| NEVER SURRENDER
Self-aggrandizing Argetine kickboxer Hector Echavarria makes what is basically an MMA fanfic movie about how awesome Hector Echavarria is. You know the grunting noise a rutting feral hog makes? This movie is the embodiment of that sound. This movie is an Ed Hardy shirt. Hell, this movie doesn’t just feature stretch limo Hummers; it is the cinematic embodiment of a stretch limo Hummer, and chances are if you think stretch limo Hummers are totally bad-ass and classy, then this is probably the movie for you. Or, if you are like me and just love totally goofy, incompetent movies packed to the gills with tough guy swagger, naked strippers, and dudes punching each other in the face, well, you’ll probably be happy too. |
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| THE AMAZING CAPTAIN NEMO
The Amazing Captain Nemo was an attempt by Irwin Allen to graft some Star Wars-style laser and robot action onto an underwater adventure, and was originally made to serve double duty as both a movie and TV mini-series, the latter shown as The Return of Captain Nemo. This wasn’t uncommon in the late 70s; As I hinted above, my first exposure to both Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century and Battlestar Galactica was in the form of movies that were edited together from episodes of the show (in fact Galactica managed to knock out three of these, including one based on- the Lords of Kobol help us – Galactica 1980). I have a recollection so vague of seeing the TV version of Nemo that for a long time I assumed I must have dreamed the whole thing. |
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#1 by Read MacGuirtose on February 9, 2011 - 12:04 am
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Hey, another movie reviewed by a B-Master with someone I know in the cast! The someone in this case being Fabiano Iha, listed among the cast of Never Surrender… though since I didn’t see him in any of the screenshots, I’m guessing his part wasn’t that big. Admittedly, I can’t claim to know him well, but we were cast in a movie together (the movie, alas, never got made; the funding fell through), I see him occasionally at the gym where I take stage combat classes, and, for what it’s worth (which I realize isn’t much), we’re friends on Facebook.
#2 by KeithA on February 9, 2011 - 10:40 am
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Huh. You are now the third person I know who knows someone involved with NEVER SURRENDER. Say what you will about Hector Echavarria, but apparently the guy is getting lots of people some work.