I kept expecting to see Judy Garland start singing while watching this movie. It had a 'Wizard of Oz' By Katsuhiro Ôtomo, starring Buddy Holly and the world's most annoying boy, feel to it. I got the impression the actual writer had one of those freaky dreams and wrote his script based on it, especially the Wizard of Oz ending meets Motley Crue ending.
This is not to say that I didn't enjoy the movie, I loved it to death and watched it 3 times in a week. It is a very low-budget film, but the money was used to great effect; it doesn't really look low budget until the matte at the end of Lost Vegas.
The kid is annoying, but deliberately so. There is definitely a bond that develops between Buddy and the kid. We see it mostly when Buddy repeats his butterfly line at the end. He says it for a very different reason than when he said it at the beginning.
The list of characters is interesting in the way most can be recognised as 50's rockers and other celebreties. The bad guys are also very different and interesting. (I rather liked the windmill people) and the Russian army (Listen again, that was NOT Russian they were speaking) had me in stitches till Buddy put them in stitches.
There was very little blood, despite all the sword play, but that's OK. Splashing blood everywhere wouldn't have made this movie any better. Being a cult film, it's probably as good as one could hope it to be.
Buddy is, of course, the ultimate hero. He defeats whole armies, conquers death, and his legend will live forever, (I won't spoil the ending by saying why this is.) just as this movie will be loved by fans for just as long. Or hated. That is the price of any cult film, after all.
Steelblade
This is not to say that I didn't enjoy the movie, I loved it to death and watched it 3 times in a week. It is a very low-budget film, but the money was used to great effect; it doesn't really look low budget until the matte at the end of Lost Vegas.
The kid is annoying, but deliberately so. There is definitely a bond that develops between Buddy and the kid. We see it mostly when Buddy repeats his butterfly line at the end. He says it for a very different reason than when he said it at the beginning.
The list of characters is interesting in the way most can be recognised as 50's rockers and other celebreties. The bad guys are also very different and interesting. (I rather liked the windmill people) and the Russian army (Listen again, that was NOT Russian they were speaking) had me in stitches till Buddy put them in stitches.
There was very little blood, despite all the sword play, but that's OK. Splashing blood everywhere wouldn't have made this movie any better. Being a cult film, it's probably as good as one could hope it to be.
Buddy is, of course, the ultimate hero. He defeats whole armies, conquers death, and his legend will live forever, (I won't spoil the ending by saying why this is.) just as this movie will be loved by fans for just as long. Or hated. That is the price of any cult film, after all.
Steelblade