Lesser known 3-d Features

[lester1/2jr]

I saw Comin at Ya in the theaters when it came out. I don't remember much from it.

If I can scare up some 3d glasses I might attempt to watch it on tubi, if their version is even 3-D?

[zombie no.one]

not heard of that one... apparently this was a kind of followup, and also in 3D, not heard of this either

[zombie no.one]

^^^ fun fact, the female star of this one (Ana obregon) has just had a baby at the age of 68, using the sperm of her own dead son. yes you read that right..... wait, wat

[Trevor]

My hometown theater was so basic that instead of screening ROTTWEILER IN 3D and JAWS 3D we saw Rottweiler and Jaws 3 🥴😉🐢

[M.10rda]

I saw TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS many times in 2D on HBO as a young man and LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURVED it.   Have watched it twice as an adult, and....... uhhhhhh one might say "it doesn't hold up" by any standards of reason, logic, or good filmmaking. The story is....... hermetically sealed at some points, certainly. Nevertheless, all the stuff I enjoyed as a small child is still there: mainly, a parade of perilous deathtraps which [SPOILERS] do a shocking number on the squad of anti-heroes at the film's conclusion.......

I don't think I ever saw COMIN' AT YA', but I have seen GET MEAN, a rollicking good 1975 action/adventure/western/comedy starring Tony Anthony, who also starred in (and I think co-wrote, produced, and maybe co-directed) all three films. Anthony broke out in Europe (and internationally) playing "The Stranger", a Western hero in the style of Eastwood's Man With No Name. By GET MEAN, he must've been bored w/ the formula, so, shall we say, Things Get Weird...

Here's the thing that I marveled at some years ago when I stumbled upon a viewing of GET MEAN: multiple moments are EXTREMELY similar to famous scenes in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, which followed 6 years later. Ironically, I've heard or seen accusations of RAIDERS-plagiarism hurled at COMIN' AT YA' (which I cannot comment upon but which opened in Europe two months before RAIDERS opened anywhere) and FOUR CROWNS (which does rip off RAIDERS in its opening before going off in a completely different and dark/bizarre direction). I've never seen anyone suggest that RAIDERS was somehow influenced by GET MEAN, because as we all know, Mister Steven Spielberg invented all cinema.      But on the real, I would buy that both GET MEAN and RAIDERS maybe borrowed the same motif or cliche from old adventure flicks... but am I to believe both films borrowed the same SEVERAL motifs and cliches and used them in the same way.......?  

[zombie no.one]

INDIANA JONES rip offs are probably my least favourite of the exploitation 'cheap knock-off' genre tbh... but it would be funny if it was a knock off itself

[lester1/2jr]

^^^ fun fact, the female star of this one (Ana obregon) has just had a baby at the age of 68, using the sperm of her own dead son. yes you read that right..... wait, wat

oh my days. Yeah I think you are not supposed to do that, but it's stellar trivia


edit: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mv79/ana-obregon-surrogate-baby-son-aless-lequio-garcia?callback=in&code=NZQ2ZWRHYJQTYZUWOC0ZZJE3LTK3ZTITZJK3MTUZNDJIYJJM&state=6e61e725cdbc4f6e8e56ee0fd0138bdd

Did anyone ask the son if he wanted his MOM to give birth to his child if he died?

[M.10rda]

Do you really want to know the answer to that question...?

[Rev. Powell]

^^^ fun fact, the female star of this one (Ana obregon) has just had a baby at the age of 68, using the sperm of her own dead son. yes you read that right..... wait, wat

oh my days. Yeah I think you are not supposed to do that, but it's stellar trivia


edit: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mv79/ana-obregon-surrogate-baby-son-aless-lequio-garcia?callback=in&code=NZQ2ZWRHYJQTYZUWOC0ZZJE3LTK3ZTITZJK3MTUZNDJIYJJM&state=6e61e725cdbc4f6e8e56ee0fd0138bdd

Did anyone ask the son if he wanted his MOM to give birth to his child if he died?

I don't think the mom gave birth. She arranged to have a surrogate impregnated with her son's frozen sperm, then adopted the kid. Still creepy, but less so.

In the movie WOMB a woman has a child with her lover's frozen sperm after he dies, then has sex with him when he grows up. Now THAT'S creepy!

[zombie no.one]

oops, yeah possible fake news there... surrogate birth, I somehow didn't catch that bit

although she announced the birth by tweeting:

"I will never be alone again. I AM ALIVE AGAIN."

why are people so mental?

[lester1/2jr]

it was the Mom's egg though

[zombie no.one]

sounds this whole saga could become inspiration its own 3D movie, (ergh.)

moving swiftly on...

guess this probably isn't lesser known, but I did not realise the 3rd AMITYVILLE HORROR was done in 3D till I watched it a couple of years back

[M.10rda]

>>> "WARNING: In this movie, you are the victim."

Bad movies are sometimes just asking for it, eh?

[FatFreddysCat]

I recently realized that I've seen lots of 3-D movies over the years but I have never seen one actually in 3-D. Just flattened out to 2D for television.

I see Treasure of the Four Crowns was already mentioned, that was some fun crap.

Another 3-D flick that became an HBO staple was Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, with Peter Strauss and a young Molly Ringwald:



For some reason, the suits at Columbia Pictures thought it would be a good idea to open this movie a week before Return of the Jedi, which of course totally crushed it at the box office (a similar fate befell Krull, which was released the same summer and was also steam-rolled by Luke & the gang).

[claws]

Charles Band jumping the 3D bandwagon with Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)



I've only seen it on video, though. The film was pretty bad even back then.