why is this director credited with only one film? i bought a DVD box set with 6 of his films, and Armageddon THE FINAL CHALLENGE, which according to the DVD was released 3 times as 3 different movies. the first one sucks, the second Armageddon FORCE looked about the same except they had re-edited all of the films faults. the third version of the film was re-titled Armageddon THRONE which by the explanation of the director on the DVD was his revisiting of the film. the movie was originally made on a small budget and was rushed for an AFM market. now that the company owned the full rights to the film again, they re-cut it and threw some expensive special effects at it again. the new version is still nevertheless a less costly version of Bladerunner, though it has some very innovative and original moments. on the same DVD pack Garcia has a innovative comedy called CHICK FLICK, i loved THAT, but why's it not on your database?
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reemer6 March 2002
this is one of the worst movies i've seen, but also one of the funniest. a friend of mine rented it from a local blockbuster, it was one of the 99¢ for 5 night movies, so i wasn't expecting much. it begins with a phony commercial for "foxguard" hovercraft security systems, where most of the "flying" sequence looks like it's been taken out of an old 16-bit video game. the special effects in this movie are quite hilarious, especially the astroid (strings visible) that appears to have lego pieces on it, posing as satellites, it gets worse mind you. the acting is quite terrible and the loud annoying music plays almost throughout the whole film. if one were to view this movie, they would understand why i stated this as one of the funniest i've seen, although it could be classified as a sci-fi drama, i say it's a comedy.
The only challenge that this movie presents is actually watching all 85 minutes.
kurtastbury3 April 2010
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The final challenge my ass. The only challenge that this movie presents is actually watching all 85 minutes. I hate this movie. It's like going to someone's art class mid-semester only to find out that they're not even presenting their film that day. So you're stuck watching everyone else's boring artsy film ideas. Just when you think one of them is going to be good, they blow it.
Lets take a step back and analyze why I hate this movie.
1. It's completely boring. 2. All of the shots are dark, dingy, misty, and hard to make out. 3. The protagonist spends 5 minutes on screen trying to work out his bank problems! WTF? I'd watch Overdrawn at the Memory Bank with Raul Julia if I wanted to see that. 4. We don't really know much about the main character other than he is an idiot who picks up strange women and takes them home. Oh, and he also made the most important radio broadcast in history and then everyone forgot about him. 5. Uh it sucks. 6. Vector graphics on 80's arcade games look better than the fully rendered CG in this movie. 7. The title doesn't fit the movie. It's Armageddon, I get it, but what is the final challenge? 8. I only made it 27 minutes in before I wanted to turn it off. 9. The background music for the movie reminds of being in a department store changing room. 10. All of a sudden you find out Jesus is coming to town like Santa Claus. 11. Apparently Christ's "vehicles" put out so much energy that they are going to destroy the orbiting refineries? 12. You can see the light bulbs in the engines of the model space ships. 13. The villain is some completely psycho nut job who, when presented with the opportunity to kill the main character and end the movie once and for all, goes skipping off in the rain instead singing "It's raining it's pouring. The old man is snoring. Went to bed. Bumped his head. Couldn't get up in the morning." He is blissfully aware that the governor will kill him if he doesn't succeed but apparently he just doesn't care. 14. It doesn't have as much zing as the worst episode of Rescue 911 with William Shatner. 15. There are extended scenes of people just standing around looking at things. 16. It features completely nonsensical dialog. For example. "Gujiana City: Deformed offspring of quasi-religious quibblings, thermonuclear fireball design, achieved at ruinous cost." WTF is that supposed to mean?
All in all, watching this movie is like listening as a friend describes the opus of sensations they feel while holding a lonely blade of grass. Only, it makes less sense than that. Why was this made? Why do things like this have to exist? Why did I watch it? Did you know that I was the 14th person, EVER, to rate this movie on IMDb? It's been out for 16 years! Does that tell you everything you need to know?
Never watch this movie. Not that you'll be able to find it. So, I guess in that respect, don't worry about it. Have a nice day.
Lets take a step back and analyze why I hate this movie.
1. It's completely boring. 2. All of the shots are dark, dingy, misty, and hard to make out. 3. The protagonist spends 5 minutes on screen trying to work out his bank problems! WTF? I'd watch Overdrawn at the Memory Bank with Raul Julia if I wanted to see that. 4. We don't really know much about the main character other than he is an idiot who picks up strange women and takes them home. Oh, and he also made the most important radio broadcast in history and then everyone forgot about him. 5. Uh it sucks. 6. Vector graphics on 80's arcade games look better than the fully rendered CG in this movie. 7. The title doesn't fit the movie. It's Armageddon, I get it, but what is the final challenge? 8. I only made it 27 minutes in before I wanted to turn it off. 9. The background music for the movie reminds of being in a department store changing room. 10. All of a sudden you find out Jesus is coming to town like Santa Claus. 11. Apparently Christ's "vehicles" put out so much energy that they are going to destroy the orbiting refineries? 12. You can see the light bulbs in the engines of the model space ships. 13. The villain is some completely psycho nut job who, when presented with the opportunity to kill the main character and end the movie once and for all, goes skipping off in the rain instead singing "It's raining it's pouring. The old man is snoring. Went to bed. Bumped his head. Couldn't get up in the morning." He is blissfully aware that the governor will kill him if he doesn't succeed but apparently he just doesn't care. 14. It doesn't have as much zing as the worst episode of Rescue 911 with William Shatner. 15. There are extended scenes of people just standing around looking at things. 16. It features completely nonsensical dialog. For example. "Gujiana City: Deformed offspring of quasi-religious quibblings, thermonuclear fireball design, achieved at ruinous cost." WTF is that supposed to mean?
All in all, watching this movie is like listening as a friend describes the opus of sensations they feel while holding a lonely blade of grass. Only, it makes less sense than that. Why was this made? Why do things like this have to exist? Why did I watch it? Did you know that I was the 14th person, EVER, to rate this movie on IMDb? It's been out for 16 years! Does that tell you everything you need to know?
Never watch this movie. Not that you'll be able to find it. So, I guess in that respect, don't worry about it. Have a nice day.
Wow!!!
JjSMm17 May 2005
This movie, the only word that comes to mind is.....Why??....Why was this made, Why did I rent this, why why why.The opening commercial was really all you need to see to lose any sense of credibility this movie could have had, I also loved the modified A-wing and Y-wing from Star Wars on the box beyond that there were no ships in the movie. A couple of friends and I rent crap movies all the time we've kind of made a hobby of it(boredom can be a killer), and this is the worse bar none the most awful movie ever created. If you look at the back of the box you will find that the "star" of this "movie" Todd Jensen's name is misspelled Tood Jensen. Well it was only a $1 rental.
If you want to have a good laugh check this out!!
If you want to have a good laugh check this out!!
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