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Alien Avengers (1996)
BubbaPharm.com 2 points 7 months ago.

I gave “Hostage For A Day” a whirl. I watched a VHS copy complete with commercials, giving me flashbacks to 90’s made for TV movies.

I kept thinking, John Candy could play this role, then I found out he directed it! Decent supporting cast with John Vernon from Animal House, et. al. If I cleaned up the audio with AI, upscaled it from 380 lines, and switched George Wendt’s and John Candy’s roles, I’d up the IMDB score. :-)

random000 2 points 7 months ago.

Good way to put it. We have quite a lot of vhs tv dubs. Thank goodness most of the commercials were never recorded, but sometimes they were. A lot of best copies however will just be vhs tv dubs. There’s many movies that never were restored, the original prints lost, never made it the digital age, etc. Sometimes, the tv version is all there is, so no such thing as dvd quality for that stuff. Tommy Chong’s Far Out Man is in that area.

We dig this Roger Corman flick more than the Candy one, simply because Corman knew how to work with almost no budget, and his stuff has more charm to it, better editing & adjusted production to the dollars. Have to say that we really enjoy his bigger productions more, but on small scale, he did a bit better than Troma.