Pee Wee's Big Adventure is Tim Burton's first feature-length film, before he made the brilliant Beetlejuice, so being a fan of his I though I would check it out, you will only like this film depending if you find the main character of Pee-Wee Herman (played by Paul Reubens) endearing or annoying, I myself am sitting on the fence a bit, to be honest I just find him creepy, but sometimes his enthusiasm for the role makes the movie better, the plot is like a candy-coloured Bicycle Thieves, a bad man steals Pee-Wee's bicycle, Pee-Wee wants it back, setting him up for a load of wacky adventures, the best scenes in the movie is when classic Burton trademarks are at work such as the inventive use of stop motion animation or the jaunty Danny Elfman score, it's an alright movie and as a first movie it aesthetically really good, but Burton went on to much better things after this, and Paul Reubens went to jail for masturbating in a public cinema, which makes his character just that little bit more creepy.
Next, Bloodsport, I've only seen one other Jean Claude Van Damme film and that was the brilliant drama JCVD, Van Damme's only drama, so I was wary of this, turns out it's a brilliantly cheesy none more 80s action movie, with plenty of great action scenes and quotable lines, made even more awesome by the fact that it is based on a true story, it just follows the story of Frank Dux, a US cop who decides to fight in an underground illegal Japanese fighting competition, and finds a nemesis in Chong-Li (played with zest by the the legendary Bolo Yeung), Chong only has 3 lines since the rest of his role is overactive facial expressions, but he may be one of the best villains I've seen, so in summary expect a testosterone fueled, cheesy as hell, bloody, sweaty and magnificently horrible score, truly wonderful
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