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Title: "The Void", "Dragon Storm", etc...
Post by: Fearless Freep on August 07, 2005, 10:08:25 PM
The Void (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289605/) - Malcolm McDowell plays the leader of a company trying to produce free energy with partical physics, but the daughter, played by Amanda Tapping, of a scientist killed in an early experiment gone wrong fears that the next experiment could lead to the creation of a black hole, destroying the earth.  Helping her is Adrian Paul as her boyfriend and one of the companies' scientists.  I found this kinda lukewarm.  Not too badly executed, but nothing really exciting.  Like many low-budget scieice/conspiracy movies, it relied heaviliy on supposedly intelligent people doing really stupid and irrational things just to move along the plot.  Take ir or leave it...

Dragon Storm (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377808/) - a U.F.O. movie with John Rhys-Davies as a medieval king whose kingdom is attacked by dragons embedded in asteroids from space.  He seeks help from a nearby kingdom, while plotting to take over that kingdom.  A band of dragon slayers is put together to hunt down and kill the maurading dragons.  I gotta hand it to U.F.O, there CG dragon effects were much better than others I've seen from them.  I really liked them.  Some of the story was contrived, such as mixing in the takeover plot with the dragon hunters, to add some drama that I didn't think was really needed, but it  was quite a bit of fun with the dragons.

Evil Cult (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108624/) - saving the best for last, *this* was a lot of fun. Jet Li plays Chang Mo Kei as...a kid who grows up to be a kung fu master of several styles.  That's the best plot summary I can give because this whole thing is a non-step frenetic movement of over the top wire-fu martial arts battles, magic and mysticism, and more Chinese names and spaghetti stranded plot lines then I could keep up with.  Fairly typical HK production values with lots of battles and some horrendously bad and funny dubbing.



Post Edited (08-07-05 22:11)
Title: Re: "The Void", "Dragon Storm", etc...
Post by: trekgeezer on August 08, 2005, 12:18:20 PM
So were there some Angel Boris nudie bits in Dragon Storm?

I agree that the dragons looked pretty good for a UFO film, I thought they looked a lot like the dragons from Reign of Fire.

Title: Re: "The Void", "Dragon Storm", etc...
Post by: Fearless Freep on August 08, 2005, 12:41:05 PM
So were there some Angel Boris nudie bits in Dragon Storm?

Not really.  She stripped down to her underwear briefly once, but her hands and hair covered her breasts.

I agree that the dragons looked pretty good for a UFO film

Yeah, I'm used to the painfully obvious stuff from "Interceptors" and such...the one that sticks most in my mind was "Ravager".  I try not to let bad sfx, of any kind, distract me from enjoying a movie, but it was nice that these looked pretty good.   For what it's worth, William Zabka was not in this movie...