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FLASH GORDON (1980)
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Sam Jones, Max von Sydow, Melody Anderson, Timothy Dalton, Topol, Ornella Muti, Peter Wyndgarde, Brian Blessed
Not to be confused with the 'classic' Flesh Gordon (1974)
Yor, The Hunter From the Future (1983)
d. Antonio Margherti
Starring: Reb Brown, Corinne Clery, Luciano Pigozzi, Carole Andre, John Steiner
Yor, barbarian, is out jogging one day when he rescues a smokin' hot cave-woman from a vicious Triceratops. He is welcomed into their tribe. But then, a bunch of even MORE brutish cave-people attack, destroy the village, and kidnap his lovely young love. This is the first of four civilizations that will be destroyed in Yor's wanderings.
Eventually a plot develops. Yor is curious about his past and the mysterious golden amulet he wears around his neck. After 60 minutes of cavemen and dinosaurs, Yor is directed to a forbidden island where space-age technology exists and the imposing 5'4" "Overlord" rules supreme. It turns out this is earth post nuclear holocaust! And the people on the Island are the only ones who retain any knowledge of humanity's greater glory! The Overlord is hellbent on creating a "master race" of robots and repeating the mistakes of the past. Can Yor possibly stop him?!?!?!?!
Overall this is a slightly above average "bad movie". There's plenty of bad acting and cheesy effects to keep one entertained and Yor's running from village to village keeps things from too much dull downtime. They actually built multiple animatronic dinosaurs for this thing. And there's a whooooole bunch of shitty looking androids. So many films in the Italian ripoff genre can just be a drag but this one is generally fun, if also pretty bloodless.
Reb Brown is well-known from a number of 80's B-movies. He also made a pair of really shitty Captain America tv movies in 1979 that unfortunately didn't turn into a tv series for him. Corrine Clery was in a lot of shitty Italian stuff but big Bond fans will recognize her from Moonraker as the pilot killed by Hugo Drax's dogs.
Yor's theme song is one of the most laughably bad, 80's-as-fuck "rock" songs I've ever heard. And it's all sung in Italian or Croatian or something. The DVD & Blu-ray play it on their menu screen over a montage of the movies "best" scenes. It's amazing, better than any trailer. This shitty version is the best I could find.
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Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]? Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
Fuck the censorship shit...but he's not necessarily wrong about that movie. Hell, there were contemporary critics who thought it went too far glamorizing slave society. AND the movie was actually toned down from the source material which was even more pro-Confederacy.
It goes without saying That there were groups of Neo-Confderates e.g., The Lost Cause and Southern Nationalists who remained politically active well in the middle of the 20th century. There goals were to advance the ideals of the confederacy and preserve it's history. Many of them were secretly behind the erection of various confederate war memorials and honorary statues of confederate war heroes and generals the purpose of which was to keep the memory of succession alive with hopes of resurrecting it.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
GWTW is a bad Rom-Com/soap opera with the Civil War as a backdrop. It was a shitty book made into a shitty movie. But, even so, I hate politically correct censorship.
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Netflix has smoking warnings. Because racist themes and Marlboros trigger me. Why, just the mention of oppression turns me into a gelatinous puddle of tears mixed with wine coolers.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
I bought this expensive box set of Olympic film blurays from the Criterion Collection a couple years back (god help me, I don't know why). Guess what? Last night I watched the 1936 Winter Games which took place in...Nazi Germany (Not the much more famous Berlin Summer Games). It's actually not AS bad as say, Triumph of the Will, but there are plenty of Nazis flags and you'll get your fill of Hitler nodding in approval and speechifying. So I'll watch stuff that other people won't stomach. But I don't have a problem with them slapping some warning on there about how they don't approve of what you're about to see, yadda yadda.
I think it’s comical virtue signaling and I hate it.
WARNING: something depicted In this 1928 silent film could be racist and might be offensive. But rest assured, we here at HBO do not believe in the racism that Buster Keaton mimed in “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Now, enjoy your movie (but not the racist parts, of course).
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