'Red Sonja' (1985)

'Red Sonja' (1985) Oct 22, 2017 2:10:16 GMT teleadm likes this

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Post by petrolino on Oct 22, 2017 2:10:16 GMT

Oct 21, 2017 15:25:31 GMT teleadm said:

This movie is what it is, and if you look at it like that it's harmless lazy viewing.

Richard Fleischer, son of Max Fleischer of Popeye and Betty Boop fame, was a very uneven director but he turned out a lot of good movies like 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954, Fantastic Voyage 1966, The Boston Strangler 1968, Tora Tora Tora 1970, 10 Rillington Place 1971 and Soylent Green 1973. During Red Sonja I wonder if he just waited for his paycheck.

For those who want to see a very pumped up Arnold, this is a golden opportunity.

As for Brigitte Nielsen, danes woke up one morning and heard that a danish woman in Hollywood made it big, and they had never heard about her. Danes as a sort of love/hate relationship with her, just as Swedes have with Dolph Lundgren. It's fun that someone can sneak under the elite noses un-noticed and become something for a short while, that part I like, sadly both Brigitte and Dolph are horrendiously bad stiff actors/actresses.

Hi teleadm. I'm a big Richard Fleischer fan, a director who broke new ground many times - for example, his sound designs created with musical inventor Mario Nascimbene, or home studio electronics pioneer Charles Bernstein. His experimentations within the realms of special effects and cinematography - 'Violent Saturday' (1955) has been picking up alot of new fans since its dvd restoration, as it should - it's a fantastic and innovative crime picture. Most of his movies are incredibly entertaining, he's a true genre director, like Don Siegel, or Robert Aldrich, or Sam Fuller. 'Red Sonja' is far from his best but it's not the disgrace it's sometimes been made out to be. For another old master running unfairly foul of the 1980s critical press, I'd suggest Stanley Donen - 'Saturn 3' (1980) is a really entertaining picture.

Great to hear about Denmark (largely) embracing the achievements of Brigitte Nielsen (is there a more Danish name that Nielsen)? She's captivating in 'Red Sonja', easy to see why she became a star.