After surviving (somehow) the thing of which we shall no longer speak, and being waaaaaaaay behind (like four or five hours behind; herding cats, those people), we were down to our last two films. Luckily, they were both pretty great.
The Rev brought Superfights, a film I’d never even heard of. Despite featuring a hero so utterly stupid that it was nearly beyond belief, it was a pretty darn entertaining martial arts extravaganza. It has Fight Movie Logic, like the Dance Movie Logic in Breakin’ 2. Here if you have some tough MMA-style fighters you can basically take over all the street crime in your city. Fun stuff.
The last film was mine, and I went back to the sadly abandoned B-Fest tradition of always ending with a Godzilla film. I went with a childhood favorite, Ghidrah the Three Headed Monster. (Yes, Ghidrah; I’m an old man.) Ghidrah was sooooo powerful that it took three monsters from three different franchises to beat him. I always remember being instantly saddened by the fact that it only took two monsters to beat him in the next film, and that he inevitably got really stamped on but like a dozen of them in Destroy All Monsters. But as with The Borg, the Daleks, Hammer’s Dracula, etc, a monster that great inevitably diminishes as after you bring them back again and again.
The film itself is great though, one of the few where the human characters are themselves pretty fun. The princess/Martian Girl, the assassins, etc. Plus the Fairy Twins are major players this time. Great stuff.
