Some recently watched moviez.

Cobra vs Ninja
This is it. Italodisco and Nin­jas! Totally WTF expe­ri­ence. It has also some Joy Divi­sion music in it ?!

City of the Liv­ing dead
Illog­i­cal and vio­lent zom­bie film. Like it or not, the syn­thetic sound­track by Fabio Frizzi is out­stand­ing. Check out with strong stom­ach. 3 out of 5.

Pro­fondo Rosso aka Deep Red
Often con­sid­ered as one of Dario Argento’s best movies and it cer­tainly is IMHO. This is where Gob­lin and Argento first began their work­ing together. Again, fab­u­lous sound­track. 4 out of 5.

Watched Mas­ters of the Uni­verse last week­end. Oh boy…

Mas­ters of the Uni­verse (1987, USA)
Direc­tor: Gary God­dard
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Adventure/Teen

The plot makes no sense and it’s filled with holes so I won’t bother telling it to you. Instead I asked myself cou­ple of ques­tions and answered them:

Where is Orko ?
– Gwildor replaced Orko as a comic side­kick.
Why ?
– Prob­a­bly because they did not have the tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate Orko.

Where is Prince Adam ?
– Nowhere. He-Man is all the time in his super­form although he shouts at the end, “I have the power!”.

Why does Skele­tor has large army of stormtroop­ers bor­rowed straight up from Star Wars –movies ?
– Yes, why? That is some­thing totally unprecedented.

Where is Bat­tle Cat (aka Cringer) or many other major char­ac­ters known from the series ?
– Well, the movie fol­lows the ani­ma­tion series only a little.

Clos­ing com­ments:
What you get is a movie that some­how resem­bles the Mas­ters of the Uni­verse with “stormtroop­ers” and same kind of music bor­rowed rom Star Wars but it actu­ally doesn’t remind anything!

Worth watch­ing?
If you’re look­ing for decent turkey, you’ve got watch Mas­ters of the Uni­verse. It has blonde mus­cu­lar Swedish actor sput­ter­ing bad eng­lish, rub­ber­faced Skele­tor, 80s teen movie action and of course, He-Man him­seld. For me, that was enough.

There is cur­rently a new He-Man and the Mas­ters of the Uni­verse –movie in pro­duc­tion (pro­duced by Joel Sil­ver). It will have visual effects done in the sim­i­lar way as with the movie “300”. It has the poten­tial but I fear the worst… I found cou­ple of inter­views (1) (2) about the new film and it seems they just might be doing it right. At least, in the way how the new Trans­form­ers film turned out to be.

Here is some great moments from the movie I uploaded to YouTube:

Yay, Kyny­Nasty was sup­posed to be about movies too, but I haven’t wrote any­thing about movies yet. So here is a bunch of selected reviews from past few weeks. I’m not the right per­son to do any kind of “in-depth analy­sis”, so this is my style of review. What kind of feel­ings it invoked, sorf of key­words to myself.

Im Staub der Sterne (In the Dust of the Stars) (1976 DDR)
Direc­tor: Got­tfried Kolditz
Sci-fi
Source: TV (Yle-Teema)
Feel­ings: Psy­che­delic, silly, sur­pris­ing, non-sense, didn’t-see-it-coming, 70s, retro sci-fi, ddr,
star trek, adven­tur­ous
Clos­ing com­ments: Hilar­i­ous bearded man in a blue jump­suit
Worth watch­ing? Absolutely, if you are look­ing for rare east­ern bloc sci-fi
***

Star­dust (2007, UK/USA)
Direc­tor: Matthew Vaughn
Fantasy/adventure/romance
Source: The­ater
Feel­ings: British, charm­ing, fab­u­lous, queer pirate, witches, jour­ney, unex­cep­tion­ally good, based on novel, not corny, not-the-usual-fussy-action-comedy-disney-crap, eye candy.
Clos­ing com­ments: Grandma would like this too.
Worth watch­ing? Def­i­nitely. Some­thing for every­one.
****

Tide­land (2005, Canada/USA)
Direc­tor: Terry Gilliam
Fantasy/Gilliamism
Source: The­ater
Feel­ings: typ­i­cal for direc­tor, sur­re­al­is­tic, black com­edy, Alice in wonder(gilliam)land feel­ing, child­hood, annoy­ing retarded per­son, slant, pup­pets, talk­ing ani­mals, nos­tal­gia, amaz­ing per­for­mance, per­verse
Clos­ing com­ments: Airy fairy phan­tas­magoric play.
Worth watch­ing? Yes, for fans of Terry Gilliam. A plot would be nice.
**

Daft Punk’s Elec­troma (2007, French/USA)
Director(s): Thomas Ban­gal­ter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo
Sci-fi/Experimental
Feel­ings: art­ful, demand­ing, hik­ing sequence, need-to-focus, non-movie, silent, exquis­ite, stun­ning sound­track, androids, kär­lek, emo­tion­ally chal­leng­ing
Clos­ing com­ments: Silent exper­i­men­tal mas­ter­piece about robots
Worth watch­ing? As a fan of Daft Punk yes, the sound­track is absolutely bril­liant (no Daft Punk though)
****

Check this end­ing scene of Elec­troma. Not quite any­thing I’ve ever seen before. Not much hap­pen­ing but the song (Jack­son C. Frank — Dia­logue) is so touch­ing! Be care­ful, you might burst into tears.