Just how bad is the Cannon movie Journey To The Center Of The Earth? Well, Albert Pyun, who did extensive work on the movie, insisted that his name be taken off the credits. It’s a mess of a movie that will have you struck dumb.
Just how bad is the Cannon movie Journey To The Center Of The Earth? Well, Albert Pyun, who did extensive work on the movie, insisted that his name be taken off the credits. It’s a mess of a movie that will have you struck dumb.
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#1 by RogerBW on September 7, 2013 - 4:26 pm
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A film that starts with a black-screen narrator is a common sign of a desperate rush to make some sense of the footage, cheaply. (If there’s more money left, a cobbled-together introductory sequence can fill in instead — I rather suspect Red Planet suffered from this.)
My favourite credits name is Elvis Strange. He seems to be mostly a production design / art guy; I know nothing about him, but darn, that’s a cool name.
#2 by lyzard on September 11, 2013 - 3:23 am
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Curiously, the name “Rusty Lemorande” leapt out of your review at me. He directed the 1992 version of The Turn Of The Screw, although why I should remember that so clearly is a mystery.
#3 by Read MacGuirtose on September 13, 2013 - 2:55 am
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According to his IMDb page, he was also the writer and director of the Captain EO short starring Michael Jackson that used to be shown at Disneyland… though I don’t know if anyone here else would have seen that. (Mind you, it was long enough ago that I saw it that I can’t claim to remember it all that well…)
#4 by The Rev. on September 13, 2013 - 1:22 pm
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I actually went to Disneyland in the late ’80s (during a glorious multi-week road trip my family took) and saw Captain EO, so at least one of us remembers it. Granted, about all I remember is his cute little flying alien buddy and that it was in 3-D, but still…
#5 by Read MacGuirtose on September 15, 2013 - 8:57 am
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Ah, well, for anyone who hasn’t experienced the dubious joys of Captain EO, it is, perhaps inevitably, available on YouTube.
Of course, the YouTube video is missing the big selling point of the original movie—the fact that it was presented in glorious 3D.
It seems I misstated Rusty Lemorande’s role in the production, however. He wasn’t the director; he was the producer. (As well as the co-writer.) The director was, of all people, Francis Ford Coppola. Also involved in the production were George Lucas and Anjelica Huston…
#6 by Read MacGuirtose on September 15, 2013 - 8:59 am
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Odd… I’m not sure what went wrong (maybe I didn’t close the tag correctly… or maybe I, er, absentmindedly forgot the tag entirely), but the “available on Youtube” was supposed to be a link. Here’s the video.
#7 by The Rev. on September 25, 2013 - 10:40 pm
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Wait. Wait. Waitwaitwaitwaitwait.
There was a sequel to Alien From L.A.?!?!?
This means:
1. My hypothesis about Baby Geniuses II being the start of the “abandon all hope, we’ll make a sequel to goddamn anything” mentality is wrong, and off by at least 15 years.
2. I am truly and forever lost, because I kind of want to see it.