Having essentially grown up and gained my adoration for film in the 80's and early 90's, sooo many of these films were my bread and butter and I had no idea they had the same studio let alone such an interesting and ridiculous back-story. The only issue I had with this documentary was actually that I'm not sure it covered enough ground and I would have liked to have seen more significant interviews from the stars that these guys made and vice versa. Because despite how bad these movies were or tried to be where would the B Movie genre be without them let alone the 80's films in general. I think the story behind the "GoGo Boys" Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus is so interesting because ultimately they were passionate but had zero experience and got way ahead of themselves and played with fire and ultimately for lucky for a very long time until they weren't lucky anymore. Still its absolutely astonishing to see how many films they made and the similarities with those films.
Very very very few of the movies mentioned in the documentary could ever be described as "good" and yet anyone who grew up in this era or loved movies will agree that so many of them are "legendary" in the minds of the fans. One of my favourite Stallone movies "Over The Top", one of my favourite "bad" movies "Masters of The Universe", and one of my favourite guilty pleasure film franchises "Death Wish." They gave us silly bad-ass heroes like Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson and unashamedly used exploitation to sell their early films and yet they kept making money until they couldn't anymore. I was ecstatic when I heard about this documentary because I love these kinds of Hollywood stories but interviews with the brothers would have been very good (both were asked and refused apparently) Chuck Norris interviews would have been great, talking to some of the bigger legendary stars that Canon made or kept going. I felt like this was a pretty surface look at Canon when there was so much here to cover but really interesting nonetheless just perhaps a little too simple. 7/10
Very very very few of the movies mentioned in the documentary could ever be described as "good" and yet anyone who grew up in this era or loved movies will agree that so many of them are "legendary" in the minds of the fans. One of my favourite Stallone movies "Over The Top", one of my favourite "bad" movies "Masters of The Universe", and one of my favourite guilty pleasure film franchises "Death Wish." They gave us silly bad-ass heroes like Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson and unashamedly used exploitation to sell their early films and yet they kept making money until they couldn't anymore. I was ecstatic when I heard about this documentary because I love these kinds of Hollywood stories but interviews with the brothers would have been very good (both were asked and refused apparently) Chuck Norris interviews would have been great, talking to some of the bigger legendary stars that Canon made or kept going. I felt like this was a pretty surface look at Canon when there was so much here to cover but really interesting nonetheless just perhaps a little too simple. 7/10