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This remake of the 1929 film of the same name begins in Arizona with a wealthy rancher named "Don Fernando" (Pedro de Cordoba), who writes to his grandson "Carlos Hernandez" (Cesar Romero) in Spain, inviting him to visit and discuss who will take over his ranch after he passes away. Additionally, Don Fernando has a beautiful ward named "Rosita" (Patricia Morison) living in his hacienda, whom he hopes to marry off to his nephew if he inherits the ranch as well. This infuriates Don Fernando's nephew, "Ricardo" (Rico Cortez), who wants the ranch and Rosita for himself. To prevent this, Ricardo sends a couple of cowboys to ambush Carlos before he can arrive. They set an ambush on the stagecoach carrying Carlos and, after killing the driver and shooting Carlos in the chest, ride off, thinking they have succeeded. However, what they don't realize is that the "Cisco Kid" (also played by Cesar Romero) and his good friend "Gordito" (Chris-Pin Martin) have witnessed the entire ambush and, wanting to scavenge any valuables inside, stop the stagecoach to see what they can find. To their surprise, they notice that although Carlos is badly wounded, he is still alive and quickly take him to a friend named "Mama Lopez" (Inez Palange) to hopefully save his life. During this time, the Cisco Kid learns the reason Carlos is traveling to Don Fernando's ranch, and since they look identical, he decides to impersonate Carlos for his own purposes. Needless to say, Ricardo is very upset to see Carlos impersonating him before Don Fernando and becomes determined to kill him before he can inherit the ranch and take Rosita away. Meanwhile, although he definitely wants the ranch, the Cisco Kid, being a womanizer, cannot decide whether he prefers Rosita or Don Fernando's beautiful goddaughter, "Maria" (Lynne Roberts). From what I understand, the original 1929 movie starring Warner Baxter as the Cisco Kid has been lost and is no longer available, so I have no idea how this later version of "Romance of the Rio Grande" compares to it. What I can say, however, is that, even though Warner Baxter was sensational in his role as the Cisco Kid in previous movies, I thought that Cesar Romero performed reasonably well here, with the banter between him and Gordito being especially amusing. Be that as it may, although this film is quite dated, I still found it rather entertaining, and I have rated it accordingly.

This film starts with a man named "Seija Kashiwada" (Yusuke Yamamoto) throwing the body of a young woman into a well. The scene then shifts to a high school teacher named "Akane Ayukawa" (Satomi Isohara), who confiscates a cellphone used by one of her students, which prevents her from watching a mysterious video linked to recent deaths. Yet even though Akane temporarily prevented her student from accessing the streaming video, she couldn't stop her from doing so after school. The next day, Akane learns that the student has committed suicide. Shocked, another student named "Lisa Kitayama" (Hikari Takara) decides to investigate the video herself, but is saved when Akane arrives just in time. The problem is that the spirit named "Sadako Yamamura" (Ai Hashimoto), released by Seiji, is not only intent on killing Lisa but also wants to take over Akane's body because Akane has powers Sadako needs to complete her mission of killing every person on Earth. For those unfamiliar, this film is part of a series that began with the 1998 movie "Ringu," followed by two sequels, the first being "Spiral" that same year. Unfortunately, "Spiral" didn't perform well at the box office, and a different sequel called "Rungu 2" was produced in 1999, which then spawned another sequel the next year. As for this particular movie, it picks up where "Spiral" left off, even though it's been around 13 years since then. That said, the film acknowledges the passage of time a couple of times, but it doesn't mention any characters from the previous films except Sadako. So, you don't need to watch the earlier movies to understand what's happening. I should also note that although this film was made in 3D, I wasn't able to see it in that format, so I can't say how much better it was than the version I saw. Hopefully, the 3D effects were impressive because the 2D version didn't add much over the previous films in the series, with the excessive reliance on CGI toward the end being a particularly poor choice. Regardless, I don't think this was a bad movie necessarily, but I was somewhat disappointed overall, and I have rated it accordingly.

"Marty McFly" (Michael J. Fox) is an ordinary high school student who enjoys playing electric guitar and hanging out with his girlfriend, "Jennifer Parker" (Claudia Wells). He also occasionally visits his good friend, "Dr. Emmett Brown" (Christopher Lloyd), who often invents scientific gadgets that rarely work. One morning, when stopping by to see him, he gets a phone call from Dr. Brown asking him to meet in the parking lot of the local mall and specifically requesting that he bring a camcorder, as he has something he needs recorded. Being a good friend, Marty shows up at the specific time requested and finds that Dr. Brown has built a time machine using the chassis of a DeLorean as the outer frame. Unfortunately, to power the time machine, it needs plutonium as fuel, and to get it, he essentially tricks Libyan terrorists who are determined to kill him at all costs. After Dr. Brown shows Marty how his new time machine works, the Libyan terrorists suddenly appear and kill him. Realizing they also want to kill him, Marty jumps into the DeLorean and speeds off--back in time to 30 years earlier, when the mall parking lot was just an empty field. Naturally, frightened by what just happened, Marty tries to restart the time machine, but to his horror, finds it out of fuel and unable to run. So, with nowhere else to go, Marty hides the DeLorean behind a nearby highway billboard and goes to his hometown to find a much younger Dr. Brown to ask for a scientific fix. Sadly, during this time, he gets hit by a car, knocked unconscious, and when he wakes up in a strange bed, he finds a teenage girl named "Lorraine Baines" (Lea Thompson) nearby, who seems strangely attracted to him. That's when he realizes that this teenage girl is his mother, whose maternal instincts have taken over and caused her to become emotionally confused. Somehow sensing this, Marty immediately leaves his grandparents' house and rushes to Dr. Brown's residence as quickly as he can to find a solution to the incredible dilemma he's now in. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that I remember watching this movie when it first came out, and it's as entertaining now as it was 40 years ago. I especially liked the interaction between Marty and Lorraine, as well as Marty's guitar solo at the high school dance. Hilarious. Be that as it may, I believe that this is one of the best comedies to come out of the 80s, and I have rated it accordingly.