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Gymkata! Low grade action films.

01:33 / 01.03.02

I'm not talking about big-budget monsters like True Lies or Die Hard, sleeper hits like Terminator or Rambo, or flops like Hudson Hawk or Last Action Hero. What are your favourite back of the bin knockoff action movies? The type of thing that you could only be mad to watch?

Inspired by my recent American Ninja marathon.

Gymkata!

06:36 / 01.03.02

Black Belt Jones.

but you don't have to be mad to watch it. just crafty.

m.

08:58 / 01.03.02

Six-string Samurai. You don't have to be mad to enjoy it, maybe drunk or half-asleep, but not mad.

16:19 / 01.03.02

Hey, I liked Hudson Hawk. And Six String Samauri is indeed fantastic.

But I think I'll go with Ice Pirates, Cherri 2000, and Beastmaster.

pointless and uncalled for

16:30 / 01.03.02

The Hong Kong ghost story series were great for this. Very low budget, great for high velocity action.

Saviour of the Soul is a firm favourite.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:46 / 01.03.02

Hell Comes to Frogtown

They Live

19:48 / 01.03.02

Hawk The Slayer

Loved it in my childhood, watched it again in college after giving my roommate the nickname of Hawk only to realize that they are playing disco music during a medieval/fantasy horse chase. Loved it even more after that!

And Hell comes to Frogtown is truly a classic. It has become a part of my buddy's vocabulary basically meaning when the shit hits the fan: "When hell comes to Frogtown, I'd want you guys at my back." This may have something to do whith how I first saw the movie: Laying in a hotel bed with my girlfriend. To elaborate, laying in a hotel bed with 6 other people in the room (most of whom I don't like), my ankle, freshly broken but not yet brought to medical attention, propped up, the size of a softball and pulsing in pain, and with the girlfriend who only waited until the next day to break up with me because she felt bad about my ankle. Perfect conditions to watch Hell Comes to Frogtown.

mr insensitive

09:14 / 02.03.02

How about When The Bullet Hits The Bone atarring Jeff Wincott.

Or Cybertracker two starring Don 'The Dragon' Wilson.

And of course, One Tough Bastard, starring Brian Bosworth, Jeff Payne (from Passenger 57) and the ever respectful Hammer. (MC Hammer!)

09:14 / 02.03.02

<grin> I enjoyed Hell Comes To Frogtown. (Have they made a sequel to that??)

My fave low budget action flick is SHOGUN ASSASSIN which was a couple of japanese actioneers (Lone Wolf And Cub movies) spliced into a whole new film. Great shit.

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Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

09:14 / 02.03.02

Myself, I love the crappy Sho Kosugi ninja movies of the 80's, especially "9 Deaths of the Ninja". I actually would watch them instead of making out in the drive-in when they were one.

03:04 / 05.03.02

Originally posted by Elijah Non Grata:
They Live

Ooh, almost forgot about that one. I've got the DVD

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

07:31 / 05.03.02

Hawk the slayer is utterly fucking genius. And has Bernard Breslaw as a giant. BERNARD BRESSLAW! He's not even all that tall...

But what can match Death Ring? Chuck Norris' brother, Patrick Swayze's brother (about the ugliest man ever), and Billy FUCKING Drago.

16:31 / 05.03.02

"Rudy Ray Moore IS....Dolemite IN...."The Human Tornado!! It's a bad, bad, baaaaaad action flick--but wait, there's more!! It's also a bad comedy film!! AND one of the shoddiest produced films made!! NOW how much would you pay to see this movie?!?!"

And although it's not a favorite or anything, The Blood of Heroes is pretty entertaining in a sub-par Mad Max kinda way. Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo & Vincent Donofrio play some kind of weird football-like game with a dog's skull.

[ 05-03-2002: Message edited by: Margin Walker ]

22:22 / 05.03.02

Blood Of Heros kicks arse. I love the scene where Joan Chen bites off another players ear.

08:42 / 25.05.02

It's late at night & I just got done watching a flick starring Gary Daniels. I've never heard of this dude before, but whatever the film was (I think it was "Bloodmoon"), it was pretty bad. It had uniformly bad performances, the worst "buddy film" cliches and an antagonist that (no lie) wears leather pants, a black & white mask & some weird steel boots you'd expect Jaws to wear in a James Bond flick. Checking out what else this guys been in, I discover that he's got a long frickin list of shit action films. I totally love this review for "White Tiger":

"This movie is pretty flat and undelivering.The direction is rather crap and the production values do not impress me in the slightest.We also have a rather ineffective action hero in Gary Daniels.Instantly forgettable dross,not relieved by anything.Bring sliced bread back,that's what I say."

Bring sliced bread back, indeed. It turns out he was even in a movie with Sugar Ray Leonard (Riot!) that features rollerblading assassins and a dodgy plot about kidnapping some ambassador's daughter. Let's see, it's about a kidnapping but it's titled "Riot!"

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

11:26 / 26.05.02

oh oh oh, lets not for get THE BEST OF THE BEST and all its sequals.
"I, post motorbike accident eric roberts, will defeat korea in the kung fu championship"
Injuries, convoluted back stories, and a kung fu hick played by the dancing hick sidekick from FOOTLOOSE.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

12:18 / 26.05.02

I just watched "God Told Me To" by Larry Cohan, a very odd movie about people who go on murderous rampages, and before they die, they explain that they did it because God told them too. Very low budget 70's type movie, with a young Andy Kaufman as one of the killers, and a final half hour that is so weird I wonder if they had any idea what they wanted the ending of the movie to be.

Joe Bob says check it out.