From: dcpiii@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (pawlak dan)
Subject: Re: Robot Holocaust? Ninja films?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:44:38 GMT

ph@cs.uow.edu.au (Phillip Herring) writes:

dcpiii@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu "T.V.'s Dan Pawlak" 

You can also look for Robot Holocaust on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and 
watch the fun as the gang destroys this one!!!!
...what do ya think sirs???


>ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:


>>I saw "Robot Holocaust" at the video store. I know I've seen
>>this mentioned here before, but I can't remember what was
>>said about it. Anyone want to review/recommend/pan it for
>>me?


>Thank heavens I kept this.
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>Film Review: "Robot Holocaust"

>Hi! Phil here, the king of schlock. You know, sometimes
>people say to me, "Phil, why do you watch so many bad
>movies?" And I reply, "Because they are there."

>Take "Robot Holocaust". It was there in the video shop, in
>the SciFi section. Why not hire it? It was new, it was
>released by Virgin, who've taken to putting out bad
>SciFi/Horror movies of late ("Slave Girls from Beyond
>Infinity", "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama", and
>"Waldo Warren, Private Dick without a Brain" spring to mind.)
>Why not hire it and inject more garbage into my head? It
>beats the hell out of drugs.

>So, much to the annoyance of my spouse and the spouse of my
>friend who was with me, I hired it. (Later on I blamed him
>for the choice.) And I was surprised. This is a very funny
>film! Unintentionally funny, but funny nevertheless.

>Another post-holocaust movie: this time, robots rule the
>earth, controlled by an evil being whose identity and
>significance elude me for the moment. There arises a man who
>decides to overthrow this evil being for some pretext that I
>have forgotten. On his way he encounters amazon women (no,
>not from the moon - from New York!), one of whom accompanies
>him to the city where the evil being lives.

>And this is where it gets exciting, because the evil being's
>chief hench-person is Valaria (not Malaria, which is what it
>sounds like in the movie.) Valaria is acted by a woman called
>Angelika Jager, who plays it the the hilt in the most
>brilliantly appropriate style for this film! At first you
>might think, "My god, this bimbo can't act for peanuts!" (I
>know I did.) But wait! There must be more to this: there is
>so little talent here, but so much damn style with it, surely
>this actress knows exactly what she's doing? Surely she's
>just PRETENDING to act badly? I tell you, this woman is a
>comic GENIUS! Her part had me rolling on the floor in
>stitches. She clearly KNEW the film was schlock, and adjusted
>her performance accordingly!

>Look, it's a bad movie, I don't deny that. But it ranges out
>into that rare cinema genre, the Bad Film. It's so bad it's
>good: from the mincing robot playing the part of C3PO, to the
>voice of the Evil One who sounds like 'Deep Thought' from the
>Hitch-Hiker's Guide, it's all there. Cliches, bad acting,
>trash script and a budget so small that all the special
>effects were glove puppets (no! It's true! See for yourself!)
>Watch out for "Bizzarchitecture" in future films - if this is
>their idea of special effects, I can scarcely imagine what
>they'll do next!

>Watch this tape. It's good for the soul. Treat yourself to
>some schlock for a change, you won't regret it.


>-- Phil.
>-- 

>-- Phil.
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>        These opinions (c) 1992 Phil Herring (ph@cs.uow.edu.au)
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