Manborg

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Manborg looked hilarious! The box art (although not as its IMDb poster) was enough to grab my attention immediately and it looked like I was on to a winner! As an indie film director, and huge fan of grindhouse madness, I was so excited to get watching this. Having sat the husband down for the night and promising him a good time, via Manborg, I found myself apologising after 20 minutes and turning the film off after struggling through another 15. It was just too much! I could see and understand where the film makers wanted to go with this, but to me, it just looked like they forgot to put the paintbrush down and continued touching things up more and more, until they had actually covered up the picture they had really wanted to show. I'm glad it has done well though, I appreciate the work put in and look forward to seeing more from the team!

this is epic, its everything in the VHS /early 90s era of film and displayed brilliantly, this film is inspirational!. the characters are constructed very well,the Asian character(number one man) dubbed and dressed like lui kang!, the cocky character straight out of the lost boys and the beautiful Minna.. a bad ass.! the dialog is phenomenal and is guaranteed to make you laugh over and over,the baron steels the show! the visuals are brilliant ranging from well executed green screen and some sort of stop motion.. think of ed 209 from robocop,this is how most of the unearthly characters move and to great effect..manborg himself is epic,his scene with doctor Scorpius is my favorite of the movie.please watch with a light heart and enjoy and appreciate just what the makers have achieved

What can I say for MANBORG I loved it..It reminded me of the good old days of late night cable TV on a Friday night with your buddies over drinking beer and eating popcorn and enjoy good cheesy B Horror/Sci Fi movies of the 1980's.Right away I was hooked.. Story, characters,Plot interesting direction special effects very cool.. I am happy to see that the filmmakers can have fun making something that they love .. Yes it's cheesy and not up to standards of today so called Grandier filmmaking It's not supposed to be.. Its all about fun and making something you love and the filmmakers showed that B movies are still around Congrats..

You know, how when you have absolutely no expectations for a movie, and it starts out living up to your lack of expectations? Well, that is how my viewing of this film started out. I was thinking that this was the worst movie ever made... By the time I had gotten about 20 minutes into it, though, things changed. I am now quite certain that this might possibly be one of the BEST movies ever made! Firmly tongue-in-cheek, this movie offers no apologies and takes no prisoners! It pays homage to many movies that have gone before it, including but not limited to such titles as; Tron, Star Wars, Blade, Hellboy, Oblivion (the Full Moon version, not the Tom Cruise one), Spaceballs, Transformers, and of course Robocop. Watch the movie for yourself and see if you don't agree!

I had expected this to be low budget, sure, but I was nowhere prepared for the atrocity that this movie turned out to be. The movie was made in 2011, but it had a very 1980s touch to it, with special effects from the 1970s. It was such an abominable eyesore to witness. This movie is hopefully a spoof on other low budget movies, because it like like one big massive farce. If it wasn't, then I don't even know where to start. The story in this movie was as to be expected. Earth is at war with Hell. Yes! Hell! And Earth is losing. A soldier is brought back to life as a cyborg in the future to help mankind battle the forces of Hell. The effects were so horribly bad that you constantly sit there laughing and shaking your head in disbelief. Oddly enough, the level of badness just keeps you wanting to see more. I stuck with this movie to the end just to see how much more worse things could be. I think around 90% of the movie was filmed in front of a green screen. The characters in the movie were just as bad as the effects. They looked like a mixture of pre-Mortal Kombat and a rockshow gone bad. The manborg looked like something dished up in an arts and crafts class. #1 man was a poor Liu Kang clone, and his awful dubbed speech was equally bad. The Justice character looked like Billy Idol after having lost his fame and fortune. However, what the movie had working for it was the Nazi-like demonic creatures. There were some pretty good make-up and designs here. As for the dialogue, well lets just say it matched the rest of the movie. Enough said. It should be said that everything is just so bad on every level, that the movie is actually worth sticking around for to the very end. There are worse movies available, but "Manborg" does a great job at trying to get to the top ten list of worst movies ever.

But in my view, that is a good thing. I am glad I read a little about it on IMDb before watching it or I may have turned it off. "Manborg" runs of the philosophy that if you create something and try your best to make it as bad as possible, you will end up with something really great. And kudos to the cast and crew of this film, because they succeeded. I can't really tell you what this movie is about. Does it have a plot? Yup. Is it a clear plot? Yup. Does it matter? Not in the least bit. The reason "Manborg" worked for me was because it reminded me of a couple of films that me, my sister and my best friend used to make each Halloween. They were horror/comedy anthologies much like the Simpson's Treehouse of Horror episodes. We made them badly and we made them badly deliberately. This appears to be what the producers of "Manborg" went about doing. There are two kinds of bad movies. The first is the kind that nobody likes. It is the result of an attempt to make a good movie that fails miserably. The second is the movie that was meant to be bad. The people who make these movies love bad movies and their appreciation of it keeps us going. It is quite clear that the producers of "Manborg" appreciate cheesy and bad cinema. This is one of those rare finds which I know I will be watching over and over. Don't watch it if you are looking for...well....hmmm... well pretty much anything actually. But if you want to see a movie and spend the entire time absolutely baffled at how anyone could make such a horrid piece of cinema, watch "Manborg" and have an absolutely fun time.

Ridiculous, homemade B movie that's actually quite fun. The plot is pretty negligible, a mishmash of Robocop, Mortal Kombat, Star Wars, Army of Darkness and various other influences. Matthew Kennedy plays the title character, a former soldier who fought in the war against the minions of Hell. After he was nearly killed and left for dead, a scientist turned him into a cyborg. He awakes in the future, where the minions of Hell have taken over, and joins with a group of prisoners (Meredith Sweeney, Conor Sweeney and Ludwig Lee) to take back the world. Most of the film is shot in front of a green screen, with animated backgrounds playing behind them, similar to Sin City and Sky Captain. It has a cheap but fun aesthetic. Most wannabe cult movies attempt to be funny, but fail miserably. This one is actually pretty funny. In particular, I loved Ludwig Lee's dubbed tough-man voice, which parodies dubbed kung fu movies. This certainly isn't great, but it's clever and smart enough not to overstay its welcome (it runs just over an hour). It was also nice to see some real stop-motion animation the week that Ray Harryhausen passed (even though, yeah, it was pretty crappy). I'd love to see Steven Kostanski get a decent handful of money (I have no idea how much this cost, but I'd imagine very little) to make a real movie.

If you are a fan of B-movies, specially the action ones, you should definitely watch this. The "homage" to bad movies is impressive. The animations, the voice acting, the characters... You will definitely feel the nostalgia if you are a fan of the genre. However, I can't give this a good grade, simply because it is just not a good movie at all. A truly good film would appeal to a bigger audience and mock the genre at the same time. The movie was just too campy. I would just recommend waiting for someone to make a compilation of the best scenes and watch it online. There is no point in watching the whole thing, it becomes tiresome very quick.

Imagine an awe-inspiring vision of an inferno descending onto Earth, with machines and demons decimating the last vestiges of mankind. Such an apocalypse brought to life on the big screen could be something brooding and chilling. It could be epic. This is not that movie. Manborg is a cheap, silly, ridiculous little film, and it knows it. It has action, certainly, and plenty of gnarly bloodshed and gratuitous special effects. However, the delivery of the action, dialogue, and the overall story is so over-the-top, so silly, and so cheesy that it's hilarious. Most of the characters here sound like they came from a Mortal Kombat video game, thanks to the overdubbed dialogue. One character even tries to fight MK style. One lady fights like she came straight out of an anime, complete with cheap sound effects and streaky lines behind her. Most other special effects look like they came from the original Doom PC game, because they are that cheap. The film is short and pretty fast, but more importantly, it made me laugh pretty often. The story for this is not an inherently bad idea: I kinda do wish somebody in Hollywood would make a big-scale apocalypse story like this, with the actual forces of Hell being unleashed on the planet (they totally blew it when they adapted Doom). If this same movie was handled with a big budget, big stars, and a distinguished director, it probably would have been awesome. If this movie was a video game instead, it would have been awesome as well. But as it is, the film plays things well within its limitations, keeping things purposefully small-scale and cheap, and simultaneously silly. There are scenes that reminded me a lot of other movies or games - The Terminator, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, The Running Man, Fist of the North Star, and other stuff all came to mind. Regardless, the film is pretty fun, even if it lacks depth or originality. This film is very cheaply shot and edited, with gaudy and weird special effects that looked like they came from the stone age. Acting is very silly and over-the-top, and with dubbed dialogue, it's rendered even more hilarious. Writing is very silly. This production uses some very cheap sets, props, and costumes. The music score tries so hard to be cool. If you're looking for something awesomely cheesy and funny, this film will satisfy. 2.5/5 (Entertainment: Good | Story: Marginal | Film: Awful)