Oliver Gruner is a legit real life badass. He was in the French Navy equivalent of the Marines, and you guys nailed it, a professional kickboxer. Everything Sifu Seagal wished he was.
@megatronjenkins2473
2 жыл бұрын
Sifu Seagull FIFY🤣
@jamesburchill7522
2 жыл бұрын
You lost me at "badass and French."
@Alan-pg8uj
2 жыл бұрын
he also definitely wrote his own wikipedia
@nightshadeii9248
2 жыл бұрын
@@Alan-pg8uj 😂😂😂😂 you might be right lmao
@DesertMav
2 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing some Oliver Gruner movies in the 90s and early 00s. Dude was like a French JCVD.
@stonecoldku4161
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think they used a normal explosives expert for the explosions in this movie. They used a pyromaniac.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Haha, for sure.
@NefariousKoel
2 жыл бұрын
The granny with the gun and palsy was hilarious.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Kicked Sven's ass.
@TruOnyxfire
2 жыл бұрын
Brione James was the ultimate tough guy/minion/hired muscle/lieutenant/henchman of almost every movie ever made where an extra bad guy was needed. He was in SO many movies.
@demizson576
2 жыл бұрын
Al Leong: Hold my candy bar.
@megatronjenkins2473
2 жыл бұрын
Second to the legendary Al Leong, sorry.
@TruOnyxfire
2 жыл бұрын
@@megatronjenkins2473 Well, looking at their careers... Al Leong has a whopping 75 career film credits, while Brione James has 174. Pretty sure James wins.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
The dude is in a lot of stuff.
@alebroker7587
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant from the top of my head , Blade Runner, Red Scorpion, Tango & Cash, Another 48 hours, Enemy mine, Crimewave.....
@echochamber4420
2 жыл бұрын
Legend has it that 9 months after the shooting wrapped up, Olivier Gruner was the father to 17 babies.
@georgesykes394
2 жыл бұрын
You can add 29 grand kids to the tally.
@evilswissy
Жыл бұрын
legend jokes are lame you brainless sheeple... be original and quit being a typical brainless mainstream media fed sheeple
@elinovak3770
8 ай бұрын
Extra child support
@sonnyhernandez5002
2 жыл бұрын
I think Equiliberium and Underworld also stole the shoot through the floor thing too honestly. Also, as an old dude who's somewhat of a gymrat despite being retired and disabled, all my homegirls i workout with are jacked. Everyone thinks it's cool until you realize they eat like 9 times a day and blow up every toilet everywhere they go and will literally steal your food in front of you if you stop anywhere to eat, ever.
@Vostok7
2 жыл бұрын
When I looked this up and saw it was 1992, I was legitimately surprised. For an early '90s B-movie, it seems really well done. It's very VERY clear that Matrix took a lot of inspiration from this movie, enough so that at first I would have imagined this was from after the Matrix and clearly inspired by Matrix. So it was legitimately surprising to find this came out 7 years before.
@JeffreyLong
2 жыл бұрын
I’d even go so far as to say Underworld also ripped this movie off. So many of the action scenes from the first movie seem directly lifted from this, in retrospect
@cobracommander8133
2 жыл бұрын
@@JeffreyLong Underworld TOTALLY ripped off the shoot through the floor sequence.
@Psyrus88
2 жыл бұрын
That shot of Alex sliding down the hill backwards while firing was most certainly referenced in The Matrix when Trinity fell down the stairs and whipped out the two Berettas.
@HulluJanne
Жыл бұрын
Also knowing about the first Matrix script made in 1994, it was much more inspired by this kind of material than it later became to be, when they removed the part that was "good" from the Hollywood bosses point of view.
@Billy-bc8pk
11 ай бұрын
What's crazy is that the shoot-through-the-floor scene looked better and was done better in Nemesis on a much smaller budget. Pyun directed his butt off on this film, and the editors were on some next-level stuff putting it all together.@@cobracommander8133
@GiggaVega
2 жыл бұрын
Just for the old woman alone, this movie is awesome. She looked completely natural at it. Stone cold grandma 👵
@HulluJanne
Жыл бұрын
And that pistol was not a toy!
@ericlamb4501
11 ай бұрын
She's definitely fucked some people up for money back in the day, that shit was like instinct for her
@Deseis
2 жыл бұрын
And you're right about the circular sunglasses, they look good on literally everyone
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know why they went away.
@Deseis
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant Morpheus borrowed them 😂
@cykeok3525
2 жыл бұрын
Dude they need to come back.
@victisomega4248
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant They never did for me. I wear them out everyday, Joopin makes great affordable models that work quite well.
@alun7006
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant Women started wearing those massive shades to make them look skinnier. I blame Victoria Beckham.
@noelienoelie8425
2 жыл бұрын
That 360 corkscrew no scope on top of the waterfall. 👌Magnificent!
@alucard624
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine the Kill Cam for that shot. Epic!
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
The only way to fire off a kill shot.
@spicydragon3881
2 жыл бұрын
This one was legitimately fun. It had a relatively low beer to laugh ratio. I was friends with a professional stunt woman and she was friggin' jacked, sadly stunt women don't get enough credit. Was nice to see - 80's & 90's were movie gold.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
They definitely don't get enough credit.
@DatelessPiano
2 жыл бұрын
"I don't care anymore. There's a naked woman." Priceless.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
I mean... right?
@TheGemini35
2 жыл бұрын
I actually got to meet Olivier Grunner on the set of one of his movies he was filming in LA. He is a really super nice guy
@u.2b215
2 жыл бұрын
His backstory almost looks made up: _"In 1981 Gruner left the French military with the aim to train full-time in order to compete professionally as a kick boxer. He traveled to the French Alps and began an intensive training regimen. In order to pay for his training expenses, he had to hold down four jobs, as a bouncer, a ski patrol member, a martial arts trainer, and a ski lift operator"_
@megatronjenkins2473
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's widely thought he wrote his own Wikipedia 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@robertlilly1751
2 жыл бұрын
It’s so he can do as many cut-aways as family guy with stories
@NIGHTSTALKER973
2 жыл бұрын
So he's like Seagal minus the bullshit then 🤣 ?
@OMGmyFACE
Жыл бұрын
When you work at ski resorts, this becomes way less fantastical and more like "yeah, I met three of these guys." If you're looking to hide or reinvent, that's where you go, it seems.
@manticorephoenix
Жыл бұрын
Paid for his martial arts training by becoming a martial arts trainer, cause that’s how that works I guess
@cinemathequerouge317
2 жыл бұрын
Olivier Gruner (pronounced grew ner) is a French kickboxer, served in French military. The producers of this film, Imperial, were grooming him to be the next Van Damme. They started him off in "Angel Town." Yes, that was Shang Tsung. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Brion James was in "Blade Runner", "The Fifth Element" The Commissioner was played by Full Moon veteran, Tim Thomerson ("Dollman" also directed by Pyun, and "Trancers"). The volcano scene was shot in Hawaii. Looking forward to you watching the sequels. There are four of them. "Nemesis 2 : Nebula", "Nemesis 3: Prey Harder", "Nemesis 4: Cry of Angels", & "Nemesis 5: The New Model". Part 4 is my favourite of the sequels. You guys are slipping. This film, "Nemesis", is actually good. Unlike the works of Sifu Seagal. "China Salesman" was pure torture. It was painful just watching you watch it!
@mvyper
2 жыл бұрын
4 sequels ?!? I hope they watch them... That would be awesome !
@jgaines4
Жыл бұрын
Usually I shy away from youtube comment sections as they are an absolute cesspool, but this may be the most informative, yet critical, yet polite, comment I've ever read. That's a lot of commas. Sorry. Also, I'm now going to watch all of the Nemesis movies.
@Billy-bc8pk
11 ай бұрын
Careful, they're nowhere near as good as the original. But then again, I don't know anything about Nemesis 4. Nemesis 2 and 3 are nothing like the original, but I will definitely check out Nemesis 4. @@jgaines4
@tjsogmc
2 жыл бұрын
Now you know what happened to all the stuntmen from the Cannon films of the 80's: they all got together in the 90's and starred in their own movie :)
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Seriously.
@FreejackVesa
10 ай бұрын
The real "Expendables"
@Psyrus88
2 жыл бұрын
I found this bit of trivia on IMDB: "During the scene with the old lady shooting the cyborg, director Albert Pyun expressed concerns that holding the gun would take a physical toll on Mabel Falls, who plays the old lady with shotgun. She managed to pull through." Hell yeah she did.
@mvyper
Жыл бұрын
😁👍
@user-iv2mz5fj6o
2 жыл бұрын
Albert Pyun was one of the most underrated director of all time. He made his own hiper brutal and sexy aestatic. True visioneer of 90s
@larshansson1953
2 жыл бұрын
Was? He isn't dead, man.
@user-iv2mz5fj6o
2 жыл бұрын
@@larshansson1953 hes last movies was like it was made by corp. Check Bulletface (2010), or better tnot do this
@JeffreyLong
2 жыл бұрын
@@larshansson1953 he’s not dead, but he’s severely ill. He has multiple sclerosis, and has dementia really bad. So he doesn’t really make movies anymore
@JDoe-gf5oz
2 жыл бұрын
He was diagnosed with MS and dementia several years ago and hasn't worked since 2014.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
I'll have to watch more of his stuff.
@derworfnet
2 жыл бұрын
The Motel-shootout is _insane._ When Albert Pyun was on he was *on!* I can also recommend "Mean Guns"
@JDoe-gf5oz
2 жыл бұрын
Dollman has amazing effects for it's budget.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
I'll check it out!
@derworfnet
Жыл бұрын
On that note, RIP Albert Pyun. 😢
@hawaiianpunch06
2 жыл бұрын
I unironically love this movie. Albert Pyun has directed some of my all time favorite dumb genre movies including this and its sequels. He also directed Dollman with Tim Thomerson (the old badass cyborg in this), Radioactive Dreams, the 1990 Captain America movie, and JCVD's Cyborg. You should definitely deep dive into his filmography for some good gems.
@Psyrus88
2 жыл бұрын
Evidently Pyun really liked that abandoned factory used for filming the opening sequence, because he shot there once again in Dollman.
@doctorthirteen5499
2 жыл бұрын
@@Psyrus88 literally free real estate.
@soopergenyus
2 жыл бұрын
Tim Thomerson rocks!
@21stcenturyhiphop
2 жыл бұрын
@@soopergenyus Trancers
@giorgiopalmas7934
2 жыл бұрын
Erin is the perfect woman. If you forget her birthday or Valentine's Day she will forget about it a week later.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
🤣 🤣
@waynesmiley2207
2 жыл бұрын
That shooting through the floor sequence was unique with some of the angles.
@jerriecan
2 жыл бұрын
One of my very favorite movies - tons of action, explosions, relentlessly entertaining. And who doesn't love Tim Thomerson?
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely want to watch more of his stuff.
@highwaysamurai13
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant For more Tim Thomerson, I recomend Dollman, Trancers and Dollman vs The Demonic Toys. And for more serious fare Uncommon Valor starring alongside Gene Hackman and a VERY young Patrick Swayze.
@eduardodiaz9942
2 жыл бұрын
I have the same problem as Erin, in an action movie whenever some time passes without, you know, action, I'm like "STOP TALKING AND KILL SOMEONE, YOU (HUUUUUUUUUURRRRR)" And speaking of action, you NEED to watch Hard Boiled. Get the whole crew. I guarantee that would be the best SBIG episode ever.
@DeanS946
2 жыл бұрын
That film isn't bad though!
@SubaruMalibu
2 жыл бұрын
@@DeanS946 Yeah, Hard Boiled is a legitimate classic.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
I saw that years and years ago. Need to revisit it at some point.
@eduardodiaz9942
2 жыл бұрын
@Konstantin Dahlin So are Death Wish 3 and Lone Wolf McQuade, and yet they're on the show.
@pkune5158
2 жыл бұрын
"Karate kid 2, that's the asshole" 🤣🤣🤣👏👏 what a line
@benaldredge2671
2 жыл бұрын
Great movie! Awesome review guys. Also, Erin cracks me up. She has the patience of a boiling tea kettle when it comes to the action in a movie.
@jimmyfingers227
2 жыл бұрын
I love her feet ,she's hot
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
She has zero time for dialogue in movies 🤣
@Neon-Covenanter
2 жыл бұрын
This is a genuinely good movie, although some of the better parts come through inference.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
I dug it.
@pathatfield2543
2 жыл бұрын
That’s partially the secret to successful world-building,I think.
@Psyrus88
2 жыл бұрын
Having seen only what was displayed in this video, what sorts of things were inferred?
@Neon-Covenanter
2 жыл бұрын
@@Psyrus88 In general, the Cyberpunk world in which it takes place; which they didn't have the budget to show, and is left largely for the audience to imagine.
@FreejackVesa
10 ай бұрын
@@Neon-CovenanterI think "peak cyberpunk" was when Billy Idol released his album "Cyberpunk" in 1993. As a trend, Cyberpunk really kind of fizzled out by the late 90s. Just putting that out there if anyone is interested in a SBIG concept album by Billy Idol
@JeffreyLong
2 жыл бұрын
The old guy villain in this, Tim Thomerson, has his own series of movies through Full Moon called Trancers where he’s a time traveling cop that hunts zombies. Helen Hunt plays his love interest as well.
@burtknighten4438
Жыл бұрын
And full moons Dollman series
@FreejackVesa
10 ай бұрын
I think "Dollman vs Demonic Toys" is underrated. It was the full moon crossover we didn't know we needed
@JeffreyLong
10 ай бұрын
@@FreejackVesa I like the actual new stuff in it quite a bit and it’s a lot of fun, but I hate that half of the movie (or more) is just flashbacks recapping the previous three movies that it connects with, lol
@danielschein960
2 жыл бұрын
I love Nemesis. I had the pleasure of interviewing the director Albert Pyun years back, and it definitely ranks as one of his better films.
@cebraulkenne8571
2 жыл бұрын
When they all jump through the big window, they don't stop shooting for a second. They're not even aiming at anything, just holding the guns. Fucking amazing.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant 🤣
@kentuckyjerk323
2 жыл бұрын
Two things missing in 2022 - 1) not enough cyborg movies 2) music videos where the band poster came to life and destroyed the house in front of the parents who hate rock and roll
@mummifiedgamer
2 жыл бұрын
1) not enough cyborgs FTFY
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
A distinct lack of ninjas too.
@megatronjenkins2473
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant seriously!!!
@Fluoride_Jones
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant There's also not nearly enough gratuitous nudity in modern films. I miss that from the golden age of films, the 1980s. 😁
@alun7006
2 жыл бұрын
@@Fluoride_Jones There was a great article I read fairly recently about just this. Hollywood has gone super sterile and safe. It was titled something like "everyone's hot and nobody's horny." Good read.
@ExUSSailor
2 жыл бұрын
Gruner was a professional kick boxer in France from '81 to '88.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Ahh, thanks!
@madisonbrown5766
2 жыл бұрын
He is a martial artist but what struck me was he was also in the French Commandos unit in the French marines. It’s one of the toughest special forces units. Great video as always.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@dizzyroseblade
Жыл бұрын
"Gutchies" is definitely a Western PA thing. Every lady I know over about 40-45ish who grew up around the Pittsburgh area says it. Not a lot of younger folks or guys in particular say it though... Also contextually it's mostly used in the sense that a joke about seeing or not wearing them is being made. So like, you'd say "Watch your skirt, I can see your gutchies!" or "He's learning to get his gutchies on all by himself!" - but you wouldn't hear someone generally say "I'm gonna head to Victoria's Secret and pick up some sexy gutchies for our anniversary." or "I'm done packing for the trip - I figured three pairs of pants and five pairs of gutchies will do.". You might hear the last one, maybe, depending on how often the person speaking really wants to say the word gutchies, I mean, people will shoehorn it in if they love saying it.
@FreejackVesa
10 ай бұрын
Interesting. I lived in a time in Cleveland after moving there from Philly. Never heard gutchies in the south east Pa. Or in Ohio. But honestly it does sound like something Steelers fans would say, so it's not surprising. 😂 Edit: yinz fupa overflowing dem gutchies! Lol
@stonecoldku4161
2 жыл бұрын
27:53 Our hero ladies and gentlemen. Uses the small pixie lady as his crash pad.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
🤣
@kabardino1337
2 жыл бұрын
FINALLY! I recommended this movie to you guys months ago xD. This movie is Pyun's masterpiece (or whatever the director's name is). I love this movie, it's on my top movies list, I love it in all honesty. I wish to develop a game based off this movie, I already got some concepts of how it'll play out, it's plot, etc. I lifted so much out of this movie it's downright copycatting. My dream is to get the director's greenlight, so I don't have to change things up and try to avoid a lawsuit.
@richardborczynski4955
2 жыл бұрын
Oliver gunner needs to be in an expendables!!! I hope you have a cannon films checklist, we need another company that pumps out SBIG movies!!
@Timelord007
2 жыл бұрын
definetly🖒
@cinemathequerouge317
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Gruner, Don the Dragon Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock too.
@Timelord007
2 жыл бұрын
@@cinemathequerouge317 Hell yeah
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah.
@dredd1981
2 жыл бұрын
Damn, I wasn't going to watch this one but I'm glad I did, seeing Thomas Jane really sold it to me, the casting for this movie was awesome, good to also see man mountain Sven in it too
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Great cast!
@Jurgen_Wulf
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you finally watched this movie! Check some other Albert Pyun movies like Cyborg and Mean Guns you won’t be disappointed!
@mdbrewer07
2 жыл бұрын
Mean Guns is awesome!
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Will do.
@Deseis
2 жыл бұрын
I saw it in the theater and it blew my 15 year old mind lol
@keithcalvosa5894
2 жыл бұрын
This shit was actually in a theater
@Deseis
2 жыл бұрын
@@keithcalvosa5894 Battlefield Earth was in theaters, the bar was lower back then
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
In the theater? Nice!
@JvS1711
2 жыл бұрын
@@Deseis 8 years between this and BE. Especially around that time that's a whole different world (effectively going from a pre-Internet for most people to an era where people are getting speeds good enough to download movies).
@JvS1711
2 жыл бұрын
I watched it in the cinema too, lived in Singapore at the time and they were super cheap, everywhere and had the cool handpainted posters.
@nickdirienzo2849
11 ай бұрын
The older bad guy is a badass, he played Dollman in the movie "Dollman"!
@edrose2772
2 жыл бұрын
I saw this on HBO in the mid 1990's and for some reason totally fell in love with this movie and even picked it up on DVD.
@ironmankc8142
2 жыл бұрын
He was a kick boxer haha! Erin killed it with that one. The 80s and 90s were a wild time for movies.
@JDelwynn
2 жыл бұрын
Why didn't I see this movie as a kid, I think I would've loved it!
@jculver1674
2 жыл бұрын
The guy from Karate Kid 2 is Yuji Okumoto, who also owns a chain of Hawaiian-themed restaurants up here in Seattle. I literally had dinner at his restaurant last night, and now I'm seeing him on your channel.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@DoomyMacDoomface
Жыл бұрын
I found out that there are three sequels to this and all four movies are available on Blu-ray. Bought the first one on the strength of what I saw here.
@mvyper
Жыл бұрын
I got the entire 4 films box, after seeing this. And I had the pleasure of finding out that one of the sequels is a movie I 've been looking for since 1998.😊👍
@jessehutchings
Жыл бұрын
This has to be a 9/10 movie I mean, jacked women, nudity and the gun fight action scenes are actually extremely creative and impressive looking
@BatCaveOz
2 жыл бұрын
FYI - There are 5 movies in the Nemesis Series... the 3rd one is made up of leftover footage from the 2nd one.
@enthusiasticallyapathetic743
8 ай бұрын
I'm really bummed you're not going to see this comment, but the main baddie is Tim Thomerson AKA: Dollman/Jack Deth (Trancers). I'm glad you guys watched this bc it's definitely one of my favorites, idk even how many times I've seen it. Sadly your critique is spot on. Thanks
@tigermunky
2 жыл бұрын
I genuinely don't know how I found this channel or why it was recommended. I assume because I watch RLM and other such shows. However, I am very pleased that this was sent my way. I've really been enjoying the backlog of episodes. Keep it up!
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
@FreejackVesa
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, it's a good channel. I just discovered it and am binge watching all the old episodes. I wish they had a spreadsheet or google doc with the listing of the movies they've watched and what SBIG ratings/approvals it received, I suppose I could motivate and create it but hopefully someone else already has
@roryslaine7896
2 жыл бұрын
"It's so aggressively 90s." 😂😂 Man I love this channel.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks 🤣
@roryslaine7896
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant No worries man! I'm just dreading the day when you run out of shite movies 😣 As long as Sifu is still going we should be okay though... 😂
@veronho1ness
2 жыл бұрын
The older cyborg was played by the actor Tim Thomerson. Thomerson was the lead in a one of my guilty pleasure 80's movie "Trancers" in the role of Jack Deth.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to Trancers.
@rolfstuh
2 жыл бұрын
Saw this movie in 1993. I was 13 years old and i had a blast! One of my alltime favorit actionmovies
@stonecoldku4161
2 жыл бұрын
"They'll wait there until the sun vanishes, then they're gone." Are we getting vampires in this movie too?!
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
🤣 For real.
@metal80772
2 жыл бұрын
Now that grey haired Joseph Thomerson has been introduced to you, now you HAVE to watch Doll Man!!
@FlyboyHelosim
2 жыл бұрын
These videos have become the highlight of my Sundays. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. 😂
@darkzer0670
2 жыл бұрын
It is what it is.
@megatronjenkins2473
2 жыл бұрын
So Bad It's Good 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Good, of course 🤣
@MBlacklaw
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, either Granny has put a few rounds downrange in her day, or her meds are top notch. Or maybe both! Most of the time even the stunt players flinch like rookies.
@Emulous79
Жыл бұрын
I swear this is better than The Matrix.
@rokitflite
2 жыл бұрын
Dammit Jason! Your comment to the effect of "I'm sure they could have found a better camera angle so that we didn't have to see her colon" made me laugh so hard and for so long my girlfriend had to pause the video and got up to get a snack while I recovered🤣🤣🤣. You guys are all so awesome! if you're ever near Laurel Maryland I will buy you a six pack for the next video.
@bjornericnilsson
2 жыл бұрын
Another amazing reaction/review! Nice job y'all! This film delivers some terrific exigent scenes. Albert Pyun has a bunch of other "gems" too. Also, another film that I would put in this low-budget cyberpunk category would be: Hardware (1990). Definitely worth a watch, especially on this channel.
@davidlionheart2438
Жыл бұрын
Hot chicks, hot dudes, cute dogs, Brion James, AND Tim Thomerson: automatically 5 out of 5.
@DeanS946
2 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah! I hope you dive into more Albert Pyun films (the director of this and Van Damme's Cyborg). He also did some Kickboxer sequels and the first one is better than the original! Also his Dollman is a delight, with Tim Thomerson (the villain in this) as the tiny man with a powerful alien gun. Pyun didn't plan any of the tiny man style shots out yet it still sort of works.
@FrigidNinja78
2 жыл бұрын
All I can remember about that movie is inverted nipples..I was a teenager at the time 😅😂
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to checking out more of his stuff.
@Dr_Cosmobyte
2 жыл бұрын
Until the 29min mark i was like "Dude, who recommended this? This is not bad! Acting is something we can get over" but then the plane and stop motion scenes kicked in and i realized where the budget ended. But hey, this movie looks pretty runny cheese to me. Worth a watch.
@romrimland
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, between appreciating hot chicks to quoting Cake! Erin is a keeper for sure!
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
That she is!
@ColdDiceConspiracy
2 жыл бұрын
That shot of him going down through multiple floors is forever ingrained in my memory.
@Timelord007
2 жыл бұрын
Great reactions, I love this film it has mostly practical effects and in camera action scenes, the dialogues clunky but at least they made a effort with the stunts, shootouts unlike today were they cgi mostly everything. Oliver Gruner made some decent B movie action films I recommend you check out Automatic & Savate. The director of this directed JCVD in Cyborg, if you notice the guy Alex shot in the neck in bathroom played the villian Fender.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Haven't seen Cyborg yet, but it's on the list!
@Timelord007
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant Erin will love Cyborg it is dialogue light and features lots semi naked muscular men Lol.
@manicpixiefangirl4189
2 жыл бұрын
I have to say, as a youngish woman whose been watching y’all for a while, I want to be as cool as Erin when I’m that age and to be as cool as that gun-toting granny when I’m old.
@scottguanci7806
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome job on this one- it's an anomaly and you all handled it perfectly - Can't wait for the sequels - especially once Sue Price appears - Have a great week all
@Kurasunoninki-sha
2 жыл бұрын
i like how the Brant thinks people hiding in a hole in the ground waiting to yeet the actors before just simply a trampoline.🤣
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
The Brant? 🤣 Launching actors is more common than you think.
@Kurasunoninki-sha
2 жыл бұрын
@@JasonBrant pretty sure I read that exact thing on the CAA website
@hingeslevers
2 жыл бұрын
Trampoline makes you go down first, which looks like...you're jumping on a trampoline. A couple of hands under a board can actually launch you without going down first.
@dennislogan6781
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you thank you thank you! One of my all time favorite bad films. Yes the acting is not great, but everything else is awesome. I have seen it over 30 times and will watch it again. Just don't watch the sequels, they make this one look like a high budget masterpiece.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
They aren't even fun bad?
@ShiddyShad808
Жыл бұрын
From the way the lead keeps losing side characters to the sweeping location shots of them traveling to their destination and the way the robot falls into the lava at the end, I couldn’t stop seeing The Lord of the Rings influence.
@DeadlyFredXXX
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe they made three more of these... either way, I thought this one was actually pretty good. It kind of put me in the mind of a John Woo/Hideo Kojima lovechild for some reason. I didn't mind the "boring" parts and the action and effects were great, didn't even mind the kind of hokey acting. I'll be checking out the rest for the sake of morbid curiosity.
@TheeOC
2 жыл бұрын
Remembered when this first aired on HBO. Every time it came on I was watching.
@jamegumb7298
2 жыл бұрын
Loved this one so much. Wait till you get to the sequels, total muscle chick worship.
@jculver1674
2 жыл бұрын
Albert Pyun definitely has a type, I'm just gonna say that and leave it there.
@Ninkyo893
2 жыл бұрын
Plus, there's like seven of these movies. Haha
@megatronjenkins2473
2 жыл бұрын
You didn't skin them, did you, Bill?
@BrianVarvaro
2 жыл бұрын
The first sequel stars Chad Stahelski, who later directed the John Wick movies and has become a big name all around. That's pretty crazy.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Oh really? So the dude likes beefed up ladies?
@antonydrossos5719
9 ай бұрын
23:12 THIS SCENE! I knew I’d seen this one when it came out on video! “State-Of-The-F$&kin’-Art, Alex!”
@brad3139
2 жыл бұрын
For this episode you're gonna have to change the title to "so good, it's good"
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Erin agrees!
@deletedwaffles
2 жыл бұрын
The action sequences in this film is like watching the Waterworld Universal Studios experience. All the explosions and people doing 360 corkscrew backflips and breaking set pieces is straight out of that type of show.
@RyllenKriel
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Oliver Gruner in quite a few movies in the 90s but I never saw this one. This has a metric shite-tonne of actors in it. Not a bad film!
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
So many recognizable faces.
@damienoconnor8898
2 жыл бұрын
Not Agent Smith was Tim Thomerson the main guy in the Trancers movie which I'm guessing has been requested a lot. Checking his bio, there is a movie called Dollman where he plays a 13 inch tall space cop. I'm gonna have to check that out.
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Just got a copy of Trancers recently.
@Cosmosopher
2 жыл бұрын
Another movie with this look and feel is "The Breed" (2001). It's about two detectives after a vampire serial killer... and one of them is also a vampire. You should watch it.
@paulodeblas8354
2 жыл бұрын
If you haven't watched it, I recommend 'Sword and the Sorceress'. That film is right from the mind of a highly medicated (Colombia style) era
@jilldiamonds3609
11 ай бұрын
"I never know what's going to happen." needs to be a t shirt!!!!!😂
@echochamber4420
2 жыл бұрын
Fun Facts: Deborah Shelton declined to use a body double for her nude scene. In preparation for his role, Olivier Gruner claims he brought his total body fat down to four percent. Deborah Shelton worked out for three and a half hours a day to get into shape to play Julian. The idea of Alex Rain being implanted with a bomb as insurance was borrowed from Escape from New York (1981). In the original script Alex Rain was a 13 year old girl working undercover for the LAPD. Megan Ward, who had just worked with Albert Pyun on Arcade (1993), was considered and expressed interest, despite reservations over the high level of violence and a scene in which her character was fully nude (Ward was, obviously, a legal adult at the time). A few test scenes were shot before searching for financiers, which led Pyun to the Shah brothers at Imperial Entertainment. They agreed to bankroll the film on one condition: Alex had to be changed into an adult male and Olivier Gruner, their recent discovery, had to play him. Pyun agreed when the Shahs promised not to influence production in any other way. The concept of Alex being a woman was eventually used in the sequels, played by bodybuilder Sue Price. Gene Warren Jr., the visual effects director, performed the same duties on Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The scene in which Olivier Gruner rides a bending sixty-foot pole to the ground required three different pole variants to find one which wouldn't bend for real. In some versions of the film, Alex Rain is the narrator rather than Jared. The dialogue is nearly identical, but the Alex narration, notably, does not explain why Morico (the woman in the opening scene) was targeted by the LAPD. The tower that collapses during the climactic chase scene was an actual piece of industrial infrastructure. Construction workers strategically cut the base of the tower, and when it began to fall, the stunt personnel were ready to run. The only special effects utilized for this shot were gasoline bombs used to create the explosion. The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Escape from New York (1981), The Terminator (1984) and RoboCop (1987) are all believed to be influences on the film. The film was filmed on location in Hawali and Montana, California. The TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) was speculated to be one of Albert Pyun's influences: In the film, Alex Rain is a human rebuilt as a Cyborg with spare robotic parts after nearly being killed in a gun battle. In the series, Colonel Steve Austin (Lee Majors) has his body parts replaced with robot parts when he is injured in a crash landing during a test flight. Deborah Shelton described her character Julian as an "embodiment of what human beings feel." The part of Billy Moon was one of Thomas Jane's earliest roles. Olivier Gruner played a cyborg again in Automatic (1995). Although the film was made in 1992, the film didn't hit American big screens until January 1993. The film did not premiere on British television until 2010. A scene in which Alex escapes a building by shooting his way through multiple floors was widely considered to be influenced by the works of Sam Raimi. A similar scene appeared in Underworld (2003). Deborah Shelton called the film's stunts "amazing." The film takes place in 2027. Nemesis was filmed on-location in Hilo, Hawaii and Montana, California. In the director's cut, the hotel at the beginning of the movie is named the Imperial Hotel. This is a reference to the production company, Imperial Entertainment. Bob Brown's first film as stunt coordinator. The assistant cameraman was injured during the floor scene. Luckily, it was only a minor injury. Director Albert Pyun has since gone on to say he didn't care for the film's musical score by Michel Rubini. Though Pyun has commended Rubini as a composer. Bob Brown ended up dislocating his shoulder during filming. Rebecca Charles is actually a pseudonym of Albert Pyun. Pyun took on the pseudonym due a request from the studio. The film was originally shot in 2.35:1. The abandoned factory set seen at the beginning was previously used in Dollman and Terminator 2. The scene with Vincent Klyn confronting Oliver Gruner were shot as inserts. Thomas Jane decided that his character of Billy Moon would be nude upon learning that Deborah Shelton's character of Julian was set to be nude in the latter character's first scene. This proved awkward for stuntman Bobby Brown, who was set to coordinate the later fight scene between the two. Tim Thomerson and Rhino Michaels previously co-starred in Trancers II. While those two actors shared at least one scene in that movie, they don't share any scenes at all in this movie. Jackie Earle Hayley hopped on the board the film as a means to break type post-Bad News Bears. Sven-Ole Thorsen would later go on to appear in Cyborg 2 and Barbara C. Adside would go on to appear in Cyborg 3. The original Cyborg was directed by Albert Pyun, the director of Nemesis. All of the interior scenes were shot in Los Angeles for scheduling reasons. Deborah Shelton accidentally injured Thomas Jane during filming. A chase sequence at the downtown L.A. fish market was proposed but the fish market wanted too much money from the filmmakers. Tony Riparetti was Albert Pyun's original choice for composer before Michel Rubini was hired. Riparetti had already composed some temp cue pieces for the film. Reportedly, director Albert Pyun clashed with co-producer Eric Karson during pre-production as well as in post. During the scene with the old lady shooting the cyborg, director Albert Pyun expressed concerns that holding the gun would take a physical toll on Mabel Falls, who plays the old lady with shotgun. She managed to pull through. Yuji Okumoto agreed to work on the film for less than his usual fee at the time of filming. The film's teamster drivers have cameos as Angie's henchmen.
@GlidingZephyr
2 жыл бұрын
I actually liked that a lot. My favorite aspects of the movie were probably all of the stoic, nearly unmoving poses with suits and big sunglasses (a staple and hold over from the 80's), combined with the huge gun props typical of the 90's and early 2000's. The stunts were the cherry on top. I'm also going to get some channel merch, soon. My company is about to pay out their last profit sharing check, so I may as well put part of it to good use. 👍
@Sunny_Doom
2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the zoom ins on the little dogo trying to eat shorts haha
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Haha
@rc_hoov7374
Жыл бұрын
I love the Barbarians "Urrrrrrrr" when Erin is happy.
@Jonah_Lee8472
2 жыл бұрын
I watched this on Crackle yesterday, and the whole time, all I could think of was "What would Jason and the gang say" 🤣
@RadiantSilverlighter
8 ай бұрын
I love this movie. I used to rent it all the time back in 91-92! My buddy and i used to draw comics back in junior high and high school and this movie was like our template when we wanted to have a scene with a gunfight. lol we lifted so many action shots from this film
@BlissfulZen
2 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorites! So glad you guys are revisiting such forgotten gems!
@themoprhingorb
4 күн бұрын
Thanks for showing this! It's a movie from my childhood that I watched with my best friend at the time! I had forgotten all about it but you guys brought back a lot of good memories with this one! Great movie also! Cheers!
@emperortrevornorton3119
2 жыл бұрын
I feel like this was originally supposed to be pitched as a cyborg sequel just from the story heavy bit of it but man that is a all star cast of B lister celebrities who are very memorable and it feels very similar to a lot of movies before and after this one especially the matrix
@sgtpointeblank
Жыл бұрын
Saw this one on Prime. Was expecting the worst and had alot of fun with it. And yes it looked like they shot some of this in Old Tucson to me also.
@JimBrodie
2 жыл бұрын
Good shout. Thank you for filling the leak in the memory hole. Olivier Gruner was definitely earmarked as a 'B-Movie JCvD'. That said I enjoyed this, along with Automatic, was definitely aimed at my demographic at the time. Interestingly enough, he's still doing film to this day. =]
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
He is? Nice.
@The_Kentuckian
2 жыл бұрын
This movie looked like a missing link between Blade Runner & the Matrix. And it seemed like a legitimately good low-budget movie.
@perkeyser2032
2 ай бұрын
IMDB: "When he left the Marine Nationale in 1981, he went to the French Alps and started to train kick-boxing. " So you were right. Again. This dude wasn't a body builder or some strange martial arts dude. He was a kick boxer. You are getting awfully good at reading these "actors" by now. :) Thanks
@mareklame8589
2 жыл бұрын
10:26 we just have corporate meeting in Tombstone. You are right everybody looks badass.
@Quisite
2 жыл бұрын
I'm so mad this was not higher in my recommended videos. I literally went to bed thinking, "Where is my Jason Brant fix?!"
@deathland2011
2 жыл бұрын
I rented this from Blockbuster back in the day one of them great Saturday night.takout and Beer movie's .Thanks for another trip down memory lane keep up the great job hope you start doing two shows a week soon
@JasonBrant
2 жыл бұрын
Two a week starting now.
@alanmotter6613
Жыл бұрын
My friends and I did a drinking game where we took a shot every time Erin said she had seen the movie before. We lost two good men...
@bdkurnatusmc
2 жыл бұрын
Grandma bustin' caps might be my favorite thing of the year, just glorious
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