Top 10 Reasons Megaforce is Cooler than Titanic
So James “I used to make cool movies” Cameron has decided to capitalize on the 3-D craze by converting his undeserving Oscar winner Titanic to the 3-D format. No doubt it will make a ton of money, but this time around, it won’t be making it off me. Not that I’m opposed to retro-fitting old movies with 3-D; I’ll be lining George Lucas’s pockets with more of my hard-earned money every time one of the Star Wars films is re-released. It’s just that I have no desire to sit through that overly long stink bomb again, 3-D or otherwise. Titanic’s a big spectacle piece with one 3-D character in a movie filled with cardboard cut-out characters. After 90 minutes I was the man yelling, “Just sink the boat already!”
I’ll tell you a guy who will get my money if he ever wakes up and smells the 3-D cash: Hal Needham. Hal is the guy who brought us the epic comedy classics Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run. He is also the genius behind the 1982 action epic, Megaforce. Megaforce currently ranks among the first 100 movies on IMDB.com… if you count up from the bottom. It’s a movie I watched at least a hundred times as a kid, and one I continue to enjoy shamelessly as an adult.
Sadly, Megaforce, is not only not available on Blu-Ray, it was never released on DVD. It’s a crying shame, because the movie does have it’s vocal proponents. I’m sure all eight of them (not counting me) would agree that Megaforce is cooler than Titanic for these ten reasons – and more.
10. Gold spandex. I didn’t see any on the Titanic, but it’s inescapable in Megaforce – for better or worse.
9. The “thumb kiss.” Nothing more to say here.
8. The bald chick from Star Trek has hair, and she’s way hotter than Kate Winslet.
7. The good guys always win… even in the 80’s. Who won in Titanic? The iceberg. Considering the iceberg was the thing that brought that trainwreck to an end, I think we can all agree it was the good guy in Titanic.
6. Ace Hunter doesn’t have to declare he’s king of the world. He just flippin’ is.
5. Motorcycles that fire missiles. Did the Titanic have missiles? No. That’s why it sank.
4. Suspenseful ending. Will Hunter be left behind to die, or will he escape? You don’t know because it’s fiction, not history. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know what happened to the Titanic.
3. Rainbow colored smoke screens. Megaforce has ‘em. Titanic? No.
2. Two words: flying motorcycle.
1. Way cooler theme song. Seriously, do you want to hear Celine Dion, or do you wanna rock out with Journey???
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