There's no Bad Movie Night this week so I thought I'd catch up on one from last month. It was Movies Ending In Force Night (Vengeance Is Mine is AKA Death Force) and the force was with us that day. Millennium falcon, Alderaan, Mynocks.
Oh hey, since Star Wars came up organically, Megaforce isn't like Star Wars at all. But it certainly exists because of it. A 1982 sci-fi/action movie, it tried to capture the same Star Wars audience as that year's Forbidden World and Nightbeast. But it was also the tail end of the trend. The same year saw more mature sci-fi like Blade Runner and The Thing.
The director Hal Needham, who we lost to eternal life in October, directed previous BMN movies The Cannonball Run and Rad. If trends persist, get ready for the wrestling comedy Body Slam and an episode of B.L. Stryker.
Super weird Evening Shade prequel.
Death Force is directed by Cirio Santiago, who I typed about here. It's his best movie I've seen. And I've seen TNT Jackson, Hell Hole, Firecracker, Stryker, Caged Fury, Future Hunters, Eye of the Eagle, Nam Angels, Behind Enemy Lines, Beyond the Call of Duty. Live by the Fist and probably more. Who can keep track of generic titles like Operation Impossible, Once Upon a Time, Impossible Dream, Naked Vengeance, Kill Zone and One Man Army. If you have the opportunity, name your movie Oily Maniac. Certainly that's not taken. Ah, crap.
Here's what happened last month:
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