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April 16, 2010 in
Old vs. New Review and Reviews.
Tags: action, adventure, Andromeda, Burgess Meredith, Harry Hamlin, original, Perseus, remake, special effects, Zeus.
There aren’t too many people I talked to that didn’t remember watching the original Clash of the Titans from 1981. Most didn’t remember a whole lot about it, but they at least remembered seeing it. It’s a fantastical story about mortals and Gods, but it was shot at the end of an era. It was one of the last big budget Hollywood movies which used all stop-motion photography. Most movies after that moved on to the high-tech area of CGI. With the release of the new Clash of the Titans, which I reviewed a few weeks ago at We’re Running Out Of Time, I decided to take a look back to the movie which spawned more than a few video games we know and love!
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I’ve never been a huge fan of documentaries, they just never seem to live up to the hype. I’d rather watch an original film shot like a documentary or a mockumentary, something like Spinal Tap. Unless you are super excited about the topic, documentaries rarely have enough material to keep you interested, and there is typically no payoff at the end. Such is the problem with Project Grizzly. This documentary is the story of Troy Hurtubise, a man whose life was spared by a grizzly while walking through the Canadian wilderness. Now years later he is back to find the grizzly, with the help of his homemade bear-suit, the Ursus Mark VI.
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I’m a veteran of bad movies. While a lot of these movies are things I’ve had to search out and find on my own as an adult, there are some that I actually went and saw as a kid in the theater. I saw Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann when I was 5 years old… Talk about scarring a kid for life.
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January 12, 2009 in
Movie of the Week and Reviews.
Tags: 80's, action, adventure, airplane, Amazons, Bob Schott, chase, Cirio H. Santiago, explosions, kung fu, little people, Mongols, nazi, Richard Norton, Robert Patrick.
From all the movies I’ve seen that take place at least 20 years in the future, things are going to be pretty bleak for us, with the post-apocalyptic world and all. We visit another one of these era’s in Cirio H. Santiago‘s 1986 film Future Hunters, where everything is all Mad Max, and people chase each other around in cars looking to get a leg up on the competition. In this case, Matthew (Richard Norton) is being chased and in order to save the world, he has to get his hands on the spear that pierced Jesus’ chest, the spear of destiny. He manages to grab it seconds before he’s about to be blown up, and his contact with the spearhead transports him 39 years to the past – from 2025 all the way back to 1986, and in proximity to our main subjects, Michelle and Slade (Robert Patrick). After Matthew is shot and on his way to death’s door, he fills in Michelle and Slade on what the spearhead is, and that they need to contact a “Hightower” in order to learn how to save the future… Wow… heavy, man.
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Published by:
enemy on:
October 1, 2008 in
Reviews.
Tags: 80's, action, adventure, fantasy, george eastman, Italian, low budget, Michael Berryman, Paul brothers, Richard Lynch.
In the days of my youth, my sister and I would rent videos every weekend. Some of our favorites were action/adventure movies, and particularly those that existed in the realm of fantasy – like Red Sonja, Conan the Barbarian or Beastmaster. We always scoped out which ones looked the worst, and thanks to just about everything being released on VHS those days, there were a lot of movies to go around. One movie I never got to see was 1987′s The Barbarians, starring the ridiculously well built Paul Brothers (David Paul and Peter Paul), aka The Barbarian Brothers, where they play the titular (I always wanted to use that word… Titular…) Barbarians.
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