User:mercureo@ovide.x10hosting.com on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:41:41 +0000
This movie is one of the most poorly edited movies I have ever seen! Manos still wins, however! Plot is pretty clear even with the jumpiness, but not that interesting in my opinion. I was expecting something different or maybe just to much. Action takes forrrrreeever to get started, and is poorly choreographed! Ali Baba just seems to stand there and everyone else does the work (If you have ever seen Colossus and the Headhunters you will understand). I would not recommended this movie unless you like horrible Bollywood films, without all the singing and dancing!
User:mercureo@ovide.x10hosting.com on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:41:41 +0000
This movie is one of the most poorly edited movies I have ever seen! Manos still wins, however! Plot is pretty clear even with the jumpiness, but not that interesting in my opinion. I was expecting something different or maybe just to much. Action takes forrrrreeever to get started, and is poorly choreographed! Ali Baba just seems to stand there and everyone else does the work (If you have ever seen Colossus and the Headhunters you will understand). I would not recommended this movie unless you like horrible Bollywood films, without all the singing and dancing!
User:joemol on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:57:00 +0000
What can you say? As a blood-and-sandals epic this movie positively stinks but like all good "bad" movies it has some outstanding features i.e. some things stink even more than the rest. Two points of note are the costumes and the fight sequences. The costumes are well beyond the ridiculous and are really just high camp fashion statements. The couturiers must have dug up the remnants of the shmates of at least a dozen different prior "epics" and added their own little touches, like the bizarre headgear everyone seems to be wearing. It all looks like a mid-eastern Halloween party, fancy hats and all. Needless to say there is no attempt to match costume with place and period and we see Arabs, Berbers, Persians, Romans, Greeks, and maybe some leather fetishists from the Castro having a go. I think I even spotted a couple of Aztecs in the fray just for good measure. Or maybe they were Incas, but who knows. The cast, both men and women, suitably dressed as an assortment of drongos (good word, look it up) brandish an amazing assortment of completely inappropriate and often breathtakingly stupid weapons, which they clearly have no clue how to use. One of the most important positions in a film about fighting is the "fight choreographer" whose obvious and painful absence in this movie leads to mesmerizing scenes of hordes of armed extras aimlessly waving whatever implements they happened to have been issued with at the stage door and doing their utmost to look like fierce warriors engaged in a fight to the death. Tears of mirth well in my eyes just thinking about what the Three Stooges could have done with this film!
User:joemol on Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:57:00 +0000
What can you say? As a blood-and-sandals epic this movie positively stinks but like all good "bad" movies it has some outstanding features i.e. some things stink even more than the rest. Two points of note are the costumes and the fight sequences. The costumes are well beyond the ridiculous and are really just high camp fashion statements. The couturiers must have dug up the remnants of the shmates of at least a dozen different prior "epics" and added their own little touches, like the bizarre headgear everyone seems to be wearing. It all looks like a mid-eastern Halloween party, fancy hats and all. Needless to say there is no attempt to match costume with place and period and we see Arabs, Berbers, Persians, Romans, Greeks, and maybe some leather fetishists from the Castro having a go. I think I even spotted a couple of Aztecs in the fray just for good measure. Or maybe they were Incas, but who knows. The cast, both men and women, suitably dressed as an assortment of drongos (good word, look it up) brandish an amazing assortment of completely inappropriate and often breathtakingly stupid weapons, which they clearly have no clue how to use. One of the most important positions in a film about fighting is the "fight choreographer" whose obvious and painful absence in this movie leads to mesmerizing scenes of hordes of armed extras aimlessly waving whatever implements they happened to have been issued with at the stage door and doing their utmost to look like fierce warriors engaged in a fight to the death. Tears of mirth well in my eyes just thinking about what the Three Stooges could have done with this film!