Starring Lou “The Original TV Hulk” Ferrigno… Yes, it’s the sequel to last week’s movie! But something tells me you won’t miss much if you didn’t see the first movie… The Adventures of Hercules (1985) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 8th at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 2am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

The film opens explaining the story of Zeus’ Seven Mighty Thunderbolts that kept peace. One day, other vengeful gods (Aphrodite, Hera, Poseidon, and Flora) stole these lightning bolts to create chaos. The lack of these thunderbolts has rendered Zeus powerless and sent the Moon on a collision course with the Earth. As the humans on Earth begin to suffer, two sisters named Urania and Glaucia speak to the Little People and learn that only Hercules can save them now…

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Howard Hughes discussed the film in his book Cinema Italiano, noting that it shares stock footage from the original film but is not as entertaining.[6] The review noted the visuals and film score would “induce migraines”.[6] Andy Brack of Charleston City Paper named The Adventures of Hercules his “favorite Ferrigno film”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Hercules

    • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      oh even better…

      Lou Ferrigno was originally announced by Cannon as the star of a single Hercules film, to be directed by Bruno Mattei and produced by his regular associate Alexander Hacohen.[3] However, the project was later split into two parts, both to be directed by Mattei, one of which would be called Hercules and the Seven Magnificent Gladiators. That picture was then transformed into a standalone adventure simply titled The Seven Magnificent Gladiators, and Ferrigno’s character was renamed Han.

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      The material delivered by Bruno Mattei [for The Seven Magnificent Gladiators] was deemed unsatisfactory during dailies review, and the film’s release was delayed. Before The Seven Magnificent Gladiators had even wrapped up,[5] Cannon reached out to Luigi Cozzi to take over Hercules from Mattei, and to direct two weeks of reshoots to improve Gladiators. Eventually, Golan changed his mind. He decided to leave Mattei’s version of Gladiators virtually untouched, and to use the additional material shot for it as the basis for a second Hercules film, The Adventures of Hercules (also known as Hercules II), which was released in 1985.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Magnificent_Gladiators

      In other words, there were THREE movies:

      • Hercules
      • The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
      • The Adventures of Hercules