Albert Pyun’s sci-fi shoot ‘em up ‘Nemesis’ stormed theaters this week 30 years ago. 🤖🕶️🔥
“𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎'𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜: ‘𝙸𝚝 𝚙𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗.’”
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Nemesis 4: Cry of Angels (1996)
While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
The only reason I’m giving Nemesis 4: Cry of Angels a.k.a. Nemesis 4: Death Angel a 1.5/5 is so it can rank above the previous entry in the series. This is a terrible film. It makes you feel gross, it’s boring but at least it features original footage. For the fourth chapter in this franchise, that’s an unexpected highlight.
In 2084, there is an uneasy ceasefire between the humans and cyborgs. Now brought back to her time from the past (see Nemesis 3), Alex Sinclair (Sue Price) works as a cybernetically-enhanced assassin for her boss, Bernardo (Andrew Divoff). When she accidentally kills the wrong man, a bounty is placed on her head.
If you’ve got a thing for really muscular women, like a sex thing, I suppose I could recommend this film to you. Sue Price appears nude more than she does clothed and more than once, the kills a man by squeezing his head between her rock-hard calves. I say "Yikes!". You might say "Hubba-hubba". You would need a weird fetish to appreciate any of the film’s supposedly erotic scenes. The acting is so terrible you swear you’re watching “Nemesis: A Porn Parody” and the plot is little more than an excuse to stitch a couple of “big scenes” together. There aren’t even any sets for the characters to move in; everything was obviously shot in some run-down town that was blasted by a bomb ten years before the cameras began to roll. We repeatedly see Alex speaking to her boss (who is always shot in awkward closeups) and I'm not sure if the scenes were shot in purposely darkned rooms, or if the lighting is just that bad.
There isn't really anything good about Nemesis 4. It’s merely not quite as boring or head-splittingly painful as Nemesis 3. I’m going to remember the gross robo-sex. There’s a character unironically called Johnny Impact (Simon Poland). That's memorable. What else? The movie has a bunch of cyborgs that look more like lizard people to anyone but the makeup/costume designer. It’s sleazy to the max and barely clocks in at feature-film length (sixty three minutes). There’s a dumb recurring character that’s supposed to be an angel of death (played by Blanka Copikova). Her character’s pointlessness stands out. The film’s lack of big action scenes (I think there’s only one sorry explosion) makes it distinct from the other movies. None of these are good but I’ve got to justify my rating somehow.
As we bring the series to a close, the word “disappointment” comes to mind. Only two kinds of people would bother watching the Nemesis movies (who have Blu-ray releases, shockingly): those who either grew up with them and are blinded by nostalgia and those who - like me - are looking to show their friends just how influential the Terminator franchise is/was by showcasing the numerous knockoffs that followed in its footsteps. The first movie only tiny hints of that remind you of the two James Cameron films. The second a bit more. The third and fourth? They’re just crappy disposable sci-fi garbage you’d watch once and then never again. Come to think of it, there might be a third kind of viewers, those who come in to see all of Sue Price but those viewers won't need the full sixty-three minutes before being done. (On Blu-ray, October 18, 2019)
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'Nemesis' – Albert Pyun's cyborg apocalypse on Peacock
‘Nemesis’ – Albert Pyun’s cyborg apocalypse on Peacock
Nemesis (1993) plays out in the industrial wasteland just outside of LA, circa 2027, where there’s a covert war raging between the cyborgs and the humans.
“86.5% is still human,” insists super-agent Alex (Olivier Gruner, a Jean-Claude Van Damme wannabe complete with kickboxing credentials and thick Euro-warble) as he’s sent to track down his former cyborg partner (Marjorie Monaghan) before she…
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every so often my professors pass out real physical paper and my monkeybrain goes fittingly apeshit as i return to my highschool and middleschool days of doodling whatever interested me in the margins and blank spaces.
so here, tumblr dot com: have a doodle of The Editor, two of Nandor Fodor, and a single confused Nicholas Angel.
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I wish I could draw this but unfortunately I'm absolutely terrible at drawing so I'll tell it to you instead:
Trimax Vash visiting Wolfwood's grave and just talking to him (doesn't really matter what he's talking about) when suddenly! The grave's lid opens.
Wolfwood emerges and says "That was a good nap" with a yawn.
There's a beat of silence.
Until Wolfwood says "What the fuck is wrong with your hair?"
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"Hello Trailblazers, I am nobody’s shadow…"
Please welcome our next guest, Nicholas Leung. Nicholas Leung will participate in the joint voice actor panel and will be hosting paid autograph sessions. May this journey at Kogaracon 2024 lead us starward!
Nicholas Leung is an artist born and raised in New York City. He is best known for his role as Dan Heng in the Hoyoverse video game HONKAI STAR RAIL, as well as animes such as Bi in KINGDOM (SEASON 3). You can also hear him as the voice of Han Hee-seong in the Netflix live action film KILL BOKSOON. After growing up on a healthy diet of Guitar Hero, superhero films, and countless hours of Toonami, he’s thrilled to take that childhood love behind the mic and share his story with the world. He hopes to inspire others to do the same with their own.
Don't forget to check out Nicholas Leung on his socials and official website! nicklikescharsiu.com
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TW /// Razor blade and a bit of blood
HP/HK 2 Nicky: So this is what pain feels like huh?...
@mochi-chan-2006 @hello-psychopath-hn-au
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learning that abigail thorn played the player the first of two times she acted in ros and guil are dead (she played hamlet the second time, funnily enough) has me thinking about my hypothetical the prince x r&g are dead crossover fic again. what if the player was a trans woman. what if ros and guil were also trans (but were still figuring it out). what if i actually wrote this.
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Sunset Rubdown Live Preview: 5/23, Metro, Chicago
BY JORDAN MAINZER
Metro’s been home to some reunion tours, alright. This past week, it was The Walkmen gracing the stage for four nights. Last night, Phantom Planet celebrated 20 years of their second album, The Guest, in their first Chicago show since they most recently reunited. And tonight, it’s Sunset Rubdown, in the middle of their first tour in 13 years since they initially disbanded. Spencer Krug and company will bring classics from their four LPs and two EPs.
Most exciting, on most nights, the band has been performing a new, as yet unreleased song, “We’re Losing Light”, which judging from some fan videos that have surfaced, gives off a bit of a baroque funk vibe. Whether Sunset Rubdown will release new music in the near future is unknown, but like so many bands these days, they’re returning to the live circuit tight as ever, like they never left.
Tickets still available at time of publication. Doors at 7 PM. Opener Nicholas Merz, a Los Angeles-based country psych singer-songwriter, goes on at 8.
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