Rurouni Kenshin was our first movie, it's a 2012 Japanese film and the first of a trilogy. It's set in the early Meiji period, western ways are moving in, the samurai class are reduced to vermin who can't even own swords. Kenshin is a young man who had been an assassin but grew dissatisfied with the life after the Bakumatsu war. Now he wanders about helping people who have been wronged. He joins forces with a young woman who is being driven out of her martial arts school by the local opium baron. He's such a creep I could hardly spend any time with him and not want to slap the ugly haircut right off his sniveling rat face. It's a typical baddies pushing the locals about. I liked that part of the story OK but was less enamored with the melodrama lifestyle of the main character. There's a lot of scenes that could be trimmed and the movie shortened. It runs 135 minutes and seemed a bit padded. I liked it well enough but I'm not sure if I'll see the rest of the trilogy.
Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone was our second movie. It's a 1983 SF film with Peter Strauss, Ernie Hudson and Molly Ringwald. It was originally 3D but it's only 2D on the Blu-ray it shares with Krull. I don't remember ever going to see it in the theater.
I hadn't seen it in a number of years. It's directed by Lamont Johnson, Stewart Harding and Jean LaFleur wrote the story, David Preston, Edith Rey, Daniel Goldberg and Len Blum wrote the screenplay.
Peter is a spaceship salvager who hears of a big reward for the rescue of some women who've crashed on a planet. He has to fight his way across the wastelands to get the job done. Molly is a local who helps and hinders him. Ernie is a space soldier who's there to find the women too. They run into a bunch of typical post-apoc types, marauders, nomads, mutants, amazons and a dragon.There's some action and big props. It's not great but it's fun. I might pick this up, I haven't see Krull in a while and I don't seem to have copies of either.
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