Friday Movie Night Success!

As friend of the Preserve rudger was wise to point out in his comment to Wednesday's post about Mega Shark, the real winner of tonight's movie event was Krull! A classic from 1983 it exhibits so much of what is fantastic about a movie from that era - practical effects, film quality, lighting, lasers, sword fighting, trained tigers - it's all in there! As an added bonus you even get Freddie Jones who you may remember as Thufir Hawat from David Lynch's 1984 masterpiece of Dune!

Starting out with the best of the two films (Krull) front loaded the awesome a bit, but the way these things usually go is that the degree of anesthetization increases linearly with time, so I was all set for Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus as the second billing. I wouldn't go so far as to call it in any way 'unwatchable' and, as with just about all things there was plenty to enjoy if you watched it correctly! 'Science' consisting of mixing colored water together in incorrect glassware. The 'Romance' of a magical night spent in the janitor's closet. 'Action' of some pretty awesome CG - courtesy of the effects company 'Tiny Juggernaut' - the best being the Mega Shark snatching a commuter air flight from the skies! Yes and we get to see Lorenzo Lamas as a misogynistic black-ops sort of guy tasked with handling the mega-animal problem, and Deborah ("Debbie") Gibson as the female lead (yes, that Debbie Gibson! Did you know she was uncredited as the birthday girl in the Tavern on the Green in Ghostbusters?!) We'll get into more detail later, with a few key pics, but I still have to give it a cautious thumbs up! Final word though for tonight - if you haven't seen it, get Krull first.


Posted by charlie on June 19th 2009, 09:33 PM
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