Two karate kids — Belgium's Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sweden's Dolph Lundgren — team up to play weird-accented soldiers who kill each other in Vietnam. And that's just the prologue. Cut to the present: The boys have been retooled as combat robots under military control until memories start seeping into their rusty craniums. Though the idea is dumb enough to be fun, director Roland Emmerich does the Terminator thing without much style, and the two stars bash into each other but never connect. The signpost ahead reads video scrapheap.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."