Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 28, 2014 19:17:04 GMT -6
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
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I would like to thank Celluloid Dreams , the crew/interviewees, and the sales team for providing me a screener of the Cannon Films Documentary.
Grade: A-
The only thing bad about this movie is it is too short.
I can't wait to see the outtakes from this movie.
The screener I saw had people like Christopher Pearce interviewed that didn't reveal their name. This may make it hard for people that are not familiar with the Cannon history to figure out who this guy is. They interview the 2 Cannon founders, Christopher Dewey and Dennis Friedland , and they talk about amassing a library of 70 exploitation films before they sold the company to Golan and Globus because it was too hard to raise money in the late 70's to make movies.
Contrary to the popular belief that Golan/Globus came to the United States broke is wrong. They had money from the Lemon Popsicle series in Israel. They also could have went back to their company there if they failed here.The old archival footage from their Israel days and when they were young men is also cool.
Everyone claims Menahem Golan had bad taste.How can someone with that much bad taste become as successful as they did? They rivaled the major studios for a short time and if they would have had just a few hits, they would have been ok.
The stuff I would have liked to see would have been a tour of their HQ. The had guards with machine guns in their lobby after the Delta Force premiered. I wanted to see Menahem Golan's giant purple office that he did business in.
Tobe Hooper said that Golan/Globus were the biggest executives he ever worked with that loved movies . And he made Poltergeist for Steven Spielberg.
Robert Forster said that the Delta Force was a action movie and he had to get killed to make the good guys look good.
Laurene Landon pissed and moaned about not being paid on time for America 3000.
Dolph Lundren felt silly about playing He-man in the Masters of The Universe movie.
Everyone else really didn't have anything bad to really say that would stick.Is bad taste a crime ? I think the Cannon movies hold up really well for today.The money they spent on them always made the movies look good. The scripts may have been bad, but what about today's Hollywood ?
Everyone who likes Cannon and sees this movie will like it.
Reviewed off of Vimeo
I would like to thank Celluloid Dreams , the crew/interviewees, and the sales team for providing me a screener of the Cannon Films Documentary.
Grade: A-
The only thing bad about this movie is it is too short.
I can't wait to see the outtakes from this movie.
The screener I saw had people like Christopher Pearce interviewed that didn't reveal their name. This may make it hard for people that are not familiar with the Cannon history to figure out who this guy is. They interview the 2 Cannon founders, Christopher Dewey and Dennis Friedland , and they talk about amassing a library of 70 exploitation films before they sold the company to Golan and Globus because it was too hard to raise money in the late 70's to make movies.
Contrary to the popular belief that Golan/Globus came to the United States broke is wrong. They had money from the Lemon Popsicle series in Israel. They also could have went back to their company there if they failed here.The old archival footage from their Israel days and when they were young men is also cool.
Everyone claims Menahem Golan had bad taste.How can someone with that much bad taste become as successful as they did? They rivaled the major studios for a short time and if they would have had just a few hits, they would have been ok.
The stuff I would have liked to see would have been a tour of their HQ. The had guards with machine guns in their lobby after the Delta Force premiered. I wanted to see Menahem Golan's giant purple office that he did business in.
Tobe Hooper said that Golan/Globus were the biggest executives he ever worked with that loved movies . And he made Poltergeist for Steven Spielberg.
Robert Forster said that the Delta Force was a action movie and he had to get killed to make the good guys look good.
Laurene Landon pissed and moaned about not being paid on time for America 3000.
Dolph Lundren felt silly about playing He-man in the Masters of The Universe movie.
Everyone else really didn't have anything bad to really say that would stick.Is bad taste a crime ? I think the Cannon movies hold up really well for today.The money they spent on them always made the movies look good. The scripts may have been bad, but what about today's Hollywood ?
Everyone who likes Cannon and sees this movie will like it.