Comments on: HAIR METAL MOVIE MADNESS #8 gets silly with YOR: HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE! by DARK SIDE http://www.smalltowncritic.com/2009/08/08/hair-metal-movie-madness-8-gets-silly-with-yor-hunter-from-the-future-by-dark-side/ COOP COOPER is an independently syndicated film critic with a split personality. His "Southern Side" prints mainstream reviews that appear in various print publications across the mid-south. His "Dark Side" from Los Angeles befouls the site with reviews of horror and grindhouse flicks. Welcome to the site where COOP's two halves (and his contributors) review and debate the latest film/DVD releases... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:01:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mario A. Salcido http://www.smalltowncritic.com/2009/08/08/hair-metal-movie-madness-8-gets-silly-with-yor-hunter-from-the-future-by-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Mario A. Salcido Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:09:31 +0000 http://www.smalltowncritic.com/?p=2362#comment-1172 Reb Brown is the man! It's his world... We just live in it! Reb Brown is the man! It’s his world… We just live in it!

]]> By: Bartleby http://www.smalltowncritic.com/2009/08/08/hair-metal-movie-madness-8-gets-silly-with-yor-hunter-from-the-future-by-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-1079 Bartleby Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:26:57 +0000 http://www.smalltowncritic.com/?p=2362#comment-1079 Yor!!!!!! I'm so glad someone else out there has some cheezoid memories of this crap! Back in the misty far-off world of 1983 my parents rented this and Dark Crystal for back-to-back Thanksgiving viewing. Dark Crystal weirded me out and I wasn't sure I was up for another movie--expecting to have little tyke nightmares. Then came Yor, and all that space-caveman goodness. As you pointed out...you can't even escape the cheese as a child, its instantly recognizable. Its an odd thing, being 5 and feeling superior to a movie. But I sort of fell in love with Yor as a result. You knew something was horribly wrong and yet no one in the film seemed to know it. Godzilla films looked artistically brilliant by comparison. You did leave out what always my absolutely FAVORITE moment. **MEGA SPOILERS** When the evil overlord is trying to escape from the spaceship at the film's end, Yor is right on his tail. With no guns or his stone-age weapons to aid him, Yor is out of options for capturing the Overlord. He glances around in desperation. Directly to his right, in what is supposed to be a futuristic spaceship is a SPINNING RED AND WHITE BARBER'S POLE. Yor, not one to look a gift pole in the mouth, grabs and chucks it at the Overlord, impaling him, and thus cementing most humilating death ever-- speared to death by a barber's pole at your moment of triumph. Yor's world!! He's the man!!! Yor!!!!!!

I’m so glad someone else out there has some cheezoid memories of this crap! Back in the misty far-off world of 1983 my parents rented this and Dark Crystal for back-to-back Thanksgiving viewing. Dark Crystal weirded me out and I wasn’t sure I was up for another movie–expecting to have little tyke nightmares. Then came Yor, and all that space-caveman goodness.

As you pointed out…you can’t even escape the cheese as a child, its instantly recognizable. Its an odd thing, being 5 and feeling superior to a movie. But I sort of fell in love with Yor as a result. You knew something was horribly wrong and yet no one in the film seemed to know it.

Godzilla films looked artistically brilliant by comparison.

You did leave out what always my absolutely FAVORITE moment. **MEGA SPOILERS** When the evil overlord is trying to escape from the spaceship at the film’s end, Yor is right on his tail. With no guns or his stone-age weapons to aid him, Yor is out of options for capturing the Overlord. He glances around in desperation. Directly to his right, in what is supposed to be a futuristic spaceship is a SPINNING RED AND WHITE BARBER’S POLE.

Yor, not one to look a gift pole in the mouth, grabs and chucks it at the Overlord, impaling him, and thus cementing most humilating death ever– speared to death by a barber’s pole at your moment of triumph.

Yor’s world!! He’s the man!!!

]]> By: g.pierce http://www.smalltowncritic.com/2009/08/08/hair-metal-movie-madness-8-gets-silly-with-yor-hunter-from-the-future-by-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-1077 g.pierce Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:39:41 +0000 http://www.smalltowncritic.com/?p=2362#comment-1077 What do you think? I am a female fan, not Reb, but I will continue to send you any tidbits that I pick up. G. What do you think?

I am a female fan, not Reb, but I will continue to send you any tidbits that I pick up. G.

]]> By: admin http://www.smalltowncritic.com/2009/08/08/hair-metal-movie-madness-8-gets-silly-with-yor-hunter-from-the-future-by-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 admin Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:48:38 +0000 http://www.smalltowncritic.com/?p=2362#comment-1075 Thanks, Reb! I'm glad to see you're still in the biz and around to talk turkey. I totally dug you in "Uncommon Valor" and I so defended you and rooted for you in those made-for-TV Captain America movies. Keep red, white and blue bro and please keep me updated on your stuff. I will totally plug the YOR thing until my dying day. Word. -Dark Side Thanks, Reb! I’m glad to see you’re still in the biz and around to talk turkey. I totally dug you in “Uncommon Valor” and I so defended you and rooted for you in those made-for-TV Captain America movies. Keep red, white and blue bro and please keep me updated on your stuff. I will totally plug the YOR thing until my dying day. Word.

-Dark Side

]]> By: G. Pierce http://www.smalltowncritic.com/2009/08/08/hair-metal-movie-madness-8-gets-silly-with-yor-hunter-from-the-future-by-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 G. Pierce Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:09:55 +0000 http://www.smalltowncritic.com/?p=2362#comment-1074 What do you think? The movie was based on a European comic book. It was originally made for Italian television as a mini-series. Columbia pictures bought YOR for Theatrical distribution. Reb Brown had just been signed by Paramount Pictures to do "Uncommon Valor" with Gene Hackman. He was also nominated for Best Actor for "Death of a Soldier" at the Australian Film Institute awards in 1986. That film was based on a true World War II story. (By the way, he made two Captain America movies for CBS when he was a contract player at Universal studios). What do you think?
The movie was based on a European comic book. It was originally made for Italian television as a mini-series. Columbia pictures bought YOR for Theatrical distribution. Reb Brown had just been signed by Paramount Pictures to do “Uncommon Valor” with Gene Hackman. He was also nominated for Best Actor for “Death of a Soldier” at the Australian Film Institute awards in 1986. That film was based on a true World War II story. (By the way, he made two Captain America movies for CBS when he was a contract player at Universal studios).

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