#Lucien&039;s Retro Review

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Lucien's Retro Review: The Cold Protocol

Lucien’s Retro Review: The Cold Protocol

Something that a lot of lovers of science fiction tend to accept is that there is a TON of books written in a universe from a TV show, movie franchise, or video game series. And the VAST majority of them are absolute trash. Literary shovelware that you can throw out with the garbage when you get bored. However, every now and again, you come across one such thing that is not literary garbage, and…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Lucien’s Retro Review: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Let me tell about two things.  First, about what I would argue is the greatest heist movie ever made.  This film is just fantastic.  It had a massive all-star cast, some at the height of their popularity like George Clooney, and some who were just breaking into the arena in the A-grade status, like Matt Damon.  Everyone had a ton of personality and their performances were just the best.  Second,…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Eternal Sonata

Lucien’s Retro Review: Eternal Sonata

How did a JRPG with a partial focus on the life of Frederic Chopin, my second favorite classical music composer, escape my notice until now?  I heard about this game not too long ago, so I went to Amazon and got a copy.  This game is such a surreal experience, and it has joined the pantheon of my favorite JRPGs.  I have no idea where the concept of this game came from, but you know what, I’m glad…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Sleepy Hollow

Lucien’s Retro Review: Sleepy Hollow

This was supposed to be out in time for Halloween, but life happened.  I was watching this video the other day about the fall of Tim Burton and where his films started to go wrong, and there was a point that just rubbed me the wrong way – that the film Sleepy Hollow was the turning point.  I found this to be absolutely absurd.  But as I got to looking at this film more, I realized that the…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Lucien’s Retro Review: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

It is interesting to talk about a movie that is 16 years away from being 100 years old.  The Disney of back then was such a different place to the Disney of today.  Back then, animation was a voyage of discovery into the realms of color, sound, and motion.  Now, because they are completely out of any and all creativity, animation is dead and now it is live-action milking everything that once made…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Lucien’s Retro Review: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

The last two of the original Star Trek films.  These two films are so diametrically-opposed in terms of quality that it’s hard to make this post seem coherent between one to the next.  It will be a complete whiplash that you all are going to get that it will blow your mind.  Gotta say, this is gonna be fun for me, because I have so much to say about both of these movies.  Let’s waste no more time…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Star Trek III: The Search For Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Lucien’s Retro Review: Star Trek III: The Search For Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

In keeping with watching the original Star Trek movies, I thought that I would look at the next two in the series. These are both quality films, though the former gets a bad rap. We’ll get into that. There’s a lot to talk about, so let’s not waste any time. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock This film gets a bad rap with a lot of Trekkies as one of the worse films in the catalog, and just like…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Lucien’s Retro Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

With my current heart issues, I’ve been cooped up indoors, doing my best to take it easy.  The tests look great, and it appears that I am recovering from COVID-19.  As such, I’ve been resting and catching up on entertainment.  With what has happened with the Star Trek franchise, I felt like rewatching the old movies.  There is this belief that the films of the original series had a weird habit of…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Resident Evil 4

Lucien’s Retro Review: Resident Evil 4

As I wait with baited breath for the end of this week, when Resident Evil: Village comes out, and since I saw how much this upcoming game borrows tone and setting from what is arguably the best game in the franchise, I thought I would revisit this classic, now that a port of it with a super high framerate is on the PS4 Pro. And I gotta say, it was an interesting experience. I remember this game…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Crimson Tide

Lucien’s Retro Review: Crimson Tide

Something I don’t think I’ve ever kept secret on here is that life in the Navy fascinates me.  Being on giant ships, with the power to level cities or even destroy the world, with our nuclear equipped submarines.  The whole culture of that world and the amount of information and secret knowledge that passes through it, I am enamored.  Someone near and dear to my heart is in the Navy, and she is…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Re-Animator

Lucien’s Retro Review: Re-Animator

I meant to have this out in time for Halloween, but life and my god-awful job sucking the life out of me got in the way.  When I think of the great B movies, there are none that hold a candle to this one.  I love this film so much.  It’s everything that a great B movie should be.  It’s got all the wonderful charm that this kind of movie should have, all of which sits at the hands of its main star…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Mobile Suit Gundam: 8th MS Team

Lucien’s Retro Review: Mobile Suit Gundam: 8th MS Team

Time to talk about something that only oldtaku like myself are nostalgic for.  Since FUNimation got the rights to the Gundam franchise, they’ve been re-releasing all the classics on Blu-ray.  It’s great.  One of the ones I was most excited for was this one.  There was a number of OVA series made after the success of Mobile Suit Gundam.  They range in quality, but the one that truly sticks out to…

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Lucien's Retro Review: A Christmas Carol (1984 Version)

Lucien’s Retro Review: A Christmas Carol (1984 Version)

I haven’t watched this film since I was a very, very young child.  I remember parts of it, but not much.  The version of this classic tale that I grew up with was the one with the Muppets.  And I, like many people, think that Michael Caine was really boring in that movie.  It was bland and forgettable and he was kind of phoning it in.  So when I heard that the Nostalgia Critic really loved this…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Bubba Ho-Tep

Lucien’s Retro Review: Bubba Ho-Tep

Man, there are so many days when I am feeling like I’m so old.  Why?  Because the year 2003 doesn’t feel like it should be so long ago.  No joke, where does the time go?  A good question for this film, about two old codgers in a resting home who are up against an evil monsters in cowboy attire.  This movie is silly, stupid, full of dry humor, and too much fun not to talk about.  Given that this…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Legend

Lucien’s Retro Review: Legend

Who knew that Ridley Scott directed a fairytale film?  It really is the weirdest thing.  What’s more, this film is in the vein of truly old-school fairytales.  Before they became all lovable and nice.  Back when they were supposed to be frightening to little children.  If you’ve ever read any of the original fairytales, you learn that these stories were meant to frighten little children and keep…

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Lucien's Retro Review: Jumanji

Lucien’s Retro Review: Jumanji

For those who didn’t know, the years 1983-1995 were awesome years for movies when you were a kid.  They were also the years when people like Robin Williams was at the top of his game.  The early-mid 90s were awesome for this man.  In my opinion, they were the years when he was at the top of his game.  The day that he passed was a sad day indeed, especially given how his acting career had taken…