MOVIES: 1990 THE BRONX WARRIORS

So this past weekend I stayed home and chilled on Saturday night (which is pretty weird for me) with a 20" inch pizza and the trashiest movies I could get my hands on.

It was then that I discovered maybe one of the trashiest movies I had ever seen and to top it off the main hero of the movie was even called Trash. The movie was called 1990 The Bronx Warriors and was made in 1982 by Italian film maker Enzo G Castellari who also brought us the original Inglorious Baterds andThe New Barbarians another B movie classic.

The movie is set in a post apocalyptic New York in the year 1990... now its not the first time that this mistake has been made where movies predict the end of the world way to near to the actual movies release date. Escape from New York was set in like 1988, Demolition Man made cryogenically freezing criminals possible in 1996 and Back to the Future 2 was set in 2015.. mind you I will let them off for that as there is a shit 80's bar down the road from me and I recently saw a 3d movie in the cinema. But my point is if you are going to make a movie based on the end of the world or "in the future" why not just say the year 2234 instead saying 1998 or even worse the dreaded year 2000 which got milked loads!

Anyway in this post apocalyptic New York the Bronx has spiraled out of control so bad that the Law has vanished and is now run by a huge biker gang called the riders. Now the leader of the riders proper looks like Alice Coopers muscle bound guitarist from the 80's Kane Roberts.

Kane Roberts heavy metals answer to John Rambo!

Now I could talk in depth about the plot but in all honesty I cannot be bothered as the movie kind of confused the hell out of me. What I thought the movie was about turned out to not be that important in the end so fuck it. 

But what I can tell you is that if you like movies with cool music, motorcycles, men on horses with flame throwers, people dressed as Nazis, grown men on roller skates kidnapping women, blood, guts and Fred Williamson then this maybe the movie for you. 

MUSIC VIDEO: BEAST INSIDE OF YOU A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2

Anyone who has been following Lost Entertainment or knows me personally will know that I am obsessed with Freddy Krueger and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Maybe not so much now that I am a "grown up" but form the age of 5 onwards I was regularly renting the tapes from the local video store (which I bought its entire horror vhs library when it shut down) and dressing up as Freddy at any given occasion.

A young Kris Rodriguez dressing up as Freddy even at Christmas time!

Now I have done 2 articles in the past about Freddy one reviewing the shitty Nintendo game that LJN released (click here to read) and the Freddy Krueger 1-900 hotline number (click here to read) and as Freddy will always be topical here at Lost Entertainment there's gunna be plenty more.

I will review the toys, the board games, the Christmas decorations and of course the movies. Freddy was arguably the biggest icon of the 80's along with Mr T, Madonna, Ronald Reagan and Ian Beale.

Now I will be reviewing A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 on here at some point but at the moment its in a long list of articles to do.

Anyway I was on youtube drinking some beers and watching stuff when I came across this amazing fan made video montage of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 with the song from the Fright Night soundtrack in the background. Its cool as fuck and makes the movie look ten times better than it actually was!

GAMING: FIFA 98 ROAD TO WORLD CUP

Being the self confessed biggest retro gamer on the planet I was overjoyed today when my copy of Fifa Road to World Cup 98 arrived in the mail. Fifa 98 in my opinion was the greatest Fifa game of all time. I am not knocking the other Fifa games as the ones nowadays are nothing short of superb with the amount of realism and amazing gameplay they provide.

I must say I rate this one mainly for nostalgia reasons and the fact playing this game for the first time in late 1997 was a memory I will never forget. The Fifa franchise up until this point was a pretty lazy effort from Electronic Arts as all the games where identical except for the fact each season they changed players around and moved stats about. When Fifa 96 arrived on the Playstion the game had a new appeal as commentary and 3d graphics were introduced but the staleness and soullessness was still evident.

Then in late 1997 gamers that bought Fifa 98 were greeted with this... something which still gives me goosebumps to this day.



With which was probably the greatest intro to a video game ever Blur will have a lifetime spot on my ipod but not because I like Blur but because of a football game from 1997... the best football game ever I might add.

The graphics were a huge improvement from the previous years effort in a big way. Although the franchise had not been given the green light for a sponsor to be shown the kits still looked class. There where lots of real life arenas placed in the game from all over the world and as well as the improved five aside arena.

The five aside mode was one of my favorite to play as the game was played at a much faster pace in a smaller arena in which anything could happen. You can use the walls to do a amazing rebound passes or even shots and scoring from your end of the pitch was an easy feat to achieve.

The tournament feature was removed from this game as France 98 was a sequel to this game some 6 months later which was in all fairness a rip off as it only had one game mode. You could customize your teams players, kit, player looks and even change stats and move players about. This feature was great as you could keep the game up to date manually meaning that you dont have to purchase Fifa 99. One of my mates kept his Fifa 98 up to date with the real world of Football up until 2002. Fifa 98 will always be up there as one of my favorite Playstation games ever! I picked up my copy this week for £2 on ebay. Live to win!

MUSIC VIDEO: GUYZ NIGHT DIE HARD

This is possibly the best way you can spend three minutes or so on youtube. If you disagree with this statement then you are a faggot!

GAMING: WWE WRESTLEFEST REMAKE

So recently I did an article (which you can read here) about one of my favorite arcade coin op games of all time WWF Wrestlefest. Now 21 years later THQ and WWE have had the brains to remake the game for release on ipad, iphone and ipod touch.

The game has been revamped with nicer graphics, more arenas and a roster spanning from the federation days, the attitude era to todays current WWE roster. So its pretty much the same cast they used for last years WWE Allstars game which when played against a friend the game was awesome but single player was a very abysmal experience.

Now I am not sure of what game modes are available for this game as the original only had two modes of play which was a tag team campaign and Royal Rumble mode. I am hoping a few extra game modes have been included. I am also very glad to see the classic blue steel cage has returned.

Mean Gene is in the game which is awesome. I have heard the game may be also going on PS3 and Xbox arcade but this is yet to be confirmed. The game is released on the app store this week so go check it out!

MUSIC VIDEO: MR. T'S COMMANDMENTS

Ever wondered what Mr T would be like as a rapper? Well it happened! The self righteous "pitier of fools" released a rap album back in the 1980's. With tracks like "Treat your mother right" and "Mr T's commandments" the record won five Grammy awards and was an artistic success... OK so that was a complete lie the record was absolute toss but it still didn't stop idiots like me from grabbing a copy.

In his songs he raps about how to behave and be a good parent. Now a man who goes around driving a black van and beating people up would be the last person to start preaching to kids and parents world wide but at least his heart was in the right place. I've never really understood that phrase I've just said as it doesn't make much sense. If you have a heart that grows out of your left arm or shoulder does that automatically make you evil due to it being in the wrong place? fuck knows!

Now in this music video Mr T walks around a warehouse full of kids and street punks that wouldn't look out of place in Michael Jacksons music video Beat It. Mr T walks around rapping and for some unknown reason taking bits of metal off people bending them and giving them back as if he has done them a favor. Its as if these morons have been standing around all day with these things going "oh how I wish I could bend this flimsy bit of metal and be a real man...Whoah Mr T just bent it for me! You the man T" its fucking retarded.

The line between who is good and bad in this video is very blurred as Mr T gives certain kids the thumbs up and other ones he pushes through walls. At one point he even pushes over some crippled kid and busts up what looks like a friendly game of cards.

The video is just pure weirdness it really is just Mr T walking around a ware house high fiving people he likes the looks of and pushing ones he doesn't down flights of stairs and lift shafts.

The lyrics are fucking stupid as I am pretty sure Mr T wrote them himself and if you have ever watched Mr T on TV you will find he isn't the sharpest knife in the draw. He preaches how kids should honor their parents because the bible said so and how parents should help kids with their homework and even give them a kiss from him! Thats a bit fucked up imagine saying to someone about their young daughter "yeah give her one from me" you would likely get put on the sex offenders register and have a pack of angry Sun newspaper readers with flames and pitchforks outside your door. Anyway here is the car crash of a music video!

TELEVISION: THE X-MEN ANIMATED SERIES

When the X-Men started getting shown on Saturday mornings it was a big deal.. well to me and I am sure a lot of other kids as well at the time.

It was the biggest effort ever put into a kids cartoon show at the time and it was fucking epic. So epic in fact that I have recently started watching it again and I am hooked.

I remember when I first ever saw the first episode The Night of The Sentinels  I was absolutely blown away. The whole thing was so cool and at the time the only super heroes I and most kids knew of were Batman, The Hulk, Superman and Spider Man so when this new breed of ultra cool characters which appealed to both girls and boys came along it was a great time to be a kid.

The story lines loosely follow the Marvel Comics actual story but simplify it a lot more which is cool because it means more action. From Charles Xaviers struggle for understanding between humans and mutants, Magnetos plans of domination, Sabretooth and Wolverines grudge matches to the age of Apocolypse its all covered.

 How the characters transition from the pages of Marvel Comics to animated characters is a spot on effort and with well acted voice talents the X-Men were brought to life in a spectacular fashion.

Everything including backgrounds and other little bits and pieces were done in great detail leaving no corners cut when it came to making this great show. If your a parent/uncle/aunt than this would make a great dvd gift for any kids in the family as it appeals to everyone. Or even if you are a big kid like me than I really suggest you get the dvd of this show!