I don't know if it is the TRUE reason why he would do this ultra-lowbudget movie, but I suppose it was because his then-wife Majorie Bransfield starred in it, and he was doing her a favor by making his one scene-cameo...
Btw: Sven-Ole Thorsen RULES! Jesse Ventura sucks donkey-ass!
-This is my John Hancock?
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Well, it's about Sven-Ole Thorsen impregnating a woman with alien seed, thus making her give birth to a boy called "the co-mater", and then Jesse Ventura imprisons him (in space or something)..years later when the boy is bigger, Thorsen escapes space-prison and goes to earth searching for this boy...Ventura must protect the boy, or else Thorsen will have all the power in the universe...or something...the plot is a bit confusing, but I can definetly recommend this movie, I laughed my ass off...it's so bad it's good!
mostly because of Sven-Ole's attempt to look and act like Arnold Schwarzenegger (they're good friends), and also because Ventura is such a bad choice for a hero...he looks more like a criminal than Thorsen does! And the music is SO HORRIBLE, you wouldn't even imagine... think: Kenny G, but worse...
-This is my John Hancock?
The Statement Below is True.
The Statement Above is False.
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Two men fighting in a forest with soft saxophone-melodies in the background sounds more like the warm-up for some gay porn or something, goddamn terrible music!!
Abraxas: "My box has VD"
Woman: "Your what??"
Abraxas: "VD. Vibrational Dectection"
He didn't even answer her question! What a moron!
I'm gonna add some more of Sven-Ole's quotes soon, they rule!
-This is my John Hancock?
I bought this movie on DVD for 5 dollars at Walmart a couple years ago.
I think it may possibly be THE worst movie I have ever seen, lol
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
You paid only 5 $ for it? I (gladly) spent 7.50$ on it!
But now it can be obtained for about 2-3$ or less, so its one of the cheapest laughs out there, I can only recommend that EVERYBODY went out and bought it!
*Luv 4 Abraxas (& Secundus)*
-This is my John Hancock?
This movie was soooooo shockingly bad. I like watching really bad B-grades, but this one wasn't even fun. Waste of time. I also love how James Belushi's single-scene appearance warranted his name in huge font on the front cover of the movie.
shareHow can you say that this movie wasn't any fun? You have no sense of humor, my good man. Or perhaps you just didn't understand the plot, and was annoyed by it.
But I must admit that the movie is helluva lot funnier when you're seeing it with your friends (who also must be Jesse Ventura and/or Sven-Ole Thorsen fans).
I watched this movie over four times and each time its funnier because its so cheep i wonder what was there budget.
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oh wow, you both got ripped off, i went to save-a-lot and got this movie on dvd for a dollar with another movie on it too( i think it's slipstream with bill paxton ).
shareWell, I guess that was in the USA?
In Europe, "Abraxas" isn't available yet, unless you buy it from the internet.
(At least that's the situation in Scandinavia, where I'm from)
But a buck for Abraxas + Slipstream is mighty cheap. Good bargain buy.
Secundus: Put your gun in my pocket!
HaHa!! I just watched this movie on television and I couldn't stop watching it. It is absolutely hillarious. If you want a good laugh at a movie that they intended to be serious this is the one.lol
Cheers.
I agree that Sven-Ole rules. Especially with the big scar across his face that cuts into his flat-top like he really got a chunk-outta him. I still swear he looks just like Jim Byrnes, the small-time Canuck actor of the same build too.
Oh yeah, I really wanted to say the following:
Jesse "The Baldy" Ventura
Haha, yeah you're correct that Sven-Ole kinda looks like Jim Byrnes, but fortunately he still has his legs! He has to use them while kicking Abraxas (Jesse "The Baldy" Ventura) when he's down.
This is helluva great B-flick, always on my top-10 "so bad it's good"-movies.
Like getting James Belushi is a big deal?????
Women love bass players, but only the ones who know how to use their fingers.
For a movie THIS cheap, it is a big deal.. didn't you know he earns half a million US dollars for EACH episode of "According to Jim"? He's expensive..
Secundus: Put your gun in my pocket!
You have to remember this was made in the late 80s. Jim Belushi was kinda a big deal back then.
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Was his scene supposed to be funny? I couldn't tell if the movie was trying to be funny, or the principal is that stupid.
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Looks like you forgot to take your anti-retard pills again.
I guess the scene was supposed to be funny - be mostly just because it was Jim Belushi as the principal, and his character supposedly reminded the viewers of another of his characters from another movie..
And the scene was funny *because* the principal was stupid. But nobody laughed at the joke, only because it failed so miserably.
LOL I was wondering myself if the James Belushi part was meant to be funny.
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This movie is full of Schwarzenegger connections.
Schwarzenegger's fellow Mr. Olympia and longtime best friend, Franco Columbu, is credited as being in charge of the production, and the movie is dedicated to the memory of his father.
Sven-Ole Thorsen, Ventura and Belushi have all notably worked with Arnold as well (Marjorie Bransfield even had a small role in Red Heat)
Perhaps Arnold help pull strings to get Abraxas made, or was even a phantom producer!
my thoughts exactly.
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