Recent Viewings, Part 2

[Alex]

African King Fu Ninja's: Hitler and Tojo have discovered the secret of eternal youth and having escaped to Ghana at the end of World War 2, are rebuilding the Third Reich, with a martial arts tournament.

Not much else I can say about it really.

That sounds delightfully bad.

I can send you a link so you can watch it online if you wish.

[Rev. Powell]

Night Train To Terror: Three short stories based around a conversation between God and the Devil about who should win certain souls. The two are on board a train that is fated to crash at L.A.An interesting concept, but I felt the short stories themselves rather let the whole thing down.  A bunch of musicians on board play the same song over and over again.

This one is a great bad movie. The three stories were all originally feature films edited down to 20-25 minutes each, which makes them totally incoherent. And the song is fantastically bad! And they breakdance to it!

https://youtu.be/VUHsLZ5t5w8

[Alex]

Night Train To Terror: Three short stories based around a conversation between God and the Devil about who should win certain souls. The two are on board a train that is fated to crash at L.A.An interesting concept, but I felt the short stories themselves rather let the whole thing down.  A bunch of musicians on board play the same song over and over again.

This one is a great bad movie. The three stories were all originally feature films edited down to 20-25 minutes each, which makes them totally incoherent. And the song is fantastically bad! And they breakdance to it!

https://youtu.be/VUHsLZ5t5w8

That explains why they didn't make much sense.

[RCMerchant]

^ I seen this one!  

I know the episode with Cameron Mitchell is from CATACLYSM (1980).

[pennywise37]

well i watched Elm Street 1 (1984) and 2 (1985)  in the last 2 days now i'm on part 3 (1987)  the only thing i hate about this film is one thing and that's the fact that Nancy dies in it i've never liked that at all. i also never liked that in part 4 the survivors from part 3 all die in it as well.

but i enjoy them all for what they are, though i think part 6 is the worst one

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Church" (1989)
During the Crusades, the Knights Templar massacre an entire village of "witches" and then build a huge cathedral on top of their mass grave. In the present day, restoration work at the cathedral re-opens the tomb and lets the evil loose on a group of innocents trapped inside.
This Italian flick was co-written by Dario Argento and directed by Michele Soavi, later of "Cemetery Man" fame. Like most Spaghetti horrors, it suffers from pacing problems (it takes forever for the nasty stuff to start happening) and the usual stilted, awkward performances and dubbing, but it features lots of artsy/disturbing visuals, creepy Gothic locations and set designs, and nasty death scenes.
I saw this movie once before many years ago, when I didn't quite "get" Italian horror flicks yet. I don't think I liked it much then, but I enjoyed this second viewing.

[Dr. Whom]

African King Fu Ninja's: Hitler and Tojo have discovered the secret of eternal youth and having escaped to Ghana at the end of World War 2, are rebuilding the Third Reich, with a martial arts tournament.

Not much else I can say about it really.

That kind of silliness deserves better production values.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Killer Crocodile 2" (1990)
The construction of a new Caribbean resort is threatened by the appearance of another massive, toxic waste spawned crocodile with a taste for human flesh. A lady reporter and the survivor of the first "KC" movie try to stay off the menu.
This cheap, schlocky sequel is pretty much a re-run of the first movie, but the animatronic croc is pretty cool looking and the carnage count is impressive. More entertaining junk.

[indianasmith]

African King Fu Ninja's: Hitler and Tojo have discovered the secret of eternal youth and having escaped to Ghana at the end of World War 2, are rebuilding the Third Reich, with a martial arts tournament.

Not much else I can say about it really.

That sounds delightfully bad.

I can send you a link so you can watch it online if you wish.

Please do!

[Alex]

African King Fu Ninja's: Hitler and Tojo have discovered the secret of eternal youth and having escaped to Ghana at the end of World War 2, are rebuilding the Third Reich, with a martial arts tournament.

Not much else I can say about it really.

That sounds delightfully bad.

I can send you a link so you can watch it online if you wish.

Please do!

Sent you a link and in the meantime, here is the trailer.

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[FatFreddysCat]

"The Marine" (2006)
WWE star John Cena makes his acting debut in this utterly ridiculous but highly entertaining action flick. He plays John Triton, an ex-Marine who goes all One Man Army when his wife is taken hostage by a gang of jewel thieves (led by a hilariously dry Robert "Terminator 2" Patrick). "The Marine" is predictable as hell and dumb as a box of rocks but it's also tons of shoot'em up, blow'em up fun. A guilty pleasure.

[Dr. Whom]

Space Sweepers (2021)

A crew of misfits who barely make a living collecting and selling space junk, find a small child on one of their missions. This is in fact an android fitted with a bomb by a terrorist organisation. They try to sell it to what they assume are the terrorists, but find that not everything is at it seems and they are soon caught up in a much bigger conspiracy.

I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. I had problems with the pacing. The momentum is often interrupted for bits of exposition in odd places, or jumps to subplots because things have to be established, and even some slapstick comedy. In a movie which is more of a succession of set pieces than a coherent plot, keeping momentum is important. Also, the structure where the protagonists first try to achieve a certain goal, only to discover that the main goal is something different, works for me better in a TV series than a movie.

That being said, it has its moments. Shout out to Kim Tae-Ri, who you may recognize from The Handmaiden who really makes the character of Captain Jang stand out.

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Last Blockbuster" (2020)
This documentary traces the rise and fall of the once mighty Blockbuster Video chain, which once boasted nearly 9000 locations around the world but now only consists of one family run franchise store in Bend, Oregon. A fun trrip down memory lane for those old enough to remember VHS and feel nostalgic for it.
Ironically, I watched it on Netflix. :D

[indianasmith]

TOOKEN (2014) - An extremely cheesy and unfunny spoof of the TAKEN franchise.  2.5/5

[FatFreddysCat]

"Superman: Red Son" (2020)
This animated "Elseworlds" tale from the DC Universe asks, "what if the rocket carrying baby Kal-El had landed in the Soviet Union instead of the USA?"
Superman grows up to symbolize Russian might and eventually becomes the Soviet Premier at the height of the Cold War, where he clashes with Lex Luthor (who's President of the US in this story), romances Wonder Woman, and battles a Russian Batman and the all-American Green Lantern Corps.
The last twenty minutes of "Red Son" falls into the typical super-hero blasting and zapping, but the first hour is a very cool ride through an "alternate" DC Universe. Neat stuff.