It came on The Family Channel in 1990 and 1991. I remember it vividly.
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Uglydolls... unfortunately.
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Flight of the Navigator. A decently good kids movie
The Last Starfighter, one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies
The Last Starfighter, one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies
I don't know if it really is a forgotten film, but I've never heard any discussion of the 1959 Giant Gila Monster movie. For whatever reason this is one of my favorite movies of all time. I got it on this cheap double feature DVD that came in a cardboard box with the classic movie The Lost World as a little kid and fell in love. It's super cheap and cheesy, with a garbage plot, but it tickles something in me every time.
If only you knew how bad things really are.
If only you knew how bad things really are.
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Thanks! I will check that out! Always appreciate a good recommendation.
On a French theme, then, I'd forgotten about Wasabi.
I enjoyed that film a lot when I was a kid. I'd probably find it a bit less sophisticated as an adult but you can't go wrong with Jean Reno and the Japanese lead is good, too. Most of all I remember this scene where Reno, a French cop, is meeting his old partner who lives in Tokyo. Reno's character is one of these you-can-only-be-this-hard-in-movies style character, played deadpan the entire film.
I might actually give it a watch for Old Time's sake now this thread has brought it back.
EDIT: I'd forgotten the Tranny bankrobbery scene! They don't make them like this anymore!
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There's narration, but it's a lot different. Most of the time the narrator is quiet, and when he does speak he talks quite normally, as opposed to Dudley Moore talking in high pitched puppy and kitten voices. Also there are occasional poems sprinkled about. Oh, and it has unique music too. Including this adorable end song.
I think the Japanese version is very wholesome and definitely worth checking out, the difference in narration gives it a very different feel than the American version. It's a shame that the rumor about dead cats (that has no proof behind it) has made this kind of a forbidden movie to talk about.
I suppose this one is only "forgotten" depending on your point of view, apparently it was quite a big deal at the time and even has a book named after a line said during its production.
The 1936 Errol Flynn historical movie The Charge of the Light Brigade. This film is a true monstrosity. It has a nonsensical plot; based *very* loosely on the actual Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War. The movie adds an evil villain in the form of some dude named Surat Khan, played by a white guy (of course) who is the leader of "Siristan", which is some fictional country allied with Russia against the British. even though in the actual war the Ottoman Empire controlled the entire Middle East and was allied with the British, not the Russians.
The movie dramatizes the Light Brigade as incredibly heroic, has a plot that has nothing to do with the real war and real battle, has the bad guy massacre civilians and a scene that doesn't resemble anything that happened in the actual war, and alleges that the historical Charge took place because of a forged order to attack rather than the command error is almost certainly was in real life.
But fuck all that noise. There's only one reason this movie matters anymore and that would be its climactic charge sequence. Honestly just watch the footage for yourself so you can see how horrifically unsafe and brutal it was. About 125 horses were toppled with tripwires, and the director just had any of the injured ones callously shot which killed about a sixth of them. Errol Flynn ended up in a fistfight with the director over it since he was shocked by the brutality on display.
This movie in particular motivated Congress to write laws ensuring some standard of animal care in movies from that point onward, and the ASPCA banned tripwires in film though I question how effective that ban was since they've clearly been used in other movies.
I have no idea why this movie is still stuck in my mind. I first saw it over ten years ago now and for some reason I still think about it on occasion. Its an objectively terrible movie, it rewrites history blatantly just to make a "more exciting" story, and it violently killed animals. I do love the score, by noted composer Max Steiner who did major pictures like King Kong and Casablanca. But perhaps that charge scene is still capitvating because you really can not film anything like that today. Its the only part of the movie that lives up to the incredible battle that its named after.
The 1936 Errol Flynn historical movie The Charge of the Light Brigade. This film is a true monstrosity. It has a nonsensical plot; based *very* loosely on the actual Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War. The movie adds an evil villain in the form of some dude named Surat Khan, played by a white guy (of course) who is the leader of "Siristan", which is some fictional country allied with Russia against the British. even though in the actual war the Ottoman Empire controlled the entire Middle East and was allied with the British, not the Russians.
The movie dramatizes the Light Brigade as incredibly heroic, has a plot that has nothing to do with the real war and real battle, has the bad guy massacre civilians and a scene that doesn't resemble anything that happened in the actual war, and alleges that the historical Charge took place because of a forged order to attack rather than the command error is almost certainly was in real life.
But fuck all that noise. There's only one reason this movie matters anymore and that would be its climactic charge sequence. Honestly just watch the footage for yourself so you can see how horrifically unsafe and brutal it was. About 125 horses were toppled with tripwires, and the director just had any of the injured ones callously shot which killed about a sixth of them. Errol Flynn ended up in a fistfight with the director over it since he was shocked by the brutality on display.
This movie in particular motivated Congress to write laws ensuring some standard of animal care in movies from that point onward, and the ASPCA banned tripwires in film though I question how effective that ban was since they've clearly been used in other movies.
I have no idea why this movie is still stuck in my mind. I first saw it over ten years ago now and for some reason I still think about it on occasion. Its an objectively terrible movie, it rewrites history blatantly just to make a "more exciting" story, and it violently killed animals. I do love the score, by noted composer Max Steiner who did major pictures like King Kong and Casablanca. But perhaps that charge scene is still capitvating because you really can not film anything like that today. Its the only part of the movie that lives up to the incredible battle that its named after.
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As a gay man, I also remember it for a good bit of male frontal nudity, from a time when there wasn't much. I haven't watched it since though.
Hard agree. Its like all the petty online bickering, winning arguments and making fools of people, while society crumbles because of social bloodsport.
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