:) Glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, I’ve never seen her in anything else and she doesn’t even merit a Wikipedia page. Although she has more credits than I expected on IMDb. (Of course, the top feature of that page is the trailer for Laser Mission. :D )

This came out the year after, I think.

There’s an alternate poster, but still focused on climbing (which is like 0.001% of the movie).

Enjoy!

(Although I may have oversold the repartee…)

Awesome recommendation, thanks! Gotta watch some more of those Triple B movies.

For us Gen Xers, there were a hell of a lot of cheap scifi action flicks in the video rental heyday of the 90s. Including quite a few in the Venn diagram overlap of “future dystopia” + “cyborgs” + “kickboxing”.

I always assumed it was Albert Pyun movies like Cyborg (JCVD) and Nemesis (Olivier Gruner). (Pyun was casting kickboxers as movie leads practically until he died in 2022.) However I see the Community wiki says (but without any citations) Robocop and Cyber Tracker (Don Wilson) (it is now in my watchlist). And then I found this other Don Wilson movie with the “future dystopia” + “cyborgs” + “kickboxing” overlap.

Unless the writers come out and tell us exactly which movies inspired Kickpuncher, we’re left guessing.

PS I wonder if they have, maybe answering audience questions at a convention.

The artist of the Kickpuncher comic doesn’t clear up the issue here:

• https://www.jimmahfood.com/projects/kickpuncher/

Cool, I hadn’t noticed the comment.

I wonder why this got downvoted so much.

I’m trying out creating a new community (on Piefed) for action movies, and I made a post about Aleong with links to some movies.

• https://piefed.social/post/985567

For me in MX, Out for Blood is unavailable on Tubi here, but it is on a licensed channel on YouTube (FilmRise)

• https://youtu.be/7QE0neZJRto

:D

Aki Aleong just died, I notice he did several movies with Wilson, might check one out.

And looking at Wilson’s Wikipedia, it mentioned he joined the Coast Guard Academy, which perplexed me. Until I realized he was old enough to be drafted and sent to Vietnam! He’s 70 now! I always thought of him in the same age bracket as JCVD, Gary Daniels, Olivier Gruner, Mark Dacascos and the other high kickers of the 90s, not someone literally old enough to have served for real in the war he made a movie about.

Wow, never knew that about Penn and Wilson. There were a few moments where I went “hey, that’s really Penn doing it, not a stunt man”.

Just found out an alternate title for this movie is… Kickboxer 2025.

So I guess something went right for us at the housewarming party.

:D

Unfortunately, in Future Kick, the Cyberons are only cyborgy on the inside. So apart from repairing injuries they spend most of the movie looking completely human but with shades (excuse me, “visors”).

I watched it on Tubi (without an account), with Zen Browser (mod of Firefox) and uBlock Origin. I haven’t seen any ads on Tubi so far, although a few times there was a pause of about a second before resuming, presumably when they were going to show ads but which were blocked.

Fixing the JustWatchIt link, I just found out the movie has an alternate title: Kickboxer 2025! :D

Come to think of it, with that cast, the backing of a major studio (MGM) and a budget of $9-15 million in 1981, it’s probably more of a A movie “with B movie heritage”.

I have the Tubi link for that MST3K ep after the screenshots, not sure how many people that works for.

Yeah, the villain brought it to life a bit, but yeah a bit of a slog. Especially as being 80%retelling/flashback meant there was little jeopardy.

You’re welcome :)

£ says: “The fuck they are, mate!”