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Movies: Conan the Barbarian, Hell Comes to Frogtown, She
We rewatched Conan the Barbarian recently (we had both seen it on TV, but not ever sat down and watched the whole theatrical release), which is just such a quintessential popcorn sword-and-sandals movie, we both really enjoyed seeing it again. I really dug Sandahl Bergman as Valeria, and we went looking for her other movies (we have Red Sonja, which we've also already seen a long time ago, but I'm sure we're rewatch that one soon as well).
We got Hell Comes to Frogtown on DVD from Netflix. It's a cheesy post-apocalyptic movie about one of the last remaining fertile men on Earth who goes on a special government mission - wow, that actually sounds better than it was. It was hilariously bad, as we expected. Sandahl Bergman gets to fight AND dance, both of which she's very, very good at, and she doesn't have to act too much.
She, which we did as an Instant Watch from Netflix on the TiVo, was absolutely insane. This was a post-apocalyptic movie on LSD. I loved the bad guys who were dressed as Roman generals, or ninjas, or knights, or harlequins, or bizarre mixtures of all of the above. I loved the sense, in general, that people who were children or babies when the bomb dropped were trying to reconstruct a society they didn't really remember. The interlude with the mad scientist dressed like Mozart and his burly tutu-clad assistant was gloriously surreal. I adored Sandahl Bergman as the barbarian goddess - there was one scene I especially liked but it's very spoilery so I'll just say, she was great. The movie didn't so much end as stop, with more of a whimper than a bang, but it was a heck of a ride!
We got Hell Comes to Frogtown on DVD from Netflix. It's a cheesy post-apocalyptic movie about one of the last remaining fertile men on Earth who goes on a special government mission - wow, that actually sounds better than it was. It was hilariously bad, as we expected. Sandahl Bergman gets to fight AND dance, both of which she's very, very good at, and she doesn't have to act too much.
She, which we did as an Instant Watch from Netflix on the TiVo, was absolutely insane. This was a post-apocalyptic movie on LSD. I loved the bad guys who were dressed as Roman generals, or ninjas, or knights, or harlequins, or bizarre mixtures of all of the above. I loved the sense, in general, that people who were children or babies when the bomb dropped were trying to reconstruct a society they didn't really remember. The interlude with the mad scientist dressed like Mozart and his burly tutu-clad assistant was gloriously surreal. I adored Sandahl Bergman as the barbarian goddess - there was one scene I especially liked but it's very spoilery so I'll just say, she was great. The movie didn't so much end as stop, with more of a whimper than a bang, but it was a heck of a ride!