DUDES (and I mean that in the gender-neutral sense of the word)! Have you ever wanted to watch Miami Connection in high-def DVD or Blu-Ray video while rocking out to synth pop on vinyl and wearing a shirt that keeps your guns free while you air keytar? Who am I kidding, of course you have. Well guess what, today is your lucky day, because I have just such a prize pack to give away in honor of Miami Connection’s DVD release. Miami Connection hits DVD, Blu-Ray, VOD, SBD, and most importantly, VHS, today, and you can watch it in high-def right here for $6. So even if you don’t win this sweet prize pack, it’s still a pretty good day.

DO you want to win this prize package? (*points at crotch*)

Here’s how: Be the fourth person to email me correctly answering the following question: What are either of the two alternate titles for Miami Connection (not on IMDB)?

[UPDATE: CLOSED. Congrats, Johnny.]

After the jump, enjoy some Miami Connection trailers and gif-related fun.

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Why are all the extras pooping in their pants?

We’re getting closer to Christmas, and Hollywood has something for everyone to stuff in their stocking this week, assuming everyone wants The Bourne Legacy, Ted, or Ice Age: Continental Drift. If those titles don’t get you excited, there are plenty of other options that didn’t get the theatrical releases those films did.  We’ve got flicks with Jesse Eisenberg and James Van Der Beek.  We’ve got films about child sex-slaves and shaving and puppeteers.  There’s bigfoots and zombies and hipsters and hobbits.  There’s even a film so FilmDrunk-approved, its theatrical run was literally presented by FilmDrunk.

The DVDs:
The Bourne Legacy
Ted
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Why Stop Now
Backwards
Miami Connection
Trade Of Innocents
Mansome
Rehearsal For A Sicilian Tragedy
Dreams Of A Life
Insane Clown Posse & Twiztid’s American Psycho Tour Documentary
Night Claws
The Life Zone
Upon A Midnight Clear
Nesting
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Age Of The Hobbits
Osombie
Creep Van
Halloween Party

Streaming: Check out your choices here.

Can’t remember which flick has FilmDrunk’s coveted blessing?  Continue reading to find out.  Want to find out if the film about child sex-slaves and the film about puppeteers is the same film?  Continue reading. Want to know which films I fairly arbitrarily suggest you watch on Netflix?  Click the streaming link above, but be aware: one of this week’s DVDs is targeted at Juggalos, and you won’t know which one it is unless you continue reading without skipping right to the last page. Read the rest of this entry »

If you took my complete and utter apathy for another three-hour Hobbit movie and reversed the polarity, you’d get Miami Connection, a film that combines mullets, 80s synth-pop, sword fights, ninjas, girls in nightclubs with their boobs flopping everywhere and karate. That guy in the banner image? I chopped his arm off with my boner, that’s how excited I am for this.

Edited by HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN Director Jason Eisner for Drafthouse Films, the trailer for this ’80s martial arts gem packs quite a punch.  MIAMI CONNECTION, directed by 9th degree black belt philosopher/author/inspirational speaker Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, tells the story of fearless synth rock band Dragon Sound as they embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice in the streets of Orlando.

The film began as a rare 35mm print of an obscure, 1987 VHS release bought off eBay for fifty dollars, and it has to be worth millions today, because it’s not often these days you find a shirtless Italian dude with a mullet doing karate who’s not trying to be ironic.

What I want, you got, might be haaaard to haaaandle, like a flaaaame that burns a candle… Sorry, that’s just what happens in my head whenever I look at this picture.

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From the folks who brought you The FP and Klown comes yet another batshit-looking release called Miami Connection. Boob gifs. Mullets. Kung Fu. Synth pop. Florida. This I promise you, this post has everything.

Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, announced today their acquisition of North American rights to explosive ’80s martial arts gem Miami Connection. Directed by 9th degree black belt philosopher/author/inspirational speaker Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, the film tells the story of fearless synth rock band Dragon Sound as they embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice in the streets of Orlando. Now in HD from elements sourced by the America Genre Film Archive (AGFA), Miami Connection will have its official re-launch screening at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival on Saturday, July 7th (with Grandmaster Kim in attendance) and will return to cinemas, home video and debut on digital platforms in Q4 of 2012.

I know I say this all the time, but you had me at “crime-crushing justice on the streets of Orlando.” And if that doesn’t convince you, perhaps this gif will:

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