For those who pick up the DVD and listen to the commentary track, be warned. It's basically the nasel voiced director dronning on for 70%-80% of the film about which shots are CGI and which are puppets. Really, he just sits there going "and that worm is CGI, but the close up of it's face is a rod puppet", interesting for 5 minutes, boring as heck after the first half hour of it!
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Resident Evil
(2002)
DVD commentary.
15 February 2003
The DVD commentary of this film is an excellent example of how not to do commentaries of DVDs. It has four people from the movie, who sound drunk, talking about what parties they went while they filmed the movie and trying to spot the scene where they could see Mila naked under her costumes.
Starship Troopers
(1997)
DVD commentary doubletalk.
15 February 2003
What struck me after watching the DVD commentary was that the director and the writer seemed to think this movie was had completely opposite messages. The director was making an anti-American imperialism flick and the writer was trying to make a good old fashion action war movie with special effects. No wonder the fans don't seem to agree what the movie was about, the creators didn't even agree. I still think the bugs were the victims of the human government's plots to drum up support in the populace by staging fake bug meteor attacks on human settlers, but didn't think the bugs would fight back. Oh well.
Dynaman
(1988– )
A spoof on the Power Rangers from before they ever existed.
19 August 2002
This series broadcast in 1988 as part of a show called Nightflight on the USA network.
It's a dubbing of a japanese 70's Sentai series (from an earlier season of the same show that would become the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).
The plot sets five young orphans, a silly robot and wise a doctor who can turn into the colorful Dynamen, and save the city every week from a bunch of mutant invaders. This usually involved fighting the villain in front of Mt. Fuji, then he would grow to giant size, then they would call on the giant robot Dynaship, fight some more, almost get beaten, then cut the monter in half with their sword (every week!)
The dubbing was done VERY tongue-in-cheek, with many jokes inserted about how bad the special effects were ("Let's release the fake-looking models!" and all the characters given silly names and personalities.
The series featured a lot of 80's rock music, and was just plain FUN to watch.
Before the show went off the air Nightflight broadcast a Dynaman convention, parodying the Star Trek craze, pretending Dynaman was the most popular series out there with millions of fans. It ended with them opening the Dynaman vault.
It's a dubbing of a japanese 70's Sentai series (from an earlier season of the same show that would become the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).
The plot sets five young orphans, a silly robot and wise a doctor who can turn into the colorful Dynamen, and save the city every week from a bunch of mutant invaders. This usually involved fighting the villain in front of Mt. Fuji, then he would grow to giant size, then they would call on the giant robot Dynaship, fight some more, almost get beaten, then cut the monter in half with their sword (every week!)
The dubbing was done VERY tongue-in-cheek, with many jokes inserted about how bad the special effects were ("Let's release the fake-looking models!" and all the characters given silly names and personalities.
The series featured a lot of 80's rock music, and was just plain FUN to watch.
Before the show went off the air Nightflight broadcast a Dynaman convention, parodying the Star Trek craze, pretending Dynaman was the most popular series out there with millions of fans. It ended with them opening the Dynaman vault.
Darkdrive
(1997)
If you can follow this plot you need professional help.
7 August 2002
A weird tale of a guy sent into a virtual reality penal colony, where he finds his dead wife singing in a night club, fights Alti from Xena, and tries and fails miserably to be a noir matrix wanna be, without the plot, special effects, or acting. One bright note is an appearance of pre-Buffy The Vampire Slayer Julie Benz, who gets killed several times and has a love scene, and a unexplained kid by the end. So it's a lot like her character of Darla. We even get to see Julie totally topless for her love scene, but sadly they voice over exposition while she sings in the night club. I'd have prefered to hear her sing.
InHumanoids
(1986)
Four scientists in power armor battle monsters from beneath the Earth!
7 August 2002
Four scientists, Auger, Bright, Armstrong and Herc, collectively called Earth Corps are called in when three giant ancient monsters called the Inhumanoids are accidentally set free by man's exploration. Earth Corps teams up with the mysterious Redwood men and Granite people to recapture this threat before the three can take over the planet. They explore the sub-world, save the planet's core, and generally fight evil. The also come up against power-hungry business men, mad Russian military leaders, creatures from the sub-world and even save the Statue of Liberty from having to marry an Inhumanoid when she comes to life and is wooed by the evil Metlar.
Based on the Hasbro toy line of the same name, and turned into a cartoon by the same people who did GI Joe and the Transformers (you'll recognize many familiar voices).
This series was teamed up in small segments with shows like Gem and the Holograms, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and Robotix and broadcast on Sunday mornings in 1986. All the small segments were tied together into longer shows for video release only on Beta for many years, but recently it made it's way to VHS and DVD.
Based on the Hasbro toy line of the same name, and turned into a cartoon by the same people who did GI Joe and the Transformers (you'll recognize many familiar voices).
This series was teamed up in small segments with shows like Gem and the Holograms, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and Robotix and broadcast on Sunday mornings in 1986. All the small segments were tied together into longer shows for video release only on Beta for many years, but recently it made it's way to VHS and DVD.
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