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It mainly had to do with Neo-Nazi gangs and the remnants of the KKK joining forces with the more extreme elements of the Religious Right in the 1980's and 1990's in an attempt to regain any sense of past legitimacy in the eyes of the public.
Also, since the historic fascists opposed communism, a lot of Americans think that fascism is an extreme right-wing ideology (since communism is an extreme left-wing ideology) even if the fascists were largely left-leaning in an economic sense of the term. They just weren't as far to the economic left as the commies were.
Really, the historic regimes of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany can't really fit into American views of left-wing and right-wing. Fascism is an extreme ideology outside of the usual split between conservatives and liberals. There's a reason why modern Neo-Nazi groups refer to themselves as "Third Position"
Pasolini renounced communism very late in life, if some of his private letters, personal accounts, and the film Salo are anything to go by.
At the very least, he renounced and deeply regretted communist activism, even if he still agreed with the basic ideals of communism.
He was originally a Marxist, and then later an Anarcho-Communist and he walked away from both movements when he saw them to be every bit as authoritarian in practice as the fascists were despite their rhetoric.
The Duke pretty much confirms Pasolini's thoughts on this when he says "We fascists are the only true anarchists!"
The time when Salo was released was during the infamous "Years of Lead" in the 1970's, in which both Neo-Fascist and communist groups committed acts of violent terrorism across Italy in an attempt to overthrow the Italian government, both Marxist groups backed by the Soviet Union and rogue Anarcho-Communist gangs committed heinous acts alongside the Neo-Fascists as well.
Aside from the controversy, it's also the very first "Found Footage" movie and was a direct inspiration for both "The Last Broadcast" and "The Blair Witch Project" back in the late 90's.
Well, we'll just agree to disagree.
The Warriors is very much a product of its time, which is why I love it. It's basically an exaggerated dystopian version of late 1970's New York City (and according to Hill, it's supposed to be set in a dystopian near-future timeline)
Maybe it's because I'm a self-hating Millennial, but I actually like a lot of movies that are trashed nowadays for being "dated" or "edgy" because modern 2010's pop culture doesn't resonate with me
Well, at least we agree that Marvel movies suck.
Still, The Warriors is a great film and there's a bunch of other movie boards on this site you can talk about that you do like. Nobody likes a troll, especially one as obvious as you are.
Aside from The Warriors themselves, I'd say The Rogues and The Riffs.
The Rogues all have that creepy biker/leather dude look that lends well to their status as villains and the Riffs are the most powerful gang in the city and elite martial artists.
Aside from the fact that the characters are exaggerated versions of 70's street gangs (even today, most gangs tend to all wear the same colors or display the same symbols), there's also the fact that you're a troll and an idiot who has terrible taste in movies.
Go watch some lame Marvel movie, you bearded four-eyed hipster.
My theory is that Luther was paid by the Mafia to kill Cyrus and pin it on someone else, and he chose The Warriors so his gang could walk free and also take out one of their main rivals as well.
Cyrus mentioned that if the gangs were all united, they could easily muscle out the mob and I'd assume that someone high up in organized crime caught wind of this and needed Cyrus killed. It's possible that the Nomads were allied with one of the Mafia families in New York and decided to use Luther's gang as a way to stop Cyrus's plot, and by framing it on a whole different gang like the Warriors, there would be no blowback on the mob or any gangs allied with them.
I'm not sure if it was confirmed whether or not Emily was a lesbian, or just a feminist with an affiliation for punk culture. I know the lesbian community has a lot of overlap with feminism as a movement, but I don't really remember anything in the episode that indicated that Emily was a lesbian aside from the whole feminist angle.
As for Hank, I think Hank is not a homophobe and is chill with gay people given how he was with Bug, but Hank is fairly chaste with sex in general.
His fears over his son being effeminate probably have more to do with the fact that he grew up in the 1950's/early 1960's with Cotton as a father than with any concerns over Bobby being gay.
Agreed. To this day, Tori and Julian are one of my favorite yaoi pairings.
Richard Rubenstein (the executive producer and one of the rights holders in the United States) is notorious for charging a high amount for the rights to air it or give it a home release, the last one we had in the United States was a DVD release in 2004 from Anchor Bay.
Even then, I think Rubenstein cut Anchor Bay a deal because the remake was out in theaters at the time and he probably got some kickbacks from that.
It was shown a few times on cable in the late 1990's and early 2000's in America, although I think most of these airings were on Showtime and The Movie Channel, so it's likely that HBO didn't get the rights to it.
I do know that TV edits of Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead exist and both of these edits were aired on Sci-Fi Channel and Fox in the early 2000's, presumably because of the Zack Snyder remake.
Actually, Alien: Resurrection would be the "Last Jedi" of the Alien franchise.
Alien 3 was a decent movie and far better than Alien Resurrection, the AVP movies, or Alien Covenant. Yes, Aliens is still my favorite in the series, but Alien 3 is good despite the deaths of Hicks and Newt.
In fact, I think Hicks and Newt dying is what made Alien 3 better. You gotta understand is that the guys who wrote the first three Alien films intended each of them to have a theme that corresponds to the cycle of life.
Alien is about birth
Aliens is about living life and finding meaning in it
Alien 3 is about the inevitability of death and coming to terms with it
I think you're overthinking this. Granted, given the fact that the first two movies are "found footage", I think it's vaguely implied that the killers were eventually caught with the tapes being presented as evidence or at the very least, the cops are aware of the killers.
Ah, this takes me back.
For a while, it did seem like Kite was being recommended a lot. Plot keywords probably had more to do with it than anything else. Those things work on algorithms and given that the "Kite Recommendation" phenomenon on IMDB was at its peak in the mid-2000's, I'd wager that it was a technical issue.
Some of the recommendations make perfect sense such as Akira, Kill Bill, Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer, even Taxi Driver, given the plot and visual style of the movie.
I can even accept it as a recommendation for "extreme" films and cult classics such as Caligula or The Hills Have Eyes since Kite was one of those VHS anime flicks that had a decent following back in the late 90's.
Urotsukidoji, hands down. The censored version of it is still NC-17.
Kite is only a hentai because the producers forced them to add a single sex scene so they could secure the funding and distribution (same thing happened to Mezzo Forte) and there are censored versions of Kite that are every bit as functional as the uncensored cut, but are basically a typical R-rated movie in terms of disturbing content.
As a fan of both Urotsukidoji and The Godfather, I'd like to see a fan edit done like this.
Here would be my full version, it's mostly the same as the one later in this thread, although I also incorporate New Saga as well. Not sure if I can fit the incompleted Part V.
Here's my take...
1. "Mankind, you are an ignorant race!" (Legend of the Overfiend)
2. 1922: The Great Kanto Earthquake (Legend of the Overfiend)
3. 1944: Munchausen's origins
4. 1982: The Rise of Caesar (I might split the temple orgy scene and put it in a "meanwhile" segment during Legend of the Overfiend or Demon Womb, since Caesar is a cyborg in that scene and is a little older looking, but it clearly takes place before the Overfiend is born)
5. 199X: Legend of the Overfiend OVA (up until Nikki's death)
6. 199X: Legend of the Demon Womb (if we don't include the second half of Caesar's origin story in the flashbacks, we could also insert it near the beginning of Demon Womb after Munchausen summons the demon and throws the girl off the skyscraper)
7. 199X: Legend of the Overfiend (after Nikki's death)
8. 199X: Return of the Overfiend's opening (the scenes with the President and the Navy being destroyed)
9. 201X: Return of the Overfiend (minus the flashbacks with Caesar)
10. 201X: Inferno Road
11. Urotsukidoji: New Saga (the implication being that the timeline was reset at the end of Inferno Road, ignoring the alternate ending and Part V)
12. Reprise of the opening monologue (but against either a black screen or a shot of the night sky)
Now, I have considered putting the OVA for Part V and the alternate ending of Inferno Road as a nightmare segment for Amano Jyaku in New Saga (since the main ending to IV implies Amano is aware of Himi resetting the timeline, but nobody else is)
The purple haired commando woman is named Pedro, IIRC. I have no idea why a presumably Japanese woman would have a Spanish male name, but she's still pretty hot and badass too.
Pedro was awesome and I honestly wished she had more screen time in Part III or at least survived to play a bigger role in Part IV.
I wish they would do a proper remake of this classic and embrace the inevitable controversy that would ensue.
Of course, the "woke" Millennial types would be all up in arms and try to do some cancel culture hijinks. If I were in charge of the remake, I'd flat out tell Woke Twitter "If you want a movie that's bland and woke, go watch one of the MCU films!"
IIRC, the one thing that was able to finally kill the Overfiend was the Kyo-O in the form of Himi.
At the end of Urotsukidoji IV: Inferno Road, when the Chojin gets down with Himi, she unleashes her power as the Kyo-O and destroys him and effectively resets the timeline.
I'm aware of the alternate ending to Inferno Road that was supposed to be the set up to Part V, but seeing as Part V was never finished and the one OVA of it that was produced is a bit of a mess, I think IV is the end point for the series, with V as a weird "What If" take on the original continuity and New Saga being its own entirely different thing altogether.
Although given the ending of Inferno Road implies the timeline being reset, it is possible that New Saga is a sort-of distant sequel to the original four films set in the new rebooted timeline.
New Saga did kind of suck, but a lot of it was due to the project being cut short and that it was supposed to be a complete retelling/reworking of the Overfiend saga before becoming the vague weird retelling of the first part of the first film that we got.