The Blood of Heroes
September 10, 2006
It’s been years since I’d seen this movie. After tonight it won’t be another 15 years before I see it again. On a whim I added this a while ago to my netflix queue and it came yesterday. I convinced my wife to sit down and watch it with me and I gotta tell ya, not only did it take me back to the halycon college years of all night gaming sessions and taco bell runs, it made me remember what I like about movies.
The plot is simple, a group of juggers in a post-apacolyptic world journey to the ‘nine cities’ to join a skull match in the arena and make a name for themselves. But the movie is all good. Debuts by Joan Chen and a young Vincent D’Nofrio (a huge favorite actor of mine) and a phenomenal performance by the every evocative Rutger Hauer make this movie a pulse pounding, hard as nails film. With homages to Mad Max and Rollerball this movie doesn’t just borrow from its sources, it takes them and runs with them.
I love this movie. I’m going to find me a copy of this movie and own it. I just hope I can get it in widescreen rather than pan-and-cram.
Excellent must see movie for anyone who is a fan of sci-fi genre films.
This is one of best cult classic movies of all time. The only problem is it’s a cult classic that doesn’t know it’s a cult classic, which means nobody else knows it’s a cult classic either.
The Corman Principal that dictates the propogation of cult classic movies seems to have eluded Blood of Heroes. Oh, hey, there’s something I could talk about on my blog.
Yeah, and I notice on your blog what a chicken $hit you are, don’t enable comments so no one can put your sorry butt in its place. 😛
You were right about one thing over there though, you’ve got NOTHING to say.
Nah, the only reason I don’t enable comments is because my URL is flagged in the spambot programs and the comments section will get filled with adverts for Viagra and Casinos.
Besides, you get to tell me your unabashed opinion on iChat all the time.
That is SUCH a copout. I have them enabled. I don’t get flooded with blogs. You just have to know how to set up the right permissions and it REALLY ain’t rocket science.
Loser.