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El caballero del dragón (1985)
Funny Spoof Of Arthurian Romance
Previous reviewers seem to have missed the comedy in Star Knight, which I liked. Harvey Keitel's Brooklyn accent recalled Tony Curtis in Spartacus. The nurse cries out, "What if something happens?" I wondered the same thing watching Knights of the Round Table (1953), a terrible movie. In Star Knight the priest is a superstitious kook of Falwellian proportions; the villagers talk back to Klever and assault the count's herald with a chamber pot; the alien abducts skinnydipping princess Alba but can't make love to her because of his invincible spacesuit - even though the spaceship supports the the life of the unprotected priest just fine at the end of the movie.
Star Knight tells Alba telepathically that if he removes his armor and makes love to her he'll die - she pesters him to do it anyway. Typical star-crossed lovers.
I enjoyed this movie even more the second time. Keitel's scenes are hilarious. Star Knight isn't a great movie and isn't supposed to be, but it's pretty good.
Copperhead (1984)
Taking amateur VCR movies nowhere, plus snakes.
So these fundamentalist gun fanatics move to an abandoned church in the woods. The fundie leader has a past as a homicidal maniac but you don't find out till late in the tape. There's almost no sex even though the women are good looking and you have the snakes all over the place, and most of the men have guns.
Sex wouldn't save this movie, but it would make it worth 79¢.
There's a funny scene where the fundie gunloon leader has a bag full of venomous snakes over his head. You have to wait a long time though.
The motivation for the fundie gunloon leader to hate the hippie nature artist never makes sense. Maybe if the hippie seduced the fundie's daughter or wife. But why would he do that, his own wife was much sexier. What if the fundies had a revival with loud gospel music and snake handling, & the hippie complains, and then they just shoot it out, and the snakes hide in the trees and when nobody's looking they jump down and bite everybody, and run off. That would be a more believable plot and they wouldn't have to kill any snakes.
I am not a fan of poisonous snakes, but they shouldn't have killed all those snakes just for the movie. They should have used the bullets to blow the video tape to little bits.
No excuse for being stupid and then vicious. Boo!