an official sequel. The actor did a great job.
Love this flick. It was on HBO pretty regularly after it came out and I must have caught every showing.
And my brother and I would quote "SHITFUCK" into adulthood.
Another great review, boys!
23:42 so glad you mentioned that scene. For me, that was me and my friends most quotable lines.
Forget Roy Batty this was Hauers defining moment haha 😂😂😂 The part where he spits the stone on the boy's forehead is comedy gold 😂
Tector and Lyle Pike were the names of the Gorch brothers from the western, the Wild Bunch. Their last name Pike, was connected to William Holden's character from the same film, Pike Bishop.
Interesting that Hauer, along with Meg Foster, starred in Sam Peckinpah's last feature film, "The Osterman Weekend".
@@Madbandit77 He did? I must go re-watch that one, even though I know I've seen it at least twice (it could just be ME, but the '70s seems to be travelling further & further into the past with EVERY passing year, mind. Soooo...).
😄
Wow, that's a pretty neat bit of movie trivia there! Ta 4 sharing! 👍🤠👍
@@MothraBlues "Osterman" came out in 83.
@@Madbandit77 Oops - my bad. I coulda SWORN it was a 1970s flick. (BLUSH)
RIP Rutger, what a bloody legend! A hero from my childhood who will never be equalled. By far my favourite performance of his was as Roy Batty from Blade Runner. He will be missed. Deeply.
The only problem with this channel is 1 review a week isn’t enough 😢😢😢
"Shit!"
"Fuck!"
"Shit-fuck!"
That's my abiding memory of this film. That and the bloke getting cut in half as he falls out the skyscraper at the end
You’ve never seen any zatoichi films Iain?! Takeshi kitano did a really good update of the series back in 2003 you should check out
Ah, you guys are SO so great! Your enthusiasm for films is infectious, and I love how you both interact. For a hermitty old 58-year-old fart like me, who's seen FAR too many films & TV shows than is recommended by most Surgeon General's Warning label writers, it's like watching Good, Bad OR Fugly flicks with a couple of like-minded mates! Keep up the great work!!!
In axual fact, I was gonna give 'Blind Fury' another go recently, as I was a bit "meh" on it when it was first released - I wanted the "cooler' Rutger - y'know, the Replicant and Hitcher versions that I loved so much - but watching it again all these years later with you both made me realise how that bias of mine had spoilt my enjoyment of what is, let's face it, a "bit" of a batshit-bonkers premise to BEGIN with, but MOA than stands on it's own merits for a fun-sized knowingly-ridiculous rollercoaster ride! (& I LURRRVE Trash, trust me on that! LoL)
So, THANK YOU for that, fullahs! :-D
Oh, btw, if you've not already seen Rutger in one of his very last roles, that sadly seemed to fly under most people's radars, check him out in Season 3 of the UTTERLY BRILLO Creepypasta TV adaptations of 'Channel Zero' (R.I.P), namely "Butcher's Block" - it's GREAT (though MY personal fave season was #2 - "No End House").
ALL 4 seasons have been some of THEE very best horror/sci-fi productions I've seen in frikken DECADES (with possible exception of Season 4, which was only EQUAL to the very best of 'American Horror Stories' and 'Stranger Things', sadly. Oh well. 3x perfection is STILL a great run, so rare as to be mathematically IMPOSSIBLE, yet what does fuggin Einstein know (rhet.)??? ).
At the risk of harping on & on oops too late cuz Here. We. Fukkin. Go. AGAIN:
Channel Zero was a TRULY original show, with amazing creepy & unpredictable tales, with high production values, (mostly) excellent acting & skilled direction - I cannot recommend 'Channel Zero' highly enough, in fact, & it STILL mystifies me why the show was unable to garner a stronger & bigger audience, especially compared to ludicrous trash-fire shows like 'American Horror Story' (written mostly "as they went along", with plot-holes big enough that whole planets have been known to pass thru without "touching the sides"), and underwhelming 80s nostalgia-fests like zzZzZZzz 'Stranger Things' - maybe coz 'Channel Zero' was on the less-than-quality-assured SyFy channel? Maybe it was marketed incredibly badly? Maybe because most viewers confuse Shinola with SHIT, with their brains in their collective arses? Or D: ALL of the above? YOU decide!
("Kind of" apologies to those fans of AHS & Stranger Things - I have enjoyed AHS seasons 1 & 5, and ST had some cool bits (despite Winona Ryder having somehow forgotten how to ACT), but neither show holds a candle to the sheer CLASS of 'Channel Zero', and like it or not, that's also a Peer-reviewed Scientifically Proven FACT**)
(**9 out of 10 Lab Rats who watched each show at the time ONLY blew their tiny rodentian brains out whilst viewing AHS & ST at all the numerous utterly gormless parts, while only ONE Lab Rat hung itself off the little 'hamster wheel' in their viewing cage with Channel Zero, and ithat was only cos the human cannibal scenes in Season 3 triggered his PTSD over his involvement eating the bodies of his rodent family in the aftermath of the infamous Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 plane crash of October , 1971 (as detailed in the docu-dramas 'Survive!' (1976), and the better-known American film 'Alive' (1993).)
Well, that was if the dead rodent's suicide note was real, and NOT a forgery (as some critics later claimed, understandably pissed off that 'Channel Zero' had so convincingly trounced the competing 2 shows in EVERY single category, INCLUDING Catering AND Complimentary Hookers for TV Critics and Laboratory Rodents).
Peace, all fellow "Shelfies" - INCLUDING all those of you who will (erroneously) think I have Shit 4 Brains (but like i said, the Science speaks for itself), and in the immortal words of Lux & Ivy - "Stay Sick!"*
(*NOT Covid-sick, mind, witch goes without saying, but I'm saying it anyway! LoLoLoL)
Dead calm is so good
Absolutely awesome! Blind Fury & OTSR, have a good one, Shelfers! 👊 👊 👊
Is understandable why this was made, the main concept sound badass for a movie, but on top they added a mix of genres and the tone is all over the place. Is entertaining however some choices in editing and direction made it bizarre and silly even for the 80's. Is a shame it did not succeed, is a fun movie with a lot of potential.
Aaaaaaand.... yet again...!
Gary and Iain introduce me to a movie that should have been in my life... YEARS AGO!!!
This is gonna be so fucking rad.
I can feel it.
The end scenes take place in Reno and then Lake Tahoe in Nevada.
This easily made my top 10 80's movie! Watched it like 100 times.
Remake with Keanu??
It is a wonderful fun 80s style action!
I always look forward to Off the Shelve's next reviews. Rutger Hauer was also in Sin City.
Yes! A new Off the Shelf review. Love it! Keep doing your guys' thing brothers love this channel.
22:39 It definitely is producing different sounds. I spent a lot of time on the phone in the 90s, and I could also tell you which key is making which sound.
My mom absolutely adored this movie and introduced me to it in my teens. There was a lot to critique, but overall I liked it and remember it fondly.
One of my favorite Rutger Hauser movies.
This is a great film. I miss Rutger Hauer every gosh darn day.
Loved this movie growing up as a kid, absolutely loved Rutger Hauer and love the awesome energy you both bring to the reviews its pure magic lads 😎👊
just found this channel not long ago, witch is good and bad,
good that there is tons of reviews to watch, but sort of bad that im kind of late to the party,
but i been on a marathon watching all the reviews, and man you 2 guys are awesome reviewers, it's like the perfect team,
keep up the good work,
especially enjoy watching the horror movie reviews, for super old stuff,
the older I get, i find it almost better to watch the reviews of movies instead of just watching the movie again, it adds so much more to it,
cause for 1 i can watch it much faster, not deal with the boring parts an you get awesome commentary throughout from people that are just as into cinema as you are,
on top of it being funny and pointing out the flaws in them,
i would love to see a review of children of the night, from 1991 sub species from 1991, night of the demons remake from 2009, all different levels of bad an campy, but definitely fun watches,
and the scream film's,
Would love to see you guys review The Hunted, staring Christopher Lambert.
Great review guys love this movie, am a big fan of Rutger Hauer and this is my right up there with his best films. Saw an interview with him where he said this was his most challenging role.
Zatoichi wasn't a blind samurai, he was a blind anma, bakuto and yakuza assassin. Not only 25 movies but years of television series as well.
Thank you both for another great n depth film review.
I just watched this movie with my brother and I absolutely loved it.
The film is definitely of the 80s but that is why I love this film so much. And of course because of the late great underrated Rutger Hauer.
Wow! I can't believe I missed this one! Seems fun! Great review you guys!!
Loved this one when i was a kid. I rewatched it last year. Still awsome.
Rutger "Roy fuckin' Batty" Hauer ist the juice!!!!
Awesome review as always guys! 👊👊
I remember renting this movie so many times as a kid. I just loved it. Looking forward to watching this review.
I grew up with this movie also! Sooo good! Underrated Classic. Also, the Pike Bros elevator scene is my favorite and has stuck with me all these years later.
Awww loved this film back in the day. Thanks to my Dad I saw all the best films 😊
@Off The Shelf Reviews Never heard of this film, but I picked it up immediately on iTunes after watching the review! Another awesome upload gentlemen!!! 🖖
Feet are hands. They have the same sensory capability, but in a blind person this must be magnified extremely. And then they are made doubly blind by wearing shoes and having a stupid numb stick instead to feel their way around. What a shame! It is a tragedy that so many people have had their feet stolen, but blind people having that also taken away is MONSTROUS!
Nick Cassavetes has another connection - if you like your film indie and noir, the work of his his dad John is worth your while.
Ian nailed it in the opening, Rutger Hauer and Meg Foster in the same film, who could ask for more?
I'm glad I'm not the only person who used shitfuck! in the early 90s 😄
Such fond memories of this one, great review and pick! Regarding Japanese films, did you ever see the Ito Ogami (Lone Wolf and Cub series)? A couple of the films were edited together in the 80s and brought to the west as Shogun Assassin
Always really liked this film, ever since I saw it by accident on Sci Fi one night. What a legend Rutger Hauer is 😁
I have a vague memory of seeing an edited cut of this on tv, with most of the swearing removed
One childhood favorite Rutger movies.
I would watch this movie as a kid any time it came on tv, no matter if it was the last 10 mins of the movie or 25 mins in I gladly sit and watch this movie and sit through 38mins of shitty 80s commercial ads.
Noyce one gents! A good action adventure film :)
Love this film to bits
I'd love to see you guys review yet another Rutger Hauer (kinda) movie from the 1990's: Crossworlds. It is just....so bad it's fun to watch. Terrible 90's CGI effects? Yep. Bad dialogue and a scene-chewing main villian? Yep. Nonsensical plot and MacGuffin? OH YES.
Also: I'm pretty sure the first ever acting role for Jack Black (talking way before Tenacious D).
Say it with me: Zah. Toe. Eechi. Not "zatochi." (said with love)
Love this movie and hot sauce!
Used to love this as a kid. I bet it’s terrible but I’m still looking forward to the review.
How the hell didn’t I guess what the film was 🤦♂️😂 great review guys 👊
Hey could you guys please review Strange Days and Class Of 1999 ?
So it's the western zatoichi the blind swordsman lolz, their can never be enough of those movie
I'll have to watch this one looks really good, and I have never heard of it before
this movie is jolly good fun. I always forget the correct title.
The soundtrack sounds like it was ripped from an old NES game lmao also *"TURN UP!"
You should do ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK/L.A.
This and the hitcher are his best films. Oh.... and blade runner
Love this movie, great review guys!
Thanks guys
I'm going to have to check out this movie! Thanks. :)
34:08 lol
This is a guilty pleasure of mine fun film
There's 36 Zatoichi films starring the awesome Shintaro Katsu. It's pronounced Zatoeechee. This was a good example of a US reinterpretation. Kill Bill is nothing compared to Zatoichi or Lone Wolf & Cub.
no sexy moments? what about annie... "playing" with one of the brothers' finger?
I love this movie and I just got my first katana! A Condor Tactana! Check it out! Shit. Fuck. SHITFUCK!
Had this movie when I was a kid , watched it numerous time's. Just found it about 3 weeks ago at a pawn shop . Still love it . Side note The Hitcher is another Rudger classic. The remake was AWFUL
O yes lol this one is a gem.
Ah, all I know from this is Red Letter Media's reaction to it. I'm afraid I can see why It didn't do well. lol
who is this Hoyer you speak of?
Thanks guys, will you both be reviewing the masterpiece that is welcome to raccoon city? I'm sure you'll both have a great time
😎
I find it rather interesting that when current era movies try to emulate this stuff they very PURPOSEFULLY go for blood and guts just runnin' down the walls of every damn scene.
"Remember?? This is how they USED to do it! We're being just like the--"
No. All that mess reads like some kind of gross-out "reality ensues" statement AGAINST these kinds of films. These are known as they are, and the outcry against them in their OWN time was for the exact OPPOSITE REASON!!
You can play with a sword blind and win! You can successfully drive while blind! You can hack people to pieces, they'll just bloodlessly pick up their own body parts and call you an asshole-- AND KIDS WERE WATCHING THIS STUFF, AND SOME OF THEM EITHER WERE OR WERE THOUGHT TO BE LEARNING BAD LESSONS. Yet in today's callbacks EVERYBODY absolutely dies from barely being tapped, blood goes sprayin' all over the place if anybody so much as loses a FINGER-- and somehow THAT'S now allowed, just as long as the person doing it ISN'T a typical action hero role model because THAT is now somehow the thing that is bad to show. He can't be a badass, there's gotta be a stronger, tougher woman pulling the strings, and anybody they touch has to instantly EXPLODE into a fountain of gore. It's literally the exact INVERSE of the very thing it claims to be "bringing back", and it honestly plays as an attempt at stealth critique. That's all fine, and it CAN be entertaining-- but to frame it the way they do is also HIGHLY disingenuous and REEKS of an agenda.
What the fuck are you on about???