{"id":2080,"date":"2010-08-27T13:28:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:55:53","slug":"iow-continue-with-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"IOW: CONTINUE with a VIEW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our third time is definitely the charm with Images of the Week<\/strong> as we bring you thrice the Dark Maze Studios<\/strong><\/a> action! Despite our set visit on PRESS START 2 CONTINUE<\/strong> and familiarity with the PRESS START<\/strong> universe (even if many references blast well over our heads) we\u2019re still <\/em>not exactly sure what happens in the follow-up to everybody\u2019s favorite Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> videogame inspired lo-fi adventure-comedy. In the best film exploitation sense, the first official still issued by Dark Maze for CONTINUE <\/strong>tells us something we already expect \u2013 that Lin-Ku (Al Morrison<\/strong>) will mouth off and\/or fight opponents \u2013 and something we didn\u2019t know until now \u2013 that Lin-Ku meets a new foe in All-American boxing fatigues, played by Dominique Worsley<\/strong> \u2013 without really <\/em>telling us what the heck is going on!<\/p>\n

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On the flip side, CONTINUE <\/strong>director Ed Glaser<\/strong> happily indulges his fascination for \u201cremakesploitation,\u201d those international genre movies aping popular American films with reckless abandon, via the new Web series DEJA VIEW<\/strong>. Of the five episodes posted so far, your humble editor\u2019s favorite ones cover the Bollywood <\/strong>supernatural thriller MAHAKAAL <\/strong>(1993), an extrapolation of the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET<\/strong> series, and SUPERMEN D\u00d6N\u00dcYOR<\/strong> (1979), the infamous \u201cTurkish SUPERMAN<\/strong>,\u201d so we\u2019ll include these below for your enjoyment. Other episodes to be found<\/a> on the Dark Maze Web site will introduce you to a Bollywood MATRIX\/WHOLE NINE YARDS<\/strong> mishmash called AWARA PAAGAL DEEWANA<\/strong>, a comedic Brazilian goof on PLANET OF THE APES<\/strong> translated as O TRAPALH\u00c3O NO PLANALTO DOS MACACOS<\/strong>, and the English-language Italian JAWS<\/strong> knock-off GREAT WHITE<\/strong> which Universal Studios<\/strong> successfully kept out of American theaters. Their histories are very interesting and Glaser does a great job characterizing each film by the milieu in which it was produced.<\/p>\n

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Oh<\/em>, for an expos\u00e9 on that awful looking, brand-spanking-new bastardization of KING KONG<\/strong> which swipes footage and audio from, of all things, the 1976 remake produced by Dino De Laurentiis<\/strong> \u2013 set to a Bollywood beat, of course. What, you folks don\u2019t believe me?<\/a><\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Our favorite digital warriors in the flesh will return in Dark Maze Studios’ PRESS START 2 CONTINUE and we have the first official image for you! Also, revel in the international cinema esoterica known as “remakesploitation” by watching two episodes of Dark Maze’s DEJA VIEW!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[164,437,165,283],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-dark-maze-studios","tag-deja-view","tag-ed-glaser","tag-press-start-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}