Peoples....
I saw this movie this past weekend... It was enjoyable, but ...well,
terribly derivative, if very flashy and wondrously satisfying to the
eye...(if not the brain)...
I've been reading some of the works of Jack Williamson...The Legion of
Space, The Legion of Time, Edmond Hamilton's The Star Kings.... Similar
situations.
Here we have (kike in the stories above)...the Ultimate Evil threatening
the world, the 'everyman' who saves it, the (possibly) doomed beauty with
the necessarily exotic name who is the hope of the universe...(see also
Aladoree Anthar in The Legion of Space, Lethonee/Sorainya in the Legion of
Time). I found the orcish gun runners rather amusing... and so on.
The rest of it amusing fluff.
Nothing more, nothing less. Nice movie tho. Entertaining.
Maybe that's what i was looking for. I did get it.
Dave
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