Dawn of the dead

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Apparently, this movie started the zombie genre.

1978 was the year that zombies became cool. George Romero made one before and many other after. Even to this day, he’s making zombie movies.

Dawn of the dead is about two cops that are held up in a shopping mall surrounded by zombies. The have a helicopter but no fuel. They meet two other normal people and team up to survive. They waste an awful amount of  time in the mall and build up a place to live with a stash of food. They have to run away when a gang of bikers want to take over the mall. This is all walking dead stuff. Or maybe, walking dead all classic Romero.

It is a very boring movie. They move from location to location and encounter all the usual stuff. Maybe in 1978, people didn’t know about zombies and didn’t make imaginary zombie survival plans.

The good: zombies biting into flesh was cool.

The bad: boring as fuck

The ugly: make up was done by people that responded to the ad “make up artist wanted, must have own paints and not know how to speak”

Watch it. Only because zombies are cool. Drink plenty of red bull. This is a snoozefest.

Zaat

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Well well well. We’ve finally got around to watching Zaat.

Zaat is a 1971 movie about a retard scientist that doesn’t talk and kind of bumbles along from desk to desk doing random test tube activities. He drinks a protein shake, takes a dip in some water and converts into a monster that is horny for new kidnapped and converted women monsters. He fails and dies. So did this movie. Poetic right?

They mention some shit during some stock footage scene that this scientist, who is the narrator, like catfish, for some reason. He then wants to become a catfish, for some reason. The next activity is to do the same with a woman so that he can have a catfish wive and breed, for some reason.

Most of this movie is made up of establishing shots. Like any of it matters. But then they fuck it up too. Zaat is at a lake and they cut to the cops in a forest. Retards.

There are only two scenes that stand out for me. One is where Zaat is pissed off that his first victim died and he rages out in a pharmacy like Tommy Wiseau and breaks a few empty bottles in a very controlled way. The second is when Zaat is walking into his office and you can clearly see him wearing sneakers and not the costume feet.

Other than that, the movie doesn’t have much. If you like establishing shots, this is your movie.

Watch Zaat. Do it.

 

 

 

Six degrees of stupidity

We’ve watched 118 movies so far. It’s become somewhat of a hobby to point out that one of the actors has acted in something we’ve watched before. We thought: “maybe every movie is connected to every other movie” in some way. And if you squint your eyes just so, you will see that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams. I went to IMDB and got the cast list for the 118 movies.

Now look at the picture below or get the high-resolution PDF here. What can we see?

Firstly, that picture is called a network graph. Each dot is a person or a movie. If a person acts in a movie, you will see a line between the person and the movie, If he/she acts in two movies, you should see two lines. One from the actor to each of the movies. The nerds will pick up that I mixed people and movies by making them all dots. Also, I have removed the actors that only act in one movie. Otherwise its too noisy. You would have seen 5000 dots instead of 500.

So how are all the movies and actors connected?

  • Well, 90 of the 118 are linked in some way. 28 of the movies have stars that have not done any other work that we’ve watched.
  • Every actor can reach another actor in a few hops between movies. Its way more than 6. I would estimate it at 15 based on the visuals. I will compute the exact average shortest paths when we have more movies. Or if I think including producers and crew is worthwhile.
  • Neil Breen is the island on the left. He has been in three movies and those movies share no cast with the rest of the group.
  • Sharknados 1 to 4 are at the top. It’s a dense grouping because there are many actors that act in all of the series.
  • The middle of this type of graph usually means that those people or movies are the ‘hubs’ that join many of the outer subnetworks.

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Now lets look at some statistics in the table below. Neil Breen gets a high rank because he is the king of his own castle. But from the big group, we’ve watched 8 Cameron Mitchel movies. And he’s kind of in the centre of the graph too. That means he’s probably worked with most of the rest of the group.

It’s no surprise that the popular (high page rank) people are the usual suspects. This makes sense about pagerank. If you act in a movie with a popular person, you become popular. Mitchell, Donahue, z’Dar. Akkaya is a strange one. If he didn’t star in Yor, he would be way down the list.

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Druids

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I saw a review of this by I Hate Everything on YouTube. Had to watch it. Boy was it bad.

I’m really interested in WHY its so bad. What was the context? What events took place that could cause such a mess?

This movie was released in 2001 and the big revenue movies that had swords and horses were Gladiator, The Mummy, Lord of the Rings, A Knight’s Tale, Joan of Arc and 13th Warrior. Gladiator was in 2000 and made $400m. They made a lot of money and they were epic. So someone from the eight (yes 8) production companies thought that this was a good way to make a few bucks. Middle ages, swords and horses. What could go wrong?

You know you’re going to get shit output when there are eight production companies telling everybody what to do. Apparently this movie costs 15million USD to make. So each of the 8 production companies put in 2 million. The sets and costumes are really bad. Production quality is bad. They do scenes in one take and then leave the bad ones in the movie. Lambert has a really bad wig and mustache. Max von Sydow has about five minutes of screen time. It’s shot in Bulgaria probably because its cheap. The horses needed to be fed. I think that this movie probably costs $5m and someone stole $10m in various ways. The production companies are then left to fight with other for not paying attention to the purse.

The writer/director/producer is Jacques Dorfman. Who isn’t brain damaged because he’s made better movies before. There are no real credits for him after 2001. I say ‘real’ credits because the two credits after 2001 are for mysterious documentaries in french that run for many seasons but do not have any other credits on IMDB, no cast, no synopsis and no reviews. His trivia page says that he supported a frenchman to run for president in 2002. Maybe that was his game? Make good movies, become friends with a prime minister, run a scam, donate to potential president, run the film industry. But it fell apart when the potential president lost this campaign. Maybe he stole the Druid production money? Maybe I have a terrible imagination after brain damage from watching this movie.

So what happens in this movie? We think… There is this guy, who sees his father get killed by Cesar, then sets out to get an army to kill Cesar but he surrenders in the end and dies. It would have been a tragedy if someone in the movie cared about him and that would make us care for him too.

Here are some more memorable parts:

  • There are always flies around the main actor
  • There is a guy that wanted to stab a wooden pillar and misses and they left the take in the final cut
  • There is a guy that drinks from a jug and half its contents fall inside his armor plate costume
  • There are terrible wigs worn by everyone
  • Sound doesn’t match peoples mouth
  • Accent is not consistent
  • Scenes are repeated to pad the movie. but each repetition is changed slightly. Like a slight zoom. or flipped horizontally, or played in reverse.
  • Camera is too close to the action preventing us from noticing that not much is actually going on
  • There are french people fighting the romans. For some reason there are druids at the start and end. They add nothing to the plot.
  • Swords are made from biscuits
  • Everything in the sets were plastic

This movie is really shit. The only guy to blame is Jacques Dorfmann. It’s not very even very enjoyable to watch because its hard to understand what anyone is saying.

Should you watch it? Yes. But as punishment for having an active brain.

Every ninja movie ever

What do I do when I’m bored? I statistics all the things.

Usual shit: IMDB search, filter out games and series, sort by year.

What did I find?

118 movies between 1962 and now. Roughly two a year. 1986 and 1987 were the golden years of ninja movies. About one rolled off the assembly line every month. I don’t think that there is any chronology to them either. 1984 had Ninja 3: The Domination, but there wasn’t a real Ninja 2 or Ninja 4.

Grouping them by decade we get: 56 in 80’s, 22 in 90’s, 15 in the new millenium and 21 recently. By the mid 90’s, studios were pretty ninja’d out and shit like the “3 ninja’s” started coming out and that absolute shit called Pocket Ninjas. If you like training montages, watch Pocket Ninjas.

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Here is a list of the movies. How many did you watch?

Ninja, a Band of Assassins (1962)
Seventeen Ninja (1963)
The Ninja Hunt (1964)
Band of Ninja (1967)
Ninja bugeicho momochi sandayu (1980)
Enter the Ninja (1981)
The Shinobi Ninja (1981)
Five Element Ninjas (1982)
Secret Ninja (1982)
The Ninja (1982)
Kabamaru the Ninja (1983)
Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
The Last Ninja (1983)
Ninja Busters (1984)
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Ninja’s Force (1984)
Revenge of the Ninja (1984)
Sexy Timetrip Ninjas (1984)
The Ninja Mission (1984)
American Ninja (1985)
Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985)
Ninja Assassins (1985)
Ninja Holocaust (1985)
Ninja Terminator (1985)
Ninja Warriors (1985)
USA Ninja (1985)
Bionic Ninja (1986)
Challenge of the Ninja (1986)
Clash of the Ninjas (1986)
Golden Ninja Warrior (1986)
Ninja Champion (1986)
Ninja Destroyer (1986)
Ninja Dragon (1986)
Ninja Fantasy (1986)
Ninja Hunt (1986)
Ninja Kids (1986)
Project Ninja Daredevils (1986)
The Ninja Squad (1986)
The Ultimate Ninja (1986)
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987)
Cobra vs. Ninja (1987)
Ninja Commandments (1987)
Ninja Death (1987)
Ninja in Action (1987)
Ninja Kill (1987)
Ninja Operation 6: Champion on Fire (1987)
Ninja vs. Ninja (1987)
Ninja: Silent Assassin (1987)
Screaming Ninja (1987)
Wu Tang vs. Ninja (1987)
Cyber Ninja (1988)
Diamond Ninja Force (1988)
Force of the Ninja (1988)
Ninja of the Magnificence (1988)
Ninja Vengeance (1988)
Rage of Ninja (1988)
7 Lucky Ninja Kids (1989)
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
Ninja Academy (1989)
Robot Ninja (1989)
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990)
Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon (1990)
Ninja Empire (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
9 1/2 Ninjas! (1991)
Lethal Ninja (1991)
Ninja gaiden (1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
3 Ninjas (1992)
Lethal Ninja (1992)
Ninja (1992)
American Ninja 5 (1993)
Extralarge: Ninja Shadow (1993)
Ninja Scroll (1993)
Surf Ninjas (1993)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
3 Ninjas Kick Back (1994)
Kindergarten Ninja (1994)
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995)
Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
Pocket Ninjas (1997)
3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)
Cheerleader Ninjas (2002)
Tongan Ninja (2002)
The Black Ninja (2003)
iNinja (2007)
Lady Ninja Kaede (2007)
Super Ninja Bikini Babes (2007)
TMNT (2007)
Mask of the Ninja (2008)
Ninja Cheerleaders (2008)
Ninjas vs. Zombies (2008)
Afro Ninja (2009)
Lady Ninja Kaede 2 (2009)
Ninja (2009)
Ninja Assassin (2009)
Ninja Masters (2009)
Alien vs. Ninja (2010)
Dancing Ninja (2010)
Ninjas vs. Vampires (2010)
The Etiquette Ninjas (2010)
Ninja Zombies (2011)
Ninja: Prophecy of Death (2011)
Ninja (2012)
Ninjas vs. Monsters (2012)
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012)
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)
Ninja Apocalypse (2014)
Ninja Immovable Heart (2014)
Office Ninja (2014)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
The Ninja War of Torakage (2014)
Ninja Hunter (2015)
Ninja Party (2015)
Ninja the Monster (2015)
Zombie Ninjas vs Black Ops (2015)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

List of all movies shot in South Africa

This was an entertaining bit of research. I searched IMDB for all the titles made in South Africa. Removed the Series, Games, Documentaries. Sorted by Year of release. Then marked off the movies I want to watch with an X and the ones I did watch with a W.

Did you know there was a Home Alone 4?

Watchlist Name Year
DE VOORTREKKERS 1916
A ZULU’S DEVOTION 1916
THE SYMBOL OF SACRIFICE 1918
THE ROSE OF RHODESIA 1918
THE BRIDGE 1918
ALLAN QUATERMAIN 1919
KING SOLOMON’S MINES 1919
THOROUGHBREDS ALL 1919
THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID 1920
THE BLUE LAGOON 1923
SILIVA ZULU: STORIA NEGRA IN 5 PARTI 1928
KING SOLOMON’S MINES 1937
DIE BOU VAN ‘N NASIE 1938
DIE WILDSBOUDJIE 1946
KOM SAAM VANAAND! 1949
SARIE MARAIS 1949
HIER’S ONS WEER! 1950
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY 1951
DAAR DOER IN DIE BOSVELD 1951
THE ADVENTURERS 1951
THE PENNYWHISTLE BLUES 1951
ALTYD IN MY DROME 1952
HANS-DIE-SKIPPER 1952
DUEL IN THE JUNGLE 1954
FLAME OF AFRICA 1954
UNTAMED 1955
LIANE: DIE WEISSE SKLAVIN 1957
NOR THE MOON BY NIGHT 1958
DIAMOND SAFARI 1958
DIE BOSVELDER 1958
DIE GODDELOSE STAD 1958
FRATSE IN DIE VLOOT 1958
PIET SE TANTE 1959
NOOI VAN MY HART 1959
THE HELLIONS 1961
HANS EN DIE ROOINEK 1961
JOURNEY INTO NOWHERE 1962
DILEMMA 1962
VOOR SONONDER 1962
KIMBERLEY JIM 1963
DEATH DRUMS ALONG THE RIVER 1963
ZULU 1964
VICTIM FIVE 1964
RHINO! 1964
MACISTE NELLE MINIERE DEL RE SALOMONE 1964
EINER FRISST DEN ANDEREN 1964
SEVEN AGAINST THE SUN 1964
THE FOSTER GANG 1964
THE NAKED PREY 1965
COAST OF SKELETONS 1965
TOKOLOSHE 1965
DIAMOND WALKERS 1965
KING HENDRIK 1965
THE MAN OF A THOUSAND MASKS 1966
ALL THE WAY TO PARIS 1966
FBI OPERATION YELLOW VIPER 1966
THE SECOND SIN 1966
AFRICA SHAKES 1966
THE JACKALS 1967
THE CAPE TOWN AFFAIR 1967
HOOR MY LIED 1967
SANDY THE SEAL 1968
DR KALIE 1968
DIRKIE 1969
STRANGERS AT SUNRISE 1969
GEHEIM VAN NANTES 1969
RYAN’S DAUGHTER 1970
SATAN’S HARVEST 1970
STOP EXCHANGE 1970
VICKI! 1970
BANANA BEACH 1970
SCOTTY & CO. 1970
DIE 3 V.D. MERWES 1970
JANNIE TOTSIENS 1970
CREATURES THE WORLD FORGOT 1971
THREE BULLETS… FOR A LONG GUN 1971
THE MEN FROM THE MINISTRY 1971
THE WEEKEND 1971
DIE BANNELING 1971
THE WINNERS 1972
LOKVAL IN VENESIË 1972
DIE LEWE SONDER JOU 1972
BOEMERANG 11:15 1972
LEATHERLIP 1972
LIEFDE VIR LELIK 1972
MAN VAN BUITE 1972
JOE BULLET 1973
DIE SPOOK VAN DONKERGAT 1973
BOESMAN AND LENA 1973
DIE VOORTREKKERS 1973
DOG SQUAD 1973
GOLD 1974
THE DOVE 1974
HOUSE OF THE LIVING DEAD 1974
LA DIOSA VIRGEN 1974
EIN TOTER TAUCHER NIMMT KEIN GOLD 1974
FUNERAL FOR AN ASSASSIN 1974
ONGEWENSTE VREEMDELING 1974
IKATI ELIMNYAMA 1974
VREEMDE WÊRELD 1974
SKADU’S VAN GISTER 1974
‘N SONNEBLOM UIT PARYS 1974
THOSE NAUGHTY ANGELS 1974
FRAUD! 1974
THE KINGFISHER CAPER 1975
DINGETJIE IS DYNAMITE! (MY NAAM IS NOG STEEDS DINGETJIE) 1975
SELL A MILLION 1975
LIEFSTE VEERTJIE 1975
DIE TROUDAG VAN TANT RALIE 1975
SHOUT AT THE DEVIL 1976
KILLER FORCE 1976
X KILL OR BE KILLED 1976
DEATH OF A SNOWMAN 1976
ONE AWAY 1976
TUBULAR SWELLS 1976
GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS 1977
MISTER DEATHMAN 1977
MY WAY II 1977
AMOR DE ASSASSINO 1977
DINGETJIE & IDI 1977
THE WILD GEESE 1978
FLATFOOT IN AFRICA 1978
THE FIFTH SEASON 1978
MIGHTY MAN 1978
DR. MARIUS HUGO 1978
BILLY BOY 1978
ISIVUMELWANO 1978
DECISION TO DIE 1978
DIE SPAANSE VLIEG 1978
ZULU DAWN 1979
GAME FOR VULTURES 1979
ELSA SE GEHEIM 1979
CHARLIE WORD ‘N STER 1979
HERFSLAND 1979
PRETORIA O PRETORIA! 1979
WAT JY SAAI 1979
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY 1980
SING VIR DIE HARLEKYN 1980
CROSSROADS/SOUTH AFRICA 1980
W KILL AND KILL AGAIN 1981
THE DEMON 1981
NOMMER ASSEBLIEF? – DIE ROLPRENT 1981
BIRDS OF PARADISE 1981
CLAWS 1982
BULLET ON THE RUN 1982
GOOD CLIMATE, FRIENDLY INHABITANTS 1982
PRAISE 1982
PRISONERS OF THE LOST UNIVERSE 1983
SURVIVAL ZONE 1983
WOLHAARSTORIES 1983
FARCE ABOUT UYS 1983
SONG AND DANCE MAN 1983
NIEMAND WEINT FÜR IMMER 1984
GO FOR THE GOLD 1984
RHINO 1984
THE AMERICAN CONNECTION 1984
THE MOUNTAIN 1984
DEADLY PASSION 1985
JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD 1986
MISS JULIE 1986
YOU MUST BE JOKING! 1986
PLACE OF WEEPING 1986
YOU GOTTA BE CRAZY! 1986
BLIND JUSTICE 1986
TEKWAN 1986
UMBANGO 1986
W AMERICAN NINJA 2: THE CONFRONTATION 1987
GOR 1987
NUKIE 1987
GOING BANANAS 1987
CODE NAME VENGEANCE 1987
HATEMAN 1987
CITY OF BLOOD 1987
W KICK OR DIE 1987
SCAVENGERS 1987
YOU MUST BE JOKING TOO! 1987
SHOT DOWN 1987
NIPAGESH BACHOF 1987
MESH 1987
‘N WÊRELD SONDER GRENSE 1987
DIE POSMAN 1987
TENTH OF A SECOND 1987
ALIEN FROM L.A. 1988
W SPACE MUTINY 1988
HOWLING IV: THE ORIGINAL NIGHTMARE 1988
OUTLAW OF GOR 1988
X PLATOON LEADER 1988
HEADHUNTER 1988
X THE LAST SAMURAI 1988
PURGATORY 1988
THE STAY AWAKE 1988
LETHAL WOMAN 1988
ACT OF PIRACY 1988
RAGE TO KILL 1988
MERCENARY FIGHTERS 1988
THE STICK 1988
MAPANTSULA 1988
THE EMISSARY 1988
IT’S MURPHY’S FAULT 1988
DUNE SURFER 1988
NIGHTSLAVE 1988
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO: JOURNEY OF DREAMS 1988
CITY WOLF 1988
PARADISE ROAD 1988
DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH 1988
TYGER TYGER BURNING BRIGHT 1988
X COBRA FORCE 1988
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY II 1989
HELLGATE 1989
X AMERICAN NINJA 3: BLOOD HUNT 1989
LASER MISSION 1989
RIVER OF DEATH 1989
THE HOUSE OF USHER 1989
X MUTATOR 1989
X THE REVENGER 1989
OUT ON BAIL 1989
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH 1989
X AMERICAN EAGLE 1989
DIRTY GAMES 1989
RISING STORM 1989
ACCIDENTS 1989
ENEMY UNSEEN 1989
X EASY KILL 1989
OH SCHUCKS ….. IT’S SCHUSTER! 1989
THE TATTOO CHASE 1989
OCHLIM LOKSHIM 1989
NIPAGESH BASAFARI 1989
THE DEVIL & THE SONG 1989
JOBMAN 1989
KILL SLADE 1989
X TOXIC EFFECT 1989
BARRETT 1989
FINAL CUT 1989
FORCED ALLIANCE 1989
THE TANGENT AFFAIR 1989
THE NATIVE WHO CAUSED ALL THE TROUBLE 1989
X DEATH FORCE 1989
FUNNY FACE 1989
X GRADER MURPHY 1989
X AMERICAN NINJA 4: THE ANNIHILATION 1990
BURIED ALIVE 1990
SWEET MURDER 1990
X KWAGGA STRIKES BACK 1990
CROSSING THE LINE 1990
THE FINAL ALLIANCE 1990
X THE FOURTH REICH 1990
ODDBALL HALL 1990
REASON TO DIE 1990
RETURN TO JUSTICE 1990
BABY BROWN 1990
IMPACT 1990
PREY FOR THE HUNTER 1990
THE KING’S MESSENGER 1990
VOICE IN THE DARK 1990
MY DAUGHTER’S KEEPER 1991
CRAZY SAFARI 1991
X AMERICAN KICKBOXER 1991
SWEET ‘N SHORT 1991
COMMITTED 1991
CRIME LORDS 1991
NAG VAN DIE 19DE 1991
TAXI TO SOWETO 1991
MISS WORLD 1991 1991
THE LAST HERO 1991
TÖDLICHE GESCHÄFTE 1991
MALCOLM X 1992
DUST DEVIL 1992
SARAFINA! 1992
ORKNEY SNORK NIE! (DIE MOVIE): ‘DIS LEKKER BY DIE SEE’ 1992
TO THE DEATH 1992
THE ANGEL, THE BICYCLE AND THE CHINAMAN’S FINGER 1992
DIE PRINCE VAN PRETORIA 1992
THE GOOD FASCIST 1992
LA MARE AUX CROCODILES 1992
YANKEE ZULU 1993
CYBORG COP 1993
THE VISUAL BIBLE: MATTHEW 1993
POINT OF IMPACT 1993
CRAZY HONG KONG 1993
ORKNEY SNORK NIE! 2 (NOG ‘N MOVIE) 1993
FRIENDS 1993
WHICKER’S MISS WORLD 1993
THE AIR UP THERE 1994
WOMAN OF DESIRE 1994
A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA 1994
X THE DALLAS CONNECTION 1994
x CYBORG COP II 1994
FREEFALL 1994
LIPSTIEK DIPSTIEK 1994
THE GODS MUST BE FUNNY IN CHINA 1994
FLESHTONE 1994
THE VISUAL BIBLE: ACTS 1994
PROJECT SHADOWCHASER II 1994
x NEVER SAY DIE 1994
GUNS OF HONOR 1994
DARK DESIRES: THELMA 1994
WHERE ANGELS TREAD 1994
IPI TOMBI 1994
KALAHARI HARRY 1994
THE MANGLER 1995
x THE REDEMPTION: KICKBOXER 5 1995
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY 1995
x CYBORG COP III 1995
x LUNARCOP 1995
DERBY 1995
JUVENIS: THE GLOBAL GENERATION 1995
HELICAPTURE 1995
THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS 1996
WHITE SQUALL 1996
PANIC MECHANIC 1996
x DANGER ZONE 1996
EBOLA SYNDROME 1996
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY 1996
PREMGRANTH 1996
ORION’S KEY 1996
PRIVATE GOLD 7: KRUGER PARK 1996
PRIVATE GOLD 5: CAPE TOWN 1 1996
DEN VITA LEJONINNAN 1996
PRIVATE GOLD 6: CAPE TOWN 2 1996
BORN FREE: A NEW ADVENTURE 1996
TARZAN: THE EPIC ADVENTURES 1996
INSIDE 1996
WARHEAD 1996
LES MENTEURS 1996
x TRIPLE X 11 1996
PEANUTS – DIE BANK ZAHLT ALLES 1996
NOEL’S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS 1996
ANGEL 1996
STRAY BULLET 1996
DANGEROUS GROUND 1997
ERNEST GOES TO AFRICA 1997
GREAT SOLDIERS 1997
MANDELA AND DE KLERK 1997
OPERATION DELTA FORCE 2: MAYDAY 1997
MERCHANT OF DEATH 1997
BRIDGE OF TIME 1997
UP ON THE ROOF 1997
JUMP THE GUN 1997
U’BEJANI 1997
PRIDE OF AFRICA 1997
DARK DESIRES: CRIME OF LOVE 1997
KAP DER GUTEN HOFFNUNG 1997
JOBURG STORIES 1997
VERDAMMTES GLÜCK 1997
KAP DER RACHE 1997
A WOMAN OF COLOR 1997
TOTO: LIVE IN AFRICA 1997
THE BEST OF LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO 1997
IL SEGNO DELLA SCIMMIA 1997
LIVE@FIVE 1997
IT’S A FUNNY COUNTRY: YEAR IN YEAR OUT 1997
NGO SI SEOI 1998
CROUPIER 1998
TARZAN AND THE LOST CITY 1998
DIAMOND GIRL 1998
ONLY LOVE 1998
THE QUARRY 1998
SWEEPERS 1998
ERNEST IN THE ARMY 1998
PALJAS 1998
THE LAST LEPRECHAUN 1998
OPERATION DELTA FORCE 3: CLEAR TARGET 1998
DUSHMAN 1998
HARD TO FORGET 1998
SISTA KONTRAKTET 1998
THE SEXY GIRLS 1998
FUTURE IMPERFECT 1998
A TEMPESTADE DA TERRA 1998
IF THIS BE TREASON 1998
THE GHOST 1998
TIERÄRZTIN CHRISTINE III: ABENTEUER IN SÜDAFRIKA 1998
FASHIONKINGDOM 1998
x FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 2: TEXAS BLOOD MONEY 1999
x FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 3: THE HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER 1999
BRAVO TWO ZERO 1999
x SHARK ATTACK 1999
ENTROPY 1999
MAST 1999
A REASONABLE MAN 1999
COLD HARVEST 1999
AFTER THE RAIN 1999
x PIRATES OF THE PLAIN 1999
THE ALL NEW ADVENTURES OF LAUREL & HARDY IN ‘FOR LOVE OR MUMMY’ 1999
FONTÁNA PRE ZUZANU 3 1999
TRAITOR’S HEART 1999
HEEL AGAINST THE HEAD 1999
AFRICAN HEAT 1999
THE BEST BY PRIVATE 13: MY FIRST TIME! 1999
SARAH BRIGHTMAN: ONE NIGHT IN EDEN – LIVE IN CONCERT 1999
L’ANGE TOMBÉ DU CIEL 1999
VICTORIA FALLS 1999
ALEC TO THE RESCUE 1999
THE MILLENNIUM MENACE 1999
INNOCENT WRATH 1999
BRIDGING THE GAP 1999
I DREAMED OF AFRICA 2000
SECOND SKIN 2000
BICHHOO 2000
x SHARK ATTACK 2 2000
MERLIN: THE RETURN 2000
HAR DIL JO PYAR KAREGA… 2000
KAROBAAR: THE BUSINESS OF LOVE 2000
OPERATION DELTA FORCE 5: RANDOM FIRE 2000
SHIKARI 2000
BOESMAN AND LENA 2000
SIROCCO 2000
ANGEL EXIT 2000
DESERT DINERS 2000
THE GATES OF CLEVELAND ROAD 2000
LOST SOULS 2000
HOME TO MY ROOTS 2000
CAPE TOWN REPORT 2000
ALI 2001
DARK BLUE WORLD 2001
SHAKA ZULU: THE CITADEL 2001
THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE 2001
MR. BONES 2001
IN DESERT AND WILDERNESS 2001
THE LONG RUN 2001
WITNESS TO A KILL 2001
STYX 2001
DUST RAIDER: ADVENTURES OF IRA CRAFT 2001
FINAL SOLUTION 2001
THE MEEKSVILLE GHOST 2001
x SYPHON FILTER 3 2001
MALUNDE 2001
MRUGARAAJU 2001
STERN DER LIEBE 2001
LIEBE. MACHT. BLIND. 2001
ZUGVÖGEL DER LIEBE 2001
LYKLOLLERY 2001
TRANSIT CAFE 2001
BOXING HEROES 2001
x HOME ALONE 4 2002
AANKHEN 2002
THE PIANO PLAYER 2002
SNAKE ISLAND 2002
BORDERLINE 2002
SLASH 2002
GLOBAL EFFECT 2002
GLORY GLORY 2002
PAVEMENT 2002
THE RED PHONE: MANHUNT 2002
PROMISED LAND 2002
NASHIM 2002
ENTSCHEIDUNG AUF MAURITIUS 2002
TOWNSHIP OPERA 2002
BORN AMONG LIONS AND RHINOS 2002
w STANDER 2003
x RED WATER 2003
THE BONE SNATCHER 2003
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American Ninja 2

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It’s 1987. Two years after the hit movie American Ninja 2. Dudikoff is back in charge.

For some reason this movie is shot in South Africa and Mauritius. They don’t mention it but we recognised the locations and verified it on IMDB. Oh, the big give away was the love interest. A young Michelle Botes, who would later star in a local soap opera.

Again, the plot is thin. Dudikoff finds out that his fellow army people are missing and then he goes to investigate. He finds out that its because of some gang. They fight. Dudikoff wins. The end.

This movie did remind us of Black Gestapo, where bad guys get into buildings via the roof instead of just walking through the front door. Also, the bad guy seems to make a ton of clones which was the only reason we kept watching was because the bad guys had a massive ninja army. And all the sub-divisions of the army had colour coded uniforms for the types of stunts they could do.

If it wasn’t for us trying to recognise the locations, this movie would have put us to sleep. So watch it if you’re South African.

 

American Ninja 1

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Nothing says mid 80s like a ninja movie made by Americans and shot in Philippines for tax reasons. This movie is so mid-80’s that its even called American Ninja.

Cannon doesn’t mess around with unconventional plots and shots. This is Pretty straight forward. This movie was released in 1985 and looks like a mix of Rambo First blood of 1982 and 1981’s Enter the Ninja. You have a new guy in the group and he gets bullied and then fights the leader and then becomes a friends with the group and then they fight the bad guys who are attacking them for their army weapons.

It’s a lame movie and there is hardly any blood and gore despite all the fights. Michael Dudikoff is the lead actor that plays the Rambo role and he doesn’t know any martial arts. He just hops around like a clown from platform to platform. I think this lead role was given to him as a favour by the Cannon producers. They kept him too for the next three movies because this one was a big success. It costs $1m to make and made over $10m in sales in the initial release. That’s good going for Cannon. Most of their movies are poor performers. They do even go bankrupt in 1996. They had a good decade of fun. Profit, not so much.

There was a slight twist at the end. The love interest of Dudikoff, was the daughter of some high rank official that commanded the army. But it turns out that the Official was also connected to the bad guys. Thats how the bad guys knew where to get the guns.

Dudikoff says almost nothing for the entire movie. This is supposed to rip off Rambo but Dudi looks like there is something wrong with him.

Non-stop terrible action that is fun to watch. Watch it.