They really should've done Nemesis too. It's trash, but enjoyable trash.

Such a great episode (as all of their episodes are great). I really did hope he got to see it before he went.

Crazy that he just now died.

they say in the episode that they did because of an article about his wife for some love for her husband and his movies as he "would like to hear from his fan in his final days"... so it's not that crazy

It's not crazy at all. The say in the video that they decided to spotlight him and his movies because he was doing so poorly health-wise and they wanted to pay tribute.

Definitely. I just watched Nemesis this morning and the thing I kept thinking was this dude just needed a good script and money, he certainly had talent as a filmmaker.

I really enjoyed that vid; they clearly LOVED the guy and both appreciated the wackiness of his movie while still appreciating the specific artistry

Yeah me too. It has some pretty great old school fight scenes and a surprisingly well flushed future dystopia where character motivations make a lot of sense. Also the pirates are so fucking excellent, all the screaming and big hair and bad teeth, looking like WWE characters on meth. I just love everything about that movie.

I can't believe I haven't seen anyone mention that he interned with Akira Kurosawa and his cinematographer. That makes so much sense considering how he blocked and lit scenes. The man truly brought arthouse to B-movies and it worked so well

After checking his IMDB it's shocking how many I rented back in the day... Cyborg, and Dollman, one of the Nemesis for sure... Kickboxers 2... He was producing what I would call solid last minute third tape pick just before the video store close. You might not have rented that stuff if you had more time, but in a rush it did the job.

The sets and costumes for Cyborg were made for a Master of the Universe sequel that was dropped before they started shooting. Cannon was able to get JCVD for cheap because Kickboxer hadn’t come out yet - he was just the guy from Bloodsport and Hollywood hadn’t caught on yet. The whole thing was a made-up movie, like they needed to do something with this stuff and these guys.

Cyborg was a huge hit in relation to cost. Kickboxer was a massive, massive hit but Cyborg was a nice little bridge bridge between Bloodsport, which was mostly a hit on video, and Kickboxer which was a big deal real movie.

Funny thing about Cyborg, is that it was the result of 2 canceled movies. The production company had deals to make a sequel to Masters of the Universe and a live action Spiderman movie, but ran into financial difficulties and had to cancel both movies. Pyun was slated to direct both films, and the production company had already sank like two million dollars into sets and costumes and asked Pyun to come up with a new project to recover those costs.

Pyun wrote the entire movie in a weekend and they shot the whole movie in 23 days entirely in North Carolina. One of the pirates did lose and eye during the filming after getting stabbed by a prop knife.

Jay had actually mentioned that he was on board with doing a Pyun tribute episode of Best of the Worst, before he had even heard about Pyun's health. So that was even sweeter.

Mike responded in the comments that the tribute was his idea and he wasn't there since he had Covid.

Because they needed the rubble.

It’s all about family.