Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

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Abraham M Oct 23, 2018 lots of information on a film company I was not familiar with, but i had watched several of their films. Its an interesting documentary, but does drag on after a while. See more

Leia G Jul 11, 2017 A look behid the rise and fall of the fairly legendary Cannon Films label, this is loaded with great stories and trivia about the company and its biggest stars. If you were an action movie fan in the '80s, this is highly recommended. Give that mother a day in court! See more

Finn W Apr 24, 2017 Sorry, I just couldn't fully get behind this film; Canon group littered video stores of the 80's with bad taste action, horror and camp teen-comedy B-movies, a few of them will stand the test of misty nostalgia (if you were fourteen when you saw American Ninja, or Barbarian, or whatever) but the films are mostly garbage. This documentaries third act gets all sentimental about Canon's rise and demise but, honestly, the only thing the producers were interested in was money; they raised enough money to run overseas distribution, invest in cinema chains and also obtain the rights to a classic film library, but then it all collapsed because, like the bad filmmakers they were, they made the classic bad business decision of over-investing, over-expanding and over-predicting how well their (terrible, embarrassing, sexist, cheap looking) movies were going to do at the box office. It DOES stand to reason that Canon are sometimes hilarious, and their one surprise mega-hit of a one million dollar budget earned about 74 million worldwide. This is unusual, and is a success story, but then the film was also nasty, derivative, mindless and probably more sexist than most other video releases of it's year. Why the interviewees claim at the film's end that the Canon legacy is important is unclear; they paved the way for lowest-common denominator interests over intelligence and substance, and of course pre-sales, a concept that means a film will usually be generic in type, but the rights to distribute a movie are sold before it's actually made. Typically Menahem Golan would make up strings of improbable rubbish at meetings to try and please anyone anywhere that would finance a picture, based on the evidence of a gaudy poster and the "star quality" of people like Chuck Norris, or Michael Dudikoff. Time wastey. See more

George R Jan 12, 2017 This documentary is better than the vast amount of Canon films it chronicles; it's a whirlwind ride about a wild decade, and an even wilder company and its 80's exploitation fare. See more

Anakin W Nov 27, 2016 A delightful and heartwarming love letter to b-movies everywhere, Electric Boogaloo perfectly captures the successes and failures of the Cannon Group. While it's a shame that we don't get interviews from either Menahem Golan or Yoram Globus, Cannon's two creators, Boogaloo makes up for it by giving us plenty more interviews with dozens of actors and actresses who've worked for Cannon in the past. Top it off with clips of some of their "best" films and you've got a highly entertaining time capsule of 70s and 80s schlock entertainment. See more

Finn G Aug 16, 2016 it's just a look at why they made so many bad movies and basically because the writers and producer put little thought into it. See more

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