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Title: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Alan Smithee on February 05, 2005, 08:46:44 PM
Anyone see this one?
A cheap Raiders knock-off done in 3-D.
The first 20 minutes is suppose to "out do" Raiders opening minutes. But I don't think I've laughed so hard in a long time.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 05, 2005, 09:25:48 PM
Hey Alan, love your movies.

I never saw TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS at the theatre when it came out. I do have a copy on VHS but have only watched about the first 20 minutes.

TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS was done by the same people who did COMIN' AT YA IN 3-D. I did enjoy that as I saw it at the theatre in 3-D in 1981. I do have the 3-D version of COMIN' AT YA IN 3-D on DVD in anaglyph 3-D.



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Alan Smithee on February 05, 2005, 11:08:27 PM
I haven't seen Comin At Ya but i hear it is baaaad.
Did you like it in a way it was so bad it was good? Or did you think it was a genuinely good movie?


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 05, 2005, 11:22:01 PM
COMIN AT YA was one thing, a 3-D experience. In the theatre it was a great experience. Take away the 3-D, and you don't have too much left. They did not pretend it was anything else. They just simply threw everything at the audience while keeping a simple stortline so nobody missed anything while they were busy ducking.

COMIN AT YA revamped the interest in 3-D movies. Several so-called experts put it down. Others decided to make 3-D movies and effectively bored the hell out of audiences and proceded to kill any interest in 3-D movies.

COMIN AT YA was simply the most fun I have had watching a movie in a theatre, but that is the only way to watch it.



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Jack Corbett on February 05, 2005, 11:24:39 PM
They ripped off Raiders of the Lost Ark?


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 05, 2005, 11:34:20 PM
'Ripped off' and 'tried to duplicate but failed' are two different expressions.

TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS is a RAIDERS inspired 3-D movie that takes place in the present time and nothing near the budget or effects.

COMIN' AT YA is a spaghetti western in 3-D.

Personally I wouldn't mind a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK rip off, if it were any good.



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Alan Smithee on February 05, 2005, 11:35:30 PM
There was a bevy of 3D movies in 1983. Probably the least was this one or Metalstorm. There was also Jaws 3D, Amityville 3D, and Spacehunter. Spacehunter, while I never saw in the cinema, holds up well. It's not Grade Z junk like Jared Synn.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Jack Corbett on February 05, 2005, 11:36:00 PM
I think you mailed your reply as I was writing mine.


"Do ya feel lucky, punk?"


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 05, 2005, 11:50:15 PM
SPACEHUNTER was one of the few I enjoyed of the 3-D movies I saw and holds up well, as you mentioned, without the 3-D.

Another one I enjoyed was PARASITE, which was released in 1982.

Quite a few 3-D movies were released in 1983 which was the 30 year anniversary of the release of BWANA DEVIL which was Arch Obeler's first 3-D movie that sparked the 3-D movie craze in the fifties.

Of course FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III, IN 3-D holds up well without the 3-D because it sucked so bad in 3-D.



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Alan Smithee on February 05, 2005, 11:59:18 PM
Ha, I forgot about the Friday the 13th in 3D. As for Spacehunter, I wonder if they decided on doing it in 3D at the last minute. Because watching it (I have it on DVD, and saw it initially on HBO more than 20 years ago) there isn't any obvious objects thrust at viewer. I wonder if the producers decided since 3D was back in vogue that they'd release it in 3D. Either way, it's a watchable, campy and fun, little, forgotten movie.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Jack Corbett on February 06, 2005, 12:00:43 AM
Jaws 3-D...

(shudders)


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Alan Smithee on February 06, 2005, 12:05:10 AM
Saw that gem in the theatre. I loved it then, and hate it now.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 06, 2005, 12:06:35 AM
It was intended for 3-D. There are scenes where the effects are played to the camera but not to the degree of COMIN' AT YA or TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS. I realize that she was only 15 at the time, but Molly Ringwald never looked better than when she was in 3-D.  (:



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Alan Smithee on February 06, 2005, 12:19:41 AM
Yeah, the thrusting of stuff into the camera was more subtle. Whatever happend to Molly Ringwald? She was all the craze in the 80's (to a certain degree) then was reduced to the "Where are they now?" catagory.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 06, 2005, 12:29:17 AM
She is still active in the cinema, but in smaller roles, straight-to-video, or small release films. It seems that no matter how hard we may try, we cannot get the Brat Pack to go away. It even appears that Anthony Michael Hall's career has been on the upswing. Who would have thought that to be possible?

But Molly was always adorable.

Do you remember her, with a bad hairstyle, on the first season of the TV show THE FACTS OF LIFE?



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Jack Corbett on February 06, 2005, 12:32:07 AM
Speaking of Jaws, I'm watching the first right now.

It's up to Kintner's mum slapping Brody when they have caught a Tiger shark.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Ozzymandias on February 06, 2005, 01:11:52 AM
She was in Not Another Teen Movie .


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Alan Smithee on February 06, 2005, 01:20:18 AM
I had a crush on her back then. The only movie of hers I saw in the theatre was "The Breakfast Club", and that was with my parents. She's kinda become a novelty in a John Hughes kind of way. Speaking of the Brat Pack, wasn't Andrew McCarthy one of them? Never liked many of his movies, Mannequin, Weekend at Bernies, et. al.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Sendich on February 06, 2005, 01:35:54 AM
Speaking of The Breakfast Club...

We have to watch it for English. Tomorrow. And it's our English topic this term.

How freaky is that?


"Do ya feel lucky, punk?"


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 06, 2005, 01:38:51 AM
That is one cruel teacher. THE BREAKFAST CLUB should not be a requirement for anybody.



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Jack Corbett on February 06, 2005, 01:42:03 AM
Sorry, guys, I accidentaly put "Sendich" in place of my name. Sorry.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 06, 2005, 01:44:45 AM
I had noticed.


Gee...I was wondering who might use the name Sendich.  (:



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Jack Corbett on February 06, 2005, 01:47:56 AM
I know. I did it for a couple of posts, but forgot to put my real name back. (Literally.)

Hey, what ideas do you have for the Day of the Dead remakethat you could add, Menard?


"Do ya feel lucky, punk?"


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 06, 2005, 01:54:52 AM
When Rhodes threatens Sarah in the meeting, have her put a bullet in his head then and there. Getting rid of Rhodes would be a drastic improvement.



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on February 06, 2005, 04:59:43 PM
3-D films and I had a thing going back in the '80's. So,, I saw most of them--"Comin' at Ya," "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone," "Treasure of the Four Crowns," etc.

I liked "Treasure of the Four Crowns" better then "Comin at Ya," with "Spacehunter: somewhere in between.. Actually, I liked the non-3-D parts of "Treasure of the Four Crowns" better then the 3-D effects, which I found to be perfunctory.

Around this same time, I remember an animated film in 3-D. Does anybody remember what the title of that one was?



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Menard on February 06, 2005, 05:07:13 PM
BoyScoutKevin wrote:

>
> Around this same time, I remember an animated film in 3-D. Does
> anybody remember what the title of that one was?
>


STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN

I don't believe that it required glasses as the 3-D effect was in the animation and was probably enhanced by projecting it onto a silver lenticular screen.



Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: JohnL on February 08, 2005, 06:53:47 PM
>The first 20 minutes is suppose to "out do" Raiders opening minutes. But I don't
>think I've laughed so hard in a long time.

I always got a kick out of how he spends all that time evading the various traps (which are either destroyed or close off the path behind him), then he leaves by going out a conveniently placed window. Why didn't he just go in through the window in the first place?

>That is one cruel teacher. THE BREAKFAST CLUB should not be a requirement
>for anybody.

I agree, people should be allowed to discover the greatness of The Breakfast Club in their own time. :)


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: Jack Corbett on February 09, 2005, 12:13:57 AM
Me and 24 other people are discovering The Breakfast Club this week.


Title: Re: Treasure of the Four Crowns
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on February 13, 2005, 01:44:54 PM
Thank-you for the answer, Menard. While it has been awhile since I've seen it, I think I can remember the audience, myself included, watching it, using 3-D glasses.