Yeah, like I said Electric Boogaloo is more for laughs. It did have a more honest assessment of the demise of the company though. And yes, sadly there was almost nothing on any of the successful Van Damme films. What's crazy is that Van Damme wasn't even interviewed for it!
I don't think you can get Go Go boys anymore. The problem with that one is that it was SO biased, but also there were parts where Golam and Yoram were speaking in Hebrew, but there were no subtitles. It would piss me off if it were any other documentary, but seeing as it was really in a way the last release by Cannon films it is oddly fitting. LOL.
Oh yeah, I even looked up a local Ninjutsu dojo. there's one about 20 minutes away from me. I may join at some point in the next year.
Around the time of The Ninja movies my local army navy store was selling ninja type stuff, but it was so dang expensive I couldn't afford any of it. It's awesome that you could. Do you still have any of that stuff? It may be worth something if you do. My friend had a throwing star. It's a small miracle that he never threw it at anything other than the trees in his back yard.
Yeah in Invasion USA they honestly got to destroy an entire town. I learned that from Electric Boogaloo. The town was scheduled to be demolished because a nearby airport was extending its runway. Somehow, Golam and Yoram were able to convince someone to allow them to destroy a whole town. When rocket launchers are blowing up homes, tanks are driving over homes, Norris is driving through a shopping mall etcetera, that was an actual town scheduled to be torn down. None of that was constructed for the film.
Comet is a free TV station. You can get it with an antenna, but if you don't have an antenna you can just go to their website and watch it for free. Their station is broadcast 24 hours a day over their website. On This TV, Saturday night they are having a martial arts night starting at 6:30. They will be airing Double Dragon, Enter the Dragon and Kickboxer. So, A cannon movie will be airing in a little over a day. A few years ago Comet use to air a new cannon film every Friday night. that was back in 2018. I made sure I was home to watch. I think they aired Masters of The Universe around ten times! I recorded a lot of them. Just because it was so amazing to see those films on TV again.
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PrimeMinisterX (8759)
3 years ago
I don't have any of my old ninja equipment, unfortunately. I had a good bit of stuff at one point, though. If you saw a ninja use something in a movie, I likely owned it at some point.
One thing that's abundantly clear in retrospect though is that a lot of that shit was very cheaply constructed. I recall some of those things just falling apart on me, including the grappling hook. (I'm damned happy I wasn't trying to climb something with it when it decided to self-destruct!)
I'm going to have to re-watch Invasion USA in light of the information you've provided. I would have to think that would be an action director's dream come true -- you have a whole town that you can destroy for your movie! That has to be awesome. If I were making an action movie I would love that.
You have to wonder what happened to the residents, though. If the area was still widely populated, it seems a bit much to kick everyone out just to extend a runway.
It looks like the films you mentioned actually aired last night, according to the schedule on This TV's website. Also, it looks like they aired American Kicker 1 rather than Kickboxer. Did you ever see AK1? It's actually a fun film. I've seen it multiple times. I'll have to keep an eye on This TV to see if I can catch some more Canon stuff in the future.
You know, considering their extremely high level of output and also the success of many of their films, I don't understand why Canon closed its doors. It seems weird that they just quit making movies suddenly.
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