#retreat film

[cillianmurphysdimples]

Why is he so fucking adorable?

[weaponizedmoth]

"Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a vampire in love with a human. Better integration than I could possibly have dreamed."

(just some Sundown The Vampire in Retreat fanart. More details and B&W vers. under the cut, etc).

:)

[shockyhorror]

[antianakin]

There is exactly one criticism that I agree with my, very anti-Jedi, cousin on and that's the Jedi were TERRIBLE Generals. Generals may TRY to make sure their men mostly come back. But useless sacrifices are not only acceptable, but expected, the men are mostly expandable in war. The Jedi did not consider sacrifices like that acceptable or expected. Sure it did happen. It was WAR. But they tried their best to make sure it DIDN'T. The Jedi were terrible Generals. But they were the teachers and Leaders the CLONES NEEDED.

I'm not sure I'd ENTIRELY agree with that. I think I'd be willing to agree that the Jedi were perhaps less CONVENTIONAL Generals, and they definitely do seem to at least TRY to place the lives of their men above just tossing them away for an easy victory, but you can just as easily claim that keeping the men alive to keep fighting is a good strategy in and of itself.

The biggest piece of evidence I'd point to that the Jedi were actually perfectly good Generals is the Citadel arc and Tarkin's criticisms. The one real criticism he makes of the Jedi as military leaders is that they're occasionally too soft and will abandon a mission if it looks impossible to win without near total casualties (on either side). But he's generally fairly positive about the Jedi and if they were truly awful at their jobs, I don't think TARKIN of all people would hold back on saying so, even to the Jedi's faces.

And we DO see the Jedi willing to make sacrifices and accepting that this is a necessary part of war. The Citadel arc is, again, a perfectly good example of this. Obi-Wan and Anakin go in with like 3-4 men each I think and they come back with a grand total of 3 (Rex, Cody, and Fives). A LOT of clones die on this mission that they all KNEW was basically a suicide mission because the Jedi themselves decided that getting the information about the hyperspace lanes was vital enough to the war that it was worth losing multiple lives over (including their own).

So it's not that the Jedi don't understand that sacrifices are necessary in war or even that they avoid it entirely, they just avoid what they see as UNNECESSARY sacrifice for what might amount to a fairly minor victory. Keeping more of their men alive might, in the long run, be a better strategic choice than losing all of them on one campaign, especially if it's over like one uninhabited moon or something like that. There's nothing to say that the losses the Jedi deem acceptable are things that would've changed the entire tide of the war had they chosen to push forward instead.

The other good evidence that the Jedi acting this way would've been the WORSE choice is the Umbara arc. We are told and then see that Krell IS the kind of General who is willing to lose a lot of clones in order to gain victories in battle, and the clones do recognize that he has a lot of victories under his belt. But never once do they discuss whether those victories really MEANT anything or had a large impact on the war effort. It certainly never seems that the Republic is majorly pushing back the Separatists because of Krell's victories, nobody ever mentions that Krell gained them a major advantage with those victories or took out anyone of any consequence on the Separatist side with his strategies. And by the time he gets to Umbara, he's explicitly using this strategy to WEAKEN the Republic side and cause a loss. Several of his strategies WOULD'VE meant the Republic lost on Umbara and it's only the clones utilizing different strategies that put fewer of them at risk that they actually end up continuing to HAVE victories at all.

I'll also point out that the Jedi continuously getting their men killed en masse would've bankrupted the Republic a LOT earlier because they'd have to be paying for more clones a LOT more often than they did in canon and I can't imagine anyone would've considered that a particularly sound strategy and at some point I'm sure the Senate would've felt obligated to put a stop to it anyway and insisted on strategies that kept more clones alive for longer. So I'm not sure it's fair to claim the Jedi were utilizing BAD strategy by not just exclusively using tactics that meant most of their men were killed for every single victory.

So the ONLY criticism we EVER see of the Jedi's ability as military leaders is Tarkin claiming they're "too soft" and Tarkin is the kind of person who would likely say that until the Jedi started carpet bombing entire Separatist planets. Would it give them a victory? Yeah, sure, maybe, but that's the exact same strategy the Separatists are using and look how well that works out for THEM. Everything else we ever see seems to showcase that the Jedi are in fact perfectly good Generals, not just in that they're kind to the clones and are unwilling to carpet bomb Separatist planets, but also because they're just... good at this. They CAN be strategic, they CAN run wars if they want to. And I think that's the whole point of the Jedi in some ways is that yes, they CAN make war when they need to, they just actively choose NOT TO every time they can. THIS is why Qui-Gon tells Padme that he and Obi-Wan are there to protect her but that they can't win this war for her and they end up going off to fight off a Sith while Padme has to actually win the war with her own people and the Gungans instead. The Jedi don't WANT to be in the position of doing nothing but fighting, but they're absolutely capable of this kind of work.

That's the tragedy of the war in some ways, the Jedi ARE good at this no matter how much they wish they weren't sometimes. But being good at it means they can actually protect the Republic, their own men, and even the Separatist civilians better, so they're not going to just sit there and do things that will screw over a bunch of people. Yes, they're going to fight the war in such a way that they reduce casualties as much as possible, but reducing casualties also requires doing enough to not LOSE the damn war, too. It's a delicate balance they're trying to hold on to and I'd argue they manage it better than anybody else would've ever done in their position.

[camosandesu]

Sea

[ripleythexenomorphslayer]

Bruce Campbell as Van Helsing

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 1989

[therogerclarkfanclub]

ROGER CLARK as Randolph Blythe in:

A Writer's Retreat* (2016) Directed by Peter Rohan

Watch this short film on Vimeo (link above)

*This short film is narrated by Roger, he does not appear on this film except for the photos above.

[saturnitepumpkinhead]

I've watched 270+ horror films. Here are my favorites of all time.

Hell video, proudly served, posted late. There are more than 30 films on this video, and if you count the Saw Franchise as 9 movies in one entry, there's actually 44. I couldn't tag all the movies though :(

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

No Retreat, No Surrender (1985) directed by Corey Yuen 

[cillianmurphysdimples]

Early night because it's too cold in the house and heating is expensive. Hot water bottles, fluffy pjs and warm quilts for the kids and a biiiig hoodie for me 👍

Watching 'Retreat' tonight.

This is the max level of scruff I can take with Cillian 🤣 but he's gorgeous as always

[jimsmovieworld]

NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER- 1985 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jason trains in martial arts with his father. Some kind of martial arts mafia turn up at the dojo to extort them, his father fights valiantly but is destroyed by the powerful Ivan. They move across the country but problems follow them. Jason shuns his fathers advice to be peaceful and instead turns to the actual ghost of Bruce Lee who becomes his mentor and leads him to greatness....

Ok this was excellent. An extremely fun karate kid ripoff packed with silly dialogue and unintentionally hilarious moments, insane characters and some pretty good fights! Good to see JCVD in the villain role although i was disappointed he wasnt in it a bit more. Seems like his character was based on Ivan Drago for sure. The chubby bully who got the sauce on his face was actually the main adversary and he was so unpalatable, the only part of the film i didnt like.

Cast members sued Van Damme for "inadequate control of his martial arts" after he was legit knocking guys out by accident. I thought the guy loooked nothing like Bruce Lee but he was actually his stand in on Game of Death 1 and 2.

[twilightronin]

The Best of the Martial Arts Films - Sandra Weintraub 1990

[runawaymun]

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[camosandesu]

hakone-yumoto

[halloweenhundreds]

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat is pretty wild. Bruce Campbell is fully Daffy Duck and Carradine is actually pretty good. The ending starts out a mess and ends up bonkers.

[cinewhore]

take your time (x10000000000)