tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91466051968663285852024-03-09T13:54:57.706+02:00Shameless Pile of StuffReviewing my shameless pile of movies, books and stuff.
Finnish guy writing shortish reviews of movies, books, gadgets and other things that interest me.
Film blog focusing mainly but not fully to lesser known films, genre films, B-movies, direct to video flicks and Finnish films. Book blog focusing on what ever I read.Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.comBlogger654125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-75195730930047057732018-05-23T00:02:00.000+03:002018-05-23T00:07:38.832+03:00The Kurt Russell Blogathon Special: Overboard (1987) Overboard (1987)<br />
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Star Partners, Hawn / Sylbert Movie Company, USA, 1987.<br />
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Participating <a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2018/05/06/the-kurt-russell-blogathon-update/">The Kurt Russell Blogathon</a> event arranged by Gill from Realweegiemidget Reviews and <a href="https://rtt80s.com/2018/04/05/announcing-the-kurt-russell-blog-a-thon/">Return to the 80s</a> blog!<br />
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Carpenter Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell) is hired to build cabinets in a luxury yacht. Snobby, picky and bored rich heiress Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn) is not satisfied with the completed work and refuses to pay. She rudely pushes unlucky Dean overboard. Luckily the harbour is near.</div>
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Karma strikes back soon as Joanna falls into sea and loses her memory. Her husband Grant (Edward Herrmann) uses the opportunity by abandoning her into the hospital. "Never seen her!" says Grant and proceeds to have wild parties in the yacht. Dean sees Joanna's face in the TV and plans to get a bit payback by disguising as her husband. Luxury live is changed to living in Dean's shack with his kids. Joanna is renamed Annie and has to do her share of cleaning and cooking. The absence of mother has made the kids into rascals. </div>
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However Dean gets more than he planned as the kids like Joanna and she starts fixing things of the dysfunctional family. The people in Dean's neighbourhood are genuine compared to fake socialites of Joanna's former life. Things get romantic but what happens if Joanna gets her memory back?</div>
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"Overboard" is a feel-good 1980s comedy with hillbilly charm, and Goldie does a versatile role as a rude heiress who turns nice. Kurt Russell plays a happy-go-lucky handyman, a bit rough around the edges but who is a working like a dog to support his family. The story is formulaic but the real-life couple has good chemistry and both of them are funny. Kurt Russell shows his comedic skills, and shows that he is can be more than an action star (interestingly in one scene his leather jacket looks similar to Snake Plissken's). Although the story is almost about kidnapping, it should not be taken seriously but as light-hearted entertainment. </div>
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Veteran actor Roddy McDowall appears as Andrew the Butler. </div>
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Rating:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgjVypk2HaYGJs9ipuTQggYT4tKneYnx0h4x2iw3W42X0zetmd0ir7a1YfzlVJIPoVRtnlWHJBD9pWoX5iYlDG4alh4_Z0R0jf8Qjxkqv6vcNg2mtG9J_541zUURIrznAmYOOsEnhKdw/s1600/good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="15" data-original-width="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgjVypk2HaYGJs9ipuTQggYT4tKneYnx0h4x2iw3W42X0zetmd0ir7a1YfzlVJIPoVRtnlWHJBD9pWoX5iYlDG4alh4_Z0R0jf8Qjxkqv6vcNg2mtG9J_541zUURIrznAmYOOsEnhKdw/s1600/good.gif" /></a>Good</div>
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Starring: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Mike Hagerty, Roddy McDowall, Jared Rushton, Jeffrey Wiseman, Brian Price, Jamie Wild, Frank Campanella, Harvey Miller, Frank Buxton, Carol Williard, Doris Hess, Ed Cree, Mona Lyden, Lucinda Crosby, Bing Russell, Richard Stahl, Ray Combs, Marvin Braverman, The Wright Brothers <br />
Director: Garry Marshall </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-17960578341704588432018-03-13T22:04:00.000+02:002018-03-13T22:11:09.374+02:00Michael Caine Blogathon Special: The Italian Job (1969)<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Italian Job (1969)</div>
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Oakhurst Productions, UK, 1969.</div>
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Participating The Marvellous Michael Caine Blogathon event arranged by Gill from Realweegiemidget Reviews to celebrate his 85th birthday!</div>
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Heist man Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) has just been released from prison. Meanwhile the Italian Mafia has killed his friend who bequeathed an ultimate heist plan to Charlie. The plan is to travel to Turin and rob an armored van using a self-caused traffic jam as a ruse. The funding comes from jailed crime king and patriot Mr. Bridger (Noël Coward) whose love for Queen and Country turns him into a supporter of the plan. After all the heist is a chance to get back at those pesky Italians who have just made an important industrial contract making the British automotive industry suffer!</div>
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The plan requires a participation of different specialists, one of the most memorable being computer specialist Professor Peach who chases big women (appropriately performed by Benny Hill). The plan culminates into the heist and escape with three Mini Coopers speeding through shopping malls, down the stairs and on the roof of a stadium.</div>
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The Cockney character Michael Caine performs here is a lovable rogue. He's stylish, cool and popular with women. Charlie's girlfriend Lorna (Margaret Blye) is quite liberal in the Swinging Sixties way and even arranges coming out party for Charlie with semi-clad girls. It is hard not to think about showing the character even more virile than James Bond (Caine had turned down the role two years earlier). Charlie even drives Aston Martin that looks similar to Bond's favourite vehicle, being only an older model.</div>
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This is a classic heist movie with British tongue-in-cheek style fit in the style of 1960s. Before the iconic final chase the movie is carried by Michael Caine's charm and the comical hijinks of his teammates. The cinematography with Italian cities and mountain roads looks beautiful and there is eye candy for fans of vintage cars. The story is light and comical and even campy, making it never too serious although the Mafia offers a serious threat. Of the actors the most memorable are Caine, Coward and Hill. However many minor characters are left quite underdeveloped and some of the plotlines are never resolved, leaving the story literally hanging in the air. Sequel was planned but it was was never made.</div>
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Starring: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi, Margaret Blye, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier, Fred Emney, John Clive, Graham Payn, Michael Standing, Stanley Caine, Barry Cox, Harry Baird, George Innes, John Forgeham, Robert Powell, Derek Ware, Frank Jarvis, David Salamone, Richard Essome, Mario Valgoi, Renato Romano, Franco Novelli, Robert Rietty, Timothy Bateson, David Kelly, Arnold Diamond, Simon Dee, Alastair Hunter, Lana Gatto, John Morris, John Louis Mansi<br />
Director: Peter Collinson </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-26084134788054374352017-12-25T23:46:00.000+02:002017-12-28T19:57:20.569+02:00Movie Review: Ernest Saves Christmas<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ernest Saves Christmas</div>
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Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III, Emshell Producers, USA, 1988.</div>
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Santa Claus (Douglas Seale) is thinking about retirement and is searching for a successor. Children's TV show host Joseph Carruthers (Oliver Clark) is the candidate. Goofy taxi-driver Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) gives Santa a ride, but Santa's bag is left in the taxi. Meanwhile Santa's reindeer gets stuck in the customs, much bedazzling storage workers Chuck (Gailard Sartain) and Bobby (Bill Byrge). Ernest and runaway teen girl Harmony (Noelle Parker) decide to return the sack to the rightful owner.</div>
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Joe's agent Marty (Robert Lesser) gets Joseph a role in a movie, and arranges Santa's arrest. However the role is in a horror movie that is not something Joe is comfortable with. If Joe doesn't become the next Santa, it could be the last Christmas ever! And can Ernest get the Santa's sleigh from the custom warehouse in time?</div>
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Ernest-comedies are nowadays quite rare but the folks who were kids in 1980s-90s remember these. Before Jim Carrey took the career as America's rubber face, it was Jim Varney whose slapstick hijinks's entertained the audiences and annoyed the critics. So Ernest-movies were stupid but benevolent, and so Ernest's Christmas adventure is a feel-good Season movie with good laughs utilizing Jim Varney's skills. Ernest masquerades himself as a slick bureaucrat, old granny and hillbilly. Ernest visits his never seen onscreen pal Vern, and for some reason starts ripping electric lines from the walls. "Miracle on the 34th Street" variation has Santa bringing Christmas spirit to unbelievers, and returning runaway shoplifter Melody to the right path. Recommended as a bit different family cult Christmas comedy.</div>
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Starring: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Gailard Sartain, Billie Bird, Bill Byrge, Robert Lesser, Key Howard, Jack Swanson, Buddy Douglas, Patty Maloney, Beecher Martin, Barry Brazell, George Kaplan, Bill Welter, Joe Candelora, Danny Dillon, Lindsey Alley, Phran Gauci, Bill Cordell, Larry Francer, Jackie Welch, Daniel Butler, Antonio Fabrizio, Bob Norris, Carmen J. Alexander, Miriam P. Saunders, Cyndi Vicino, Tom Nowicki, Michael O. Smith, Jesse Stone, Angelique Walker, Zachary Bowden, Donna Phillip Miller, Paul Darby, Cynthia Ergenbright, Bob Barnes, Mike Hutchinson, Douglas Brush, D. Christian Gottshall, Ray Russell, Brett Cipes, Jon Freda, Cindy Haroutunian, Rosa Nevin, Jennifer Peña</div>
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Director: John R. Cherry III </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-43326366365594762232017-12-15T22:32:00.000+02:002017-12-15T22:32:15.541+02:00Movie Review: Zootopia Zootopia a.k.a Zootropolis<br />
Walt Disney Pictures, USA, 2016.<br />
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In a distant future evolution has allowed herbivores and carnivores to live peacefully together although prejudices still exists. Bunny named Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin) has a dream. She wants do leave country-life behind to become a big city cop. However small animals are discriminated against in the police force. Chief Bogo (Idris Elba) thinks that small animals can't be real cops so Judy finds herself writing parking tickets. </div>
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But there is a mystery to solve. Several animals have gone missing, and Judy decides to solve the case even without official support. Only Assistant Mayor Bellwether's (Jenny Slate) support helps Judy to continue the investigations. Judy teams up with a small-time con-artist fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) who knows the streets. Like Judy, Nick has a misunderstood but he has chosen to be a rascal. The unlikely duo finds a common cause as behind the missings there is a sinister conspiracy that threatens the balance of the whole city.</div>
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Judy's and Nick's adventures are fun to watch, it is a buddy cop comedy with trendy neo-noir and caper film tones. The moral of the story is that the first appearences may be deceiving, and the person behind may be totally different from the expectations. The world is detailed with funny visual jokes, and some references to pop culture and the city is divided to different habitats, with suburbs for actic animals or small rodents. The duo meets also some shady characters from the criminal underworld so there are funny "Godfather" and "Breaking Bad" references.</div>
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As a funny joke, there is a scoundrel selling bootleg Disney movies. I would watch Pig Hero 6.<br />
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Voice actors: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Tommy Chong, J.K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, Shakira, Raymond S. Persi, Della Saba, Maurice LaMarche, Phil Johnston, Fuschia!, John DiMaggio, Katie Lowes, Gita Reddy, Jesse Corti, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Josh Dallas, Leah Latham, Rich Moore, Kath Soucie, Peter Mansbridge, Byron Howard, Jared Bush, Mark Rhino Smith, Josie Trinidad, John Lavelle, Kristen Bell, Evelyn Wilson Bresee, Hewitt Bush, Jill Cordes, Madeleine Curry, Terri Douglas, Melissa Goodwin Shepherd, Zach King, Dave Kohut, Jeremy Milton, Pace Paulsen, Fabienne Rawley, Brad Simonsen, Claire K. Smith, Jackson Stein, David A. Thibodeau, John Wheeler, Hannah G. Williams, Vassos Alexander, Ricardo Boechat, David Campbell, Koura Kazumasa, Nicholas Guest</div>
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Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-61303399497038543222017-11-26T23:28:00.003+02:002017-11-26T23:28:54.363+02:00Movie Review: Yellowbird (2014)<div style="text-align: justify;">
Yellowbird (Gus - Petit oiseau, grand voyage)</div>
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TeamTO, Haut et Court, La Compagnie Cinématographique, Panache Productions, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Belgacom, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Région Rhône-Alpes, Région Ile-de-France, Ciné+, Gulli, Backup Media, Piste Rouge, France, Belgium, 2014.</div>
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Yellowbird (Seth Green) is an orphaned bird raised by Ladybug (Yvette Nicole Brown) and family of bunnies. He is afraid to leave home but Ladybug tricks him to go see the world. While outside Yellowbird meets a dying big blue bird Darius (Danny Glover), who needs someone to guide his flock to Africa. The problem is that Yellowbird has no sense of direction.</div>
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In the flock there are girl bird Delf (Dakota Fanning), hippie bird Max (Zachary Gordon), Delf's not-boyfriend Willy (Brady Corbet) and his little brother Fleck (Jadon Sand) and a bunch of little birds and their parents. Grouchy Karl (Jim Rash), who wanted to be Darius' follower, doubts Yellowbird's navigational skills for a reason. The migration becomes dangerous as Yellowbird guides the flock in the wrong direction. Also the iron birds (airplanes) are a constant threat to birds who fly too high. At what point should Yellowbird tell that he really has no clue about where they are, and how will the flock react to that and will they survive?</div>
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Euro-animation has nice visuals with European country-side and cartoony characters whose layered paper mimicking design makes them look a bit like piñatas. Especially the flying sequences look pretty. The characters are quite usual for these kind of adventures, but quite likable too. There are couple of romances too that are not too underlined, but bring some interesting extra arcs to the story.<br />
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As the "leader" of the flock Yellowbird is kind of goof, but he is inventive too. Some of the funniest side characters are jovial sea lions and an owl (Elliott Gould) who is a sneaky innkeeper. The story has the familiar growing up story with many falls and triumphs and some thrills in a sinking ship. Overall it is a nice little film to watch for both kids and adults.</div>
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Rating: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rNzL_wmG4Y_m3PWCSnoz4zs3LRUoSQAPDAt358Ka5ZSmWvf9EknRP8nSW0VJABJdp3mreUld4x9bxGqngBJt4FJCRrbG3eKa5OTrfnIVGsx3C8YR35ZMJN6MRmOzrHPcHenYieJ1D68/s1600/good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="15" data-original-width="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rNzL_wmG4Y_m3PWCSnoz4zs3LRUoSQAPDAt358Ka5ZSmWvf9EknRP8nSW0VJABJdp3mreUld4x9bxGqngBJt4FJCRrbG3eKa5OTrfnIVGsx3C8YR35ZMJN6MRmOzrHPcHenYieJ1D68/s1600/good.gif" /></a>Good</div>
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Voice actors: Christine Baranski, Yvette Nicole Brown, Brady Corbet, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Zachary Gordon, Elliott Gould, Seth Green, Richard Kind, Ryan Lee, Christopher L. Parson, Cristina Pucelli, Jim Rash, Jadon Sand<br />
Director: Christian De Vita Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-73479264790719482692017-11-20T21:52:00.001+02:002017-11-20T21:52:27.898+02:00Movie Review: Superfast!Superfast!<br />
3 in the Box, The Safran Company, USA, 2015.<br />
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Another so called parody from Friedberg/Seltzer.<br />
Very bad.<br />
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Lucas White (Alex Ashbaugh) is a white (duh) cop who tries to infiltrate multi-culti street racer gang. Their leader is Vin Serento (Dale Pavinski) with pretty sister Jordana (Lili Mirojnick). Other members are jealous Curtis (Daniel Booko) and not-so-unobviously lesbian Michelle (Andrea Navedo). Against all odds Lucas gains their trust. Crime lord Juan Carlos de la Sol (Omar Chaparro) sets them up and during a shoot-out Lucas accidentally shoots his boss Detective Hanover (Gonzalo Menendez), oops. Vin and the gang plan revenge by robbing crime lord's money. Incredibly stupid Detective Rock Johnson (Dio Johnson) tries to catch the gang but is too busy rubbing baby oil on his muscles.</div>
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"Fast and the Furious" series has grown to such self-parody nowadays that spoofing it is kind of wasted effort. The nonessential plot is modeled from FF parts one and five. There is something funny in the way the stock characters are named as Rapper Cameo, Model Turned Actress and Cool Asian Guy. Also the main gang looked a lot like the originals and Rock-parody was quite fun. Otherwise the jokes were either recycled from better parodies, overlong and unfunny or just gross-out. On the positive side the z-grade celebrity jokes were kept at minimum and the story kept the focus of the parody in one film series. However cheap pop-culture references and pseudo-commercial jokes that are obscure to everyone but Americans are still there. This is not a good movie but considering the cinematic atrocities FriedChicken/AlkaSeltzer duo has put out ("Meet the Spartans" "Epic Movie", "Disaster Movie"...) this is a step to right direction. Maybe the lowest point of parody genre has been reached already. But it is still a thousand mile trip back up.</div>
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Starring: Alex Ashbaugh, Dale Pavinski, Lili Mirojnick, Andrea Navedo, Daniel Booko, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Chris Pang, Omar Chaparro, Joseph Julian Soria, Dio Johnson, Amin Joseph, Cuete Yeska, Gonzalo Menendez, Shantel Wislawski, Luis Chávez, DaJuan Johnson, Alexis Lopez, William Barney, Shakira Barrera, Eric Mccoy, Dres Reid, Christine Clayburg, Chanel Celaya, Mickey Friedberg, Nick Rey Angelus, Chris Trouble Delfosse, Michael Flores, Anthony Martins, Shad Roberts, Rick Silver, Kenny Yates<br />
Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-3243431438876848472017-11-12T00:50:00.000+02:002017-11-12T13:49:46.403+02:00Now and Then Blogathon (Now): Independence Day Resurgence (2016)<div style="text-align: justify;">
Independence Day Resurgence (2016)</div>
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Twentieth Century Fox, TSG Entertainment, Centropolis Entertainment, Electric Entertainment, USA, 2016. </div>
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Participating the Now and Then 2017 Blogathon event, arranged by <a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/blogathon-2017/">Realweegiemidget Reviews</a> and <a href="https://thoughtsallsorts.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/the-now-and-then-blogathon-is-here/">Thoughts of All Sorts</a>! This is part 2 (Now!) of 2 part post.</div>
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20 years have passed since the space alien attack was struck back barely saving the humans from extinction. The ex-President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) suffers from telepathic scars caused by the previous encounter. David Levinson (Jeff Glodblum) and his father Julius (Judd Hirsch) are still around but Will Smith's character is not so fighter pilot ace Steven Hiller had to die in a flight accident. However his son Dylan Hiller (Jessie T. Usher) continues his legacy.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New President Lanford (Sela Ward) and ex-President Whitmore</td></tr>
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Of the younger generation are also President's daughter Patricia (Maika Monroe) and hotshot pilot Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth), and his teammate Charlie Miller (Travis Tope) and Chinese pilot Rain Lao (Angelababy). Dylan and Jake have a drudge, Patricia wants to help her father and Charlie wants a romance with Rain. </div>
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New weapons based on alien technologies has been developed and David Levinson is now the Director of Earth Space Defense. Someday the aliens will return...</div>
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In Africa guerilla leader Dikembe Umbutu (Deobia Oparei) has been waging war against the remaining aliens. He has invited scientist Catherine Marceaux (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and David to nvestigate strange things happening at stranded spaceship. All points to that a new war is beginning. A continent-sized spaceship appears and uproots whole cities. How can humankind survive this time?</div>
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Whereas last time the on-screen desruction was still relatively limited, this time Roland Emmerich does so grand scale destruction scenes that physicists rip their hairs off. The alien spaceship has its own gravity and plows half of the Earth while landing. Spectacular, yes, but not very believable. Better to leave the brain out and just enjoy it as a popcorn movie. The story goes on the familiar path of last minute saves, adventures of the survivors, and some new and old friends making sudden appearances. There are some updates to the formula of "Independence Day", last time it was America saving the day, but now in the style of "Pacific Rim" the cast is a more multicultural team of heroes. Couple of budding bromances are there too.</div>
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It is nice to have many characters from the first film around, however overall the characterizations feel weaker, as the turbo-charged plot does not allow much character development and lacks the heart and bombastic fun that the prequel had. This is visually impressive with huge spaceships and bigger alien monsters, it is occassionally fun but sacrifices the plot to special effects. With the recent flood of big scifi/superhero films it fits in the trend, but it is just one more spectacular movie in the crowd. Also in the end it is clear that there will be at least a trilogy of these films. </div>
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Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, William Fichtner, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Patrick St. Esprit, Vivica A. Fox, Angelababy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Deobia Oparei, Nicolas Wright, Travis Tope, Chin Han, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Robert Loggia, John Storey, Joey King, Jenna Purdy, Garrett Wareing, Hays Wellford, Mckenna Grace, James A. Woods, Robert Neary, Joshua Mikel, Joel Virgel, Arturo del Puerto, Matthew Munroe, Jacob Browne, Ryan Cartwright, Travis Hammer, Lance Lim, Zeb Sanders, Donovan Tyee Smith, Stafford Douglas, Jade Scott Lewis, Beth Bailey, Mona Malec, Omar Diop, Ron Yuan, Grace Huang, Stephen Oyoung, J.P. Murrieta, Casey Messer, Ben Wang, Nicholas Ballas, Jonathan Richards, Ivan G'Vera, Michael Davis, Brandon K. Hampton, Sam Quinn<br />
Director: Roland Emmerich </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-82436858955385649952017-11-12T00:48:00.000+02:002017-11-12T13:50:13.447+02:00Now and Then Blogathon (Then): Independence Day (1996)<div style="text-align: justify;">
Independence Day (1996) a.k.a ID4</div>
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Twentieth Century Fox, Centropolis Entertainment, USA, 1996.</div>
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Participating the Now and Then 2017 Blogathon event, arranged by <a href="https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/blogathon-2017/">Realweegiemidget Reviews</a> and <a href="https://thoughtsallsorts.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/the-now-and-then-blogathon-is-here/">Thoughts of All Sorts</a>! This is part 1 (Then!) of 2 part post.</div>
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Independence Day of the United States is approaching and so is a gigantic spaceship. The President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman) suffers from waning popularity. Although he was a popular war hero, media says that his achievements as the leader of the country have been disappointing. His day becomes worse when a gigantic UFO emitting a strange signal sends smaller smaller spaceships above major cities. SETI scientists open Champagne bottles but cable-TV technician (and former university guy) David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) cracks the code and notices that the signal send by the spaceship is a countdown to destruction.</div>
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The humans try peaceful greeting but the extraterrestrials answer by blowing whole cities up. After a worldwide destruction, the survivors try to save their families who have been lost in the chaos. Army attempts a strike back (nuke 'em!), but that only makes aliens laugh. However some promising technology is hidden in Area 51. Eccentric scientist Dr. Okun (Brent Spiner, Data from Star Trek TNG) shows the secret alien artifacts retrieved after the Roswell Incident.</div>
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After David and his daddy Julius (Judd Hirsch) invent a way to destroy the mother ship, the different nations join the counter attack. And should they win, the Fourth of July will no longer be only an American holiday, but the Independence Day of the whole Earth! ID4 is a shamelessly patriotic movie with good old flag waving.</div>
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Saving the world are drunk pilot Russell Casse (Randy Quaid) and his family, hotshot pilot Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and his girlfriend Jasmine (Vivica A. Fox). There is also important motivator for David, his ex-wife and President's Communication's Director Constance Spano (Margaret Colin). David and Constance separated because David was unambitious with his career and more interested in protecting the environment. Well, now he has a chance to save the world. Helping the heroes is also Major Mitchell (Adam Baldwin). Interestingly, Adam played also part in latter X-Files episodes as an alien-human hybrid supersoldier.</div>
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The movie come out when the space aliens were hot and I had spent considerable time watching "The X-Files" and playing "UFO: Enemy Unknown", so the movie left a big impression. It was a perfect movie for the 1990s UFO boom. The combination of disaster film and B-film style alien attack film made with a big budget made it a summer box office hit film, with thrills, drama and witty one-liners.<br />
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The all-star cast had a bunch of new faces and already established actors. Will Smith was still in the early phase of his film career, at the time that he made his iconic roles (in "Bad Boys", "Men In Black" and "Enemy of the State") and here he does great action-comedy. Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman take care of the dramatic arc while Judd Hirsch and Randy Quaid have more comical characters. For Vivica A Fox this movie was very important for her career. James Duval plays here Russell's son, he is rarely seen in big budget films and has apperared more in indie films.</div>
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Starring: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, Vivica A. Fox, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, James Duval, Lisa Jakub, Giuseppe Andrews, Ross Bagley, Bill Smitrovich, Mae Whitman, Harry Connick Jr., Kiersten Warren, John Storey, Frank Novak, Devon Gummersall, Leland Orser, Mirron E. Willis, Ross Lacy, David Pressman, Vivian Palermo, Raphael Sbarge, Bobby Hosea, Dan Lauri, Steve Giannelli, Eric Paskel, Carlos Lacamara, John Bennett Perry, Troy Willis, Tim Kelleher, Wayne Wilderson, Jay Acovone, James Wong, Thom Barry, Jana Marie Hupp, Matt Pashkow, Robert Pine...</div>
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Director: Roland Emmerich </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-50348032702913732802017-11-02T21:37:00.000+02:002017-11-02T21:37:22.170+02:00Movie Review: R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls<div style="text-align: justify;">
R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls <br />
Universal 1440 Entertainment, EveryWhere Studios, USA, Canada, 2015.</div>
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"<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-belongs-to-horror-8-mostly.html">Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?</a>" left a bit disappointing feeling, so let's see if another R.L. Stine filmatization is better.</div>
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Four high school teens visit Annual Harvest and Halloween Festival. Kellen (Braeden Lemasters) has crush on Beth (Dove Cameron) but he is too shy. Luke (Casey Dubois) tries to make impression on Nicole (Tiffany Espensen) but with similarly thin results. Then the Halloween festival gets more thrilling than usually.</div>
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Dr. Hysteria (Andrew Kavadas) and Lilith (Katherine McNamara) appear with their Hall of Horror spectacle. Also smug cool guy Hunter (Ryan McCartan) arrives and charms Beth. Goth girl Lilith starts to vamp Kellen. Dr. Hysteria's ghost house actually hosts real zombies and vampires. Dr. Hysteria can make everyone's dreams come true - in exchange for their souls. Beth notices that his friends begin to become impolite and turn into monsters.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBSv2WcXK0Hax1h57chIZ0_wBds9ylQ4A1ddWHo_wJBe3e6VyqbkWrVaWKuoi-T26tgwcIla__FZOfDEcGe_LeOr_7ncDGnVhYLANcltAOhTGj2GWU2TCPM6eqLxTaOwkxftR4_4NF_qc/s1600/image0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Katherine McNamara" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBSv2WcXK0Hax1h57chIZ0_wBds9ylQ4A1ddWHo_wJBe3e6VyqbkWrVaWKuoi-T26tgwcIla__FZOfDEcGe_LeOr_7ncDGnVhYLANcltAOhTGj2GWU2TCPM6eqLxTaOwkxftR4_4NF_qc/s320/image0005.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDiMKO_xzF6MiIr92KbFH3CdOqyyEOeatcY1YXXZdHS3TFoza-jGGlfDN0qFzdvPptvGBEx0QTyZZJOb2vQAwUkIZhCAXuOUTpY6jy0XKZ4TBM938c2O-JlMtF9xpVPJi9oerEhXnLCg/s1600/image0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ryan McCartan" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDiMKO_xzF6MiIr92KbFH3CdOqyyEOeatcY1YXXZdHS3TFoza-jGGlfDN0qFzdvPptvGBEx0QTyZZJOb2vQAwUkIZhCAXuOUTpY6jy0XKZ4TBM938c2O-JlMtF9xpVPJi9oerEhXnLCg/s320/image0006.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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This is in every way better than ""Mostly Ghostly", and offers some genuine creepiness. It is aimed at older kids, but with a story that is not far off from some real horror films, so adults could enjoy it too. Great Halloween-entertainment for the whole family entertainment. Funny horror references for the genre fans: chainsaw creep swings his instrument, zombies point at Beth like "Body Snatchers", one zombie looks like Danny Trejo and there is Dr. Caligari inspired cabinet. The production values are good TV-level and the actors are likable. Katherine McNamara's goth meanie steals the scenes she's in, and the young actress already has appeared in an impressive resume of films and TV-shows. Rising star she is. And the other teen actors have also appeared in high-profile productions.<br />
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Starring: Dove Cameron, Braeden Lemasters, Katherine McNamara, Casey Dubois, Tiffany Espensen, Ryan McCartan, Andrew Kavadas, David Lewis, Keith MacKechnie, Laine MacNeil, Karin Konoval, Fiona Vroom, Jacob Desormeaux, Carey Feehan, Kelly-Ruth Mercier, Sean Tyson, Connor Stanhope, Matt Phillips, Bernadette Beck, Briana Buckmaster, Jameson Trenholm, Sean Quan, Cameron Fraser, Sarah Corrigan, Corey Woods, Carley Ishii, Kerri Jesson, Janet Walmsley <br />
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<br />Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-8501873740064085872017-10-31T21:11:00.002+02:002017-10-31T21:23:18.413+02:00Happy Halloween! October Belongs to Horror Recap <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The playful 8 horror movie watching challenge from <a href="http://halnoir.blogspot.fi/2017/10/lokakauhu-loppu.html">...noir</a> ends. The event gave finally some "excuses" to watch Finnish cult classic "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-belongs-to-horror-2-moonlight.html" target="_blank">Kuutamosonaatti</a>" as well as new contender "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-belongs-to-horror-4-lake-bodom.html" target="_blank">Bodom</a>" as well as some wacky zombie films "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-belogs-to-horror-1-dead-before.html">Dead Before Dawn</a>" and "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-belongs-to-horror-4-dead-rising.html">Dead Rising: Watchtower</a>." </div>
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There were many other horror films that I planned to watch but October
ends to soon. Partial blame is to Lou Ferrigno marathon in the beginning
of October that went on a bit longer than expected. Well, those other
scary flicks will be watched sooner or later anyways. For example these were left unwatched this time: </div>
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Now it is time to eat some Dracula-themed candies that I didn't know they were still manufacturing.</div>
<br />Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-73784816797604784822017-10-29T22:58:00.002+02:002017-10-29T22:58:35.757+02:00October Belongs to Horror #8: Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? <div style="text-align: justify;">
Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? a.k.a R.L. Stine's Mostly Ghostly 2: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?</div>
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Universal 1440 Entertainment, Commotion Pictures, Lookout Entertainment, USA, 2014.</div>
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Halloween movie for the whole family, based on the book by R.L. Stine.</div>
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Max (Ryan Ochoa) goes to walk his dog on cemetery. Max has a ring that protects from evil ghosts. He even has ghost friends Tara (Madison Pettis) and Nicky (Roshon Fegan). Eevil ghost wizard Phears (Charlie Hewson) wants to raise a ghost army. Phears looks like Nosferatu with pointy teeth and hair.</div>
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Max likes cute redhead Cammy (Bella Thorne) but she is not very interested in him. Grandma (Joan Rivers in her last role) and parents give tips about girls. Nicky and Tara are trying to find their parents. In the evening Max and the ghosts search for clues at school. Surprise! Cammy is also there setting up Halloween decorations. Little by little Max begins to look more interesting to her. </div>
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Max has to survive PE-lessons, there he gets help from his ghost-friends (that's ghost-doping!) As a weird detail PE-teacher (Carolyn Hennesy) has named all the gym equipment. Phears sends ghost dancer Emma (Caroline Lagerfelt/Anastasia Baranov) to steal Max's ring, but she targets annoying big brother Colin (Calum Worthy) instead. Comical possessions and ghostly pranks follow. Teacher Mrs. Wright (Juliette Cohen, who plays teacher in all of the "Mostly Ghostly" movies) tries to keep the order in the classroom with poor results. Emma isn't evil but she was tricked by Phears, so Emma loans her athletic skills to Max. </div>
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It seems that this is a sequel to "Mostly Ghostly" (2008), flashbacks in the beginning reveal what happened previously. It is curious that the sequel took so many years. This is not the best R.L. Stine filmatization, "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2015/10/movie-review-rl-stines-haunting-hour.html" target="_blank">Haunting Hour</a>" (2007) was more entertaining spooky fun. This movie suffers from overtrying to entertain with (cheap) special effects and having a weird pacing, the main story ends and the movie still goes on for 15 minutes. Only appearance of Phears is in any way scary, overall the adventure is too comical to be creepy. For younger kids the spooky gimmicks are quite safe as Halloween entertainment. Some fun is also there when Max performs magic tricks. In the beginning Max is kind of underdog requiring help from the ghosts all the time, but the lesson is that he must learn to trust his own skills.</div>
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Ali Eagle who has a non-speaking role here appeared year later in "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/05/movie-review-lake-placid-vs-anaconda.html" target="_blank">Lake Placid vs Anaconda</a>" as sarcastic goth.</div>
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Starring: Bella Thorne, Ryan Ochoa, Roshon Fegan, Madison Pettis, Charlie Hewson, Calum Worthy, Eric Allan Kramer, Gigi Rice, Joan Rivers, Ali Eagle, Caroline Lagerfelt, Anastasia Baranova, Marc Kenneth Robinson, Casey Young, Wyatt Bernard, Eric Julian Shaw, Adi Shankar, Carolyn Hennesy, Juliette Cohen, Hank Donovan, Abbey Blake, Mary Passeri, Elsie Hewitt, Chelsea Vale, Jordan Bailey, Nick Bemrose, Ilia Constantine, Sherilyn Henderson, Benjamin Levy, Scott P. Martin, Scott P. Martin, Danny Mika, Nino Nava, Isabella Revel, Jan-Michael Rosner, Joe Sobalo Jr.</div>
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Director: Peter Hewitt </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-76777651283326748792017-10-26T22:27:00.001+03:002017-10-26T22:27:42.459+03:00October Belongs to Horror #7: Romasanta The Werewolf Hunt<div style="text-align: justify;">
Romasanta The Werewolf Hunt a.k.a The Werewolf Manhunt a.k.a Werewolf Hunter: The Legend of Romasanta a.k.a Werewolf Hunter </div>
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Filmax, Future Films, Fantastic Factory (Filmax), Castelao Producciones, Spain, UK, 2004. </div>
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Based on a true story about Spanish serial killer Manuel Blanco Romasanta, "The Werewolf of Allariz." </div>
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1851 Spain. Young women are being torn apart by wolves. Merchant Manuel Romasanta (Julian Sands) returns to village to meet his girlfriend Maria (Maru Valdivielso). Maria has sister Bárbara (Elsa Pataky, known for "Fast and Furious"-series) and mute daughter Teresa (Luna McGill). As Bárbara has crush on Manuel, jealous Maria moves to Santander with Manuel and Teresa, leaving Bárbara behind. But Manuel has dark and sadistic tendencies. </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYLqy6-TDI8WV6jV5EAEa3J76TuYHM6SpJ7yJekq35e_95RG28YMxgs1olf_2phNF06QqUyhSJx7OE-ktJHLhkgKoQUeP10A9zhRIAMDdugtEvA2UUexng5LjUeCX-bfSxVWfzlqRls8/s1600/image0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Maru Valdivielso" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYLqy6-TDI8WV6jV5EAEa3J76TuYHM6SpJ7yJekq35e_95RG28YMxgs1olf_2phNF06QqUyhSJx7OE-ktJHLhkgKoQUeP10A9zhRIAMDdugtEvA2UUexng5LjUeCX-bfSxVWfzlqRls8/s320/image0003.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Teresa and Maria are murdered. Charming Manuel targets Bárbara next. Unbeknowingly Bárbara falls in love with him, but soon starts to see that something is wrong. Wandering madman Antonio (John Sharian) believes that Manuel is a werewolf. Professor Philips (David Gant) is a phrenologist and believes that manuel is insane. District Attorney Luciano de la Bastida (Gary Piquer) does not know what to believe. Bárbara wants revenge and so she participates to hunt Manuel.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a werewolf</td></tr>
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This is an unconventional werewolf-movie and leaves open the question if Romasanta was a real werewolf or not. Moody horror drama (point being on drama) has slow-burning suspense, nice cinematography and good actors. As the style is of period drama many horror-fans expecting werewolf action will be disappointed even if the killings are brutal. Julian Sands who is always cast as handsome but more or less dubious characters. If he is the Beast, then Elsa Pataky is the Beauty, giving romantic spice to the story. Director Paco Plaza later directed the effective [REC]-zombie movies.</div>
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Starring: Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky, John Sharian, Gary Piquer, David Gant, Maru Valdivielso, Luna McGill, Carlos Reig-Plaza, Reg Wilson, Ivana Baquero, Laura Mañá, Sergi Ruiz, Itziar Fenollar, Carlos Sante, Jaume Montané, Arantxa Peña, Anna Estellés, Ben Temple, Tacho González, Pep García, Alejandra Juno, Jesús Berenguer, John Easthman, Macarena Gómez</div>
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Director: Paco Plaza </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-30247642943403538562017-10-23T21:55:00.001+03:002017-10-23T21:55:53.167+03:00October Belongs to Horror #6: Dead Rising: Endgame<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dead Rising: Endgame<br />
Legendary Digital Media, DR2 Productions, Contradiction Films, Sony Pictures Entertainment, USA, Canada, 2016.</div>
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Watching "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-belongs-to-horror-4-dead-rising.html" target="_blank">Dead Rising: Watchtower</a>" first is a must the plot will be difficult to grasp. Two years after the zombie outbreak of the first film military and pharmaceutical company Phenotrans are kidnapping people. Chase (Jesse Metcalfe) is trying to expose the conspiracy and find his former photographer Jordan (Keegan Connor Tracy) but he gets cold shoulder from his TV-channel who are afraid to publish the scoop. His workmates Sandra (Marie Avgeropoulos) and Jill (Jessica Harmon) have different opinions about continuing the crusade. Well, it is better do do something soon as naughty General Lyons (Dennis Haysbert) plans to destroy everyone who knows about the conspiracy.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chase Carter</td></tr>
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Defected company scientis Hancock (Ian Tracey) tells about project Afterlife. Military plans to kill all the 1.5 million who are getting treatment for the zombie virus. Chase, Sandra, Hancock and weapons dealer Garth (Patrick Sabongui) form a team to save the infected. The clock is ticking and the heroes have to infiltrate a server farm in zombie-infested area. The zombies have previously been of the slow type, but now new genetically-altered bald-headed zombies appear, and boy are they fast. Scientist named Rand (Billy Zane) has been doing secret experiments. Jordan returns, but she is not her usual self and no wonder considering what has been done to her.</div>
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The sequel is less-like video game, the horror is a bit more effective and gorier. Still the improvised weapons are in use, but they seem more practical than the crazy gadgets of the first film. Over all the plot feels more serious, leaving less room for black comedy or cool boss fights which is a loss. Still there are good action scenes and Chase has evolved into zombie slayer who chops zombies like there is no tomorrow. The end fight is quite awesome. In the end Chuck Greene (Victor Webster) from game "Dead Rising 2" can be seen. I wouldn't be surprised if a sequel would follow, as the end leaves the plot lines hanging. </div>
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Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Marie Avgeropoulos, Ian Tracey, Keegan Connor Tracy, Jessica Harmon, Patrick Sabongui, Camille Sullivan, Jim Thorburn, Billy Zane, Dennis Haysbert, Teach Grant, Lee Majdoub, Sandy Robson, Donavon Stinson, Peter Kelamis, Ben Cotton, Viv Leacock, Luvia Petersen, Stephen Lobo, Dakota Guppy, Curtis Lum, Heather Roop, Jim Shield, Victor Webster, Sarah Lindsay, Joshua Roy, Peter Brown, Naomi Kyle</div>
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Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-30517569825496255252017-10-21T23:34:00.002+03:002017-10-21T23:35:00.309+03:00October Belongs to Horror #5: Dead Rising: Watchtower<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dead Rising: Watchtower<br />
Legendary Digital Media, Contradiction Films, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Dead Rising Productions, USA, Canada, 2015. </div>
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Based on Capcom's video game series.</div>
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Reporter Chase Carter (Jesse Metcalfe) is making a scoop about zombie epidemic with photographer Jordan (Keegan Connor Tracy). The infected must use Zombrex-medicine once a day to avoid being turned into zombies. But the drug stops working and soon the street are full of hungry monsters. </div>
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The army starts firebombing the city after time limit is reached. The survivor celebrity of the previous outbreak Frank West (Rob Riggle) comments the happenings in his bluntly realistic style so that the interviewer rolls her eyes. As a comical relief, Frank is a bit like Bruce Campbell's Ash. Jordan's side mission is to seek allies outside the quarantine area to help Chase get out. The goverment officials General Lyons (Dennis Haysbert) and Norton (Gary Jones) have their orders, but can either of them be trusted?</div>
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Chase joins forces with Crystal (Meghan Ory) who has her own supply of Zombrex that works. There is a sinister conspiracy behind the recent outbreak. A bit of tragedy is brought by Maggie (Virginia Madsen) who is searching for her lost daughter. It will not end well...</div>
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The story goes on with familiar structure of video games. There are occasional boss fights and improvised weapons such as power tools attached to mallets, chainsaws and shovel-swords. The highlights include fights against Bonzo the Zombie Clown (C. Ernst Harth) and psychotic biker gang leader Logan (Aleks Paunovic).</div>
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As a video game movie this is faithful to the world of the original games, satisfying the video game fans. There is not much new added to the genre but otherwise the story is passable. Over the top zombie mayhem is good although sometimes also quite tasteless even for considering the zombie topic. The action has some well designed scenes such as long one-shot scene where Chase escapes zombies climbing over cars and a school bus. Also the combo weapons are wacky and inventive. Entertaining stuff although the almost two-hour duration could have been condensed. The cast has familiar faces from TV shows, pretty co-stars and Jesse Metcalfe fits the role of hotshot reporter hero. The movie ends in a way that sequel is inevitable.</div>
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Rating: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrz3648fVBBSxDhTGz7Q0xrcvqJSoF7wqn3boAXyCTp5DY9dow352vIr3ptxLecsAdotcplg7ipLAF86lFTe_L-Z0ephTR2Wx9nykqm08KN7G-vtOQEyFcY8glKP3RVVRe9xXgQGVJsU4/s1600/good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="15" data-original-width="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrz3648fVBBSxDhTGz7Q0xrcvqJSoF7wqn3boAXyCTp5DY9dow352vIr3ptxLecsAdotcplg7ipLAF86lFTe_L-Z0ephTR2Wx9nykqm08KN7G-vtOQEyFcY8glKP3RVVRe9xXgQGVJsU4/s1600/good.gif" /></a>Good</div>
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Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Meghan Ory, Virginia Madsen, Keegan Connor Tracy, Aleks Paunovic, Dennis Haysbert, Gary Jones, Carrie Genzel, Rob Riggle, Reese Alexander, Harley Morenstein, Julia Benson, Peter Benson, Darren Dolynski, Patrick Sabongui, Travis MacDonald, Michael Bean, Sachin Sahel, Khaira Ledeyo, James Yi, Colton Quan, Manny Jacinto, David Lyle, Gaston Morrison, Todd Thomson, C. Ernst Harth, Taya Clyne, Nickolas Baric, Ed Brando, Paul Lazenby, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Mark Wilmot </div>
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Director: Zach Lipovsky </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-17584792771531898322017-10-18T23:23:00.002+03:002017-10-18T23:23:39.782+03:00October Belongs to Horror #4: Lake Bodom (Bodom) <div style="text-align: justify;">
Lake Bodom (Bodom)<br />
Don Films, Münchhausen Productions, Finland, Estonia, 2016.</div>
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In 1960s four camping youths were attacked and stabbed at Lake Bodom with only one survivor. The culprit was never found. A half century later four teens decide to travel to the lake to solve the mystery. Ida-Maria (Nelly Hirst-Gee) has strictly religious parents and she has a personal trauma. Tough girl Nora (Mimosa Willamo) is her best friend. Elias (Mikael Gabriel) is the cool chick-magnet guy, and Atte (Santeri Helinheimo Mäntylä) is the geek.</div>
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Atte has a theory about the murder and he has gone into details to re-enact the crime scene. Elias has something other in mind than playing detective. The night comes and scary things move in the woods. When real murders begin, can someone get out alive? </div>
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There are rare teen slashers made in Finland and even less are watchable (*cough* "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2343475/" target="_blank">Nightmare</a>" and "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3358296/" target="_blank">Nightmare 2</a>"). As a genre film "Bodom" fulfills the expectations well, and couple of twists have been written to the story to make it less straightforward. For seasoned horror veterans the twists are not too surprising, but are there to make things more interesting for casual horror audiences. There is also a thrilling scene of vehicular horror. Atmospheric cinematography and murky ambient sound track help to create the sinister mood. Rapper Mikael Gabriel plays mainly himself, Santeri Helinheimo Mäntylä's Atte stays a bit enigmatic and the girls make the strongest roles. And no wonder Mimosa Willamo got awards for her role. The film gained some success in international film festivals. Hopefully this encourages other Finnish film makers to experiment with genre films. </div>
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Starring: Nelly Hirst-Gee, Mimosa Willamo, Mikael Gabriel, Santeri Helinheimo Mäntylä, Pirjo Moilanen, Ilkka Heiskanen, Sami Eerola, Otso Ahosola, Ville Saksela, Iiris Kankkunen, Tommi Korpela, Jarkko Niemi</div>
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Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-69886475749373076042017-10-14T23:43:00.002+03:002017-10-17T16:52:23.246+03:00October Belongs to Horror #3: Army of Zombies (Kuutamosonaatti II: Kadunlakaisijat) <div style="text-align: justify;">
Army of Zombies (Kuutamosonaatti II: Kadunlakaisijat)<br />
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...And in Germany this is known as "Muttertag 3."</div>
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The first film "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-belongs-to-horror-2-moonlight.html" target="_blank">Kuutamosonaatti</a>" was darkly fun agrarian horror cult film. Sadly the sequel loses the horror momentum and the result is a confusing mess.</div>
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Most of the Kyyrölä family died in the first film. Mother froze to death and Arvo burned to crisp. Only animal-like giant Sulo (Mikko Kivinen) remained. Sulo takes the remains of his family to a sauna, because if a good sauna won't help then nothing will. And so Mother (Soli Labbart) and pervy brother Arvo (Kari Sorvali) revive. Arvo is more slack-jawed than before (his jawbone falls several times), but that will heal over time. They can also revive Father Kyyrölä (Erkki Pajala) who drowned into swamp when he was smuggling moonshine. </div>
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It is time for Arvo to go find a job in Helsinki. Nosy social workers come to the farm so the Kyyrölä's sink them into swamp. There is some recession era satire when Arvo tries several jobs. In Helsinki Arvo gets a job entertaining Russian tourists. A better job opens up as driver of street sweeping machine (therefore justifying the Finnish name of the movie: "Street Sweepers." Finally he starts living by selling moonshine. Beautiful singer Kata Kärkkäinen (former Playboy-model and nowadays writer, artist and media-persona) catches Arvo's eye this time, but compared to the first film the threat is mild. </div>
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Mother Kyyrölä gets worried that Arvo is living a sinful life in the city. So Mother and Sulo have to find Arvo and put him under control As a funny detail everyone in Helsinki seems to originate from Kyyrölä-village (satirizing the movement of country people to the cities). On the way to find Arvo, the Kyyrölä's meet yuppies, inept cops and social workers who all look like Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää. So far so good. Even as the horror aspect was lost, there could have been some funny contrast to the first film when the hellbillies moved into big city.</div>
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But the focus shifts and it is difficult to say what the makers had in mind. Father Kyyrölä revives a squad of Red Guard soldiers who were executed during the Civil War. With their leader Edward Allan Kilpinen (Matti Tuominen) the zombie communists travel to Helsinki to continue the revolution. Bumbling around, they meet various people including the Minister of Culture (Miitta Sorvali, who is Kari Sorvali's comedian wife).</div>
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And so on. Kyyrölä brothers sell hazardous moonshine, and cause a ruckus in Miss Helsinki contest (hosted by era's popular game show host Jorma Pulkkinen), chase Kata in amusement park Linnanmäki and escape cops. But the film is basically plotless and the story goes nowhere. Arvo still has some funny one-liners but everything is watered down. It is still recommended to watch once to see the further adventures of the Kyyröläs. However the experience is quite painful. </div>
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Finnish Ramopunk band 'Ne Luumäet' made a song inspired by the film with the chorus: "'You shouldn't stare too much at the street sweeper. He comes and kills. And when he kills, then you die.'</div>
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Starring: Soli Labbart, Kari Sorvali, Mikko Kivinen, Erkki Pajala, Keijo Komppa, Matti Tuominen, Ilkka Koivula, Esa Anttila, Seppo Juusonen, Jussi Tuominen, Katariina Souri, Mikko Nousiainen, Vesa Vierikko, Leena Rapola, Veli Tuomas-Kettunen, Olavi Tervahartiala, Veikko Tiitinen, Jouko Klemettilä, Matti Pellonpää, Juha Häkkänen, Toivo Tuomainen, Martti Kuisma, Anne Nielsen, Aulis Hämäläinen, Pentti Louko, Tauno Karvonen, Miitta Sorvali, Ulla Tapaninen, Jari Järvimaa, Jorma Pulkkinen, Sari Havas, Risto Aaltonen, Harri Hyttinen, Lina Ignatova, Pirjo Kotimäki, Sonja Lindén, Marjo Louhe, Pia Nolvi, Anne Pakkanen, Albena Petrova, Ranja Rannikko, Anne Styrman, Satu Tuuliluoto, Minna Aaltonen<br />
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Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-22049751303539140322017-10-09T23:02:00.000+03:002017-10-09T23:02:07.869+03:00October Belongs to Horror #2: The Moonlight Sonata (Kuutamosonaatti)The Moonlight Sonata (Kuutamosonaatti)<br />
Filminor, Finland, 1988.<br />
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Horror was for a long time a rare genre in Finland. In the 1980s tough film censorship comparable to British Video Nasty laws made sure that seeing many classics of genre films was only possible via smuggled bootleg video tapes. The Finnish horror films were countable on one hand's fingers. In 1988 director Olli Soinio made a cult hillbilly horror film in the vein of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" being a rare example of Finnish horror of that era.</div>
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Disturbed Family Kyyrölä lives on the countryside. Puritanic Mother (Soli Labbart) and her son Arvo (Kari Sorvali) keep Arvo's animal-like brother Sulo (Mikko Kivinen) locked in the basement. During the full moon the boys get insane. One night Sulo escapes and joins a gang of wolves.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnFiBS9-5eOZJVrZKso-jiTS253B1_98K08gt4NHZ-gEWv6IkiLXUz85hFz36DEoA2EcUkq3sJVb2X0cXomNUEzaIC9HSwqJT9fA8yFdXJeoG5Ld_uo6jfZw0pcQ2iIzrRi3_-pfJtaQ/s1600/image0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mikko Kivinen" border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnFiBS9-5eOZJVrZKso-jiTS253B1_98K08gt4NHZ-gEWv6IkiLXUz85hFz36DEoA2EcUkq3sJVb2X0cXomNUEzaIC9HSwqJT9fA8yFdXJeoG5Ld_uo6jfZw0pcQ2iIzrRi3_-pfJtaQ/s320/image0006.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Fashion model Anni Stark (Tiina Björkman) has run into some kind of scandal and gets enough of publicity. Manager Carli (Ville-Veikko Salminen) thinks that maybe vacation on the countryside would be cool her nerves. Motel manager (Risto Salmi) is hesitant to take visitors. But he arranges a desolate skiing cabin for Anni and her dog Ebba. In no time perverted Arvo starts to stalk her even stealing her panties. </div>
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Annis's little brother Johannes (Kim Gunell) comes to see Anni. For Arvo tractor is like a chainsaw for Leatherface, so the maniac chases them in the forest. The local people look only barely more normal than the folks from "Deliverance" and they do nothing to help. Getting away alive from the degenerate village is harder than it seems. </div>
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There is no question that the film will mean more to the Finnish audience (it was never meant for international publication). For me it has always been a proof that we can do genre savvy horror in Finland too. Arvo's demented one-liners have become cult favourite's. "Let's do mittens out of the cat" says Arvo when he looks at Anni's dog.</div>
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Stylish wintery cinematography and Antti Hytti's creepy soundtrack create an unnerving mood. The dialogue is scarce and for the most part it is monologue of Arvo. Likewise the bodycount is very low for a horror film. Even so the Kyyrölä Brothers are enjoyably demented horror villains. One weird nostalgic event is the cameo of Toivo Tuomainen as a shopkeeper. Toivo was known from electronic store 'Musta Pörssi' commercials as bustling salesman Topi, but here even he looks creepy.</div>
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Tiina Björkman in the main role is pretty, but mostly her acting here consists of looking worried and running away. Still in the second half she learns to fight back. Too bad her movie career was short, she had roles only in six movies, and she pursued a different career. Other actors Ville-Veikko Salminen, Mikko Kivinen, Kari Sorvali, Risto Salmi and Soli Labbart have all had a long career in Finnish movies, theater and TV-series. For some reason the movie is known in Germany as "Muttertag 2 - Die Söhne sind zurück" (with no connection whatsoever to Troma's "Mother's Day."). There is also a sequel that goes more to the direction of horror comedy.</div>
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Rating: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEB9qunY8Je6XQPQwwSXwGNWNhqR20mPPENVfPeVKoG-hiMdfNCjEeixUfzExVjw3BWvb8UmzduoyLeSHxn-tlEa6GgMBBy9Yx2vHsL2LPbZ69lZj0-gOjbNlSqlXciVXOQOn4g9XTdY/s1600/very+good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="18" data-original-width="25" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEB9qunY8Je6XQPQwwSXwGNWNhqR20mPPENVfPeVKoG-hiMdfNCjEeixUfzExVjw3BWvb8UmzduoyLeSHxn-tlEa6GgMBBy9Yx2vHsL2LPbZ69lZj0-gOjbNlSqlXciVXOQOn4g9XTdY/s1600/very+good.gif" /></a>Very good </div>
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Starring: Tiina Björkman, Kim Gunell, Ville-Veikko Salminen, Kari Sorvali, Mikko Kivinen, Soli Labbart, Risto Salmi, Toivo Tuomainen, Esa Anttila, Masaaki Hashimoto, Juuso Ruohomäki, Arthur Fuhrmann, Kai Honkanen, Matti Kuortti, Rolf Labbart, Jouko Lumme<br />
Director: Olli Soinio </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-89340148549511411182017-10-08T20:25:00.000+03:002017-10-08T20:29:14.877+03:00October Belongs to Horror #1: Dead Before Dawn (2012)<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dead Before Dawn (2012) a.k.a Dead Before Dawn 3D<br />
WANGO Films, Canada, 2012.</div>
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Halloween is near, so it is time to watch horror films. Finnish blogger ...noir challenged bloggers to watch eight horror films during October, so October Belongs to Horror (<a href="http://halnoir.blogspot.fi/2017/09/everyday-is-halloween.html" target="_blank">Lokakuu kuuluu kauhulle</a>).<br />
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My first choice is a Canadian indie horror comedy. </div>
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Casper Galloway (Devon Bostick, known for "Diary of a Wimpy Kid") is a clumsy college kid. He goes to help his Grandpa Horus (Christopher Lloyd) to take care of occult shop. His friends come shopping and an ancient demon is freed. Bit like "Ghostbusters" they have to select the form of pestilence, so they conjure up wacky rules involving idea of suicidal people turning into half demon half zombie monsters who infect the cursed by giving hickeys.</div>
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Right-o.</div>
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So everyone they look into eyes start killing themselves and turning into zemons. Along with Casper there are Casper's secret love interest Charlotte (Martha MacIsaac, known for "Superbad"), charmingly ditzy cheerleader Lucy (Brittany Allen, who will appear in the next "Saw" movie "Jigsaw"), Caspers friends Dazzle (Brandon Jay McLaren) and Becky (director April Mullen), mug entrepreuner Seth (Tim Doiron who wrote the script) and Charlotte's meanie boyfriend jock Patrick (Kyle Schmid). There is a way to break the curse but the time limit is tight. If the curse is not broken before next morning they will all die. The night will be long and bloody.</div>
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There are so many zombie horror-comedies that it is refreshing that someone tries to have some new ideas and create eccentric characters even if they are basically stereotypes (a loser, two jocks, two cheerleaders, pothead and a tough girl). Although some of the jokes are more lame than funny, there are many moments of genuine hilarity. There was a funny way to show flashbacks and one of the character was obsessed with hotdogs. Christopher Lloyd is always good and in one scene he uttered his famous quote: "Great Scott!" As far as the action went, it was semi-gory, not showing the bloodiest kills but still there was more gore than would be expected from the Finnish age rating 12. Has the The Finnish Board of Film Classification been sloppy? Otherwise the tone was not too serious, even with some basically tragic events. But so it is usually with these zombie comedies, and this makes a fun Halloween viewing if you like dumb humour.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seth's new friend (Kent Churly) comes to visit</td></tr>
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This was the first Canadian 3D film. I do not believe that I missed anything by watching the 2D version. Couple of CGI-explosions looked awful, otherwise the effects were okay for the budget. As the actors had a lot of experience of films and TV-shows, the acting was good (although comically ver the top) and the actors were clearly having fun. </div>
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Rating:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSA7SIRwDAvDqXxhsUCBDQWdmFUk4OZIjd8yh4Ho1aJZIDiMkVNhv3ZwfzorwSiSxEzM7aFpKJMw6jV8VNMLnzUpu2RA3xQKsGpwmbWQFKhMGvkVP9hCABBVp0AWHc1nshw3S_2wbuZdI/s1600/good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="15" data-original-width="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSA7SIRwDAvDqXxhsUCBDQWdmFUk4OZIjd8yh4Ho1aJZIDiMkVNhv3ZwfzorwSiSxEzM7aFpKJMw6jV8VNMLnzUpu2RA3xQKsGpwmbWQFKhMGvkVP9hCABBVp0AWHc1nshw3S_2wbuZdI/s1600/good.gif" /></a> Good </div>
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Starring: Devon Bostick, Martha MacIsaac, Christopher Lloyd, Brandon Jay McLaren, Brittany Allen, Kyle Schmid, Tim Doiron, April Mullen, Kevin McDonald, Ellen Dubin, Rossif Sutherland, Dru Viergever, Benjamin Ayres, Max Topplin, Marty Adams, Jacob Ewaniuk, Boyd Banks, Melissa Jane Shaw, Michael Xavier, Meg Walter, Melanie Mullen, Mickey Moon, Tammy Young, Kent Churly, Kevin Jennings, Jack Benard, Byron Abalos, Chris Baker, Adam Buller, Luke Higginson, John Benard, Darryl Doiron, Nicholas Spencer Murray, Daniel M. Veldman</div>
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Director: April Mullen </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-24253690460545579602017-10-05T23:00:00.001+03:002017-10-05T23:00:40.958+03:00Movie Review: Avengers Grimm <div style="text-align: justify;">
Avengers Grimm <br />
The Asylum, USA, 2015. </div>
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Naughty wizard Rumpelstiltskin (Casper Van Dien) has raised a rebellion to destroy a magic kingdom. The King has been murdered so vengeance runs cold. Queen Snow White (Lauren Parkinson) escapes through Magic Mirror to real world taking Rumpelstiltskin with him. </div>
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Cinderella (Milynn Sarley), Sleeping Beauty (Marah Fairclough) and Rapunzel (Rileah Vanderbilt) follow and also lone wolf Red Riding Hood (Elizabeth Peterson) who is hunting the evil Wolf (Kimo Leopoldo). In the human world Rumpelstiltskin has already corrupted the police force. Wolf murders some tough guys in a bar and frames Red Riding hood. Gang boss Iron John (Lou Ferrigno) is not happy for losing his men. He becomes a pawn in the game of good vs evil when Rumpelstiltskin turns him into Iron Man. Can the Princesses stop Rumpelstiltskin before he corrupts the world?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wolf</td></tr>
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The Princesses are tough fighters and have special powers. Snow White can freeze things. Sleeping Beauty can make people sleep. Rapunzel has a flailing hair. Cinderella can cast transforming spells. Red Riding Hood has a bow with Rambo's arsenal of different arrows. Too bad their personalities are not very different from each other to make them more interesting. Now Snow White and Red Riding Hood are the most vengeful, and Cinderella the most empathetic, the rest being somewhere between. Casper van Dien has his guarenteed style, so Casper fans rejoice. Surprisingly Lou Ferrigno's character is the most interesting.</div>
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As far the special effects go, Asylum is evolving to having TV-level effects and some of the action scenes are pretty good so you don't have to dig out your eyes out with a spoon. Clearly there has been more ambitious touch here. "Once Upon a Time" and "Avengers" combined would make an interesting film in the hands of right folks, too bad that the story here is so generic. So it is not good or original enough to be a good film, but not bad enough to make it funny, leaving it into average territory of low budget direct to video films. Close but no cigar. </div>
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Starring: Casper Van Dien, Lauren Parkinson, Lou Ferrigno, Milynn Sarley, Marah Fairclough, Rileah Vanderbilt, Elizabeth Peterson, Kimo Leopoldo, Andrew E. Tilles, Justine Herron, Henry Foster Brown, Jonathan Medina, Jonathan Nation, Daniel Nemes, Andrew Pinon, Pete Capella, Cale Schultz, Adam Night, Kevin Yarbrough, DuJuan Korei, Bryan Dietzman, Beach Eastwood, Brian Gilleece, Brandon Greenawalt, Justy Hutchins, Paul Kearschner, Ryan Mckenney, Corey Weber, Chris Yong, Nickolas Nielsen<br />
Director: Jeremy M. Inman </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-34513277500272403942017-10-04T21:36:00.006+03:002017-10-04T21:36:59.334+03:00Movie Review: The Trial of the Incredible Hulk <div style="text-align: justify;">
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk<br />
Bixby-Brandon Productions, New World International, USA, Canada, 1989.</div>
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David 'Belson' a.k.a Banner (Bill Bixby) has gone incognito and lives doing odd jobs. Work is hard and the boss is a sadist. As living in the country is not good for his anger management, he visits New York City. But in no time he gets in trouble again. </div>
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Crime lord Wilson Fisk (John Rhys-Davies) a.k.a Kingpin has arranged a jewelry heist. Two Kingpin's thugs harass a woman named Ellie Mendez (Marta DuBois) in subway, so Banner gets angry and turns into Hulk (Lou Ferrigno) tossing the evil-doers like sacks of potatoes. As an innocent bystander is killed by a stray bullet, the cops arrest David who is conveniently at the crime scene. Also Ellie is threatened so she has to testify against Banner. Blind lawyer Matt Murdock (Rex Smith) wants to help him. Matt has a superhuman hearing and his alter ego is crime fighter Daredevil.</div>
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The crooks are trying to kill both Ellie and David, so Daredevil must keep them both alive. Banner is going to trial but the excitement is too much. Hulk can be seen destroying a court room but that wouldn't be proper behaviour for a comic hero so it was all just a dream. Still David thinks that would really happen and so Hulk escapes jail.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nasty Nurse (Linda Darlow)</td></tr>
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The story is better than in the previous film. The Marvel Universe starts to expand, making steps that the big budget films followed years later. But more than a Hulk-movie this is Daredevil's movie. And so Hulk is absent from the final battle letting Daredevil do the action. Besides being a Hulk-movie it was planned to be a pilot for planned Daredevil series. Pretty assistant Christa Klein (Nancy Everhard) would have become the romantic interest for Daredevil if the series had ever been made. The action is good and John-Rhys Davies has the essence of the powerful gangster boss. Lou Ferrigno has a mute role again, showing a bit more strength than in "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/10/movie-review-incredible-hulk-returns.html" target="_blank">The Incredible Hulk Returns</a>" The melancholic mood of the previous Hulk-movie remains in the end.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christa Klein</td></tr>
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Hulk's creator Stan Lee can be seen in the jury.</div>
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Rating:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiz7NB1sw7ZygSfYuQL91nLi9j6Nzecd6H_ZoM1WCQywjgxsii5-nFUclzy3nigLunQA73AyRccbSULiWacisumsb2SNxfQGKru78wM8qH5_gvh0v08SqhsIEWoFGIQAg_Riaiq2DYPzY/s1600/good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="15" data-original-width="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiz7NB1sw7ZygSfYuQL91nLi9j6Nzecd6H_ZoM1WCQywjgxsii5-nFUclzy3nigLunQA73AyRccbSULiWacisumsb2SNxfQGKru78wM8qH5_gvh0v08SqhsIEWoFGIQAg_Riaiq2DYPzY/s1600/good.gif" /></a> Good</div>
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Starring: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Marta DuBois, Nancy Everhard, Nicholas Hormann, Richard Cummings Jr., Joseph Mascolo, John Rhys-Davies, Rex Smith, Linda Darlow, John Novak, Dwight Koss, Meredith Bain Woodward, Mark Acheson, Richard Newman, Don MacKay, Doug Abrahams, Mitchell Kosterman, Beatrice Zeilinger, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Charles Andre, John 'Bear' Curtis, Stan Lee, Michael O'Hare<br />
Director: Bill Bixby</div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-80722002534007494502017-10-01T22:27:00.001+03:002017-10-01T22:27:22.353+03:00Movie Review: The Incredible Hulk Returns <div style="text-align: justify;">
The Incredible Hulk Returns<br />
Bixby-Brandon Productions, New World Television, USA, 1988. </div>
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The TV-series "The Incredible Hulk" was followed by trilogy of TV-movies. At the moment I have two of those.</div>
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David Banner (Bill Bixby) (not Bruce as in the comics) has been living peacefully for a few years. Thinking about his girlfriend Maggie (Lee Purcell) has kept the angry side persona Hulk from appearing. But one day David plans to use new revolutionary Gamma Transponder to destroy Hulk once and for all. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maggie and David Banner</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gamma Transponder</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donald Blake</td></tr>
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But before he can do that, Donald Blake (Steve Levitt) visits him and shows an old hammer he found in Norway. It is more than just a cool souvenir, as Blake can use the hammer to call a mighty viking warrior Thor (Eric Allan Kramer). Odin has ordered Thor to do heroic acts before he can enter Valhalla. Still Donald has similar problems as David, as Thor has become a part of his personality. Perplexed by modern technology, Thor breaks expensive equipment in the laboratory. That makes David turn into a green monster man Hulk (Lou Ferrigno). Hulk angry!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hulk</td></tr>
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After mutual buttkicking, Thor and Hulk decide to be friends. In the 1980s there are no monsters to battle, so Blake takes homesick Thor to the biker bar. This is how to have fun in the 1980s! Chugging beer, flirting with girls and picking a random bar fight makes Thor feel at home. As a small sideplot nosy reporter Jack McGee (Jack Colvin) tries to expose Hulk's identity but Thor helps David remain incognito.</div>
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But the superheroes need something important to do. Spies try to steal the Gamma Transponder. Jack (Tim Thomerson) and his henchmen Mike (Charles Napier) and Barner (Carl Ciarfalio) get pounded by Hulk first, but then they decide to kidnap David and Maggie. The bad boys manage only to kidnap the later as David turns into Hulk and also Thor comes to help.</div>
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As this is and not a modern ADHD-adventure, the style is quite different. The superpowers are quite limited nad Thor is not a God but a strong Viking warrior. This is a clasical style TV-scifi drama with moodiness of David Banner being balanced by jovial Thor. Lou Ferrigno does very little acting here, his work is to look angry and do the action scenes, with Bill Bixby taking care of the drama. The overall tone is quite melancholic with David never cetting along with his angry side, whereas Donald and Thor find a balance. Also it was a new idea to put two Marvel superheroes in the same film. Fans of vintage TV-shows and classical style superhero stories should enjoy this. </div>
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Rating: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrN-YML4tX0cXcmC2mxafM235qDRGjq5N5lObwzya_jVkr52ej2zCx_JmpsHw09xHKJcVrz4zHVrtNJhVjiX81y0H91LTB_I0h184Kapbji_sgnM6IvZEB4m9UJ_IQ8Huz40pMvbbFCLc/s1600/good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="15" data-original-width="15" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrN-YML4tX0cXcmC2mxafM235qDRGjq5N5lObwzya_jVkr52ej2zCx_JmpsHw09xHKJcVrz4zHVrtNJhVjiX81y0H91LTB_I0h184Kapbji_sgnM6IvZEB4m9UJ_IQ8Huz40pMvbbFCLc/s1600/good.gif" /></a>Good</div>
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Starring: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Lee Purcell, Charles Napier, John Gabriel, Jay Baker, Tim Thomerson, Eric Allan Kramer, Steve Levitt, William Riley, Tom Finnegan, Donald Willis, Carl Ciarfalio, Bobby McLaughlin, Burke Denis, Nick Costa, Peisha Arten, William Malone, Joan Douglas, John Novak<br />
Directors: Nicholas Corea, Bill Bixby Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-26915130144903294122017-09-28T22:56:00.000+03:002017-09-28T22:56:07.193+03:00Movie Review: Sinbad of the Seven Seas <div style="text-align: justify;">
Sinbad of the Seven Seas</div>
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Cannon Films, USA, Italy, Iraq 1989.</div>
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Claimed to be based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," but we only believe it because they say so.</div>
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Mother (Daria Nicolodi, known for Dario Argento's giallo films) reads her daughter a bedtime story about brave hero Sinbad the Sailor.</div>
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Buffed-up sailor named Sinbad (Lou Ferrigno) sails the seas with his merry men Prince Ali (Roland Wybenga), Viking (Ennio Girolami), Bald Cook (Yehuda Efroni), Chinese Soldier of Fortune Cantu (Hal Yamanouchi) and Poochie the Dwarf (Cork Hubbert). In Basra kind Caliph (Donald Hodson) rules the happy city. Princess Alina (Alessandra Martines) is awaiting for Ali. Evil Vizier Jaffar (John Steiner) wants to be caliph instead of the caliph and uses black magic to mesmerize the city making everyone mindless puppets.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sinbad</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaA8-AOtf9qNmtvDclKX-z2dLm9K9zpX3WVzGjypU9A3HcNCUmtJ8E9ek36BiZWyIohQTcXN73hlyiwchPxHmdAcpghnYJ5Fm9b4Bb4iF063rBgb6KNvgovHKQa-OkQ9rt3UvpbdgGIKc/s1600/image0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Alessandra Martines" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaA8-AOtf9qNmtvDclKX-z2dLm9K9zpX3WVzGjypU9A3HcNCUmtJ8E9ek36BiZWyIohQTcXN73hlyiwchPxHmdAcpghnYJ5Fm9b4Bb4iF063rBgb6KNvgovHKQa-OkQ9rt3UvpbdgGIKc/s320/image0008.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alina</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6N-rpgRnnb9LdR1EpOt5UFWonzhTeUL6yRktEQh87cnI-4G78dai0SeIxCL5uhi83nGxx6_WdaXDlqnO2i36v9KQsuzRAqhCrFtpTNNmsZvE6_OvqCVR4gO2B2FPLF6TKzFNYbkyI_20/s1600/image0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="John Steiner" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6N-rpgRnnb9LdR1EpOt5UFWonzhTeUL6yRktEQh87cnI-4G78dai0SeIxCL5uhi83nGxx6_WdaXDlqnO2i36v9KQsuzRAqhCrFtpTNNmsZvE6_OvqCVR4gO2B2FPLF6TKzFNYbkyI_20/s320/image0010.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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So when Sinbad returns, there is nobody to welcome him. Unacceptable. Sinbad marches to the palace to see what is the problem. Jaffar throws Sinbad into dungeon and his friends have to save him but they get captured too. So Sinbad has to free himself using a rope made of snakes(!) Meanwhile Jaffar tries to corrupt the Princess and hides the magic jewels that protect the city. The Princess is tied to acrylic machine where colourful juice flows in tubes.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sinbad's crew</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-ZNnhMRfENC04MwINuqWZVRaMSVASr-1hNcDRtO66zd4WlY-nbhWMoGjWiF4hNzhozK_1TpClBsBoXAdESNlGDsvqKazeS6-jwXytAIYom1H-Qlj0l1HJPneHxAcwVMj5a4impJyc6Q/s1600/image0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Roland Wybenga" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-ZNnhMRfENC04MwINuqWZVRaMSVASr-1hNcDRtO66zd4WlY-nbhWMoGjWiF4hNzhozK_1TpClBsBoXAdESNlGDsvqKazeS6-jwXytAIYom1H-Qlj0l1HJPneHxAcwVMj5a4impJyc6Q/s320/image0004.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Jaffar has also ally, mercenary friend or whatever Soukra (1980s bodybuilder Teagan Clive) whose function is to sarcastically comment on Jaffar's failed attempts to destroy Sinbad. The dialogue hints that there was about to be Soukra's and Ali's duel but nothing such ever happens. In the end she is even partying with the heroes, who would have thought about that.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDNHNQoUOxrCu1_cE_lKNM7_Vn7YYifJCP_B_vGg9_EB3PnrV9k5BoSYzJOidbM4qYvb5qCkbRH9Vjlvsix_tLUE-UVofNaUwlo_DG8FLfLRP8nYah3Wb-xeHDES228xMnwMm31vgLF4/s1600/image0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="John Steiner and Teagan Clive" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTDNHNQoUOxrCu1_cE_lKNM7_Vn7YYifJCP_B_vGg9_EB3PnrV9k5BoSYzJOidbM4qYvb5qCkbRH9Vjlvsix_tLUE-UVofNaUwlo_DG8FLfLRP8nYah3Wb-xeHDES228xMnwMm31vgLF4/s320/image0013.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Undead horrors, Amazons and rock monsters guard the gems. Amazon Queen Farida (Melonee Rodgers) can suck man's will away. And so the Amazon gymnasts capture the whole crew. Amazon Queen goes for the alpha male and vamps Sinbad. But once the curse is broken, the Queen is not so hot anymore. Bye!</div>
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On another island there are undead suits of armour (raising from the dead like the "<a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2016/03/movie-review-tombs-of-blind-dead.html" target="_blank">Blind Dead</a>"), jumping zombies but also eccentric Wizard Nadir (Leo Gullotta) and his nice daughter Kira (Stefania Girolami Goodwin) who gets kidnapped by hideous laser-shooting Zombie King. Jaffar is watching the show so Sinbad boasts like a pro-wrestler everytime he gets a gem. Curiously when there is a fight Sinbad always throws his scimitar away and trusts his muscles instead. </div>
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Enzo G. Castellari knocks off American Sinbad-films, and even taking couple of sets from Lou Ferrigno's Hercules-films. Dov Seltzer's synth-heavy soundtrack sounds typical for the Italian cinema of the 1980s but it is highly anachronistic for a peplum film.</div>
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Whereas the Hercules film tried to take the subject seriously (albeit with unintended hilarity) Sinbad does not even try. The beginning still goes on like a regular peplum, but then it goes into silly mode. Every scene with Jaffar is a riot as he delivers ham like it was Christmas coming. And the dialogue is such that the makers cannot have been serious. Of the crew Bald Cook and Poochie are the comical duo. Originally Luigi Cozzi was going to direct it but Enzo was called instead. The film was made in 1986, but shelved for three years (not a good sign) and in 1989 Cozzi was hired to save what could be saved and complete the unfinished film making the end results even more confusing. The result is an entertaining trainwreck that alternates between awesomely cheesy and so bad it is good. Although the story is childish, echoes from Italo-horror make this difficult to market as a family-oriented film. <br />
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This is an incredibly fun movie. And this film has even two Lou Ferrignos! </div>
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Rating: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFtEmAexleu4m83uZlmZmJgh247MLWeSuj5amnrw0pGTVvyeeNo12QYmi7JxCGQjXODmgFpwdRW-ASUK3jOOkcogdfdImwYWUTN4eO5qfFkTVolEUdQFMYfR-ClNKExAqzBtdkCsQtqU/s1600/so+bad+it+is+good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="16" data-original-width="16" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFtEmAexleu4m83uZlmZmJgh247MLWeSuj5amnrw0pGTVvyeeNo12QYmi7JxCGQjXODmgFpwdRW-ASUK3jOOkcogdfdImwYWUTN4eO5qfFkTVolEUdQFMYfR-ClNKExAqzBtdkCsQtqU/s1600/so+bad+it+is+good.gif" /></a>So bad it is good or <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_bD9PZezYSyCLfPyYtnj_Gcdh7in8UDy-1Imr-un7rwqaqmAQUt3-iBVfOYuEA7pZ-MVknt8kiT-4Y_dkkSKZg9w1qpIFLH-Bi3cVIvyW9HYDojwLAFHsv_blEVWNQp1bQCxLiAoWvU/s1600/very+good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="18" data-original-width="25" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_bD9PZezYSyCLfPyYtnj_Gcdh7in8UDy-1Imr-un7rwqaqmAQUt3-iBVfOYuEA7pZ-MVknt8kiT-4Y_dkkSKZg9w1qpIFLH-Bi3cVIvyW9HYDojwLAFHsv_blEVWNQp1bQCxLiAoWvU/s1600/very+good.gif" /></a>Very good</div>
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Starring: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Ennio Girolami, Hal Yamanouchi, Yehuda Efroni, Alessandra Martines, Teagan Clive, Leo Gullotta, Stefania Girolami Goodwin , Donald Hodson, Melonee Rodgers, Cork Hubbert, Romano Puppo, Attilio Cesare Lo Pinto, Armando MacRory, Giada Cozzi, Daria Nicolodi, Ted Rusoff, Massimo Vanni </div>
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Directors: Enzo G. Castellari, Luigi Cozzi (uncredited)</div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-28635757556846551332017-09-25T23:14:00.000+03:002017-09-25T23:14:14.938+03:00Movie Review: The Adventures of Hercules II <div style="text-align: justify;">
The Adventures of Hercules II a.k.a Hercules II a.k.a The Adventures of Hercules (Le avventure dell'incredibile Ercole) </div>
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Cannon Italia Srl, Italy, USA, The Netherlands, 1985.</div>
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Envious Gods steal Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus and evil forces are released on Earth. Moon is about to collide with Earth so someone has to do something. Humans are sacrificing maidens to Antios the Fire Monster. Sisters Urania (Milly Carlucci) and Glaucia (Sonia Viviani) are trying to destroy the monster and ask help from the little people. The little people tell that Hercules (Lou Ferrigno) can help them. Since the last movie, Hercules has become a constellation but Zeus (Claudio Cassinelli) sends the beefy hero back to Earth. </div>
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As soon as Hercules has arrived, he is attacked by a wookie. After punching the stuffing out of it, Hercules finds the first Thunderbolt. Meanwhile rebellious Gods and Goddesses Flora (Laura Lenzi), Poseidon (Ferdinando Poggi), Aphrodite (Margie Newton) and Hera (Maria Rosaria Omaggio) use major blood donation from Atreus (Raf Baldassarre) to resurrect King Minos (William Berger). Meanwhile Glaucia meets Hercules but slime people (eeeww) have kidnapped Urania (Milly Carlucci). </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6y6wJ2AuCqBB2YeG3oRwXRM6_x_JD3kKX_935DkOw8wrQ7dmY8VrtRoGvSbwztYbXhdyK1CjwwlbnPuQwjcEeamxXhPw-cL6Iqg-vl2i2F7xtnpNYFkdKPdW4RmrC2T0ezeGCRiUFGs/s1600/image0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Maria Rosaria Omaggio" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6y6wJ2AuCqBB2YeG3oRwXRM6_x_JD3kKX_935DkOw8wrQ7dmY8VrtRoGvSbwztYbXhdyK1CjwwlbnPuQwjcEeamxXhPw-cL6Iqg-vl2i2F7xtnpNYFkdKPdW4RmrC2T0ezeGCRiUFGs/s320/image0007.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Goddess Euryale (Serena Grandi) turns humans into stone. Hercules would make a fine door stopper but he disagrees. Euryale's henchmen green laser men(?!) are only an easy practise. Euryale requires a more careful approach as her gaze is lethal.<br />
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The Gods shouldn't have trusted Minos as he and evil scientist Daedalos (Eva Robins) plan to use Ice Sword to destroy the Gods. Hercules also visits Mermaid Thetis (Sandra Venturini) who gives Hercules powers to destroy Antios. But enemies do not finish there as evil amazons and spider queen Arachne (Pamela Prati) make life difficult for Hercules and friends.</div>
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It has the same kind of silly fun as <a href="http://shamelesspile.blogspot.com/2017/09/movie-review-hercules-1983.html" target="_blank">the prequel</a>. The plot does not matter so much, as long as there are wild and crazy events happening. The film is stuffed with mythical creatures, so even most boss battles are quick. Sometimes it feels like a Japanese rubber monster movie, as monsters jump out everywhere like ninjas. And the end fight has King Kong vs Godzilla in space, I'm not kidding. The previous film had Hercules epically pushing apart the continents of Europe and Africa. This time Hercules tops that and pushes apart Earth and Moon when they are about to crash. If a third movie was ever made, what would there have been left to push apart? Galaxies?</div>
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The handmade monster effects of the previous movie are now mostly replaced by animation and rotoscoping effects. But there is a stopmotion fight with Euryale that nods to Ray Harryhausen's Medusa battle in the original "Clash of the Titans." Otherwise the regular enemies are men in rubber suits. I wouldn't be surprised if the slime people- costumes were leftoevers from zome zombie film.</div>
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The filming sets are quite exhilarating. The architecture constantly uses massive heads. We're not in Kansas anymore. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dimension of the little people</td></tr>
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Lou Ferrigno's wife Carla appears as Godddess Athena.<br />
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Rating: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6l9uc-v1AdXDnVGfmQynFJjo3pCaVTuQMMrdVWhUBGt9SWF-vdbX7cFt2mmflzHfQZiGZ7NMhOR6hHWjMjp8u4oi_85dZhPrWAbMsOR5fqmAuLdr_Vv11fJ6WaFzomNe0m8GyUK-iv98/s1600/very+good.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="18" data-original-width="25" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6l9uc-v1AdXDnVGfmQynFJjo3pCaVTuQMMrdVWhUBGt9SWF-vdbX7cFt2mmflzHfQZiGZ7NMhOR6hHWjMjp8u4oi_85dZhPrWAbMsOR5fqmAuLdr_Vv11fJ6WaFzomNe0m8GyUK-iv98/s1600/very+good.gif" /></a>Very good<br />
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Starring: Lou Ferrigno, Milly Carlucci, Sonia Viviani, William Berger, Carla Ferrigno, Claudio Cassinelli, Ferdinando Poggi, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Venantino Venantini, Laura Lenzi, Margie Newton, Cindy Leadbetter, Raf Baldassarre, Serena Grandi, Eva Robins, Sandra Venturini, Andrea Belfiore, Alessandra Canale, Pamela Prati, Christina Basili, Paola Marcari<br />
Director: Luigi Cozzi </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-12511010787155156062017-09-19T22:51:00.001+03:002017-09-19T22:51:20.381+03:00Movie Review: Hercules (1983)Hercules (Ercole)<br />
Cannon Italia Srl, Golan-Globus Productions, Italy, USA, 1983.<br />
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The film begins with the creation of the world when Pandora's Jar appears in space. Jar jar breaks and forms the planets. The breaking of the jar releases also evil forces which is bad. In the battle of good and evil the humans must show what they're made of. The Gods living in Moon prepare to watch how the battle will end (only popcorn is missing). Hera (Rossana Podestà) roots for evil and Athene (Delia Boccardo) roots for good. To balance the battle, Zeus (Claudio Cassinelli) creates powerful hero Hercules (Lou Ferrigno)! He is raised in Thebes as son of King. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hercules </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNPvKRhpTuvo5XVeGGvQGH9srXkQs7gxDxGFtlhn7hEDKw9aqNsFC7If7At0FCuTX_DxVQY_aNgvgrvwRI88m0lQY-7Rr2wQkTumHEj8enUjZL94U-QHHS7Xp3RJAJBjDEUj-0nW65OY/s1600/image0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Claudio Cassinelli" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNPvKRhpTuvo5XVeGGvQGH9srXkQs7gxDxGFtlhn7hEDKw9aqNsFC7If7At0FCuTX_DxVQY_aNgvgrvwRI88m0lQY-7Rr2wQkTumHEj8enUjZL94U-QHHS7Xp3RJAJBjDEUj-0nW65OY/s320/image0003.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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Hera's Sacred Sword is stolen and traitors working for King Minos (William Berger) murder Hercules' parents. One of the maids puts baby Hercules into boat (and so Golan-Globus tied this story to the legend of Moses). Zeus offers a helping hand to keep the boat safe. Hera does not like that and plans to destroy Hercules. And so baby Hercules does his first heroic act by destroying two big rubber snakes. </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3exPOdCDTjU3yKHNcOY_OFWWdR41C1eU5lUCy567BZhIoE_XjVsK3F8f5U5QgvmuFDbTiWg5ORZzZUt9Tfrlp-7RRCB1l61LCG7xUczCixOS8jyM4za_gs8grJSw5nFPj_-jJFQcamiM/s1600/image0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Delia Boccardo" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3exPOdCDTjU3yKHNcOY_OFWWdR41C1eU5lUCy567BZhIoE_XjVsK3F8f5U5QgvmuFDbTiWg5ORZzZUt9Tfrlp-7RRCB1l61LCG7xUczCixOS8jyM4za_gs8grJSw5nFPj_-jJFQcamiM/s320/image0005.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Athene </td></tr>
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A couple of farmers (let's just call them Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru) (Stelio Candelli and Gabriella Giorgelli) find the baby and raises him as their own son. Hercules grows up and trains his strength using Conan's Wheel of Pain Fitness Method(TM). Muscles are useful for farm jobs as the family does not need an ox to plow the field. Also uprooting trees with bare hands is a good workout. Hera's bear kills Uncle Owen (as Hercules' unlucky foster parents are short-lived), so the muscleman throws the pesky teddy into space. And so the constellation of Great Bear was born. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We do not need ox!</td></tr>
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It becomes common that Hercules throws a lot of stuff into space. Here's a log flying through space. </div>
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King Minos (William Berger) believes in science (Science for the sake of Science!) and asks Daedalus (Eva Robins) to help kill Hercules. Daedalus sends mechanical monsters after Hercules but Minos is clearly unhappy to see how small they are. The first monster does not hurt Hercules but manages to kill Aunt Beru and that makes Hercules angry.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jN-HCD4JjlhbZEOmW9RxQns5xkupVvG34VrA5aDv_ZC_HYaFYdbQ3UXTKDfeykHQm-lYgurQoTl7YuFPtkrJC5TLMGlOIXkTJdeZ28E0L2EH6FWEXfOz2mZaM7fqgsTQ75bM4-9WwDc/s1600/image0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Eva Robins" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jN-HCD4JjlhbZEOmW9RxQns5xkupVvG34VrA5aDv_ZC_HYaFYdbQ3UXTKDfeykHQm-lYgurQoTl7YuFPtkrJC5TLMGlOIXkTJdeZ28E0L2EH6FWEXfOz2mZaM7fqgsTQ75bM4-9WwDc/s320/image0006.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daedalus</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivS4B5aWAKCbcGWUp545GtNLt44ZjdZEBOe-7uWXzyW4ianofg99AIu_C4SXw2j3GV8E2aYL9MzbXjzikqlzAqDIu1IOwhUKhNqVOw-_-UEzSFK75zS7bL7PptEJRsc3FWFxbfv-DY2H4/s1600/image0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="William Berger" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivS4B5aWAKCbcGWUp545GtNLt44ZjdZEBOe-7uWXzyW4ianofg99AIu_C4SXw2j3GV8E2aYL9MzbXjzikqlzAqDIu1IOwhUKhNqVOw-_-UEzSFK75zS7bL7PptEJRsc3FWFxbfv-DY2H4/s320/image0007.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">King Minos</td></tr>
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There's nothing to gain from farm life, so Hercules seeks to do heroic deeds. Hercules has to prove his strength to King Augeias (Brad Harris). After that he has to clean the stables of 1000 horses. Princess Cassiopeia (Ingrid Anderson) falls in love with him but the gods have other plans. Hera's favourite, naughty Minean Princess Adriana (Sybil Danning) kidnaps Cassiopeia with help from traitorous advisor Dorcon (Yehuda Efroni).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not at all suspicious looking King's Advisor Dorcon</td></tr>
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Hercules swims to Sorceress Circe's (Mirella D'Angelo) island. Old granny offers some warm tea, then demands to get a small amount of Hercules' blood. It is a fair trade as the granny turns into beautiful sorceress. Hercules and Circe visit many places and even detach continent of Africa from Europe.</div>
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After adventuring with Circe, the final quest is rescuing Cassiopeia from Thera. Thera is actually built above Atlantis, so Hercules contributes to the destruction of Atlantis too as collateral damage. Oops!<br />
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Golan-Globus- duo produced a wacky mythical adventure with awesome cheese, vintage special effects and gorgeous women in skimpy dresses. Freely interpreted mythical story is combined with scifi-elements. It is nice that although being often clumsy, the special effects are still old school stop-motion effects. It is not Ray Harryhausen, but it has its moments. Fans of B-grade peplums find a lot of fun in this movie. Hercules fighting a laser-shooting metal centaur on a green planet with three moons shining on the sky, how awesome is that? Interestingly there is a lava pit sacrifice attempt oddly similar to "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" that was made year later. "The Incredible Hulk"-star Lou Ferrigno has Herculean physique, being one of the bulkiest actors to play Hercules, and the script gives him every opportunity to use his muscles. As often in Hercules-movies, the hero has several scenes where he is chained and the he breaks the chains. Lovably camp movie experience throughout.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Metal centaur vs a man with a club</td></tr>
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Starring: Lou Ferrigno, Brad Harris, Sybil Danning, Rossana Podestà, Ingrid Anderson, Mirella D'Angelo, William Berger, Bobby Rhodes, Gianni Garko (as John Garko), Yehuda Efroni, Delia Boccardo, Claudio Cassinelli, Franco Garofalo (as Frank Garland), Gabriella Giorgelli (as Gabriella George), Raf Baldassarre (as Ralph Baldassar), Stelio Candelli (as Steven Candell), Valentina Montanari (as Valerie Montanari), Rocco Lerro (as Roger Larry), Eva Robins (as Eva Robbins, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Anthony La Penna, Edward Mannix, Mindi Miller, Marc Smith, Susan Spafford<br />
Director: Luigi Cozzi </div>
Graduated Cylinderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17030258270891832557noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9146605196866328585.post-77763485095277522432017-09-14T22:24:00.001+03:002017-09-14T22:24:37.366+03:00Movie Review: Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 <div style="text-align: justify;">
Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 a.k.a Rough Sky<br />
Carlton America, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG) USA, Germany, Canada, 2001.</div>
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First Officer Mike Hogan (Eric Roberts) has a trauma because of a failed crash landing years ago. He is assigned as replacement co-pilot on short notice as no one else is available. Flight attendants Katy (Alexandra Paul from "Baywatch" and "Melrose Place") and Tracey (Anne Openshaw) try their best to serve the spoiled passengers. There are students, soccer player Ty (Mark Lutz) and airplane engineer Roger (Russell Yuen). On the flight there is also convicted murderer Grant Blyth (Dean McDermott) on his way to prison escorted by Detective Muldoon (John Furey). </div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZG4_QVWhmxqWQWajhh_Tca-U6JBIg3s9iaPXEb-alXvRKBEmxrTT_sfYFoZ1-TEpTszoGVP06QjowZfHxCvC07LnMlQTw_wjdXvDo7HhHMyfbYlwc9L1uCh6iplvVF62x81SgOQDpUnY/s1600/image0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Eric Roberts" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZG4_QVWhmxqWQWajhh_Tca-U6JBIg3s9iaPXEb-alXvRKBEmxrTT_sfYFoZ1-TEpTszoGVP06QjowZfHxCvC07LnMlQTw_wjdXvDo7HhHMyfbYlwc9L1uCh6iplvVF62x81SgOQDpUnY/s320/image0002.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike Hogan </td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjM45kvybysXCJXBE86ylNWPjq1zSiszSMsWD-9z2U4Zljc6YE4w7kON06Gsq05mhFb6bMjTm7uDs-eqvr6CQvH5HEIu2wzg6ne7lIYs4Ik1PK8QtauttpyJxNMmAb6F-N9iIJZzMhyR0/s1600/image0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Alexandra Paul" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjM45kvybysXCJXBE86ylNWPjq1zSiszSMsWD-9z2U4Zljc6YE4w7kON06Gsq05mhFb6bMjTm7uDs-eqvr6CQvH5HEIu2wzg6ne7lIYs4Ik1PK8QtauttpyJxNMmAb6F-N9iIJZzMhyR0/s320/image0003.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Katy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tracey</td></tr>
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Captain Jack Brooks (Kevin Jubinville) is pompous and full of himself. Captain Jack (hey yo captain Jack!) believes in the flawless modern flight technology but Mike is an old school pilot (of the Real Men(TM) era) who believes that pilot's skills are important when the technology fails. </div>
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Wrongly attached shipping container gets loose, breaks cargo bay door and causes a pressure leak. Storm hits the plane and Mike must get it to safety. Heroics await for the brave passengers too.</div>
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Although it was meant to be a realistic drama about airplane passengers in dire situation, after the accident struck it went kind of silly. When Captain Jack got concussion, he was all like "lemme fly, lemme fly!" And Mike was like "Nope." Then Jack was tied to a seat to let Mike fly in peace.</div>
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Grant tries to escape, but where would he go? Worst of all, VIP Mr. Matthews (Carlo Rota) runs of whiskey. Grant has also piloting skills so he can help Mike. But the darn computer breaks and won't let the Real Men(TM) fly! (Unrealistic? Just wait when self-driving cars decide that the shortest route goes through a brick wall!)</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhCLJbMWqzorrhwG8DP5I49rchAzxLBaJAsC1nTHuE7JKWpOg73juyQcLhBNkk-alINUyQsiCC9DlJQcmw0GAdNmUC0KLK02NE7v7sp4LHj0Yjc7qQ8MT0zRT5uvQJyioVIvwC_cK28w/s1600/image0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Carlo Rota" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhCLJbMWqzorrhwG8DP5I49rchAzxLBaJAsC1nTHuE7JKWpOg73juyQcLhBNkk-alINUyQsiCC9DlJQcmw0GAdNmUC0KLK02NE7v7sp4LHj0Yjc7qQ8MT0zRT5uvQJyioVIvwC_cK28w/s320/image0005.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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There are also Real Women(TM). Katy and Tracey use their wits to calm the panicking or arrogant passengers and Icelandic air traffic controller Sara Lundattir (Leah Pinsent) has a rough night shift.</div>
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TV-movie is quite light to watch, with some thrills, heroics and unintentional comedy. The traditional script could be from 1970s airplane disaster film, and it is just the type of film "Airplane!" parodied. Eric Roberts does a solid role and the other actors are decent too. As a TV-movie it goes but otherwise there's nothing too special.</div>
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Starring: Eric Roberts, Alexandra Paul, Anne Openshaw, Kevin Jubinville, Russell Yuen, Mark Lutz, Sergio Di Zio, Carlo Rota, Dean McDermott, John Furey, Ryan Scott, Kelly Ivey, Susan Aceron, Eliza Roberts, Daryn Jones, Leah Pinsent, Andrew Gillies, Larissa Gomes, Alexis Cassar<br />
Director: Jon Cassar </div>
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