Cannon Films

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Of course ... Masters Of The Universe and Highlander were Cannon. Why not the Parker ??

Ahem. The two Ian Hunter films I watched recently could easily be described as knock off Cannon films. Which is ironic I suppose ... ahem.

Think it was because James Cameron was going to direct it and make Peter Parker a bit of a peeping tom

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Cannon were going to do Superman 5, They took out the first fight with the original Nuclear Man to insert into this film, but with the box office fail it never emerged.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysPO7cWRng

they all got steadily worse after 2 but i still enjoyed 4 and lets be honest even that was better than man of steel.

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

they all got steadily worse after 2 but i still enjoyed 4 and lets be honest even that was better than man of steel.

I am a big Superman fan seen the movies numerous times, but the Man of Steel i watched twice and Batman vs Superman once. With the 4th if the makers left all the footage in surely the film would have done better on its release.

[Demoncrat]

Well, I really liked the 4th film. Up to the villains entrance, it's just like the other 3 imo. Admittedly after that ... lawdy . But it's entertaining regardless.

Now all they make it seems are Cannon films (with bigger budgets) anyhow

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Arrived today.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp run by a sadistic Vietnamese Colonel.

Exploitation and violence from beginning to end. Someone gets their brains blown out, one guy is burnt alive...no, two guys are burnt alive in two different scenes, there are multiple beatings and scenes of torture and then there's Chuck Norris. Hung upside down as a bag is placed round his head with a hungry rat inside...following a struggle blood soaks through the cloth bag, bag is removed to reveal Chuck with the dead rat in his mouth.

And all that's before Norris takes revenge on his Vietnamese captors.

A Cannon film that's fun for all the family.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

A prequel/sequel that's FAR superior to the first installment!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

A prequel/sequel that's FAR superior to the first installment!

It is isn't it.

Just watched the first one again now, it's fine but the lack of antagonists to Norris mean it's all a bit unexciting.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

A prequel/sequel that's FAR superior to the first installment!

Has there ever been another series where they filmed the first and second films back to back and then decided to release the second film first, and then put out the first as a prequel? I find it fascinating that Cannon did it, but they weren’t wrong, the second (the original second!) was a lot better.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Has there ever been another series where they filmed the first and second films back to back and then decided to release the second film first, and then put out the first as a prequel? I find it fascinating that Cannon did it, but they weren’t wrong, the second (the original second!) was a lot better.

I was expecting to see Braddock's wife in Missing in Action. It seemed a pivotal line in the prequel where he was told by the Colonel that his wife was about to remarry.