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1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
So maybe you have seen “The Warriors” since it has some relevance in today’s pop culture. If you liked “The Warriors” then you should also check out “1990: The Bronx Warriors”. The Bronx Warriors covers many of the same elements of what the future gangs of new york would look like from an early 1980′s perspective. We have a tap dancing gang, a roller hockey gang, the high life type gang, the low life type gang and some bikers…and that is what the future would hold for the Bronx in the year 1990. Again if you like cheesy 80′s gang type movies then you will be in luck if you have not seen this one because it was so cheesy that it even got a sequel “Escape from the Bronx.” Now many readers may be wondering how this compares to other more popular films of the same genre. The fact is, this film is nothing like “Escape from New York” because there is no sci-fi cyber punk element to it. The Bronx Warriors has a fairly good use of colors but it is not as colorful as Mad Max. The only film that I can compare it to is “The Warriors” without the Greek mythology back story. The movie stands alone on it’s own so check it out if you are into 80′s style gang films.
Zardoz (1974)
Want to see Sean Connery in his sexiest role ever? Who wouldn’t? Well then, skip past James Bond and go directly to “Zardoz”. What we have here is a fever dream in which Connery wears a diaper, some leather, a gun all while rocking the highlander greasy ponytail and a mini chu-man-fu mustache. Did I forget all the scenes with Sean’s sexy chest hair? I did?! You will see some of that too along with a lot of other things that you will not be able to un-see. The film is a sci-fi incoherent entangled mess of a movie and that is why is it worth watching. Is there a meaning? Do Double Rainbows have meaning? Of course they do!
The movie is packed with wild imagery and fun camera shots but the film itself borders between meaning and meaninglessness. To me, the film work itself was meant to show this duality as it pertains to life. It asks questions like “do we put meaning behind life by doing what we are told to do” or “do we come up with our own meanings and then try to force those opinion and styles on others even if they are flawed?”. Or better yet, as the viewer of all this, “is everything just meaningless with the only meaning being our entertainment?”.
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Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl (2009)
This one is a bloodbath folks. This movie has the most blood I have seen on screen to date. (it is up there with Robo Geisha and Tokyo Gore Police) Sure there is the one scene in “House” where the room fills up with blood but this tops it. For you mainstream readers this movie tops the blood spray decapitation scene in Kill Bill by about 100 times. This movie is a live action gore house style film that is based on a manga/comic book. Because of this the movie is filled with violence and monsters that are over the top and comical. I guess a monster movie filled with violent comic mischief and gallons of blood spray would be a good way to put it. This may make some viewers uncomfortable but the only parts that made me uncomfortable were the jokes about protected classes, which in my mind, was unnecessary and brought down the value of the film.
Rubber (2010)
Here is one for the record books, I don’t know what record or award this is movie would win but it deserves to win something in the the “the heck is this?” category. The premise is there is this abandoned tire that comes to life out in the dessert…it develops telekinetic abilities to blow things up and then goes on a rolling rampage. The film makers did a good job in making the inanimate tire appear to have feelings and thoughts which are just our own feeling and thoughts projected through the visuals of the tire and the audio of the score.
Check it out if you want to see a movie that will make you think “what the heck is this?”
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Sometimes you see some of these old creature features and wonder why everything today is all gore, blood and guts. This is really a good film and I almost am afraid to call it trash because it is not really too trashy at all. What we have here is a fairly unknown space adventure and creature feature rolled into one. It appears to be foundational in that through watching the film it becomes pretty obvious that “Aliens” has borrowed some ideas from this movie.
The film is also fun in that you get to take a look at a what the authors thought that the future would be like even though they got it all wrong. The movie special effects and story telling is well done in a Twilight Zone style without the Sterling intro. The opening space scene is visually fun to watch if you are into models and spaceships.
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