Ultimate Dolph

Jox wrote:Dolph fest report coming
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"AMAZING" and "AWESOME" is the least we expected from it...

Several years back before I officially lived in Los Angeles, I was in town for the annual Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors convention and had skimmed the calendar for The New Beverly Cinema to see if anything good was playing the weekend I was visiting. Sure enough, that Saturday evening, they had scheduled a Dolph Lundgren Film Festival. I shit you not.

It kicked off with RED SCORPION, followed by UNIVERSAL SOLDIER. The center piece of the 5 movie night showcased ROCKY IV, followed by the director’s cut of the 1989 THE PUNISHER and lastly, capped off with a midnight screening of a print of DARK ANGEL aka I COME IN PEACE. To this day, this was one of my absolute favorite theater going experiences. The fight at the end of ROCKY felt like being at an actual boxing match with how loud the audience cheered. THE PUNISHER with all the violent, gory bits still in tact is actually a really solid movie. And finally, never in a million years did I think I’d get to see one of my favorite late night cable staples on the big screen with a full audience. Dolph Fest was pretty much the moment I realized I needed to live in Los Angeles and, more importantly, near this magical mecca that shows these kinds of movies with nothing but love and respect.