05-30-2020, 03:14 PM
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Black Moon Rising (1986)
A pretty decent Roger Corman action B-movie, written by John Carpenter and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton. Super thief Quint (Jones) hides a stolen McGuffin computer disk inside a prototype "Black Moon" super-car, which becomes a 2nd McGuffin when it's also stolen by Hamilton's car thief ring. The titular super-car really needs the characters building it up by telling you how awesome it is because up close, it looks like something thrown together from scrap metal, fiberglass and sticky tape. There are a couple of odd moments when they were just copying the Tech-Noir and sex scenes from 'The Terminator' shot-for-shot. Lalo Schifrin's synth score also has a whiff of Brad Fiedel's, with a large chunk of Arthur B. Rubinstein's 'Blue Thunder' theme. There is some nice night time photography and great car chases through the busy streets of Los Angeles. It has some b-movie laziness like all the characters turning up in a given location at the same time for no logical reason, or a line saying the car is made out of "Kelvar [sic]. The same material they use for bullet proof vests". 'Black Moon Rising' is great genre fun if you don't expect the (Black) moon.
^ Terrific oldskool trailer.
A pretty decent Roger Corman action B-movie, written by John Carpenter and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton. Super thief Quint (Jones) hides a stolen McGuffin computer disk inside a prototype "Black Moon" super-car, which becomes a 2nd McGuffin when it's also stolen by Hamilton's car thief ring. The titular super-car really needs the characters building it up by telling you how awesome it is because up close, it looks like something thrown together from scrap metal, fiberglass and sticky tape. There are a couple of odd moments when they were just copying the Tech-Noir and sex scenes from 'The Terminator' shot-for-shot. Lalo Schifrin's synth score also has a whiff of Brad Fiedel's, with a large chunk of Arthur B. Rubinstein's 'Blue Thunder' theme. There is some nice night time photography and great car chases through the busy streets of Los Angeles. It has some b-movie laziness like all the characters turning up in a given location at the same time for no logical reason, or a line saying the car is made out of "Kelvar [sic]. The same material they use for bullet proof vests". 'Black Moon Rising' is great genre fun if you don't expect the (Black) moon.
^ Terrific oldskool trailer.
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