Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story Of Cannon Films (currently on Netflix Instant)
Absurdly entertaining doc that zooms through its story at breakneck speed; a ridiculously zippy 107 minutes. The Cannon Group's Golan and Globus did not provide interviews, instead producing a rival doc of their own, but enough primary source footage of them is included that their absence isn't missed. Lots of entertaining schlock flick clips throughout, including a bus worth's full of eye-popping nude "actresses", including Ms. Marina "Deanna Troi" Sirtis herself (who
is interviewed).
Much is made of the cousins' lack of concern for quality control, but all in a "those goofy bastards!" tone; there is no real reflection on the fact that they peddled all sorts of crap to foreign investors/distributors. They had no shame, but then, they may not have had the depth of character to know any better. Nor does anyone point out that, among their innovations, their business model was pretty much the same as that of the housing market that caused the Great Recession (though, to be fair, fraudulent accounting was invented a lot earlier than the 80s).
Molly Ringwald - this woman ought to be in pictures
!
Typical Cannon "actress" Laura Harring, Miss USA
So, zero-calorie entertainment, but man, is it entertaining. (And so many spectacular nudes; did I mention that?)
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