Cannon Films

[Gigantor]

Yeah it's amazing how many companies are sittingon these movies that will never see the light of day ever again,Sad really

[bronx ratnik]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

Wish to hell Optimum would release that old Cannon fave,EXTERMINATOR 2.

Sure they own the rights now......

I have the NTSC tape of this movie Exterminator 2, it was cut by the studio.
I hate it when US videos were softened because they were to violent!
I hope this movie gets a proper dvd reliese like the first part!

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Watched a couple of Cannon classics yesterday-ENTER THE NINJA and REVENGE OF THE NINJA.

[bronx ratnik]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

Watched a couple of Cannon classics yesterday-ENTER THE NINJA and REVENGE OF THE NINJA.

ah those were the days!
these movies never go out of date or style!
much better than new movies today!

only new good actor today is Jason Statham, and he's British sun of a gun!

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Whatever happened to Sho Kosugi?

[bronx ratnik]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

Whatever happened to Sho Kosugi?

he got old!
he retired!
only a ninja can kill a ninja!

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Nice Avatar-Codename The Soldier,another 80's classic.

[bronx ratnik]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

Nice Avatar-Codename The Soldier,another 80's classic.

I dunno know what it is, but I do like SGI movies!
Shapiro/Glickenhaus made some cool stuff back in the 80's!

back to Cannon films.
Invasion USA was banned in my country for long time, entire 80's and 90's, and when it was reliesed on dvd in UK it finally came to ABBA land!
f-ckin' swedish censorship!
destroying piece of art by removing picture frames!!
well I would like to have had that job, watching all the goodies and all blue movies!
well there's nomore censorship in my country, big brotha doesn't know what the citizens are wathing anymore by controlling the videomarket!
they destroyed all the fun by butchering or banned mostly all violent movies!
Fu-- the government having to decide what I'm going to watch!
And they have the rights to decide ban or butchering the movie and I can't watch it complete as it intended to be!
Fu-- dat!
lucky for us there are nomore faschist idiots working for the censorship bureau!

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by bdc

Picked this up years ago:
Hollywood a Go-Go: An Account of the Cannon Phenomenon paperback.

Should be an interesting read for Cannon enthusiasts.

There's still some very cheap used copies on Amazon.

Amazon.co.uk: Used and New: Hollywood a Go-Go: An Account of the Cannon Phenomenon

Amazon.com: Used and New: Hollywood a Go-Go: An Account of the Cannon Phenomenon

I've just finished watching an interview with Mark Hartley (director of Not Quite Hollywood and the upcoming Machette Massacre Maidens) in which he says that he wants to finish the trilogy with.................the story of Cannon films! I would pay to see this for the Sam Firstenburg stuff alone. Fingers crossed.

[Splatterdragon73]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

REVENGE OF THE NINJA.

An unbridled classic piece of Ninja action this and imo Sho Kosugi's finest film.

Plenty of gratuitous violence and 'Shadow Warrior' shenanigans. Not to mention a nice bit of Shogun Assassin-esque blood spillage in the final reel.

MGM's R1 DVD isn't perfect but at least looks great and i'd happily snap up ROTN on BR in a heartbeat.

The mother of all '80s Ninja epics as far as yours truly is concerned.