Imagine it's 1982 and you're some big hot-shot movie studio executive when some director/writer comes in and pitches this movie to you:
"Ok, so it's modern day New York and we've got an ancient giant flying monster lizard, just flying around and killing the crap out of people, AND this crazy cult abducting people and chopping them up and skinning them alive, AND two badass police detectives played by Richard Roundtree (Shaft) and David Carradine (Kung Fu and later, Kill Bill). At the end of the movie, a bunch of police have a huge shoot out with the monster in the Chrysler building and it kills Shaft!"
Best movie ever right?
This movie gets 1 big Winged Serpent Poop out of a possible five
"Ok, so it's modern day New York and we've got an ancient giant flying monster lizard, just flying around and killing the crap out of people, AND this crazy cult abducting people and chopping them up and skinning them alive, AND two badass police detectives played by Richard Roundtree (Shaft) and David Carradine (Kung Fu and later, Kill Bill). At the end of the movie, a bunch of police have a huge shoot out with the monster in the Chrysler building and it kills Shaft!"
Best movie ever right?
I don't know how many virgins were sacrificed, I don't know how many goats were slaughtered, but somehow, by some black magic, this movie manages to have so many awesome ingredients and still come out as complete and utter crap, not unlike the M&M taco I had one night when I was really hungry.
The monster is easily the best part of this movie, but we never see it for more than 60 second intervals. Carradine and Roundtree, who are supposed to be badasses are just kind of there, sleepwalking through their lines until the end or at least until Roundtree gets eaten. The skinned corpses and the cult thing is pretty cool but it's like the movie sort of throws this in as a last second excuse for the monster. "Look at the cool flying monster...that's here because of this!" It's really not that memorable of an experience. The best acting in the movie comes from some guy named Michael Moriarty who plays this petty crook and even he starts to get pretty abrasive after a while.
The monster is easily the best part of this movie, but we never see it for more than 60 second intervals. Carradine and Roundtree, who are supposed to be badasses are just kind of there, sleepwalking through their lines until the end or at least until Roundtree gets eaten. The skinned corpses and the cult thing is pretty cool but it's like the movie sort of throws this in as a last second excuse for the monster. "Look at the cool flying monster...that's here because of this!" It's really not that memorable of an experience. The best acting in the movie comes from some guy named Michael Moriarty who plays this petty crook and even he starts to get pretty abrasive after a while.
This movie gets 1 big Winged Serpent Poop out of a possible five
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