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The Resurrection of Jake the Snake – review

August 22, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

On April 7th, 1986, my friend and I went to Kitchener Memorial Auditorium to watch Wrestlemania 2 on a “Big Screen Television”.  Ridiculous by today’s home entertainment standards, this was kind of a big deal in the mid-eighties when most people’s rec rooms still housed 4:3 CRT televisions, often dressed up as furniture, and 27” […]

Filed Under: Movie Schmidt Tagged With: addiction, childhood, Jake the Snake Roberts, memories, nostalgia, redemption, wrestling, WWE, WWF

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Review

January 25, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens today.  I had previously suggested I would wait until it was in the cheap theatres but my totally reasonable proposal that Smokey and the Bandit needed a reboot and was a better movie than the original Star Wars appears to have garnered minimal traction so I […]

Filed Under: Movie Schmidt Tagged With: A New Hope, Han Solo, Smokey and the Bandit, Star Wars, The Force Awakens

SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT is a Better Movie Than STAR WARS

January 12, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Three weeks past release and audiences continue flooding into movie theatres like flies to a corpse to watch the long anticipated seventh chapter of the Star Wars franchise.  I am still not one of them.  I prefer picked over bones to fresh flesh, not to mention a cheaper price tag and fewer people, so I’ll […]

Filed Under: Funny Schmidt, Movie Schmidt Tagged With: Burt Reynolds, Harrison Ford, jerry reed, Smokey and the Bandit, Star Wars, Trans Am

The Martian by Ridley Scott – Review

December 30, 2015 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I finally went to see The Martian movie last night.  This is something I’ve been eagerly awaiting since discovering a movie was in the works after reading Andy Weir’s wonderful book.  My expectations were muted because, let’s face it, rarely do movie adaptions do their source material justice, never mind surpass them.  I can think […]

Filed Under: Movie Schmidt Tagged With: blockbuster, Book, movie, Sci Fi, space

The 1977 Movie That REALLY Needs A Reboot

December 16, 2015 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 and green-lit a sequel trilogy, not a week has passed where something Star Wars wasn’t blowing up my social media.  This year it’s become a daily irritant as the orgasmically anticipated The Force Awakens inches ever closer to its December 18, 2015 release date.   Star Wars this and […]

Filed Under: Funny Schmidt, Movie Schmidt Tagged With: Burt Reynolds, geeks, jerry reed, movies, Smokey and the Bandit, Star Wars

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