It's all about the budget, man

I have recently stepped into the realm of blu ray. I don't own a player or an HD TV (like probably a slight-to-decent majority of media-buying americans at this point in time), but never the less, I have began picking the cheap ones up. Well, the cheap GOOD ones. And they are weirdly easy to find gems at say, your local target. I first picked up Robocop for $12, which is a steal for an incredible sci-fi/action movie... one of the best ever, even. Granted, that movie looks pretty shoddy in any form because of the type of film used, but as an owner of the OOP criterion that many so called film geeks claim to prefer (bullshit, you're just trying to justify your purchase of $35 now that a superior version is available for under $15) I can say without a doubt this is the best looking version available for purchase. Today I got a similar deal on Commando, the 1985 Schwarzenegger action movie with a weirdly high 71% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (and Out For Justice only gets 26%?). Perhaps it is not weirdly though, as it is an early script by genius comic book writer/tv executive Jeph Loeb (Smallville, Heroes, LOST). He had just come off of writing Teen Wolf, so before I even knew who this dude was he had provided me with some pretty good childhood memories. Commando rules, though. Straight up. You only consider this pleasure a guilty one if you have your head up your own ass. People need to learn to admit that a good action movie has some pretty awesome logistics within certain action segments, and an addictive over-the-top low brow aesthetic that certainly breeds cult fandom as much as any old blaxploitation flick or sci-fi or western genre films. The cheese is inherent, but in its own way this genre tends to deliver the goods (as far as the movies that are actually on point.)

That's all.