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Don't let the beginning credits full of English names fool you, this is Italian through and through. There is a certain stilted dialogue and style that is always a dead giveaway, and this film has style in spades. Some of the most beautiful shots I've ever seen staged in a horror film. The score is divine as well. It starts slow and doesn't really pick up speed until the final act, but what you end up with is certainly worth waiting for, if not for the visuals alone. I didn't realize until researching the film after watching that the director Michele Soavi also made Cemetery Man, a sleeper hit for me that I discovered a few years ago. I will definitely be checking out the rest of his work.

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I forgot that at one time Jim Belushi was poised to be the next big action/comedy star, and Real Men is not a bad example of why that was. He definitely has charisma, and can even be funny at times. But the real star here is Ritter. His physical comedy and facial expressions make me really miss him. He's such a lovable guy that I'm glad I never got a chance to meet him because it would have broken my heart if he turned out to be a real dickhead IRL. This is goofy 80s fun, but one of its flaws is that it feels like a build up to something great but by the end it just peters out and doesn't really deliver.

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This episode we talk about converting a DVD duplicator into mass storage, wordpress and activitypub, SBC case builder v3, caffeine, nicotine, creatine, Honky's broken mobo, Q4OS, 2 headed girl gets married, the future of the Internet Archive, and other stuff.

Podcast: https://linuxlugcast.com/index.php/2024/05/05/episode-243/

Youtube: https://youtu.be/2zpippbZoV0?si=5gtHJjs3PAR_eOQh

Peertube: https://nightshift.minnix.dev/w/ddFj5yoX1NAzfXmkmSaeHw

Clips of the show:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp38vFvUaau2SwXbF7NDCm7kHwXCJkOpw

Peertube: https://nightshift.minnix.dev/w/p/5cKFZ7RWMmuC6WzRGJ6YKb