Movie Name : Hercules
Actress Name : Sybil Danning
Character Name : Adriana
Year : 1983

In 1983 movie Hercules. Actress Sybil Danning plays as villainess Adriana.

Watching 1983 Hercules for the first time, the Hercules I've never known..

Why this movie looks so good? This is from 1983, it's unbelievable!!

This movie somehow feel like a christian religious movie, yet we get a villainess, so, I guess we should give credit to Jesus?

Religions as a whole a great source of stories, if you have a story that survived for thousands of years, that's a good story, it doesn't matter if you like it or not, people must've founded interesting or captured their hearts or minds that it survived till today, same with cultural stories that a culture keep repeating for thousands of years..

I wonder what people felt watching this movie back then, especially that Hercules: The Legendary Journeys didn't exist then!!

It's insane how free of restrictions this movie is, we basically getting high tech machines in a christian-like story with Greek theme!! I mean, killer robots VS ancient half Greek god, hell yeah!!

Around 27 minutes, after Hercules lost his father, someone called him telling him "Your mother in danger!" was like "What?!" and it felt like "Shit! Not again!" LOL!!

And we see the killer robot, this thing is awesome!! LOL!!

Somehow we don't get this stupid shit anymore, everything have to be smart, fuck that!!

This is so dumb and fun, I love it..

Hollyshit, this thing is really good, the way the director filmed the water filling the stable, wow!!

Finally we see the stunning Adriana around 44 minutes, as she captured Hercules and ordered her men to kill him..

I wish if I've seen Adriana more on screen..

Around 51 minutes we see Adriana again, her presence is insane..

About to finish 1 hour of the movie, and I can't believe that movies used to be that good. 

Around 1 hour 13 minutes, the rope of chariot was broke, and Hercules was talking to Circe saying "Why did the rope break? What happened to your powers?" and Circe was like "You made me fall in love...and when that happens to a sorceress, she loses all her powers. l, the enchantress, have been enchanted." and it's so funny but in the most entertaining way possible, this movie is insanely good, I love it..

Circe killed by a deadly robot..
Around 1 hour 28 minutes, Adriana was like "Drink. Drink deep, my hero.. to enhance the thousand pleasures l will give you." And he went to save the good girl, I was like "You dumb, motherfucker!"..

I'm bust in laughter, around 1 hour 30 minutes, Adriana cut the rope, that would open the gate for Hercules to save the heroine, and he was like "Damn you!" it's so hilarious I love it..
Just finished the movie, you can watch Adriana's final confrontation here.
Wow, that's a movie, I can't believe how entertaining this movie was, watching 100 minutes and having the most fun time of my life, and Adriana, I would die for her, her beauty is unbelievable, I'm so in love with her πŸ’˜πŸ’˜πŸ’˜πŸ’˜..
The movie is clearly about religion VS science, the evil is on the side of science and the good on the side of religion, there's absolutely zero chance that I would watch this movie if not for Adriana played by the great Sybil Danning..
  
The idea of having Hercules basically fighting robots and people with light sabers is represent the conflict between progression and regression, so, the hero, Hercules, represent tradition and religion AKA good, while Adriana, Minos and Daedalus represent progression and science, but as a whole I also appreciate how religions as a whole contributed a lot to art and stories, the movie was made during the cold war era, so, you may assume it was a capitalist propaganda against the soviet union, yet as a villain fan, I love it, I'm so on the side of science and the gorgeously evil Adriana.

So, yeah, you may say it's kind of christian movie as I thought from the start, but there's a different between Hollywood then and now, Hollywood then had a moderate reformed Christianity, so in this movie, they show the powerful man is powerful by being righteous, his power comes from the god, and you have the heroine, Cassiopeia played Ingrid Anderson representing purity as the movie suggest, not only she never slept with a man, but never uncovered her face to one, you have our goddess Adriana, representing sin, and she's gorgeous to represent temptation of sin, and Hercules being a strong man by his godly religious power, he can resist and reject the temptation while most men, including me, would never resist the temptation of Adriana, and towards the end, King Minos took Cassiopeia and misled her away from the righteous path in what would end in The Lake of Fire, but the righteous Hercules saves her from following the path of the devil and saving her soul from eternity in fire, a very christian story, and of course King Minos is basically the October revolution etc..

The way it's different from modern Hollywood, unlike this movie and movies back then had a moderate tolerant reformed Christianity, modern Hollywood have an extremist intolerant middle ages Christianity, while moderate Christianity back then allowed art to show sin as tempting, the Hollywood middle ages Christianity forbade showing sin as tempting as in their beliefs showing temptation in art could lure men into sin, so Hollywood completely reject science and art that would contradict their christian beliefs and consider it sacrilegious, so sin can never look anything but unappealing, a huge difference between the two..
This is one of the greatest and most important movies in human history, although its message is christian, but the character Adriana itself could be indicator of a very important historical change, because if that's true and the west is entering the dark ages, does it mean that China in its way to replace the global western civilization?By standing for art and science and even freedom of expression on the long term? Because artistically I see it in China, because why would China make a movie like Wings of Dread with a great male villain and villainess, unless they respect art and artists, why would it support a movie like Niu Lai unless the Chinese people love art and artists?


















 



Sybil Danning as evil babe Adriana in Hercules

Actress Name : Charlize Theron
Character Name : Ravenna
Year : 2012


In 2012 movie Snow White and the Huntsman. Actress Charlize Theron plays as villainess Ravenna.

I think this is the second live action movie I've seen about Snow White, can't remember the other one, just checked, this is the first one, the other movie I was thinking about was The Brothers Grimm where Monica Bellucci played Mirror Queen, let's see if this one would be memorable..

The music in this movie is really good..

33 minutes in, I'm bored..

Charlize Theron is gorgeous, but I got bored, it's numbing, so I don't think I will ever finish it..








Charlize Theron as evil babe Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman

Movie Name : Time Raiders
Actress Name : Mallika Sherawat, and Peng Lin
Character Name : Snake EmpressPingtan Musician
Year : 2016


In 2016 movie Time Raiders. Actresses Mallika Sherawat and Peng Lin play as villains Snake Empress, Pingtan Musician. My expectations for this movie is it will be a modern Hollywood movie, which means if it's half decent, that would exceed my expectations..

First we start with a villain similar to Bulletproof Monk's male villain..

I really hope the movie isn't as bad as I think it is..

The fighting is good at least.

Wu Xie is telling us about his childhood, there's nothing that justify him doing that, it's not like he faced something that triggered a memory, we just have to know about his childhood for some reason, it would make more sense if the movie started with that taking us through different stages of his life, instead of taking us to the present and then give us unjustified flashbacks!!

Ok, the iron mask looks cool..

Around 28 minutes we basically get the original story of Anck Su Namun from The Mummy!!

 This movie is actually getting better than I expected it to be..

I don't know how to feel towards the way they speak English, like there's a different between speaking English and acting English, acting speaking English is hard even for native speakers, so you can see that the actors speaking English, a very good and clear English, but the acting part feels lacking, on the other hand, if it was dubbed, well, good job because I didn't notice it..

I forgot, Ning and her men ambushed the heroes around 47 minutes and started a shootout..

At first when I started checking the movie, especially the scenes of Snake Empress, I thought it would be one of these movies that blind me with CGI, and I really don't like these movies, but after I started watching the movie, the CGI is used moderately, which is kind of cool..

 Here's something I find little weird with Zhang Qiling character, when you have characters like Rick O'Connell in The Mummy, or Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, and they act indifferent towards the artifacts in the country they are in, they are often foreign explorers, they share no connection at all with the place they are disrespecting, this is different from Zhang Qiling, Zhang was introduced as a native and protector of the place, the heritage that foreigners want to take by force, yet, he acted indifferent when the good team used explosives to enter the place, he acted indifferent when his team started shooting, his team is the one that used guns in the place not "the villains", he didn't even scream "Don't!!", as if the place is sacred for him, not only that, he even took part in destroying the place to get "the villains", this is so different from The Sanctuary for example where the heroes really wanted to retrieve priceless national treasure, in the movie Zhang is really trying to be an American explorer that he kind of forgot that this place belong to him and his people, and seeing how the movie showed us how reached a high level of enlightenment to be such excellent fighter, it just make zero sense, he kind of acting absent to everything happening to the historical site!!

I swear Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling feel like a couple!!

I think the scene around 58 minutes was also in The Mummy, the scene when someone put his arm and lost it, but I think it was acid in the original..

Ok, the scene with the dolls was cool, and kind of original, it add a horror movie elements, it would be better if they didn't light the place first tho, and that's probably another problem with the movie is really trying to make something similar to The Mummy and the mirrors scene..

Come on, dude, ruining the immersion of the scene by using CGI lion!!

The whole scene since the dolls appeared till now around 1 hour 9 minutes had too much light..

This movie had the potentials to be a great horror, the zombie insects are really scary.. Which made me think, you know what would be more scary than a zombie apocalypse!! An insects zombie apocalypse, like any insect any mosquito or fly can be deadly, at least with the human zombie apocalypse you can see and avoid them, with insects, you can't even sleep in peace! Even being safe means living in psychological horror!

I misjudged the movie, the movie is really its own thing, even if it's inspired from Hollywood movies..

I can see that the creator of the movie is also a fan of Stargate, which is kind of cool.. Chinese love Hollywood movies and TV shows as much as Hollywood hate itself..

Apparently the scenes with blinding CGIs starts around 1 hour 35 minutes.. 

The gorgeous Snake Empress appears around 1 hour 37 minutes..

Snake Empress goes like "Humans are a lowly life form", yeah, compared to you, it's so unfair to humans, humanity can never pass the test when it's compared to such breathtaking beauty.. It's insane that anyone can be this beautiful, it's unfair to women because it's impossible to meet the beauty of The Snake Empress, and also unfair to men because it's impossible to find anyone as beautiful as The Snake Empress, a true goddess and any mortal who fall in love with a goddess is doomed..



The final fight starts from there, and it's long, it basically from there till the end of the movie..

Villainesses are absolutely the greatest concept in movies, nothing can ever come any close to them, and I've watched tons of movies, no character can even come close to how incredible and amazing female villains are..

Like read this poem by Nizar Qabbani one of the greatest poets in the 20s and 21s century addressing his lover, and tell me that there's any character can even come close on how he's describing his feeling of love in the poem and which character can translate such feelings in a movie better than a villainess: 

"Increase my love, increase it

O sweetest of my fits of madness

O dagger in my tissues

O piercing knife

Increase my death, for if death kills me, it will revive me

I am the oldest capital of love

And my wound is a Pharaonic inscription

My pain is a caravan sent from Damascus to China

And lost in the mouth of a dragon

O taste of snow and taste of fire

And flavor of my doubt and certainty"

Nothing can translate the contradiction of passion as powerful as villains can do, villains are all about contradiction, and that what make them one of the greatest fictional artistic concepts of all time, at least for me..


I was expecting the movie to be like modern Hollywood movies, and it indeed have elements of that, for example, from what I have noticed from how movies especially in the west are made today is this, they collect data from social media, they know what people talking about, what interest them, what they like and what they don't like, and go make the movie like "It has to contain this and that" "It has to look this and that", and the movie partially did that, for example, the movie knew that people liked elements from The Mummy, so it took elements people liked from the movie, other elements from Bulletproof Monk, others from From Dusk Till Dawn, I would say The Snake Empress intro is very similar to Salma Hayek scene in the movie, yet Time Raiders actually did it better, starting from the doll scene it started to form its own character, with modern Hollywood movies they don't do that, the way they think, if people want this and this and that, let's mix them all together in a movie and focus on the marketing and people will just go watch, but that's not how movies work, if you forced a narrative on a movie based on data you destroy immersion, if you destroyed immersion, you kind of destroyed the whole movie, movies are like characters, they are works of art, like a painting, you can't cut parts from different paintings with different styles from the greatest paintings in history of humanity and call it the greatest painting in the history of humanity, and that's what AI and modern entertainment do, which is why, I wouldn't say they make bad movies, it's somehow worse, they make movies that are hard to watch, it's like they don't think that immersion is an important element in the movie, as escapism isn't something that they care about, they collect the data, make movie based on the collected data and that's it, you basically end up seeing your social media feed in a visual form, that's why a B-movie from the 90s is often more fun to watch than a big budget movie from 2026!!     

Anyway, you can watch the full movie here..











 





Mallika Sherawat and Peng Lin as evil babes Snake Empress, and Pingtan Musician in Time Raiders

Movie Name : Ghoulies IV

Actress Name : Stacie Randall, Peggy Trentini and Antonia Dorian

Character Name : Alexandra, Monica, and Lady in Red

Year : 1994


In 1994  movie Ghoulies IV. Actresses Stacie Randall, Peggy Trentini and Antonia Dorian play as Alexandra, Monica and Lady in Red. 


Alexandra's entrance was epic, great outfit and great fight. It's a great start, it shows how deadly and badass she is since the start.


Alexandra basically broke into a warehouse, eliminated the security to get a gem!!


I honestly can't believe this is the same Hollywood that today only make unwatchable stuff, it's not that they make bad  movies, as bad movies can still be entertaining, they are making unwatchable stuff, it's like food, there's a different between a restaurant serving you some food that lack salt, too spicy for your taste, too sugary for your taste, which is totally different from having a restaurant serving you iced dirty water for the food, and liquid cold dirty water for a drink, and have 20 different plates to serve the same exacted iced dirty water, but hey, they still serve you something to eat and drink, so be grateful, you inferior customer!


I can't believe action scenes more than two decades ago look so much better than action scenes today..


We see our villainess again around 13 minutes mark, killing two poor workers..


And Alexandra finally appears to Scotty around 26 minutes..


50 minutes in, I kind of stopped making time marks of her scenes, she's basically the whole movie LOL..


Around 59 minutes mark, Alexandra found the gem with Jonathan's girlfriend Jeanine wearing it as a necklace, and she took Jeanine in order to sacrifice her in order for the dark lord break the barrier between the two worlds..


I love this movie, but it makes zero sense that is called Ghoulies, like till now, if they were removed entirely the movie would still basically the same..


I totally forgot that Scotty kind of died forever, I was thinking when he was confronting Jonathan that he was sent to other dimension or something, apparently not.


 Antonia Dorian only scene in the movie is around 1 hour 8 minutes..


The final confrontation starts shortly afterwards around 1 hour 10 minutes, Peter Liapis seems to have more fun playing the evil version of the character than playing the good version.. And Scotty was brought back LOL..


This movie was so stupid, it's very laughable especially towards the end, but it's also so fun to watch.

 










Stacie Randall, Peggy Trentini, and Antonia Dorian as evil babes Alexandra, Monica and Lady in Red in Ghoulies IV

Actress Name : Rachel Farrow and Vanessa Suarez
Character Name : Vivian Ventura and Honey Walker
Year : 2016


In web series The Sandra West Diaries season 1 episode titled Silencers and Mini Skirts aired 2016. Actresses Rachel Farrow and play as villains Vivian Ventura and Honey Walker.


I think this is the first time for me to watch Superseven / Sandra West videos, the video felt inspired from the 60s movies, which I rarely watch, and I'm very ignorant about the 60s pop-culture..

When checking the channel I watched this video of actress Olivia Dunkley talking about the horrible news that Robert Griffith, the creator of the series sadly left our world πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”, I only know about it now..

So, I hope it's fun to watch, and let's start with the first episode of The Sandra West Diaries..

Ok, this episode they basically use nothing when someone is shot, they just act like it, which is really cool, I hate when they use bad CGI in modern movies, it feels like someone is scratching the video, as if someone grabbed a pen and went wrote on top of the video, it looks stupid and annoying..

Ok, the fight scenes actually looks better than most of what I watch from modern movies, It's so obvious Sandra West is hitting the air, but at least she can act and move as she's fighting, like, the acting is good actually, they episode focus on what they got not what they lack, and what they got that they can act, and in the end, it's fun, it doesn't try too hard to be something it isn't, I will probably watch an episode every week or so and will update it here..

Maybe 60s movies aren't bad after all..

 Anyway, you can watch the entire episode here.. 

Let's start watching the second episode of Sandra West's adventure by the amazing Olivia Dunkley, and play episode 2 Bullets Don't Argue..

This is so hilarious, the episode starts with a gigantic ape..

 Sandra West went to Mexico and it's not yellow, when this episode was they never did that in movies or TV shows..

This episode reveals that Sandra West used to work for a villainess called Sue Muru and the league of assassins.. And it seems there's a flash back from Super Seven series..

I think we see the villainess of the episode Honey Walker played by Vanessa Suarez..

That was a good episode, and Honey Walker was absolutely stunning..

You can watch the whole episode here


 





Rachel Farrow and Vanessa Suarez as evil babes Vivian Ventura and Honey Walker in The Sandra West Diaries

Actress Name : Gisela Hahn
Character Name : Stella
Year : 1966


In 1966 movie Agent Joe Walker: Operation Far East. Actress Gisela Hahn plays as villainess Stella. How good a 60s movie can be? My expectations are very low, but if I really like it, I will probably watch more from this decade and the decade before and after it..

This is so unfair, hearing the way they talk and how everything look in the movie so different is entertaining in its own..

I guess we first see the villains around 26 minutes, when they found a mole in their evil organization and swiftly punished him..

The actors in this movie sound like IELTS lessons..

Around 35 minutes our villainess Stella and her henchmen kill the poor Lapore..

I'm having fun watching this movie but not the way I usually do, my whole attention on how things look so different, it's like using a time machine, I barely pay attention to the characters as much as I do to everything around them..

We see our villains around 54 minutes..

The final confrontation starts around 1 hour 18 minutes..

That was really interesting, watching a movie from the 60s is so different, it's not like watching any other movie, everything looks unique, everyone talks differently, even the fighting scenes looks from anything from the 90s or how modern fights are, it was without doubt entertaining, I will probably watch more 60s movies in the future, the only villainess that I found her name was Stella, there's so many female villains, but the most active were Joanna and Dianna, and the actresses' names aren't mention anywhere.



















 

Gisela Hahn as evil babe Stella in Agent Joe Walker: Operation Far East

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