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Future Kick (1991)
mehh
If you like Don Wilson it is for you. Fight scenes were OK and he does manage to get some charisma across ! Chris Penn was underused.
I was more disappointed with the film's overuse of stock footage from other low budget films. We had Nell from "Battle Beyond the Stars" as the virtual reality computer - also space cowboys ship was an escape pod falling to earth(akia) A car chase from "Crime Zone" was pasted in - looked plain stupid given the fact that the cars looked totally different and the chase itself (round and round a warehouse)made no sense as it was brutally edited to ensure the "Crime Zone" characters didn't get a look in. The mad part is when the "crime zone" car chase ends.. the 2 cars involved (one is supposed to be Don's) come to a halt - then we cut back to FutureKick and Dons car is shown still moving, then braking in a location that looks nothing like the one in "Crime Zone".
Another for Mystery Science Theatre !!!
Warlords of the Twenty-First Century (1982)
Post Apoc flavoured Kiwis.. mmmmmmm
Loved Battletruck. Awesome movie.. very watchable again and again. Its got a really gritty post apocalyptic feel to it and i think its just as good as Mad Max 1 and 2 and BETTER than Thunderdome. The opening sequence with the radio announcer and the smoke in the picture is great.. so simple.. but very effective.
What i will say in the way of criticism is that there is no need for the filmmakers to pretend this is shot in the states... The American accents from the NZ actors are awful for starters ("Gaaad Daayyum") and then there's the fact that the film obviously does not take place in the US (right hand drive, the NZ mountain ranges) NZ is great.. show it off !
War of the Worlds (2005)
"eye" eh ? Where was the US army .. "eyeraq" ?
Great movie and generally faithful to the book and 1953 movie but one little hitch... we had lots of tripods running around the US virtually unchallenged.. and i don't mean they swept the human forces aside like in the Wells novel and the 1953 movie - i mean they were hardly attacked ! Where was the BATTLE ? And don't mention that pitiful encounter on the ridge with ONE tank, a line of Hummers and a tree. In the novel and the other movie there were epic battles were the aliens were fought all the way back to London/LA respectively. The Brits in 1898 smashed one with artillery and two with a warship. The US in 1953 nuked, shelled and mortared them ! Yes i know that it was "the rout of civilisation and the massacre of mankind" but the army should have been massacred too, shells and missiles bouncing off shields.
The "eye" was a great idea but it missed a chance for an amazing scene when the kid wanted to see the battle.. the camera could have taken us to the top of the hill then pulled right out to reveal a massive land battle with artillery and tanks.. backed up by F-18s screaming down for low level missile attacks.. hell, ramming them too ! Thats all i wanted, just one battle ! Anyway.. worth the admission fee for the tripods and their fog horn.. it did work ! But I wanted a lot more "war" in War Of The Worlds 2005 !