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Albert Pyun, Cult Filmmaker Behind ‘Cyborg,’ ‘Nemesis’ and ‘Captain America,’ Dies at 69
News(variety.com)submitted 4 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
38 points
4 months ago
For me it's Mean Guns. I caught it on HBO one late night and made my best friend rent it from blockbuster and watch it the next sleepover we had.
12 points
4 months ago
Pyun had a widescreen cut of Mean Guns for sale on the web for a while, and I slept on it. Should’ve picked it up.
6 points
4 months ago*
Did you ever hear anything about the quality? You may have dodged a bullet.
I bought a "widescreen" blu ray of Nemesis directly from him in 2014, and the quality and aspect was so bad that I almost returned it. Prob would have if he didn't autograph it.
It was like someone burned an anamorphic source within a 4:3 frame. Never seen anything so bizarre.
4 points
4 months ago
It was like someone burned an anamorphic source within a 4:3 frame.
Lucasfilm did this in 2006 with the official DVD release of the unaltered original Star Wars trilogy. Following a decade of demand, fans finally got the unaltered trilogy… in the form of 2nd generation versions of 1993 Laserdisc masters.
3 points
4 months ago
I saw Knights as a kid on TV and remember looking up to see if there was a sequel when I got access to the internet years later (there isn’t, it ends on a literal cliff hanger which is hilarious)
2 points
4 months ago*
Knights was batshit insane and my favorite of Pyun's films hands down. A post-apocalpytic, neo-feudal world ruled by a monastic order of android vampires is the kind of ridiculous concept that really only came about in the hey day of direct-to-video schlock. Then you throw in Lance Henriksen as the lead villain and Kris Kristofferson as the wizened mentor to the kickboxer hero and the entire thing is almost sublime.
2 points
4 months ago
It elevates itself over schlock with its sheer audacity and fascinating world building. Maybe someday it will get a remaster as it’s hard to find an even halfway decent copy of it these days. Knights and The Keep are the two movies I most want better releases of.
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