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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
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Don't get me wrong, I'm going to watch some of the stuff you're posting (that I haven't seen), like Project Power and this:
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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
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How is it even possible a movie directed by Tobe Hooper, written by Dan O'Bannon and starring Karen Black and Louise Fletcher can be 5/10?
A: It's from Cannon.
IIRC they're the ones who made loads of Bronson movies when he was about 85. And to be fair, at least some are pretty good/terrible fun.
They also made Lifeforce, a film with a cult following but I remember as being quite boring, considering it features an attractive French space vampire wandering around Britain completely naked, which seems impossible to fuck up.
This excellent page about Lifeforce makes it sound a lot better than it is:
Blake: There is, of course, a very fragile and complex dynamic to every movie - millions of factors, actors, story elements, etc. - but in your opinion what was it about this movie that didn't work?
Calum: Selling a summer film on a naked woman with big breasts destroying London was always going to be a hard sell.
https://www.slashfilm.com/541076/lif...-oral-history/
They apparently made about 90% of everything on video rental shelves in the 80s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_Cannon_1980s