Get ready for another season of wacky antics and laughs from the gang at Stalag 13. The guys are up to their old tricks to sabotage and subvert the Nazi efforts, along with the bungling Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz. Here’s what you can expect in Season 5.
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The 26 episodes with original telecast dates include:
Episode 1: Hogan Goes Hollywood (9/26/1969)
Episode 2: The Well (10/3/1969)
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Episode 3: The Klink Commandos (10/10/1969)
Episode 4: The Gasoline War (10/17/1969)
Episode 5: Unfair Exchange (10/24/1969)
Episode 6: The Kommandant Dies at Dawn (10/31/1969)
Episode 7: Bombsight (11/7/1969)
Episode 8: The Big Picture (11/14/1969)
Episode 9: The Big Gamble (11/21/1969)
Episode 10: The Defector (11/28/1969)
Episode 11: The Empty Parachute (12/5/1969)
Episode 12: The Antique (12/12/1969)
Episode 13: Is There a Traitor in the House? (12/19/1969)
Episode 14: At Last-Schultz Knows Something (12/26/1969)
Episode 15: How’s the Weather? (1/2/1970)
Episode 16: Get Fit or Go Fight (1/9/1970)
Episode 17: Fat Hermann, Go Home (1/16/1970)
Episode 18: The Softer They Fall (1/23/1970)
Episode 19: Gowns by Yvette (1/30/1970)
Episode 20: One Army at a Time (2/13/1970)
Episode 21: Standing Room Only (2/20/1970)
Episode 22: Six Lessons From Madame LaGrange (2/27/1970)
Episode 23: The Sergeant’s Analyst (3/6/1970)
Episode 24: The Merry Widow (3/13/1970)
Episode 25: Crittendon’s Commandos (3/20/1970)
Episode 26: Klink’s Escape(3/27/1970)
This season marks Col. Crittendon’s fourth appearance in the show. It would also be Sgt. Kinchloe’s (Ivan Dixon) last year with the series.
“Hogan’s Heroes” is the Best! I’ve got mine and re-watched them all several times already!
For Hogan’s fans everywhere I want to recommend a movie I ran into recently that I hadn’t seen in ages. It is a wonderful, but forgotten cross between Kelly’s Heroes & Hogan’s Heroes set in 1943 Italy…complete with a bank heist!…and General Burkhalter!!!
It’s called “What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?” and Hogans’ fans and “Kelly’s Heroes” fans alike should give this a try.
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This set features one episode from season 2, two from season 4, and one from season 10. Three episodes feature show creator Joel Hodgson as host, while one features head writer Mike Nelson as host. These are four really funny episodes and there should be no hesitation in buying this set!
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Episode 206- THE RING OF TERROR (with short: THE PHANTOM CREEPS PT 3)
This black-and-white (b/w) 1962 “thriller” features the largest group of the oldest medical school students ever found at one time in any US college. After the “thrilling” opening in which a man endlessly searches for his cat, “Puma”, the film unfolds a less-than-suspenseful tale about a fearless medical student who must come to grips with the one thing that does frighten him. The film stars no one, little happens, the comic relief in the film revolves around cheap shots taken at an overweight couple, and the terrifying climax is more likely to induce sleep paralysis than fear paralysis. Why do the students all behave like undergraduates when this is post-graduate medical school? Who cares, the whole thing is so inept, it’s hilarious! The MST3K host segments are all top-notch funny, particularly the “old school sketch” and the sketch recreating the autopsy scene from the film. The short is another installment of Phantom Creeps with Bela Lugosi and the MST3K writers get lots of great comedy mileage out of that one. This is another GREAT episode from legendarily hilarious season 2. Don’t miss it!
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Episode 409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN (with short: UNDERSEA KINGDOM PT 2) Lon Chaney, Jr. is one of those movie greats that didn’t always say no when offered a less than stellar role, especially it seems as available parts dried up for him as he got older. This 1956 film is one he probably should have turned down unless he was really desperate for the paycheck, but we benefit from his choice to appear in this film as it is quite amusing all on its own. Chaney plays “The Butcher”, an executed thug who ends up mute but not quite dead after his execution. Most of the film involves him silently seeking revenge on those who sent him to death row, with lots of really odd close-ups of his eyes. Joel and the `Bots hammer this film mercilessly in a non-stop manner with one great joke after another; it’s just terrific! The short, Undersea Kingdom part 2 with Ray “Crash” Corrigan, is also “ROTHLOL” funny.
Episode 414- TORMENTED
This 1960 b/w film is a Bert I. Gordon “classic” about, Tom Stewart, a guy who doesn’t save his old girlfriend from an accidental fatal fall after she threatens to mess up his wedding plans to a New England high society girl. Throughout the rest of the film he is “haunted” by her ghost and driven to the brink of madness and more murder. The haunting scenes could not scare a small child, but they are hilariously cheesy fun to watch. Is a ghost really haunting Tom or is his conscience just getting to him? You’ll be laughing too hard to care much about that! You’ll also be reciting, “Tom Stewart killed me, Tom Stewart killed me” like a litany after the credits roll.
Episode 1011- HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND
This 1962 b/w film is a German-Yugoslav co-production and the dialogue dubbing adds much to the hilarity of this inept film. A group of female dancers is stranded on an island with only a few men and lots of excuses to show as much skin as possible without any actual nudity. The scantily clad pretty girls seem to be most of the reason this film got made and mostly what the film’s makers expected would get people to watch it. The giant spiders and the “horrific” results of their bite are about the poorest special effects and make-up one could expect from a film regardless of what year it was made. This is a very strong episode from MST3K’s final season.
Extra features on this set include MST3K Video Jukebox Volume 2, Original Theatrical Trailers (for all except “Ring of Terror”), a “Tormented” Reunion (with Bert I. Gordon, Susan Gordon and Joe Turkel) and the MST Hour “Jack Perkins” Wraps for “Tormented” featuring Mike Nelson as “Jack Perkins”.
Given the fact that some of these MST3K DVD sets go out of print rather quickly due to issues with rights over the films used in the show, I’d recommend buying this set right away. Don’t miss these four great episodes. Movie sign!
If history has taught us anything it is this, you can’t depend on the new MST3K sets to be available for long, so if you’re interested it’s best to get them while you can. Case in point, Mystery Science Theater 3000 volume 10… available for purchase for about three months and then it was suddenly pulled from the shelves in a quiet recall with no replacements ever sent out. I myself had to get Volume 10 off of eBay (at a hefty premium at that) because I waited too long thinking it was a buy I could put off for a little bit. How wrong I was. The moral of the story is, when Volume 11 comes out, (as well as volumes 12, 13, 14 and so on), it’s better to hedge your bets and get it as fast as possible before they vanish all too soon.
Oh, and my reason for giving Volume 11 here a 5-Star rating sight unseen… that’s just me being the loyal Mistie fan-boy that I am. =^)
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The following paragraph is in my other reviews, but I believe it bears repeating. This six Disk DVD Set is extraordinary. The Picture and Sound quality are so very good that you feel as though you are watching it in a theater. The closed captioning and Audio come in other languages besides English. It’s jam packed with all sorts of extra bonus specials. The Brilliant creator, Joss Whedon and other staff members are at their very best, just as they were with their work on Buffy (which is also a must own). I not only highly recommend this Season disk set, but the other four seasons as well. Quite a bit of quality work went into the making of all five seasons. They are a necessary buy for any Angel fan! It’s completely impossible to be anything but extremely pleased with this purchase as well as the rest of the series. The writing, acting , directing, etc… are amazing per usual. This is without question once again feature film quality. The fact that all but the first season is filmed in Letter Box gives it that theater feel. In addition, the closed-captioning is less likely to interfere with the picture.
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David Boreanaz (Angel) and Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) are brilliant in their performances together as well as the obvious sexual tension between them. They play it to the hilt. I personally would have liked to see them get together, but Joss Whedon as always had other ideas. Yet, another character was added at the end of season two, Amy Acker (Fred). She was rescued by the crew from Pylea, Lorne’s home demon dimension. She joins Angel investigations, starting out a little bit on the crazy side. She grows into a pivotal member of the group. Amy Acker is quite a versatile actor. I must give extra credit to the incomparable Julie Benz (Darla, Vampire Extraordinaire). She was introduced at the end of Season One, brought back by Wolfram and Hart as Human. She does an exceptional job in playing the wickedly pissed off pregnant vampire and then redeeming herself in Episode 9 “Lullaby”, by taking her own life so that her son may live. I’m aware that quite a few fans didn’t like her until Lullaby, but I always thought she was incredible and was very sorry to see her go as a on and off regular. However, not to worry fans she will reappear now and again. As in many cases in the Joss Whedon universe the dead end up working again and sometimes more. I not only highly recommend this Season disk set, but the other four seasons as well. Any true Angel fan must complete their set with this one. It’s a keeper folks. Purchase this before it gets sold out and you miss your chance to continue your collection. ORDER IMMEDIATELY AND DON’T FORGET TO BUY SEASONS ONE, TWO, FOUR AND FIVE WHILE YOUR AT IT.
Warning: Lots of spoilers.
Season Three of Angel remains, in many ways, my favorite of the show’s run. The shows are persistently good, but if I had to put my finger on a specific reason I like it so much, it is that the cast meshes together perfectly. By the end of the season, there would be major–at the time seemingly impossible to mend–rifts between some of the members of Angel Investigations, but the core group was the best to date. Angel, restored to the group as their spiritual if not technical leader, has recovered his sense of purpose. Cordy (whose presence is missed mightily in the Fifth Season–I hope she and Joss Whedon patch up their differences and work her back into the show where she belongs–Note: their differences, apart from the official rhetoric, apparently revolving around her leaving the show for a few episodes near the end of this season, and her delayed announcement of her real-life pregnancy in Season Four, causing significantly rewriting–my gut feeling is that she will be back after a period of “punishment”) has completely accepted her role as the contact to the Powers That Be, and both works hard at becoming a more important member of the team and manages to work a compromise to deal with the extraordinary physical toll the visions are taking on her (by becoming part demon–a gigantic step that one could hardly imagine the Cordelia of the first three years of Buffy making). Wesley and Gunn are both taken by the new resident of Hotel Angel, Winifred aka Fred, the scientifically brilliant but psychologically traumatized young woman they had rescued from Pylea. And finally, Lorne, formerly known as The Host, moves in when his karaoke bar has to close. It is a great group, and the interaction between all of them is extraordinary. And the romance! Well, the potential of romance. Fred is initially smitten with Angel, her rescuer. Wes and Gunn gradually fall in love with Fred. And Cordy and Angel are both quite obviously growing closer and closer to one another.
Against this background of interpersonal relationships, Angel unexpectedly becomes a father. Darla, with whom he had had sex in Season Two in a futile attempt to lose his soul, returns to LA, in an exceedingly pregnant state, all the more remarkable for the fact that vampires cannot reproduce sexually (they reproduce through that biting thing). The result is a cute baby Angel dubs Connor, which is all well and good until he is kidnapped and taken to a demon dimension, where he grows up to be an uber angry, obnoxious kid bent solely on revenging himself on Angel, who he has been taught to hate by the man who kidnapped him. In the entirety of Buffy/Angel, the Connor story line might be the least popular in the history of the show. Still, it doesn’t keep this from being a very good season indeed. Unlike most years of Buffy/Angel, Season Three is carried less by the season-long story arcs than by the individual episodes. There are some great shows, and many marvelous moments. The most harrowing might be the torturous decision that Wes has to make, and the enormous payment he has to pay for attempting to obey the dictates of conscience.
One of my favorite moments in the season occurs when the writers engage in one of the great in-jokes in TV history. On Season Six of Buffy, Buffy is so broke that she has to take a demeaning job slinging hamburgers and frying processed chicken product patties at a fast-food joint called Doublemeat Palace. It is probably the most biting joke at the expense of the fast-food industry in the history of TV (especially ironic given the fact that Sarah Michelle Gellar’s career began as a very small child in a famous series of commercials for Burger King explicitly attacking MacDonald’s). As a result of the Doublemeat Palace episodes, MacDonald’s and other food outlets ceased advertising on Buffy. Meanwhile, on Angel, Wesley is researching a prophecy and is striving to solve the last piece of the puzzle. To do so, he needs to consult an idol in the shape of a statue, but when he goes to the coordinates, he sees not an imposing statue, but a personified plastic hamburger (think the Hamburgler from MacDonald’s). The image of a dumb plastic hamburger person being a powerful and all knowing entity is funny enough on its own, but knowing about the conflict with the fast food industry on Angel’s sister show gives the scene an entire different dimension.
The show ends on a spectacularly chaotic note. Angel, unlike Buffy, has tended to end each year with far more loose ends. Every season ends with as many questions raised as answered. Of no season closer is this truer than this year. The final episode sees Angel and Cordy, both obviously with strong feelings for one another, agreeing to meet on the beach near Malibu to “have a talk.” (No mention is made about that nasty little curse afflicting Angel, which I found curious. No curse and Angel would have been back with Buffy.) But Cordy is unexpectedly called upon to become a Higher Being and ends the season by ascending into the Higher Realm, and Angel is bushwhacked by Connor and, in one of the most nightmarish moments in the show, encased in a metal cage and lowered to the bottom of the Pacific. The season started off with everyone feeling pretty good about things, but ends with Cordy no longer on Earth, Angel on the bottom of the ocean, and Wesley recovering from a near-deadly wound and utterly alienated from all his friends. And all of this sets up the utterly remarkable fourth season.
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Seeing how no one except another guy who put a review on here that I can barely understand, I thought I would give my 2 cents. I have attained a bit of information about these movies. I saw my first Deep Vision 3D film in high school back in 2001 in theaters. I have been hooked since then and loved these 1970’s movies because of the “old school” look, soundtrack, and that they were in 3D. I have not seen Black Lolita (Wildcat Women) in the theater, but I saw Disco Dolls in Hot Skin and the Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy in 3D a few years back. I am assuming that since you are interested in this DVD review because you saw it originally in the 1970’s, you like 3d films, or your like me and you enjoy the old lost midnight obscure classics.
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I managed to track down the director of the Deep Vision movies and he was very kind in informing me on some info on how they were made. Basically, Deep Vision was started by Steve Gibson in 1970 with his assistant Arnold Herr. Steve told me about some of his movies he made and how in this movie the exploding car scene did not work just right and the model car landed between his legs when it was set to explode. Ouch, for any dude to have something fall from a roof between your legs! Luckily it didn’t explode then. I give Steve props for making this movie not only with his own money, but because this must have certainly been a challenge. Filming porn in California when this was made in the 1970’s was illegal and it was probably hard to get actors and locations (especially for the shoot outs). Though these aren’t the best movies, I happen to enjoy them for some odd reason, perhaps for nostalgia sake. You also have to understand that these were made in a time were porn had to draw in people with a story and not only just sex (this was before amateur internet and VCR/DVD porn). These were produced by one guy with the help of his assistant. Steve did most of the shooting, writing, developing film, and editing by himself. So, please understand this is not some big studio production, but instead your seeing someone’s personal work (in terms of story and video).
Black Lolita was the original title of this movie and there are 3 versions “floating around” (Black lolita- original hardcore; Bad Lolita- some hardcore cut out; & Wildcat Women- The R rated version). From what I understand, Wildcat Women has some film spliced from each of the previous versions, so don’t expect the continuity to be great.
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On to the story:
The story is about a girl named Lolita who seeks out revenge on the Buddha who kills her uncle (a shop owner) because one day he decides not to pay the thugs that go around collecting money for the Buddha for some reason. Lolita finds some friends to take on the Buddha and they get some more help from a guy who spies on his hideout. The story doesn’t make a lot of sense, but you kind of have to just go with it. The plot does drag a bit in the middle, but it is still a fun movie full of one liners you will be repeating for a while. There are some chases, sneaking around, people making out, and driving scenes. I love how the Buddha has David Cassidy hair and that funny white outfit (You’ll see what I mean). Lolita also appears to be played a few different actresses as she looks different in various scenes (unless I’m crazy, which I may be).
Overall, the shoot outs, 3d car chases, and soundtrack make this worth owning. Like I said before, don’t expect this to be some big production movie. But, if you are a fan of Boogie Nights and the old lost films of the 70’s, this is definitly worth picking up. Hopefully one day they will release the hardcore original version to DVD.
Also, for the best 3D… watch this at night in a dark room with the brightness up and you will have to mess with the color and tint to make it look just right. Try to pause it somewhere in the actual movie (not the demo at the beginning) and adjust it to where the blue matches with your glasses.
Most importantly…. Enjoy this lost classic with a few beers and don’t take it too seriously because it is what it is! As the old saying goes “porn may not have a future, but it had a past”
I hope this review is helpful to you
i just recieved it and the 3D anaglyphics were good originaly a hard core sex feature about 4 sex scenes in spite of trimmed simulated second takes the story is strong and flat compatible if swv or alpha blue archives were to release the un cut version flat it
be good still the scene between bill margold and serena in soft version was an insert to originally spice up the pic so it realy never belonged obviously shot years later serenas first feature was teenage cruisers in 77 she was a red head at the time this was a time where porn poduction were big budgets on film i suppose the hard version is trimmed on the story side to focus on sex which would make it a better adult feature this could compete with other g rated blacksploitation film so as far as a 3d film its worth collecting good story good acting also i want to correct an error i made when i reviewed the bubble the couple was coming from a mountain trip not a party
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….The year of The Transformers!!! It’s about time! I’m 25 years old and i’m sure that others from my generation used to spend their afternoons with their friends transforming their autobots and decepticons and talking smack on which ones we bought. I can’t wait for this DVD collection to come out. Hopefully it doesn’t stop with the first season and also give us a chance to see again He-man, Voltron, M.A.S.K, Gem (jk!!!). Anyway keep up the good work RHINO!!!!!
I thought about ordering this DVD set for some time but had held off. I thought it was rather pricey. Along came by birthday, though, and I decided to buy myself a little something….
I forgot how good this show really was. It was incredibly loyal to the each of the characters and everything at this point. The voice actors are an all star cast as well.
The remastering job was very good when you consider what they had to work with to start. They cleaned up a lot of noise and dirt off of the film and made the colors a lot more vivid and clear. There are some occasional sound effects added, but they are not intrustive and not that frequent, really. A couple of scenes in “Heavy Metal War”, the last episode on the disc, turned out pretty poor, but otherwise they did an awesome job restoring this first season run, even including the original opening of the show and the commercial bumpers.
I am still annoyed by the constant coloring mistakes made by the original animators of the show. I guess it’s part of the charm, and it’s probably best that Rhino left them like they were. I remember these coloring mistakes in the original series just as well, and it even bothered me back then in 1984-85 that Sunbow couldn’t seem to tell the difference between Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp most of the time (though as the series goes on past the first 5 or 6, they DO get better about it…save for the part in Heavy Metal War where there are two Starscreams side by side, one of which was supposed to be Skywarp).
I wish Rhino would take out the stupid cartoon openings on their videos and DVDs, though. While I know they are mostly a children’s video company, with things like Transformers and GI Joe, they are mostly catering to adults…adults who don’t want to sit through a cartoon rhino dressed like Elvis at the start of each disc while we wait for the menu to appear.
Overall, if you grew up with this original series of Transformers, as I did, you will very much enjoy this set. I enjoyed every minute of it, and can hardly wait until late November now, where Rhino releases the first half of Season 2 in a box set. The second half of Season 2 follows in the Spring.
So if you are waiting like I did, stop waiting now. After watching this, I felt like a kid again, and you will too.
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Everything about this movie says “stinker,” yet I just can’t help but like it; I’ve watched it at least half-a-dozen times since my early teens and just don’t get tired of it. As every Giant Gila fan must know, it was produced by Ken Curtis (deputy Festus Haggen on TV’s Gunsmoke) and directed by Ray Kellogg (The Green Berets, My Dog Buddy) back-to-back with The Killer Shrews. The pedestrian script is by Jay Simms, who did much better with Shrews, Panic in Year Zero, and Creation of the Humanoids, and the repetitious ‘eerie’ soundtrack is courtesy of Jack Marshall (who penned the memorable Munsters’ TV theme). While all the kids tool around in custom “slingshots” and mouth some nifty jive talk, Giant Gila is just too NICE to qualify as a (typically sleazy) JD/monster flick. Don Sullivan (Teenage Zombies, Monster of Piedras Blancas) stars as keen teen Chase Winstead, who’s so virtuous and upstanding that he ought to be canonized. He’s working in a garage to support his family, keeps his buddies in line (no dragging!), helps the sheriff search for missing gila victims, writes and sings religious pop songs, is taking a correspondence course in engineering, and saves his money to buy leg braces for his polio-stricken kid sister! It’s enough to make you gag. He gets additional saint points because his dad died on an oil rig owned by wealthy jerk Mr. Wheeler, and he’s also got a beautiful but annoying and nearly unintelligible French girlfriend (Lisa Simone). Fred Graham, veteran of numerous westerns and flyboy flicks, plays the understanding sheriff, and Shug Fisher (formerly a member of the Sons of the Pioneers vocal group, along with Curtis) provides some cornball ‘comedy’ as Old Man Harris, whose 1932 Model-A is lusted after by the hot-rodders. Ken Knox is amusing as hep-cat DJ “Steamroller” Smith (he’s driving while completely smashed when we meet him, yet nobody seems too concerned). The giant gila monster itself just seems to be sitting on the sidelines (exactly where is never really clear), observing a lot, and looking very normal-sized (the “effects” crew obviously had no idea how to shoot miniatures properly). When it does do some attacking it never interacts with any of the live actors (the film lacks a single matte shot, or even a cheesy double-exposure a la Bert I. Gordon, that would have put the monster and humans in the same frame). Since Ray Kellogg was a former special photographic effects technician at 20th Century Fox, it’s a mystery why the monster scenes here are so lackluster. As if all this weren’t enough, Sullivan sings the utterly cringeworthy “Laugh, Children, Laugh” (with ukelele accompaniment) not once, but TWICE during the picture (imagine a really lame Ricky Nelson or Everlys tune), although his rock’n'roll number, spun by Smith at the climactic “platter party,” is fairly passable (it sounds like an Elvis ripoff). The gila monster gets to demolish a toy tanker truck and electric train, and is finally annihilated by Chase, naturally, who destroys his custom rod in the process. While never achieving greatness, Giant Gila Monster is a relatively painless 75 minutes of corn-fed schlock that should please fans of 1950s monster cheapies (and/or Green Acres).
Not as pristine as most Image/Wade Williams releases, Giant Gila Monster is still presented here in better overall shape than any video or DVD copy I’ve seen yet. The box says it’s matted at 1.85:1, though by my calculations it’s closer to 1.66:1 (1.70:1 to be exact) and anamorphically enhanced. Print quality is very good to excellent, generally exhibiting only light speckling, blemishing, and lining, although there are a few stretches where the speckling/blemishing is a bit heavier; not enough to be a major distraction, but noticeable. Otherwise, the black level, brightness, contrast, sharpness, and shadow/highlight detail are excellent throughout. The accompanying trailer is also matted to about 1.70:1 and looks fine except for some light to moderate speckling and lining. Additional extras include 12 chapter stops, five Wade Williams Collection trailers, and an Images Journal essay that’s nearly as amusing as the movie, wherein Giant Gila Monster is discussed in scholarly terms more befitting a Bergman or Godard film. As is typical with this sort of thing the type is too small and condensed, making for difficult on-screen reading (at least on a 27″ monitor). For the extremely cost-conscious, Diamond’s full-frame edition (paired with Killer Shrews) isn’t absolutely terrible (physical damage is a bit worse, plus it’s softer, darker, more contrasty, and generally lacking in detail), but if you want the best available transfer, this is it.
Ah those were the days, Rock’n Roll Music, Drive-in’s showing the latest Troy Donahue or monster flick, hotrodders, and “making out”, in quiet country lanes in “souped up” wagons. Gee the ’50’s must have been a gas! Well at least that’s what I’m told it was like for teenagers back then as I wasn’t around to know myself. Despite it’s many faults 1959’s “The Giant Gila Monster”, is a real favourite of mine among the “Monster on the loose”, genre of “B” movie making of the time. In every respect it’s very much a product of the decade it was made in despite being released right on the tail end of the era that basically “invented”, the teenager. By 1959-60 the gothic horrors dealing with Vampires and Wolfmen produced by the likes of Hammer Studios had largely replaced in popular appeal the 1950’s Sci Fi/Horror dramas which usually involved some over sized creature, the result of misuse of atomic power, threatening mankind. Efforts such as “The Gila Monster”, then were really the swansong for these type of monster films that had been so incredibly popular for the last decade. The title of this film is self explanatory but the film itself is interesting in that the “teenagers” in the story, just as in the classic “The Blob”, are revealed as not the usual delinquents so often depicted in films of this era but instead as responsible and caring young people. The Gila Monster itself almost takes a secondary role here and is unfortunately rarely seen and underused and instead it’s the human drama that keeps this story moving along. Front and centre to the action is the lead character played by good looking Don Sullivan, and while his character would appear to the cynical eye as being too good to be true he comes across in my belief as a very appealing character who makes this admittedly “B” level story much more interesting than it probably deserves to be.
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Well documented. A slight disapointment in the fact that the mars survey is not covered, only the trip to the planet.
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Sigh… Here’s more of the same.
You can pretty much trust the critics’ reviews on this one. I know movies like this aren’t made to get critical raves, and in that sense they are critic-proof. I like stupid comedies (as long as they are genuinely funny and clever – not just stupid), especially of the screwball “Naked Gun” mold and, even more so, of the raunchy original “Scary Movie” type. I may be embarrassed to try and defend a movie like “Scary Movie” but I’d be a liar to say I didn’t love it. So, in that sense, if any “name” critic were to tell me “Scary Movie 4″ is a stupid, bad movie, how do I know I can trust them?
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Not that they are always wrong about these movies (”Scary Movie 2″ was dreadfully lazy, unfunny and, basically, awful), but I figure I have to judge for myself. Every once in a while I’m glad I did. Usually though, I know what I’m getting into and just keeping my fingers crossed for a surprise.
Not surprisingly, “Scary Movie 4″ is not that movie.
Sure it’s better than “2,” and there are several funny moments, probably enough to make it worth a rental, but they are forgotten almost as soon as you leave the theatre. 0f what I remember, Leslie Nielsen has the best moments over all, proving he’s still got it with his hilarious dead-pan, oblivious looks and dialog-deliveries; he’s as good as he ever was. Too bad there wasn’t more of him here (he is essentially a cameo). And the “War of the Worlds” spoof stuff was funny for a while, especially to me because I didn’t much care for that movie (it already felt like a spoof of Sci-Fi flicks with its dumb logic, dumb dialog and cheesy performances). Here, one of the best gags involves the Tri-Ipods (ho, ho) attacking the city and, as in “WOTW,” none of the transportation devices work; this includes bikes and skateboards (of course, Spielberg already spoofed himself in his own movie by allowing a camcorder to work while every other electronic device – from cars to wristwatches – shut down; but I digress). That scene is fairly early on in the film and, come to think of it, that’s where most of the comic gems are.
The movie starts out well, hitting most of its targets in a quick, random fashion. None of it is great, but it works well enough to earn a few real laughs: The “Saw” stuff with Shaq and Dr. Phil, the scene with Charlie Sheen, Cindy’s new office, her gleefully absurd flashback to her first marriage, Anthony Anderson and his “pal” in a bar riffing on the phrase “turn up missing” (how can you turn up and be missing at the same time?), almost everything right up until the actual shape of the story begins to take place, which ultimately becomes just one big spoof of “War of the Worlds,” with a “The Village” segue thrown in the middle for no real reason (although here, Carmen Electra earns some laughs in fearless cameo); in the same way as “Scary Movie 2″ degenerated into a one-joke spoof of “The Haunting” – another originally bad movie that needed no spoof in order for us to laugh at it.
The “Scary Movie” franchise started with a truly audacious, hardcore comedy original. Not for kids, it earned its hard-R rating (originally it got an NC-17), but it worked. You laughed at not only the gags, but out of embarrassment for laughing at them, and the Wayans Brothers sheer audacity to put some of that stuff up on the screen. It wasn’t brilliant, but it was brilliantly vile and unexpectedly hilarious. It caught everyone off guard; no one expecting the movie to go that far and, in turn, be that screamingly funny. And it was a different, original stab at the genre (spoofs were generally all done in the PG-13 “Hot Shots!” vein). It became a deserved huge hit. So the Wayans delivered a sequel that just continued to milk the same well until it was dry (#2 did half the box-office of the original and was hissed at by both critics and fans). Wisely the Wayans bowed out, but the movies were turned over to David Zucker, a great director who gave us “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” just to name a few. Zucker makes funny movies, but he makes far different movies (precisely the kind the Wayans brothers were trying to top with the original). The rating dropped to PG-13 and the franchise was now safe for pre-teens. “Scary Movie 3″ was better than 2, but only because it couldn’t be any worse. Just as in this latest entry, 3 had scattered scenes that scored laughs, but had far too many obvious, predictable and lazy targets. It hit ‘em, but none too thrillingly. All the pizzazz of the original was gone and the series had turned into just another spoof franchise that does not stand out amongst any of its type. Zucker is a competent director but he gave up being exciting a long time ago. With “Scary Movie 3,” this year’s equally bland hit-and-(far more) miss “Date Movie” and now “Scary Movie 4,” he has done some of the laziest work of his career.
Want proof? Look at some of the other reviews on this site. The big raves come from teens who, probably were so young, they weren’t allowed to see the first movie when it came out; not that it would have mattered much because that also means that they were in preschool when “Scream” and all the other movies the original spoofed came out. But that’s okay because that is now who this franchise is for. For them, it is harmless fun – just ask the 20 or so kids who were dying with laughter at the screening I attended this afternoon. And for all the people who like broad, slapstick style comedy rather than a boundary-pusher, and are not very discriminating (ie, as long as you get the references and there is plenty of potty humor), you may enjoy this. But I have to believe it can be done better than this. I have seen it done better than this. And admit it, so have you.
It’s a testimate to Zucker’s talent that these films, bland as they are, are still watchable and manage to score some laughs. I’ll be first in line when he decides to return to form. (I’m not even asking for the highs of “Airplane!” or “The Naked Gun,” I’d be happy with something along the lines of “Baseketball” or “Top Secret!” again.)
There is a funny opening and I was expecting it to be a good film at least like Scary Movie 1 or 3…..it wasn’t. It was not only UNfunny but if you are in a good mood, this film will throw water on it. Just when I was going to walk out, it ended. I truly hope that I never see this again. In fact, I would rather read a dictionary.
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