Cyborg - The Cinema Snob
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2023
- From Cannon Films and director Albert Pyun, The Cinema Snob checks out the 1989 sci-fi action film starring Jean Claude Van Damme.
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Writer/Creator: Brad Jones
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I'm not saying you're right about the fire barrels, but I'm also not saying you're wrong about the fire barrels.
Can't have a post apocalypse without fire barrels!
I'll guarantee its the fire barrels
Fire barrels!
It's so hard to say goodbye to Cannon, a great company with the likes of trilogies, Breakin' & Death Wish
Never knew Breakin was a trilogy
Nevermind
I'm confused, what trilogies?, isn't there only 2 breakin films and there's five Death Wish films.
They made the 1st DEATH WISH?!
Yea. But you gotta admit it their He-Man kinda sucked.
Cyborg is a classic. RIP Albert Pyun.
This is the first shlock movie I ever saw. It's still one of my favorites.
Fender is obviously wearing the Skelator costume.
'I don't know what's come over me, but I HAVE TO SAVE THE CHILDREN!'
I want that costume. Anyone know if it's for sale somewhere?
@@Launchpad05 lol christmas skeletor
Focusing on self care today by watching Brad
No body made the apocalypse look so beautiful and cool like Albert Pyun… he was the king of it
Mad Max?
George Miller was and is the best at it, hence why this film and thousands of others copied him.
What I love about this movie is the villain. And it's something every single modern Hollywood writer should learn about. Your antagonist doesn't always have to take over the world. Or destroy the world. Him or her just being an as*hole for the sake of being an as*hole is fine by itself.
One of the few post-apocalyptic movies where it has someone that actually LIKES the way things are and wants to keep it that way.
I always preferred the Star wars knock off toys they used to sell at Dollar general. I can't even begin to count how many toy "lightning sabers" and "laser cutlasses" I had as a kid. 😂
I also haven't seen this movie in like 30 years, from what I remembered, I did like it.
Love how in 80s post apocalyptic movies characters still have perfectly coiffed and clean hair.
You said it, Shredder.
Fender’s monologues have always been amazing. And you gotta admit, JCVD just exudes charisma.
As a 12 year old at the time, and even knowing it was a lesser version of other influences I’d seen, I’ve always been entertained by Cyborg. Especially that fight scene in the abandoned factory.
I got to say that despite the low budget Pyun had too work with its a rather good looking feature. Sure some effects show their age but overall this is still entertaining. Klyn fits the villain role so well.
'DoN't LoOk DoWn On Me!' Man, he'd kill me right in the face🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Easily the most entertaining/educating take on Cyborg yet.
Ah, Albert Pyun, the best action movies director of the 90s. Cyborg, Nemesis and Mean Guns are VERY popular in Russia.
Wow, I thought of Mean Guns when Brad mentioned Chris Lambert.... I had no idea that was Pyun too! Remember that movie fondly, and especially the Rosemary Clooney ADIOS song
1:43 So that’s where Method Man got the opening narration from Judgement Day😂 Awesome.
Albert Pyun have made the greatest movies ever though
I love this movie as a kid and love this movie as an adult. And after finding out this was orignally a sequel to Masters of the Universe, I've always wondered if Skeletor was gonna have the same outfit as Fender Tremlo?
Oh Cannon the very definition of 1980s🧀
TBS used to show cannon films all the time back in the day and Cyborg was on regularly and it's where I first saw it. Love this movie and for the budget it's a solid post apocalyptic action flick. Yeah the flashbacks can be confusing at the start but it's tidbits of memories that builds up to the full backstory when he is on the cross. Decent score also.
Aw yeah early 90s TBS and USA. Tune in almost any afternoon or evening for endless Cyborg/DeathWish3/American Ninja. Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit lol
@@ralang999 yep. They would do chuck norris one day, Bronson, van damme on others. Like mini marathons each night sometimes. Then on weekend it would be all day.
@@wraithwolf007 oh maaaan those epic weekend marathons
@@ralang999 Naw. That’s my memory too.
Another gem I have to thank my older brother for taking me to see as a kid in theaters. This film holds a special place in my heart and actually like it more than Kickboxer. [Bloodsport and No Retreat No Surrender for bad JCVD are #1 and #2 in my book. This takes 3.]
This video is worth it just for that Windy City joke
Continue resting in peace Saul
Not only are you reviewing Cyborg, you are reviewing both a He Man movie and Spider-man movie because Cyborg was orginally both of the films before being cancelled due to financial issues. RIP Albert Pyun
I'd love to see A 'No Way Home' type movie where He-Man meets Spider-Man. With the great power of Greyskull comes great responsibility.
@@Launchpad05 Where both He Man and Spider-Man fight the Van Damme Cyborg character
@@alansepicvideos9083 And against Skeletor & The Green Goblin.
@@Launchpad05 No Doc Ock because he was the villain slated for the Cannon Spider-Man film where he was going to say Okey Dokey
@@alansepicvideos9083 And were Peter becomes A giant spider monster. (Just like in the comics, and 90's cartoon)
Cannon's He-Man movie underperformed? What a shock! It's almost like you shouldn't set 99% of a science-fantasy epic in the suburbs of L.A.
I don't know if it's nostalgia or what but this has always been my favorite jcvd flick
Boom!! Making Memorial Day even better. Thanks Brad. Now taste something nasty tomorrow!!!!
I just realized I saw a dubbed version of this while vacationing in Germany in 2011. The same tv-station also aired German-dubbed Shanghai Knights
Loved this movie as a kid. Rented it many times.
This just makes me want to hear you do Waterworld and The Postman
Damn, I had totally forgotten about that kid dressing up like Terminator in that commercial.
At Dave and Buster's rn, and I'm having a great time too!
So a new Cinema Snob episode makes this all even better.
I love the aesthetic of this movie. It just looks fun in a 'time capsule' kind of way.
Now I’d love to see a Cannon produced opera.
It actually happened... Franco Zeffirelli’s opera version of “Othello” (1986)
I have to imagine he had a lot of fun making this one. It's been a while since I heard him skew more Brad Jones and only a touch less Snob. Had me laughing most of the way through... but then again, I'm baked, so take that for what it's worth.
“You’ll be wet” that super soaker commercial 9:29 😂😂😂
Van Damme broken English is the best way to have Van Damme
It looks like they were going to make _Spiderman: No Home to Come Home to._
I've always heard that the Cannon version of Spider-Man was going to be similar to David Cronenberg's remake of the "The Fly", with Peter becoming a literal monstrous spider hybrid. It was supposed to be more horror than superhero adventure.
I was about 12 when this came out and I saw it. I really remember that beach scene at the time lol.
To me, this is a good first draft film. Like, it does have good ideas, settings, and character sketches along with very apt performers. If it were as easy to rework a movie as it is to edit a 5000 word college essay, this really could have been a classic.
Haven't seen this movie in years. Saw it with my sister and my brother and his godfather.
Bloody love this film, one of JCVDs best.
This is actually one of my favorite movies ever, I had 2 vhs tapes growing up one was cyborg, and the other was big trouble in little China
Oh man, I saw this movie far too many times as a kid. This and Phantasm 2 were on the constantly on the SUPER SUNDAY MOVIES on our local Fox affiliate.
A good post apocalyptic movie I saw many years ago was Blood of Heroes with Rutger Hower.
My mom vhs recorded this movie so we ended up watching it nonstop growing up🍿🙂
Funny thing is that besides Van Damme and the villain, I remember that on my very first viewing of Cyborg, the VHS tape was "eaten" by the VCR... And that's about it.
My friend and I in college had a van damme marathon. We both liked his movies but we also both had never seen cyborg. When it was done we were both like yeah we can finally scratch that one off the list but we don’t need to ever watch it again. Looking back it was kind of fun though
I had a Super Soaker 50 as a boy.
I know Branscombe from the 90s TV series "Renegade".
😂I used to love this movie so much. It was dumb, but it was fun.
I loved this movie so much, that the VHS I had it on got twisted at the end and I had to find another copy. It was hard, because in post-soviet 90's there weren't any videoshops around, you had to get everything illegaly :D
19:25
Jackson "Rock" Pinckney, who played one of Fender's pirates, lost an eye during filming when Jean-Claude van Damme accidentally struck his eye with a prop knife. Pinckney sued Van Damme in a North Carolina court and was awarded $485,000.
14:07 As the Cinema Snob himself has said on many occasions, "DAT ASS!"
It's been over ten years since I've seen this movie. Forgot how hard it is to follow the plot! It's like a very depressing sci-fi version of Stephen King's The Stand!
I remembered this and universal soldier kind of merging together in my mind.
I absolutely love this movie.
The Method man album Tical 2000 judgement day had a little intro snippet inspired by Cyborgs intro.
I loved this movie when I was a kid. The film scene in 1980s-1990s Wilmington was awesome.
You killed my flashback people!
I loved this film when I was a early teen. I thought Fender was a cool villain.
I think she said Van Damme is the "real cure" because he was always fighting the villains even when everyone else was giving up and turning on him, in other words the "real cure" is faith.
Midnight Madness feels like a movie that you would have reviewed YEARS ago, Stephen Furst carried that movie on his back.
When I was a kid I debated with my friends why this movie was named Cyborg.
You know shits gonna go down when Les Paul shows up!
I never knew there was two versions. Well i sawthe original one & i loved it. That cyborg didn't do much in the movie
I always thought of this film as a literal live action anime.
It's lacking the wild, over-the-top energy of an anime.
The only live-action film I've ever seen truly capture the spirit of an anime is the Wachowski's "Speed Racer".
@@dreamlandnightmare lol not all anime is crazy like speed racer but ok guy.
Sticking with a cyborg theme, you should try Cyborg Soldier. It does have Tiffani Thiessen in it.
I would like to see a snob episode of hardware and dust devil
I remember TBS showing Cyborg a lot, usually right before or right after Road House, which seemed to get shown at least once a week.
I'm surprised this movie and Cyborg 2 with Angelina Jolie don't get more love lol
Strangely, when this would air on the local independent TV station (it was either KSTW 11 or KCPQ 13), the announcer would say, "Coming up next: Masters of the Universe 2: The Cyborg". The actual title shown in the movie was still just CYBORG, though. I was completely baffled as to why it was referred to as a MOTU sequel until decades later and reading about it on the internet. While I now understand the movie's connection to MOTU, I still don't really know why the TV announcer was told to say that title, long after the movie stopped being MOTU 2.
I'm not sure if he was referring to the planned Canon Spider-Man movie, but in a post on former Marvel Comics Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter's website he said he read a script for a Spider-Man movie (that obviously never got made) where whoever wrote it didn't know anything about Spider-Man and instead wrote basically a werewolf movie where the guy turned into a spider rather than a wolf.
Dude lost his sight to a sword stabbing?! Fuck... I remember hearing years ago that a guy lost his sight in one eye during the filming. I thought I remembered hearing that it was because JCVD couldn't control his kicks/punches (which later became a well known fact about working with the guy) and he kicked him in the eye.
6:44 Why is she dressed as Luffy, from"One Piece"?
I remember a long time ago seeing a movie where a woman is fighting a cyborg and sets him on fire. His last words are "Aw man. Now I'm on fire?" before a shot of his endoskeleton giving a disappointed groan.
Why would a full-body cyborg have the cure for the plague, when a few floppy disks could easily do the same job?
Van Damme is one of the greatest Fighter of all Time.
2:01 OKAY right here I'm expecting it to go into a song by Mortician. Now I know where that sample is from LOL.
This was fun to watch, my previous knowledge of the movie was, it was that movie i got send instead of Short Circuit, when I ordered Short Circuit. Well, both movies got a robot. :D.
I saw this movie the first time on a Sunday afternoon on a UHF channel.
For SOME reason, Turner Classic Movies showed this one night. That's how I saw it
I don’t know why I kept thinking and confusing this for Universal Soldier before watching.😂
1:58 my rap brain immediately goes "That wasn't Method Man, that was a sample?!"
eta: also trivia about the potential Cannon Spider-Man: some execs there were under the impression that Spider-Man was an actual spider/man hybrid and wanted a script from Tobe Hooper
Though the film is by no means perfect, it's an absolute masterpiece considering what VD had to work with. Pyun's original cut was way worse. I know because they released it on DVD years later under the title of Slinger and I had the misfortune of watching it. As for the flashbacks and the cutaways before the kills, those I think can be chalked up to the same root cause. In Pyun's original story, Fender and his gang were cannibals ( as well as Satanists) dubbed Flesh Pirates and were supposed to have been driven insane by eating people. Likely, when VD cut the film, he removed a lot of the more graphic scenes that Pyun had filmed showing this happening and the flashbacks were put in to pad the runtime.
Also, if you want to see a film that was probably closer to what Pyun intended I would watch his 1993 film Knights with Kathy Long and Kris Kristofferson. It has most of the same plot beats and is really fun to watch, though I think it only got a VHS release.
I actually enjoy Pyun's director's cut of Cyborg.
Oh fuck yeah! I had a Super Soaker 50 as kid! It was awesome! Also carried a 20 on the side.
Love this film
Rest in Power, Pyun
At 14:30 when mentioning pink eye, reminds me of the 90's Ray Liotta movie No Escape where they specifically mention that they have no antibiotics so if they catch pink eye they could die.
So that's where Method Man got his intro for the album "Judgement Day" !
"I like the death, I like the misery, I like this world!!"
I always wondered where it came from
The Spider-Man movie that Canon wanted to make would have involved Peter Parker being the villain, a mad scientist who would end up turning into a giant spider. It also would have starred Tom Cruise as Peter Parker, Stan Lee as J Jonah Jameson, and Bob Hoskins as Doc Ock.
Cannon eventually became too cheap to pay Michael Dudikoff. Tom Cruise was waaaaaaay out of their budget.
The movie world could have been used for a live action version of the 1980s cartoon 'Thundarr the Barbarian'.
Amazing
It's that movie I saw on TV randomly one day at my grandparents house
Wow you are still making videos. This movie is great.
Great review. This is one of my favourite movies. The (not) sequels were a let down.
It's like Hokuto No Ken + Fallout + Mad Max universes put together
4:35 Oh so the woman was the cyborg. I barely remember even seeing this Van Damme movie and I didn't know that.
This is a Classic, a hood classic too if you will. The sequel with Angelina Jolie on the other hand….
The Super Soaker ad screams "SCH00L SH00TING" to my #SurrenderMonkey ears :P
Branscombe Richmond was also in Renegade TV show Cinema Snob.
Been following you for years Brad, keep up the good work!! 👍
Always got this and universal soldier mixed up. I guess because I was so young when I saw them both, they just kind of blended together (all to say it took me until about six minutes into the video to realise dolph wasn’t going to show up!)
This is my favorite Van Damme movie, this made me love him as an 80s action star. Still my favorite film by JCVD. It's cheesy, but it's so great, lol.
I was also the 900th Like :D
14:39 I KNEW YOU COULDN'T RESIST A BRAD MCGINTY SUBREFERENCE IN THIS MOVIE!
Adam Driver would make a good audio book narrator.