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Author Topic: Turkish Conan sweeps the world  (Read 1294 times)

Fantastix

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Turkish Conan sweeps the world
« on: October 11, 2009, 12:40:37 PM »
In the 1960-1970 there was a big boom of selluloid fantasy in Turkey. During that era there was sometime even produced around 300 movies per year. If you start to look a little bit closer on those movies that have survived to the afterworld you can find some of the biggest Cult Classic that have ever been made. Movies like Tarkan vs. The Vikings, Iron Claw - the Pirate, Tarzan goes Istanbul and all the Kilink movies is today considered (at least in my opinion) to be among the greatest popcorn movies made. The movieboom came to an end in the /beginning/mid 1980´s but in the end one classical movie was made. The movie The Man Who Saved the Earth (aka Turkish Star Wars) have during the Internet become a huge cultmovie that everybody seems to have some kind of opinion of. Even that most of the people never seems to have seen it.

The movie I´m gonna write about is part of the Turkish Pop Cinema Double Bill: The Deatless Devil and Tarkan vs. the Vikings DVD. It´s the later that i am gonna take a short but intense look at. Tarkan is a turkish barbarian who lives in the Attila the Huns world. He is presented in the beginning of the movie in a typically cool way; Attilas daughter arrives to a castle (that is inpenetable) and the lord of the castle ask why she came with such a small escort she answers; No I came with an army. Then the camera show us Tarkan the mighty barbarian with his dogs Kurt and Kurts son.

People that regular watches sword and sorcery probably never hav seen a movie like this. The movie goes frequently overboard on melodrama and causes some really laughable scenes. The specialeffects are something worth watching for. The rubbery, half-deflated monster octopus is really over the top.

But B-movie fans will not take these things to be minor issues because Tarkan vs. the Vikings is something special. It is a so true to the original comics that the movie 300 should be envyous. Tarkan vs. the Vikings feels like a comicbook, looks like a comic book and thats all. It is a low-budget, movie that has its origin in, Comics, Conan movies, swords and sandals movies and does something that many other films does not succeed with. In the complete crazed and over the top plotline it makes scense. The movie boasts a memorable hero in Kartal Tibet, who proviedes a charismatic focal point for the audience as he swashbuckles his way through the crazed plotline. Watching B-movies is usually wading through a huge pile of shit but when movies like this is pops up it is really worth the effort. Watch this movie and enjoy.

You either love it or loath it. But anyway give it a chance.


 

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