the 3rd is my favorite. It's got the best acting, best effects, best story of all the films. Lots of action and violence, definately a thumbs up, perhaps even two :)
shareA lot of priase goes to introducing Six-Shooter and actor Guy Rolfe.
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This is easily the best one of the series. Guy Rolfe is the perfect Toulon and the stop motion effects are the best of the series.
shareAgreed. This film is one of the strongest and most impressive entries in the whole series.
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After watching all in the canon except Axis of Evil, which I'm about to pop in the dvd player, I strongly agree. If they could have used Guy Rolfe in a continuing lead role for a few more movies this series would have been an all-time classic. The guy was perfect for the role.
Would have helped if they'd maintained this level of special effects, too. One of the big drags about some of the later PM movies is they don't feature the puppets that much. I don't need to see them slicing and dicing in every scene, but it was always fun to see them in action.
After watching all in the canon except Axis of Evil, which I'm about to pop in the dvd player, I strongly agree.
If they could have used Guy Rolfe in a continuing lead role for a few more movies this series would have been an all-time classic. The guy was perfect for the role.
You're right. Axis of Evil is one of my least favorite - it's not as bad as the Corey Feldman one, but it's really not much better.
Too bad they couldn't retain Rolfe. I could almost guarantee any of the movies written for him would have shone - considering the environment (low budget studio, etc) Rolfe would have been a writer's dream. Rolfe kind of reminds me of a latter day John Carradine (Count Alucard, etc) except that Rolfe didn't seem to share Carradine's habit of cutting heavy ham when the cameras started rolling.
Too bad they couldn't retain Rolfe. I could almost guarantee any of the movies written for him would have shone - considering the environment (low budget studio, etc) Rolfe would have been a writer's dream.
There has to be a Guy Rolfe type out there. I've heard Harry Morgan (M*A*S*H) is griping because he can't find work - even tho he was born in 1915. Not saying Harry Morgan, but I think there are good retirement aged actors out there who have kind of fallen off the radar, even though they can still deliver.
shareWell he died.
The puppet master sequels were the last films he ever made. He even seemed to come out of retirement just for RETRO. It's a shame he was so old when he made 3. He might still be doing them were he alive and young enough.
I wonder how old Paul Le Mat has to be before he returns in a sequel.
puppet master is only a cult classic. no studio would touch it today, because there is no audience that would want to go to see it.
Haven't watched this since I saw it for the first time in 91/92 when i was 15, remember not liking it too much at the time mainly because i was upset they didn't go with the sequel plot they seem to set up at the end of part 2(the teenage mental institution ) but my taste have changed a lot since then so i may like it better now.
shareAlways enjoyed watching the third film. Loved the cast, the story was tight, the thrills were plentiful. The only small irks I had really were the fact that they didn't give brief back stories for Six Shooter and Tunneler like they did the other puppets and...naturally...for the fact that they set it in 1941. Quite a feat for Toulon to be fighting the Nazis when he had already been decomposing in a Californian grave after his suicide in 1939. Shouldn't have taken that much effort on the part of the filmmakers to check their dates, one would have thought.
shareI've seen the first three so far but I found this to be more satisfying than part 2. Still not as good as Part 1 but it comes awfully close. I didn't think I'd like a horror movie centered around Nazi Germany but I actually did.
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I bought 1-9 in an Echo Bridge collection, no special features (1-5 disc 1, 6-9 disc 2). So far I am on 2. I enjoyed the first one, second is a little lacking but not too bad. I bought the collection a year ago but haven't gotten to it until now.
I was thinking it's be like most other b-movie horror but so far they're not. I find sensibility in these films, so far.vi'm sure that'll diminish the further I get into them.
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