After a trip to the used video store....

[Shadowphile]

I have now added the following to my collection.

Brimstone and Treacle (starring Sting) $6.99
Classic Bolo Yeung Movies (starring Bolo Yeung)  $3.99 -  for 3 movies!
A Fistful of Dollars (starring Clint Eastwood) $6.99
Soldier (starring Kurt Russell) $4.99
Leprechaun 4 - In Space (starring Warwick Davis) $3.99

Any suggestions as to which order I should see them in?

[zombie no.one]

Leprechaun 4 - In Space (starring Warwick Davis) $3.99


Definitely watch this one first. It sounds like an obscure intellectual art-house classic...maybe.

[Shadowphile]

As suggested Leprechaun 4 - In Space was the first one to hit the dvd player.  Ah, what finely aged cheese!

Surprisingly watchable (and featuring one extremely gratuitous boob shot as well as a hero who strips to the waist for the final showdown) this movie must have been done on an ultra-low budget.  The sets look like they've done time in the porn business (as do several of the cast members).  The special effects are something you'd find on a home computer.

Warwick Davis does some brilliant scenery chewing in grand style.  It's not going to win any awards but I can think of several worse ways to spend 98 minutes.  I may even put it up as a review, if I get the time...

[Mr. Hockstatter]

I love that movie.  Especially the hot marine babe and her rather...preempted make out scene with her boyfriend.  Most of those are good movies.  I haven't seen Brimstone and Treacle in many years.  Sting gives a great performance.  Prepare yourself for something that's rather slow moving though.  Soldier is good as well.  Kurt Russel turns in a good performance.

[Flangepart]

In Spaaaace!....that was a classic example of a ripe gouda, aged in B sauce. I can smell it even now...

Soldier : A tragic story, told with surprising restraint. Russel did wisely by not makeing his character have a sudden epiphiny. He always acted like a man who had been damaged by his up bringing, and had no knowlage of how to be human....untill...

[trekgeezer]

I always liked Soldier, but there are a lot of folks that downright hate it.  I think the  way Russell played the character was great.  The  reason a lot of people don't like it is that Paul W.S. Anderson directed it.

I've only seen part of the first Leprachaun with the very young Jennifer Aniston in it. I saw her asked in an interview if there were any parts she didn't like to remember. She  said yes, but wouldn't mention the name.

[Shadowphile]

Brimstone and Treacle  was number two on the list to watch.  It was purchased because I saw it years ago and was impressed by Sting's performance.  For a non-actor, he managed to hold his own very well against two veterans.  I think it is one of those little gems that you come across every so often.  Sting's character is delightfully creepy.  I had forgotten the ending, after he runs off and is looking to pick up a new mark.....

I saw it on tv once (I think it was Masterpiece Theatre or some variation thereof).  The host was clearly not a fan of singers turned actor and panned Sting's performance.  He also indicated that the role had been originally slated for David Bowie(!)  something he thought of as a crime against nature.  If that had indeed been the case, I wonder it there would have been a poster of Sting on the bedroom wall.......

[Shadowphile]

Watched Soldier.

Kurt Russell is brilliant in it.  With a word count somewhere below 100, he still manages to portray the humanization of his character through facial expressions and body language.  I agree with the idea that an epiphany would have been out of place.