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India Press Store - Gor
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Jack Palance, Paul L. Smith, Oliver Reed
Directed By: Fritz Kiersch
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301163804
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 630116380X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1995-04-26
Running Time: 94
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1988-02
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Summary: Alternate Title: Planet of Stupid Headgear
Comment: That pretty well sums it up. Jack Palance must have been hungry when he got involved in these honkers.
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Summary: Horrid!
Comment: I can't begin to imagine why John Norman didn't sue the movie studios when this travesty of his creation was unleashed on an unsuspecting world.
All I can say is that it is so bad it ranks right up there with Jackson's Lord of the Rings: Wanna-be directors stealing someone else's characters and insisting they can tell the story better than the author did.
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Summary: Embarrassing to Watch....
Comment: The major qualm that most people have with this movie is that it does not fit the vision of the Gor book series. So what. There are far better reasons why not to watch this movie, like Mulletboy.
Tarl, a nerdy college proffessor, gets transported to the world of Gor where he witnesses the hijacking of the homestone, and its defence by Talana, scantily clad Playboy model (ironically not the worst actor in this movie, actually she was better than most of the others). She tries to convince Tarl (what kind of name is Tarl, who on earth would name their son something so stupid?) Also with them is Mulletboy (guess why I call hiim that). Together they must go and rescue Talana's father and their heartstone.
The fight scenes in this movie were all identical. Swords clashed for about 2 seconds then someone got kneed in the gut. The one thing that can save a sword and sorcery film is good fight scenes and this movie does not deliver. Furthermore the action in this movie is minimal and far in between. Also, the plot is nonsensical and nothing at all is explained. Things are done for no apparent reason and other things that should probably happen don't.
The plot is so laughable. I can't quite convey why it is so corny in words, but take my word for it it isn't worth enduring.
The only saving grace of this movie is the eventual death of mullet boy.
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Summary: What else would one expect of Hollywood?
Comment: The movie "Gor" is disappointing for a variety of reasons. First, it departs from the basic premise of the Gor books, male dominance and female submission. The depiction of Marlenus as an old man, and his wayward daughter Talena as a muscular and capable swordswoman, is probably the most incongruous part of the entire movie. In fact, this one depiction is so improbable that it is reminiscent of St. Joan d'Arc as a "battling, bodacious babe" in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". Add to this mischaracterization a very skinny, hardly physically impressive "Tarl Cabot" (described elsewhere in the Gor series as "the greatest swordsman on Gor") and one has to conclude that the screenwriters adopted from the books only a few elements: 1) a barbarian world; 2) scantily clad (though not properly submissive) females; 3) some of the characters (but the only one I found believable per the Gorean series was that of Sorbus--who is set here in the desert, but was in reality a pirate captain of humid, tropical Port Kar, whom Cabot slew over a tavern maid when he arrived in Port Kar), and 4) swordplay. This attempt was highly disappointing, in terms of both masculine and feminine depictions. The movie's plot itself had nothing to do with Gor.John Norman's world is unique to his own vision, and the stale and tacky devices of Hollywood's hack scriptwriters--most of whom are politically correct, and who think in terms of audience stereotypes--are hardly equal to creating even a shadow of the master's vision. I am holding out for a first-rate, Lord-of-the-Rings-type recreation of Gor by Hollywood, replete with Kurii, slave girls serving in slave strips and strings, and a cast of male characters true to Gorean type.
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Summary: Super B ... won't there ever be a DVD
Comment: Who cares that this is a major B movie with a budget of a small college class ... Tarl Cabot is hot. But all that aside, it's a movie you watch when you just don't care to think ... I've worn my vhs tape out, I've watched it so many times. I wish they would bring it out in DVD. I give it 5 stars because Tarl is so hot. But I have Outlaw of Gor ... I didn't care much for it, not enough Tarl ... he's the only reason for watching the movie. If I had an idea boyfriend ... it would be him.
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Professor John Cabot finds a portal to another dimension with the help of a magical ring. In this other world, he is no longer an intellectual - he's become a warrior known as Tarl Cabot. It's up to him to help a group of tyrannized citizens overthrow their ruthless leader by defeating his barbaric soldiers.
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