Hmmm this sounds familiar
You know, I have to admit. I really liked
Cyborg 2, it was my first introduction to Angelina! I'm from New Jersey, but I worked in Manhattan basically all my professional life. As you know, New York (as well as L.A.) gets
all the theatrical releases. Back in September/October '93, I remember reading the New York Times and in the theater showtime listings, one theater was showing
Cyborg 2...no ad for it, no promo, nothing but the showtime listing. I had no internet back then, so I could only assume that this was the sequel to that Jean Claude-Van Damme flick,
Cyborg from four years prior. Sure enough it was, I slapped down my $6.75 and I was one of three people in the theater. It was a pleasant surprise. And Angelina left quite an impression on me.
When I left, a few people stopped and asked me about the film. I'm guessing that it was a test screening for the public that day, because the next day it was gone. I've been to test screenings and private screenings before, but this was different. Never is a test screening publicized in a newspaper with showtimes and open to the general public. And I couldn't tell you how many others turned up for the other screenings that day, but I told them that I enjoyed it, and that is was much better than the first film. I said other things about Jack Palance, Angelina Jolie and director Michael Schroeder whose work I was familiar with in another B-flick called
Out of the Dark, but I can't recall what I said exactly.
I remember
Cyborg 2 went to video like a month or so after that, but I'm glad I saw that on the big screen in it's original 2.35:1.
Ah, memories...
Most recently, Schroeder wrote and directed an independent film called,
Man in the Chair, which is a rather interesting film about a retired, alcoholic gaffer (Christopher Plummer), who worked on
Citizen Kane, helping out a nutty, film-crazed teenager (Michael Angarano) with his student film.
-UJ
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