Oliver Gruner is a legit real life badass. He was in the French Navy equivalent of the Marines, and you guys nailed it, a professional kickboxer. Everything Sifu Seagal wished he was.
I think Equiliberium and Underworld also stole the shoot through the floor thing too honestly. Also, as an old dude who's somewhat of a gymrat despite being retired and disabled, all my homegirls i workout with are jacked. Everyone thinks it's cool until you realize they eat like 9 times a day and blow up every toilet everywhere they go and will literally steal your food in front of you if you stop anywhere to eat, ever.
Brione James was the ultimate tough guy/minion/hired muscle/lieutenant/henchman of almost every movie ever made where an extra bad guy was needed. He was in SO many movies.
@@megatronjenkins2473 Well, looking at their careers... Al Leong has a whopping 75 career film credits, while Brione James has 174. Pretty sure James wins.
When I looked this up and saw it was 1992, I was legitimately surprised. For an early '90s B-movie, it seems really well done. It's very VERY clear that Matrix took a lot of inspiration from this movie, enough so that at first I would have imagined this was from after the Matrix and clearly inspired by Matrix. So it was legitimately surprising to find this came out 7 years before.
I’d even go so far as to say Underworld also ripped this movie off. So many of the action scenes from the first movie seem directly lifted from this, in retrospect
That shot of Alex sliding down the hill backwards while firing was most certainly referenced in The Matrix when Trinity fell down the stairs and whipped out the two Berettas.
Also knowing about the first Matrix script made in 1994, it was much more inspired by this kind of material than it later became to be, when they removed the part that was "good" from the Hollywood bosses point of view.
What's crazy is that the shoot-through-the-floor scene looked better and was done better in Nemesis on a much smaller budget. Pyun directed his butt off on this film, and the editors were on some next-level stuff putting it all together.@@cobracommander8133
His backstory almost looks made up: _"In 1981 Gruner left the French military with the aim to train full-time in order to compete professionally as a kick boxer. He traveled to the French Alps and began an intensive training regimen. In order to pay for his training expenses, he had to hold down four jobs, as a bouncer, a ski patrol member, a martial arts trainer, and a ski lift operator"_
When you work at ski resorts, this becomes way less fantastical and more like "yeah, I met three of these guys." If you're looking to hide or reinvent, that's where you go, it seems.
Olivier Gruner (pronounced grew ner) is a French kickboxer, served in French military. The producers of this film, Imperial, were grooming him to be the next Van Damme. They started him off in "Angel Town." Yes, that was Shang Tsung. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Brion James was in "Blade Runner", "The Fifth Element" The Commissioner was played by Full Moon veteran, Tim Thomerson ("Dollman" also directed by Pyun, and "Trancers"). The volcano scene was shot in Hawaii. Looking forward to you watching the sequels. There are four of them. "Nemesis 2 : Nebula", "Nemesis 3: Prey Harder", "Nemesis 4: Cry of Angels", & "Nemesis 5: The New Model". Part 4 is my favourite of the sequels. You guys are slipping. This film, "Nemesis", is actually good. Unlike the works of Sifu Seagal. "China Salesman" was pure torture. It was painful just watching you watch it!
Usually I shy away from youtube comment sections as they are an absolute cesspool, but this may be the most informative, yet critical, yet polite, comment I've ever read. That's a lot of commas. Sorry. Also, I'm now going to watch all of the Nemesis movies.
Careful, they're nowhere near as good as the original. But then again, I don't know anything about Nemesis 4. Nemesis 2 and 3 are nothing like the original, but I will definitely check out Nemesis 4. @@jgaines4
I found this bit of trivia on IMDB: "During the scene with the old lady shooting the cyborg, director Albert Pyun expressed concerns that holding the gun would take a physical toll on Mabel Falls, who plays the old lady with shotgun. She managed to pull through." Hell yeah she did.
This one was legitimately fun. It had a relatively low beer to laugh ratio. I was friends with a professional stunt woman and she was friggin' jacked, sadly stunt women don't get enough credit. Was nice to see - 80's & 90's were movie gold.
@@JasonBrant For more Tim Thomerson, I recomend Dollman, Trancers and Dollman vs The Demonic Toys. And for more serious fare Uncommon Valor starring alongside Gene Hackman and a VERY young Patrick Swayze.
I'm really bummed you're not going to see this comment, but the main baddie is Tim Thomerson AKA: Dollman/Jack Deth (Trancers). I'm glad you guys watched this bc it's definitely one of my favorites, idk even how many times I've seen it. Sadly your critique is spot on. Thanks
@@larshansson1953 he’s not dead, but he’s severely ill. He has multiple sclerosis, and has dementia really bad. So he doesn’t really make movies anymore
When they all jump through the big window, they don't stop shooting for a second. They're not even aiming at anything, just holding the guns. Fucking amazing.
I unironically love this movie. Albert Pyun has directed some of my all time favorite dumb genre movies including this and its sequels. He also directed Dollman with Tim Thomerson (the old badass cyborg in this), Radioactive Dreams, the 1990 Captain America movie, and JCVD's Cyborg. You should definitely deep dive into his filmography for some good gems.
The old guy villain in this, Tim Thomerson, has his own series of movies through Full Moon called Trancers where he’s a time traveling cop that hunts zombies. Helen Hunt plays his love interest as well.
@@FreejackVesa I like the actual new stuff in it quite a bit and it’s a lot of fun, but I hate that half of the movie (or more) is just flashbacks recapping the previous three movies that it connects with, lol
He is a martial artist but what struck me was he was also in the French Commandos unit in the French marines. It’s one of the toughest special forces units. Great video as always.
FINALLY! I recommended this movie to you guys months ago xD. This movie is Pyun's masterpiece (or whatever the director's name is). I love this movie, it's on my top movies list, I love it in all honesty. I wish to develop a game based off this movie, I already got some concepts of how it'll play out, it's plot, etc. I lifted so much out of this movie it's downright copycatting. My dream is to get the director's greenlight, so I don't have to change things up and try to avoid a lawsuit.
Fun Facts: Deborah Shelton declined to use a body double for her nude scene. In preparation for his role, Olivier Gruner claims he brought his total body fat down to four percent. Deborah Shelton worked out for three and a half hours a day to get into shape to play Julian. The idea of Alex Rain being implanted with a bomb as insurance was borrowed from Escape from New York (1981). In the original script Alex Rain was a 13 year old girl working undercover for the LAPD. Megan Ward, who had just worked with Albert Pyun on Arcade (1993), was considered and expressed interest, despite reservations over the high level of violence and a scene in which her character was fully nude (Ward was, obviously, a legal adult at the time). A few test scenes were shot before searching for financiers, which led Pyun to the Shah brothers at Imperial Entertainment. They agreed to bankroll the film on one condition: Alex had to be changed into an adult male and Olivier Gruner, their recent discovery, had to play him. Pyun agreed when the Shahs promised not to influence production in any other way. The concept of Alex being a woman was eventually used in the sequels, played by bodybuilder Sue Price. Gene Warren Jr., the visual effects director, performed the same duties on Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The scene in which Olivier Gruner rides a bending sixty-foot pole to the ground required three different pole variants to find one which wouldn't bend for real. In some versions of the film, Alex Rain is the narrator rather than Jared. The dialogue is nearly identical, but the Alex narration, notably, does not explain why Morico (the woman in the opening scene) was targeted by the LAPD. The tower that collapses during the climactic chase scene was an actual piece of industrial infrastructure. Construction workers strategically cut the base of the tower, and when it began to fall, the stunt personnel were ready to run. The only special effects utilized for this shot were gasoline bombs used to create the explosion. The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Escape from New York (1981), The Terminator (1984) and RoboCop (1987) are all believed to be influences on the film. The film was filmed on location in Hawali and Montana, California. The TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) was speculated to be one of Albert Pyun's influences: In the film, Alex Rain is a human rebuilt as a Cyborg with spare robotic parts after nearly being killed in a gun battle. In the series, Colonel Steve Austin (Lee Majors) has his body parts replaced with robot parts when he is injured in a crash landing during a test flight. Deborah Shelton described her character Julian as an "embodiment of what human beings feel." The part of Billy Moon was one of Thomas Jane's earliest roles. Olivier Gruner played a cyborg again in Automatic (1995). Although the film was made in 1992, the film didn't hit American big screens until January 1993. The film did not premiere on British television until 2010. A scene in which Alex escapes a building by shooting his way through multiple floors was widely considered to be influenced by the works of Sam Raimi. A similar scene appeared in Underworld (2003). Deborah Shelton called the film's stunts "amazing." The film takes place in 2027. Nemesis was filmed on-location in Hilo, Hawaii and Montana, California. In the director's cut, the hotel at the beginning of the movie is named the Imperial Hotel. This is a reference to the production company, Imperial Entertainment. Bob Brown's first film as stunt coordinator. The assistant cameraman was injured during the floor scene. Luckily, it was only a minor injury. Director Albert Pyun has since gone on to say he didn't care for the film's musical score by Michel Rubini. Though Pyun has commended Rubini as a composer. Bob Brown ended up dislocating his shoulder during filming. Rebecca Charles is actually a pseudonym of Albert Pyun. Pyun took on the pseudonym due a request from the studio. The film was originally shot in 2.35:1. The abandoned factory set seen at the beginning was previously used in Dollman and Terminator 2. The scene with Vincent Klyn confronting Oliver Gruner were shot as inserts. Thomas Jane decided that his character of Billy Moon would be nude upon learning that Deborah Shelton's character of Julian was set to be nude in the latter character's first scene. This proved awkward for stuntman Bobby Brown, who was set to coordinate the later fight scene between the two. Tim Thomerson and Rhino Michaels previously co-starred in Trancers II. While those two actors shared at least one scene in that movie, they don't share any scenes at all in this movie. Jackie Earle Hayley hopped on the board the film as a means to break type post-Bad News Bears. Sven-Ole Thorsen would later go on to appear in Cyborg 2 and Barbara C. Adside would go on to appear in Cyborg 3. The original Cyborg was directed by Albert Pyun, the director of Nemesis. All of the interior scenes were shot in Los Angeles for scheduling reasons. Deborah Shelton accidentally injured Thomas Jane during filming. A chase sequence at the downtown L.A. fish market was proposed but the fish market wanted too much money from the filmmakers. Tony Riparetti was Albert Pyun's original choice for composer before Michel Rubini was hired. Riparetti had already composed some temp cue pieces for the film. Reportedly, director Albert Pyun clashed with co-producer Eric Karson during pre-production as well as in post. During the scene with the old lady shooting the cyborg, director Albert Pyun expressed concerns that holding the gun would take a physical toll on Mabel Falls, who plays the old lady with shotgun. She managed to pull through. Yuji Okumoto agreed to work on the film for less than his usual fee at the time of filming. The film's teamster drivers have cameos as Angie's henchmen.
Liked this when it came out. That and Spilt Second was around the same time i think. The haircuts the dustbusters, the smoke glasses. What's not to like.?
Damn, I wasn't going to watch this one but I'm glad I did, seeing Thomas Jane really sold it to me, the casting for this movie was awesome, good to also see man mountain Sven in it too
"Gutchies" is definitely a Western PA thing. Every lady I know over about 40-45ish who grew up around the Pittsburgh area says it. Not a lot of younger folks or guys in particular say it though... Also contextually it's mostly used in the sense that a joke about seeing or not wearing them is being made. So like, you'd say "Watch your skirt, I can see your gutchies!" or "He's learning to get his gutchies on all by himself!" - but you wouldn't hear someone generally say "I'm gonna head to Victoria's Secret and pick up some sexy gutchies for our anniversary." or "I'm done packing for the trip - I figured three pairs of pants and five pairs of gutchies will do.". You might hear the last one, maybe, depending on how often the person speaking really wants to say the word gutchies, I mean, people will shoehorn it in if they love saying it.
Interesting. I lived in a time in Cleveland after moving there from Philly. Never heard gutchies in the south east Pa. Or in Ohio. But honestly it does sound like something Steelers fans would say, so it's not surprising. 😂 Edit: yinz fupa overflowing dem gutchies! Lol
@@Psyrus88 In general, the Cyberpunk world in which it takes place; which they didn't have the budget to show, and is left largely for the audience to imagine.
@@Neon-CovenanterI think "peak cyberpunk" was when Billy Idol released his album "Cyberpunk" in 1993. As a trend, Cyberpunk really kind of fizzled out by the late 90s. Just putting that out there if anyone is interested in a SBIG concept album by Billy Idol
I have the same problem as Erin, in an action movie whenever some time passes without, you know, action, I'm like "STOP TALKING AND KILL SOMEONE, YOU (HUUUUUUUUUURRRRR)" And speaking of action, you NEED to watch Hard Boiled. Get the whole crew. I guarantee that would be the best SBIG episode ever.
I genuinely don't know how I found this channel or why it was recommended. I assume because I watch RLM and other such shows. However, I am very pleased that this was sent my way. I've really been enjoying the backlog of episodes. Keep it up!
Yeah, it's a good channel. I just discovered it and am binge watching all the old episodes. I wish they had a spreadsheet or google doc with the listing of the movies they've watched and what SBIG ratings/approvals it received, I suppose I could motivate and create it but hopefully someone else already has
Another amazing reaction/review! Nice job y'all! This film delivers some terrific exigent scenes. Albert Pyun has a bunch of other "gems" too. Also, another film that I would put in this low-budget cyberpunk category would be: Hardware (1990). Definitely worth a watch, especially on this channel.
Thanks for showing this! It's a movie from my childhood that I watched with my best friend at the time! I had forgotten all about it but you guys brought back a lot of good memories with this one! Great movie also! Cheers!
@@Deseis 8 years between this and BE. Especially around that time that's a whole different world (effectively going from a pre-Internet for most people to an era where people are getting speeds good enough to download movies).
Dammit Jason! Your comment to the effect of "I'm sure they could have found a better camera angle so that we didn't have to see her colon" made me laugh so hard and for so long my girlfriend had to pause the video and got up to get a snack while I recovered🤣🤣🤣. You guys are all so awesome! if you're ever near Laurel Maryland I will buy you a six pack for the next video.
Awesome job on this one- it's an anomaly and you all handled it perfectly - Can't wait for the sequels - especially once Sue Price appears - Have a great week all
From the way the lead keeps losing side characters to the sweeping location shots of them traveling to their destination and the way the robot falls into the lava at the end, I couldn’t stop seeing The Lord of the Rings influence.
I found out that there are three sequels to this and all four movies are available on Blu-ray. Bought the first one on the strength of what I saw here.
I got the entire 4 films box, after seeing this. And I had the pleasure of finding out that one of the sequels is a movie I 've been looking for since 1998.😊👍
The older cyborg was played by the actor Tim Thomerson. Thomerson was the lead in a one of my guilty pleasure 80's movie "Trancers" in the role of Jack Deth.
Great reactions, I love this film it has mostly practical effects and in camera action scenes, the dialogues clunky but at least they made a effort with the stunts, shootouts unlike today were they cgi mostly everything. Oliver Gruner made some decent B movie action films I recommend you check out Automatic & Savate. The director of this directed JCVD in Cyborg, if you notice the guy Alex shot in the neck in bathroom played the villian Fender.
Hell yeah! I hope you dive into more Albert Pyun films (the director of this and Van Damme's Cyborg). He also did some Kickboxer sequels and the first one is better than the original! Also his Dollman is a delight, with Tim Thomerson (the villain in this) as the tiny man with a powerful alien gun. Pyun didn't plan any of the tiny man style shots out yet it still sort of works.
Thank you thank you thank you! One of my all time favorite bad films. Yes the acting is not great, but everything else is awesome. I have seen it over 30 times and will watch it again. Just don't watch the sequels, they make this one look like a high budget masterpiece.
The guy from Karate Kid 2 is Yuji Okumoto, who also owns a chain of Hawaiian-themed restaurants up here in Seattle. I literally had dinner at his restaurant last night, and now I'm seeing him on your channel.
Sitting here having my Dunkin' Ice Coffee and Wawa BEC shorti enjoying your reaction. It took me until 30:00 to realize that I have seen this before, straight to Video/Cable. 🤣🤣🤣
Hey! The ruined factory complex in the opening scene is😄 the backdrop where they filmed the Outworld scenes in "Mortal Kombat" and the ruins of L.A. in "Independence Day"!
Hell yeah I’m early for once! Maybe Jason just had really amazing memory. I’m just now realizing that you do this with every movie you watch- you always are listing off who they are and what they’ve done
Movies like this are why I miss the 90s my childhood. Fantastic reaction to this criminally underrated masterpiece of a Sci Fi movie the practical effects and action are top notch in this movie.
Wow, theres about 4-5 more future well know actors in this. Cary H Tagawa. And James Earle Healy from Watchmen is in it. And the Johnny Sixkiller guy from Renegade. And the bad guy with the dark sunglasses and chain mail clothes from Cyborg with Van Damme. And as always Sven Ole Thorsen. Again, he was in everything for a looong time..
Oliver Gruner is a legit real life badass. He was in the French Navy equivalent of the Marines, and you guys nailed it, a professional kickboxer. Everything Sifu Seagal wished he was.
Sifu Seagull
FIFY🤣
You lost me at "badass and French."
he also definitely wrote his own wikipedia
@@Alan-pg8uj 😂😂😂😂 you might be right lmao
I remember seeing some Oliver Gruner movies in the 90s and early 00s. Dude was like a French JCVD.
"Karate kid 2, that's the asshole" 🤣🤣🤣👏👏 what a line
I don't think they used a normal explosives expert for the explosions in this movie. They used a pyromaniac.
Haha, for sure.
The granny with the gun and palsy was hilarious.
Kicked Sven's ass.
Legend has it that 9 months after the shooting wrapped up, Olivier Gruner was the father to 17 babies.
You can add 29 grand kids to the tally.
legend jokes are lame you brainless sheeple... be original and quit being a typical brainless mainstream media fed sheeple
Extra child support
I think Equiliberium and Underworld also stole the shoot through the floor thing too honestly. Also, as an old dude who's somewhat of a gymrat despite being retired and disabled, all my homegirls i workout with are jacked. Everyone thinks it's cool until you realize they eat like 9 times a day and blow up every toilet everywhere they go and will literally steal your food in front of you if you stop anywhere to eat, ever.
Brione James was the ultimate tough guy/minion/hired muscle/lieutenant/henchman of almost every movie ever made where an extra bad guy was needed. He was in SO many movies.
Al Leong: Hold my candy bar.
Second to the legendary Al Leong, sorry.
@@megatronjenkins2473 Well, looking at their careers... Al Leong has a whopping 75 career film credits, while Brione James has 174. Pretty sure James wins.
The dude is in a lot of stuff.
@@JasonBrant from the top of my head , Blade Runner, Red Scorpion, Tango & Cash, Another 48 hours, Enemy mine, Crimewave.....
And you're right about the circular sunglasses, they look good on literally everyone
I don't know why they went away.
@@JasonBrant Morpheus borrowed them 😂
Dude they need to come back.
@@JasonBrant They never did for me. I wear them out everyday, Joopin makes great affordable models that work quite well.
@@JasonBrant Women started wearing those massive shades to make them look skinnier. I blame Victoria Beckham.
That 360 corkscrew no scope on top of the waterfall. 👌Magnificent!
Imagine the Kill Cam for that shot. Epic!
The only way to fire off a kill shot.
When I looked this up and saw it was 1992, I was legitimately surprised. For an early '90s B-movie, it seems really well done. It's very VERY clear that Matrix took a lot of inspiration from this movie, enough so that at first I would have imagined this was from after the Matrix and clearly inspired by Matrix. So it was legitimately surprising to find this came out 7 years before.
I’d even go so far as to say Underworld also ripped this movie off. So many of the action scenes from the first movie seem directly lifted from this, in retrospect
@@JeffreyLong Underworld TOTALLY ripped off the shoot through the floor sequence.
That shot of Alex sliding down the hill backwards while firing was most certainly referenced in The Matrix when Trinity fell down the stairs and whipped out the two Berettas.
Also knowing about the first Matrix script made in 1994, it was much more inspired by this kind of material than it later became to be, when they removed the part that was "good" from the Hollywood bosses point of view.
What's crazy is that the shoot-through-the-floor scene looked better and was done better in Nemesis on a much smaller budget. Pyun directed his butt off on this film, and the editors were on some next-level stuff putting it all together.@@cobracommander8133
His backstory almost looks made up: _"In 1981 Gruner left the French military with the aim to train full-time in order to compete professionally as a kick boxer. He traveled to the French Alps and began an intensive training regimen. In order to pay for his training expenses, he had to hold down four jobs, as a bouncer, a ski patrol member, a martial arts trainer, and a ski lift operator"_
Yeah, it's widely thought he wrote his own Wikipedia 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s so he can do as many cut-aways as family guy with stories
So he's like Seagal minus the bullshit then 🤣 ?
When you work at ski resorts, this becomes way less fantastical and more like "yeah, I met three of these guys." If you're looking to hide or reinvent, that's where you go, it seems.
Paid for his martial arts training by becoming a martial arts trainer, cause that’s how that works I guess
That shooting through the floor sequence was unique with some of the angles.
Olivier Gruner (pronounced grew ner) is a French kickboxer, served in French military. The producers of this film, Imperial, were grooming him to be the next Van Damme. They started him off in "Angel Town."
Yes, that was Shang Tsung. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
Brion James was in "Blade Runner", "The Fifth Element"
The Commissioner was played by Full Moon veteran, Tim Thomerson ("Dollman" also directed by Pyun, and "Trancers").
The volcano scene was shot in Hawaii.
Looking forward to you watching the sequels. There are four of them. "Nemesis 2 : Nebula", "Nemesis 3: Prey Harder", "Nemesis 4: Cry of Angels", & "Nemesis 5: The New Model". Part 4 is my favourite of the sequels.
You guys are slipping. This film, "Nemesis", is actually good. Unlike the works of Sifu Seagal. "China Salesman" was pure torture. It was painful just watching you watch it!
4 sequels ?!? I hope they watch them... That would be awesome !
Usually I shy away from youtube comment sections as they are an absolute cesspool, but this may be the most informative, yet critical, yet polite, comment I've ever read.
That's a lot of commas. Sorry.
Also, I'm now going to watch all of the Nemesis movies.
Careful, they're nowhere near as good as the original. But then again, I don't know anything about Nemesis 4. Nemesis 2 and 3 are nothing like the original, but I will definitely check out Nemesis 4. @@jgaines4
23:12 THIS SCENE! I knew I’d seen this one when it came out on video!
“State-Of-The-F$&kin’-Art, Alex!”
I actually got to meet Olivier Grunner on the set of one of his movies he was filming in LA. He is a really super nice guy
I found this bit of trivia on IMDB: "During the scene with the old lady shooting the cyborg, director Albert Pyun expressed concerns that holding the gun would take a physical toll on Mabel Falls, who plays the old lady with shotgun. She managed to pull through."
Hell yeah she did.
😁👍
"I don't care anymore. There's a naked woman."
Priceless.
I mean... right?
Now you know what happened to all the stuntmen from the Cannon films of the 80's: they all got together in the 90's and starred in their own movie :)
Seriously.
The real "Expendables"
This one was legitimately fun. It had a relatively low beer to laugh ratio. I was friends with a professional stunt woman and she was friggin' jacked, sadly stunt women don't get enough credit. Was nice to see - 80's & 90's were movie gold.
They definitely don't get enough credit.
One of my very favorite movies - tons of action, explosions, relentlessly entertaining. And who doesn't love Tim Thomerson?
Definitely want to watch more of his stuff.
@@JasonBrant For more Tim Thomerson, I recomend Dollman, Trancers and Dollman vs The Demonic Toys. And for more serious fare Uncommon Valor starring alongside Gene Hackman and a VERY young Patrick Swayze.
I love Nemesis. I had the pleasure of interviewing the director Albert Pyun years back, and it definitely ranks as one of his better films.
The older bad guy is a badass, he played Dollman in the movie "Dollman"!
Great movie! Awesome review guys. Also, Erin cracks me up. She has the patience of a boiling tea kettle when it comes to the action in a movie.
I love her feet ,she's hot
She has zero time for dialogue in movies 🤣
The Motel-shootout is _insane._ When Albert Pyun was on he was *on!* I can also recommend "Mean Guns"
Dollman has amazing effects for it's budget.
I'll check it out!
On that note, RIP Albert Pyun. 😢
Just for the old woman alone, this movie is awesome. She looked completely natural at it. Stone cold grandma 👵
And that pistol was not a toy!
She's definitely fucked some people up for money back in the day, that shit was like instinct for her
I'm really bummed you're not going to see this comment, but the main baddie is Tim Thomerson AKA: Dollman/Jack Deth (Trancers). I'm glad you guys watched this bc it's definitely one of my favorites, idk even how many times I've seen it. Sadly your critique is spot on. Thanks
Albert Pyun was one of the most underrated director of all time. He made his own hiper brutal and sexy aestatic. True visioneer of 90s
Was? He isn't dead, man.
@@larshansson1953 hes last movies was like it was made by corp. Check Bulletface (2010), or better tnot do this
@@larshansson1953 he’s not dead, but he’s severely ill. He has multiple sclerosis, and has dementia really bad. So he doesn’t really make movies anymore
He was diagnosed with MS and dementia several years ago and hasn't worked since 2014.
I'll have to watch more of his stuff.
When they all jump through the big window, they don't stop shooting for a second. They're not even aiming at anything, just holding the guns. Fucking amazing.
Brilliant 🤣
Gruner was a professional kick boxer in France from '81 to '88.
Ahh, thanks!
That shot of him going down through multiple floors is forever ingrained in my memory.
I unironically love this movie. Albert Pyun has directed some of my all time favorite dumb genre movies including this and its sequels. He also directed Dollman with Tim Thomerson (the old badass cyborg in this), Radioactive Dreams, the 1990 Captain America movie, and JCVD's Cyborg. You should definitely deep dive into his filmography for some good gems.
Evidently Pyun really liked that abandoned factory used for filming the opening sequence, because he shot there once again in Dollman.
@@Psyrus88 literally free real estate.
Tim Thomerson rocks!
@@soopergenyus Trancers
27:53 Our hero ladies and gentlemen. Uses the small pixie lady as his crash pad.
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The old guy villain in this, Tim Thomerson, has his own series of movies through Full Moon called Trancers where he’s a time traveling cop that hunts zombies. Helen Hunt plays his love interest as well.
And full moons Dollman series
I think "Dollman vs Demonic Toys" is underrated. It was the full moon crossover we didn't know we needed
@@FreejackVesa I like the actual new stuff in it quite a bit and it’s a lot of fun, but I hate that half of the movie (or more) is just flashbacks recapping the previous three movies that it connects with, lol
He is a martial artist but what struck me was he was also in the French Commandos unit in the French marines. It’s one of the toughest special forces units. Great video as always.
Thanks!
I saw this on HBO in the mid 1990's and for some reason totally fell in love with this movie and even picked it up on DVD.
FINALLY!
I recommended this movie to you guys months ago xD.
This movie is Pyun's masterpiece (or whatever the director's name is).
I love this movie, it's on my top movies list, I love it in all honesty.
I wish to develop a game based off this movie, I already got some concepts of how it'll play out, it's plot, etc. I lifted so much out of this movie it's downright copycatting. My dream is to get the director's greenlight, so I don't have to change things up and try to avoid a lawsuit.
Erin is the perfect woman. If you forget her birthday or Valentine's Day she will forget about it a week later.
🤣 🤣
"It's so aggressively 90s." 😂😂 Man I love this channel.
Thanks 🤣
@@JasonBrant No worries man! I'm just dreading the day when you run out of shite movies 😣 As long as Sifu is still going we should be okay though... 😂
Fun Facts:
Deborah Shelton declined to use a body double for her nude scene.
In preparation for his role, Olivier Gruner claims he brought his total body fat down to four percent.
Deborah Shelton worked out for three and a half hours a day to get into shape to play Julian.
The idea of Alex Rain being implanted with a bomb as insurance was borrowed from Escape from New York (1981).
In the original script Alex Rain was a 13 year old girl working undercover for the LAPD. Megan Ward, who had just worked with Albert Pyun on Arcade (1993), was considered and expressed interest, despite reservations over the high level of violence and a scene in which her character was fully nude (Ward was, obviously, a legal adult at the time). A few test scenes were shot before searching for financiers, which led Pyun to the Shah brothers at Imperial Entertainment. They agreed to bankroll the film on one condition: Alex had to be changed into an adult male and Olivier Gruner, their recent discovery, had to play him. Pyun agreed when the Shahs promised not to influence production in any other way. The concept of Alex being a woman was eventually used in the sequels, played by bodybuilder Sue Price.
Gene Warren Jr., the visual effects director, performed the same duties on Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
The scene in which Olivier Gruner rides a bending sixty-foot pole to the ground required three different pole variants to find one which wouldn't bend for real.
In some versions of the film, Alex Rain is the narrator rather than Jared. The dialogue is nearly identical, but the Alex narration, notably, does not explain why Morico (the woman in the opening scene) was targeted by the LAPD.
The tower that collapses during the climactic chase scene was an actual piece of industrial infrastructure. Construction workers strategically cut the base of the tower, and when it began to fall, the stunt personnel were ready to run. The only special effects utilized for this shot were gasoline bombs used to create the explosion.
The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Escape from New York (1981), The Terminator (1984) and RoboCop (1987) are all believed to be influences on the film.
The film was filmed on location in Hawali and Montana, California.
The TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) was speculated to be one of Albert Pyun's influences: In the film, Alex Rain is a human rebuilt as a Cyborg with spare robotic parts after nearly being killed in a gun battle. In the series, Colonel Steve Austin (Lee Majors) has his body parts replaced with robot parts when he is injured in a crash landing during a test flight.
Deborah Shelton described her character Julian as an "embodiment of what human beings feel."
The part of Billy Moon was one of Thomas Jane's earliest roles.
Olivier Gruner played a cyborg again in Automatic (1995).
Although the film was made in 1992, the film didn't hit American big screens until January 1993.
The film did not premiere on British television until 2010.
A scene in which Alex escapes a building by shooting his way through multiple floors was widely considered to be influenced by the works of Sam Raimi. A similar scene appeared in Underworld (2003).
Deborah Shelton called the film's stunts "amazing."
The film takes place in 2027.
Nemesis was filmed on-location in Hilo, Hawaii and Montana, California.
In the director's cut, the hotel at the beginning of the movie is named the Imperial Hotel. This is a reference to the production company, Imperial Entertainment.
Bob Brown's first film as stunt coordinator.
The assistant cameraman was injured during the floor scene. Luckily, it was only a minor injury.
Director Albert Pyun has since gone on to say he didn't care for the film's musical score by Michel Rubini. Though Pyun has commended Rubini as a composer.
Bob Brown ended up dislocating his shoulder during filming.
Rebecca Charles is actually a pseudonym of Albert Pyun. Pyun took on the pseudonym due a request from the studio.
The film was originally shot in 2.35:1.
The abandoned factory set seen at the beginning was previously used in Dollman and Terminator 2.
The scene with Vincent Klyn confronting Oliver Gruner were shot as inserts.
Thomas Jane decided that his character of Billy Moon would be nude upon learning that Deborah Shelton's character of Julian was set to be nude in the latter character's first scene. This proved awkward for stuntman Bobby Brown, who was set to coordinate the later fight scene between the two.
Tim Thomerson and Rhino Michaels previously co-starred in Trancers II. While those two actors shared at least one scene in that movie, they don't share any scenes at all in this movie.
Jackie Earle Hayley hopped on the board the film as a means to break type post-Bad News Bears.
Sven-Ole Thorsen would later go on to appear in Cyborg 2 and Barbara C. Adside would go on to appear in Cyborg 3. The original Cyborg was directed by Albert Pyun, the director of Nemesis.
All of the interior scenes were shot in Los Angeles for scheduling reasons.
Deborah Shelton accidentally injured Thomas Jane during filming.
A chase sequence at the downtown L.A. fish market was proposed but the fish market wanted too much money from the filmmakers.
Tony Riparetti was Albert Pyun's original choice for composer before Michel Rubini was hired. Riparetti had already composed some temp cue pieces for the film.
Reportedly, director Albert Pyun clashed with co-producer Eric Karson during pre-production as well as in post.
During the scene with the old lady shooting the cyborg, director Albert Pyun expressed concerns that holding the gun would take a physical toll on Mabel Falls, who plays the old lady with shotgun. She managed to pull through.
Yuji Okumoto agreed to work on the film for less than his usual fee at the time of filming.
The film's teamster drivers have cameos as Angie's henchmen.
Liked this when it came out. That and Spilt Second was around the same time i think. The haircuts the dustbusters, the smoke glasses. What's not to like.?
Damn, I wasn't going to watch this one but I'm glad I did, seeing Thomas Jane really sold it to me, the casting for this movie was awesome, good to also see man mountain Sven in it too
Great cast!
"Gutchies" is definitely a Western PA thing. Every lady I know over about 40-45ish who grew up around the Pittsburgh area says it. Not a lot of younger folks or guys in particular say it though... Also contextually it's mostly used in the sense that a joke about seeing or not wearing them is being made. So like, you'd say "Watch your skirt, I can see your gutchies!" or "He's learning to get his gutchies on all by himself!" - but you wouldn't hear someone generally say "I'm gonna head to Victoria's Secret and pick up some sexy gutchies for our anniversary." or "I'm done packing for the trip - I figured three pairs of pants and five pairs of gutchies will do.". You might hear the last one, maybe, depending on how often the person speaking really wants to say the word gutchies, I mean, people will shoehorn it in if they love saying it.
Interesting. I lived in a time in Cleveland after moving there from Philly. Never heard gutchies in the south east Pa. Or in Ohio. But honestly it does sound like something Steelers fans would say, so it's not surprising. 😂
Edit: yinz fupa overflowing dem gutchies! Lol
This is a genuinely good movie, although some of the better parts come through inference.
I dug it.
That’s partially the secret to successful world-building,I think.
Having seen only what was displayed in this video, what sorts of things were inferred?
@@Psyrus88 In general, the Cyberpunk world in which it takes place; which they didn't have the budget to show, and is left largely for the audience to imagine.
@@Neon-CovenanterI think "peak cyberpunk" was when Billy Idol released his album "Cyberpunk" in 1993. As a trend, Cyberpunk really kind of fizzled out by the late 90s. Just putting that out there if anyone is interested in a SBIG concept album by Billy Idol
He was a kick boxer haha! Erin killed it with that one. The 80s and 90s were a wild time for movies.
I have the same problem as Erin, in an action movie whenever some time passes without, you know, action, I'm like "STOP TALKING AND KILL SOMEONE, YOU (HUUUUUUUUUURRRRR)"
And speaking of action, you NEED to watch Hard Boiled. Get the whole crew. I guarantee that would be the best SBIG episode ever.
That film isn't bad though!
@@DeanS946 Yeah, Hard Boiled is a legitimate classic.
I saw that years and years ago. Need to revisit it at some point.
@Konstantin Dahlin So are Death Wish 3 and Lone Wolf McQuade, and yet they're on the show.
The large gentleman that threw himself on the exploding round took a blast straight to the giggles.
Glad you finally watched this movie! Check some other Albert Pyun movies like Cyborg and Mean Guns you won’t be disappointed!
Mean Guns is awesome!
Will do.
Guy that dies in the bathtub @19:00 was the main villain in Van Damme's "Cyborg".
I genuinely don't know how I found this channel or why it was recommended. I assume because I watch RLM and other such shows.
However, I am very pleased that this was sent my way. I've really been enjoying the backlog of episodes.
Keep it up!
Thanks so much!
Yeah, it's a good channel. I just discovered it and am binge watching all the old episodes. I wish they had a spreadsheet or google doc with the listing of the movies they've watched and what SBIG ratings/approvals it received, I suppose I could motivate and create it but hopefully someone else already has
One of my all time favorites! So glad you guys are revisiting such forgotten gems!
@22:57 sounds like Erin is giving Jason a pep talk lmaoooooooo
Why didn't I see this movie as a kid, I think I would've loved it!
An Albert Pyun film… that man could shoot some really great looking action flicks. 🙏🏻
Another amazing reaction/review! Nice job y'all! This film delivers some terrific exigent scenes. Albert Pyun has a bunch of other "gems" too. Also, another film that I would put in this low-budget cyberpunk category would be: Hardware (1990). Definitely worth a watch, especially on this channel.
28:53, Jason, we said "Wow!" simultaneously 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Oliver gunner needs to be in an expendables!!!
I hope you have a cannon films checklist, we need another company that pumps out SBIG movies!!
definetly🖒
Yes. Gruner, Don the Dragon Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock too.
@@cinemathequerouge317 Hell yeah
Hell yeah.
Saw this movie in 1993. I was 13 years old and i had a blast! One of my alltime favorit actionmovies
These videos have become the highlight of my Sundays. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. 😂
It is what it is.
So Bad It's Good 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good, of course 🤣
Thanks for showing this! It's a movie from my childhood that I watched with my best friend at the time! I had forgotten all about it but you guys brought back a lot of good memories with this one! Great movie also! Cheers!
I saw it in the theater and it blew my 15 year old mind lol
This shit was actually in a theater
@@keithcalvosa5894 Battlefield Earth was in theaters, the bar was lower back then
In the theater? Nice!
@@Deseis 8 years between this and BE. Especially around that time that's a whole different world (effectively going from a pre-Internet for most people to an era where people are getting speeds good enough to download movies).
I watched it in the cinema too, lived in Singapore at the time and they were super cheap, everywhere and had the cool handpainted posters.
Dammit Jason! Your comment to the effect of "I'm sure they could have found a better camera angle so that we didn't have to see her colon" made me laugh so hard and for so long my girlfriend had to pause the video and got up to get a snack while I recovered🤣🤣🤣. You guys are all so awesome! if you're ever near Laurel Maryland I will buy you a six pack for the next video.
Awesome job on this one- it's an anomaly and you all handled it perfectly -
Can't wait for the sequels - especially once Sue Price appears -
Have a great week all
From the way the lead keeps losing side characters to the sweeping location shots of them traveling to their destination and the way the robot falls into the lava at the end, I couldn’t stop seeing The Lord of the Rings influence.
I found out that there are three sequels to this and all four movies are available on Blu-ray. Bought the first one on the strength of what I saw here.
I got the entire 4 films box, after seeing this. And I had the pleasure of finding out that one of the sequels is a movie I 've been looking for since 1998.😊👍
This has to be a 9/10 movie
I mean, jacked women, nudity and the gun fight action scenes are actually extremely creative and impressive looking
The older cyborg was played by the actor Tim Thomerson.
Thomerson was the lead in a one of my guilty pleasure 80's movie "Trancers" in the role of Jack Deth.
Looking forward to Trancers.
I appreciate the zoom ins on the little dogo trying to eat shorts haha
Haha
Great reactions, I love this film it has mostly practical effects and in camera action scenes, the dialogues clunky but at least they made a effort with the stunts, shootouts unlike today were they cgi mostly everything.
Oliver Gruner made some decent B movie action films I recommend you check out Automatic & Savate.
The director of this directed JCVD in Cyborg, if you notice the guy Alex shot in the neck in bathroom played the villian Fender.
Haven't seen Cyborg yet, but it's on the list!
@@JasonBrant Erin will love Cyborg it is dialogue light and features lots semi naked muscular men Lol.
Now that grey haired Joseph Thomerson has been introduced to you, now you HAVE to watch Doll Man!!
FYI - There are 5 movies in the Nemesis Series... the 3rd one is made up of leftover footage from the 2nd one.
I love the Barbarians "Urrrrrrrr" when Erin is happy.
Hell yeah! I hope you dive into more Albert Pyun films (the director of this and Van Damme's Cyborg). He also did some Kickboxer sequels and the first one is better than the original!
Also his Dollman is a delight, with Tim Thomerson (the villain in this) as the tiny man with a powerful alien gun. Pyun didn't plan any of the tiny man style shots out yet it still sort of works.
All I can remember about that movie is inverted nipples..I was a teenager at the time 😅😂
Looking forward to checking out more of his stuff.
I watched this on Crackle yesterday, and the whole time, all I could think of was "What would Jason and the gang say" 🤣
I swear this is better than The Matrix.
20:52 I had that hair and those glasses back in the day in high school
Nice.
"They'll wait there until the sun vanishes, then they're gone."
Are we getting vampires in this movie too?!
🤣 For real.
30:25 her arm running movements... it like a Florida senior citizen power walker...lol
Thank you thank you thank you! One of my all time favorite bad films. Yes the acting is not great, but everything else is awesome. I have seen it over 30 times and will watch it again. Just don't watch the sequels, they make this one look like a high budget masterpiece.
They aren't even fun bad?
Jason at 18:59 minutes the guy with the long black hair was the surfer dude who beat up Keanu at the beach. He was also in Cyborg
Wow, between appreciating hot chicks to quoting Cake! Erin is a keeper for sure!
That she is!
Grandma bustin' caps might be my favorite thing of the year, just glorious
Loved this one so much.
Wait till you get to the sequels, total muscle chick worship.
Albert Pyun definitely has a type, I'm just gonna say that and leave it there.
Plus, there's like seven of these movies. Haha
You didn't skin them, did you, Bill?
The first sequel stars Chad Stahelski, who later directed the John Wick movies and has become a big name all around. That's pretty crazy.
Oh really? So the dude likes beefed up ladies?
The guy from Karate Kid 2 is Yuji Okumoto, who also owns a chain of Hawaiian-themed restaurants up here in Seattle. I literally had dinner at his restaurant last night, and now I'm seeing him on your channel.
Nice!
For this episode you're gonna have to change the title to "so good, it's good"
Erin agrees!
4:05 no...Mrs. Brant just said undies in Croatian....gachizz is a short word for GACHICE😂😂😂😂
I remember Oliver Gruner in quite a few movies in the 90s but I never saw this one. This has a metric shite-tonne of actors in it. Not a bad film!
So many recognizable faces.
Nicholas Guest was in this! Lol
Don’t look him up…I’ll give you a hint…
“Why’s the carpet all wet Todd?…I don’t know Margo!!!”
Sitting here having my Dunkin' Ice Coffee and Wawa BEC shorti enjoying your reaction. It took me until 30:00 to realize that I have seen this before, straight to Video/Cable. 🤣🤣🤣
Hope you got some laughs.
10:26 we just have corporate meeting in Tombstone. You are right everybody looks badass.
This does the shoot a hole in the floor to drop through 11 years before underworld.
Hey! The ruined factory complex in the opening scene is😄 the backdrop where they filmed the Outworld scenes in "Mortal Kombat" and the ruins of L.A. in "Independence Day"!
Erin looks like she could pass for one of those stunt ladies too heh 💪😜🔥
@ the 11:24 mark.
The set from "The Magnificent Seven"???
I'm really digging THIS movie!!!
Frickin'awesome!!!
Hell yeah I’m early for once!
Maybe Jason just had really amazing memory. I’m just now realizing that you do this with every movie you watch- you always are listing off who they are and what they’ve done
I have a terrible memory - except for movies. It's weird.
Yo I watch these uploads all the time while I smoke n I just laugh the whole episode.
Movies like this are why I miss the 90s my childhood. Fantastic reaction to this criminally underrated masterpiece of a Sci Fi movie the practical effects and action are top notch in this movie.
Great and funny review!! Knights would be an interesting movie to review and directed by Albert Pyun.
31:05 I think it said, "State of the art, Alex." As in I'm the new and improved model. I'm the T-1000 to your T-800.
Clear as mud.
27:27 dollman. All these actors are 80's 90's staple character actors.
Wow, theres about 4-5 more future well know actors in this. Cary H Tagawa. And James Earle Healy from Watchmen is in it. And the Johnny Sixkiller guy from Renegade. And the bad guy with the dark sunglasses and chain mail clothes from Cyborg with Van Damme. And as always Sven Ole Thorsen. Again, he was in everything for a looong time..
Tim Thomerson too.