I have tried the three seashells. It's as distopian as you'd imagine.
@TheRezro11 сағат бұрын
I know sea shell thing was a joke. But it would be safe to assume that those are just buttons activating functions of automatic toilet.
@Belzediel15 сағат бұрын
So, the image you put up to show Hollywood preferring English actors to be villains is of Donald Pleasence, an actor known at least as much for playing good guys as bad, in You Only Live Twice, which is an English movie, not Hollywood. Following that up with four examples, three of which ARE English, but REG is African. Was that a very long day, Chuck?
@johnbgood52Күн бұрын
I first saw Forbidden Planet on TV when I was a kid back in 1965 or '66, and it's been one of my top ten favorite SF films ever since. Granted, like most '50s SF, there's a bit of heavy-handed moralizing, mostly centered on the "things man was not meant to know" trope, and to be honest, that bothers me a bit as an adult, but it isn't something I noticed as a kid.
@DasKameКүн бұрын
I love this movie! Great Background Video like the Highlander Video
@robertfreestone414Күн бұрын
This movie defines "turn around": *Couldn't get the desired talent, location, cast and financing. *Couldn't decide what the hell the damn movie is: a horror-comedy-rock-fantasy? No one is going to see a movie its creators can't figure out! * Plot failure: The "phantom" is immediately outted. Some phantom. *And, despite being outted, the "phantom" signs Swan's / the devil's contract with his OWN name! * The most ridiculous scene has to be having a fully customed "phantom" sequestered in a tiny studio of sorts composing music wearing gloves? Consumes pills without water? Why continue wearing that obviously ridiculous custome if you're No. Longer. A. Mystery! Damnit! This movie's failure led to the destruction of the actors in it: Paul Williams ( drugs and alcohol problems; the rest? Mainly faded into obsequrity. This movie is an excellent lesson in putting your pride aside and waiting until you can get what you need to make the movie that people will want to see. "Phantom of the Paradise" -- A hard lesson in a movie made through numerous compromises.
@AFMountaineer2000Күн бұрын
Out of everything I expected to learn, HHH being in a movie called The Chaperone was not one of them.
@CMVBrielmanКүн бұрын
5:07 That sounds amazing. I’m assuming from the title that its traveling in a tunnel along the ocean floor (or near enough to it).
@lynngreen7978Күн бұрын
I love Oscar. And Last Action Hero. And I really want the LeVar Burton Star Trek 10.
@CanuckWolfmanКүн бұрын
Every time I hear the title *Last Action Hero,* I do an impression of Charles Dance bellowing about having shot somebody as if I were a salivating dog that just heard a bell.
@Thraim.Күн бұрын
I love this movie unironically. Just good fun.
@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithmКүн бұрын
I just point out that this is considered the only good non-franchise movie of Stallone. Everything else is mediocre to bad.
@white-dragon4424Күн бұрын
I like how Hawthorne wasn't taken in by Stallone's star status, that he was just another human to him. As a result, he was honestly critical of the actor's faults.
@florinivan6907Күн бұрын
The mutual dislike ironically works to the movies benefit. Cocteau seems legitimately annoyed at those 'barbarians' because the real life actor was annoyed.
@fredrikcarlstedt393Күн бұрын
Be well from all boggles and funny tax evading murder- death- killers, my fellow commenters . Enhance and becalm yourself in expectation of the coming week .
@Goatcha_MКүн бұрын
Getting so many movie recommendations from this episode. And hardly any of them are available to stream in Australia, sigh. At least not included in the subscription anyway. Little reflection needed on how I would previously think nothing of renting a a dozen videos for a week, but am not willing to pay extra now as I am already paying for Netflix, Disney, KZread and Prime.
@PassiveSmokingКүн бұрын
I'm in the UK, and when I saw this, the winner of the Franchise Wars was Taco Bell, at least that's what I remember it as.
@comentedonakeyboardКүн бұрын
Stalone being out of step with all the other actors helps Spartan being out of step with all the other characters
@rwg6357Күн бұрын
It feels kinda natural, Spartan Knows what he's dealing with in Phoenix and everything is Alien to him , so you don't really notice it until its pointed out
@jamesabernethy7896Күн бұрын
Great background video. This was a time when VHS was still in full swing and I owned this, The Specialist, Cliffhanger and Judge Dread. This is the only one that I would consider a classic, but the others are all entertaining.
@davido.1233Күн бұрын
Why does the picture for the train cop movie look like it was ripped directly from Timothy Zahn's book "Night Train to Rigel"?
@jakobthedragonboyКүн бұрын
I love the idea that Arnold tricked Stalone into "stop or my mom will shot" only to have his self indulgent (but still fun in my opinion) Action comedy movie to be across the board lesser then this movie, especially after the scene with the Stalone terminator joke in "Last Action Hero".
@adammagoon8942Күн бұрын
What's your boggle?
@Nitero_Күн бұрын
this is so awesome. As always, fantastic.
@KainGercКүн бұрын
to be fair, as someone who grew up in the 90s in Europe, I wouldn't know what Taco Bell was and probably would have thought it was made up for the movie. Still never tried it, but I do know it exists.
@KamikazKidКүн бұрын
It's insane that this movie came out so coherent & prophetic with so many changes to actors, scripts, and scenes.
@dendostar5436Күн бұрын
Thrill me.
@PsiCorps85Күн бұрын
21:49 "overtime & over budget", that phrase makes me think of research in Sword of the Stars.
@ImperialGeneralКүн бұрын
Due to how they didn't send Stallone far enough into the future for the changes to society to really make a ton of sense, there's something interesting I've noticed in how there seems to be a pretty clear generational divide in San Angeles. That divide actually makes a bit more sense in why Stallone is treated as a Neanderthal by some people or a fascinating oddity by others despite 35 years not being all that far into the future. First, there's the 60+ group, represented by Bill Cobbs' older policeman character. They recognize how corny the future is and are a bit nostalgic for the 'good old days' when Stallone shows up, but they lived through how bad the 90s were and are willing to go along with Cocteau's future due to the results its produced and because it allows them to retire with some security. Then, you have the late 40s-50s cohort, represented by people like Cocteau, the Cyro Prison Warden, and the Police Captain. They're old enough to remember how bad things used to be and were probably in their 20s and 30s as the vanguard of the movement that created this future. That's why they're so openly hostile to Stallone as he's seen as a direct counter to what they've personally built. While they seem to be the only group in this future that actually still display things like anger, other than the outcasts, they're unable to counter Wesley Snipes as they've actively refused to learn how and when to use violence in their youths and it's too much of a mental leap in their middle age to do so now. Finally, you have the 20s-30s cohort, represented by Sandra Bullock. They don't remember any of the upheaval of the turn of the century, so things like violence are seen as exotic to them as they've never had to experience the consequences of it, although that's pretty blatantly text within the film itself.
@TheJamieRamoneКүн бұрын
25:31 - Bruh, Taco Bell STILL isn't well known outside of the U.S. TODAY.
@stryke-jn3kvКүн бұрын
I think it's only known outside of the US as a way to mock yanks that their diet is so bad the reason why Taco Bell gives them the shits is because that's the only thing they eat with actual nutrients in it
@SuperSaiyanGuyverКүн бұрын
Stallone's playing type MAKES the film like Leslie Nielson's makes Airplane! If he was in on the joke it'd be less funny by way of contrast.
@sugarfrosted2005Күн бұрын
Dodged a bullet wrt to Stephen Segal
@DirtyDemon917Күн бұрын
It was directed by vaders stuntman?
@otaking3582Күн бұрын
I suddenly want some Taco Bell...
@john1701qКүн бұрын
As soon as I Heard Stuart Baird, Star Trek Nemeshit popped into my head.
@Parapon3raКүн бұрын
Controlled Demolition Man. Truth is stranger than fiction, though not as entertaining.
@horatioswrldКүн бұрын
All they had to do is cut from him saying it to a slower pan to the scene while doing the voice over
@bradwolf07Күн бұрын
This is one of my favorite 90's films. I didn't know much of the background, so I'm looking forward to this Edit: The Mention of Oscar...I liked that film. I get why it flopped, but it was still a fun one to me
@boobah5643Күн бұрын
_Last Action Hero's_ problem, if it was supposed to be a comedy, was that it made such a huge point that the 'real' world was so boring. We didn't get an action hero doing action hero things real people can only dream of; we were reminded again and again that the action hero was silly and unrealistic. And then it relied on the action hero tropes _it had just spent most of the movie telling us were silly_ to resolve the movie.
@KnightRaymundКүн бұрын
This movie is great. But so is Last Action Hero.
@NickJohnCoopКүн бұрын
In Australia the line was still " Taco Bell! " ,which is bizarre because Australia didn't have TBs at the time but we did have Pizza Huts.
@lexington476Күн бұрын
Or else.
@cmajors999Күн бұрын
Oh man. Here we go.
@ghjong001Күн бұрын
Thirty years later, and I still don't know how to use the three seashells...
@Maniac536Күн бұрын
Watch the review and maybe you will…maybe
@kevinramsey417Күн бұрын
Correction on Die Hard, while Alan Rickman was English, his character, the villainous Hans Gruber was in fact German.
@kubrickenigma79773 сағат бұрын
"deddinadors"
@-xirx-Күн бұрын
Finally, something i love and can get my teeth into. Cheers
@Maniac5362 күн бұрын
This is my favorite Stallone movie. There I said it. I freaking love this movie. Snipes is great, LEARY is great, Sandra B is great! The atmosphere they built has a lot of care and logic put into it, which is a billion times more than I can say about a flick like “The Quiet Place”. This is a great film.
@-xirx-Күн бұрын
Cobra is great too, but for very different reasons. Scissored pizza anyone? 😂
@OfficialRedTeamReview2 күн бұрын
I'm glad the algorithm decided to be kind to me today and alert me of this video. I loved this movie as a kid. Thanks for this!
@Kindred192Күн бұрын
Same! I haven't seen a SFDebris recommended in a long time. So happy to see this in my recommendations!
@PsiCorps85Күн бұрын
I also got my first notification of sfdebris' video today for IDK how many years. Had to re-sub though, the site's glorious robot decided to pretend the right to unsub me -- even though I know I subscribed to this channel even before my ex-wife & I started dating back in 2009.
@myriadmediamusings2 күн бұрын
It’s a movie that I think hits harder today, but to me it’ll always be that movie that has Stallone eating at a Taco Bell or Pizza Hutt depending on which version you’re watching.
@KairuHakubiКүн бұрын
so did they actually edit the signs or whatever in the foreign release? is he sitting there eating tacos behind a pizza hut sign? EDIT: Oh I see the restaurants are all taco bell branded, but they serve different food.
@KuikkamiesКүн бұрын
They did change 'em.
@Caernath2 күн бұрын
I have heard and read about many instances of method acting, which mostly end up with the method actor looking and acting like an asshole. That there's a counterpart of this with the Meisner technique, was however completely new information for me.
@KnightRaymundКүн бұрын
indeed
2 күн бұрын
You've done such an intriguing, informative and comprehensive summary of this film. Thank you!
@BruceParker-nc6of3 күн бұрын
The velociraptors in the movie: Huh huh he dummy he ran into in a reflection The velociraptors in the book: It will cut you open in the darkness
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I have tried the three seashells. It's as distopian as you'd imagine.
I know sea shell thing was a joke. But it would be safe to assume that those are just buttons activating functions of automatic toilet.
So, the image you put up to show Hollywood preferring English actors to be villains is of Donald Pleasence, an actor known at least as much for playing good guys as bad, in You Only Live Twice, which is an English movie, not Hollywood. Following that up with four examples, three of which ARE English, but REG is African. Was that a very long day, Chuck?
I first saw Forbidden Planet on TV when I was a kid back in 1965 or '66, and it's been one of my top ten favorite SF films ever since. Granted, like most '50s SF, there's a bit of heavy-handed moralizing, mostly centered on the "things man was not meant to know" trope, and to be honest, that bothers me a bit as an adult, but it isn't something I noticed as a kid.
I love this movie! Great Background Video like the Highlander Video
This movie defines "turn around": *Couldn't get the desired talent, location, cast and financing. *Couldn't decide what the hell the damn movie is: a horror-comedy-rock-fantasy? No one is going to see a movie its creators can't figure out! * Plot failure: The "phantom" is immediately outted. Some phantom. *And, despite being outted, the "phantom" signs Swan's / the devil's contract with his OWN name! * The most ridiculous scene has to be having a fully customed "phantom" sequestered in a tiny studio of sorts composing music wearing gloves? Consumes pills without water? Why continue wearing that obviously ridiculous custome if you're No. Longer. A. Mystery! Damnit! This movie's failure led to the destruction of the actors in it: Paul Williams ( drugs and alcohol problems; the rest? Mainly faded into obsequrity. This movie is an excellent lesson in putting your pride aside and waiting until you can get what you need to make the movie that people will want to see. "Phantom of the Paradise" -- A hard lesson in a movie made through numerous compromises.
Out of everything I expected to learn, HHH being in a movie called The Chaperone was not one of them.
5:07 That sounds amazing. I’m assuming from the title that its traveling in a tunnel along the ocean floor (or near enough to it).
I love Oscar. And Last Action Hero. And I really want the LeVar Burton Star Trek 10.
Every time I hear the title *Last Action Hero,* I do an impression of Charles Dance bellowing about having shot somebody as if I were a salivating dog that just heard a bell.
I love this movie unironically. Just good fun.
I just point out that this is considered the only good non-franchise movie of Stallone. Everything else is mediocre to bad.
I like how Hawthorne wasn't taken in by Stallone's star status, that he was just another human to him. As a result, he was honestly critical of the actor's faults.
The mutual dislike ironically works to the movies benefit. Cocteau seems legitimately annoyed at those 'barbarians' because the real life actor was annoyed.
Be well from all boggles and funny tax evading murder- death- killers, my fellow commenters . Enhance and becalm yourself in expectation of the coming week .
Getting so many movie recommendations from this episode. And hardly any of them are available to stream in Australia, sigh. At least not included in the subscription anyway. Little reflection needed on how I would previously think nothing of renting a a dozen videos for a week, but am not willing to pay extra now as I am already paying for Netflix, Disney, KZread and Prime.
I'm in the UK, and when I saw this, the winner of the Franchise Wars was Taco Bell, at least that's what I remember it as.
Stalone being out of step with all the other actors helps Spartan being out of step with all the other characters
It feels kinda natural, Spartan Knows what he's dealing with in Phoenix and everything is Alien to him , so you don't really notice it until its pointed out
Great background video. This was a time when VHS was still in full swing and I owned this, The Specialist, Cliffhanger and Judge Dread. This is the only one that I would consider a classic, but the others are all entertaining.
Why does the picture for the train cop movie look like it was ripped directly from Timothy Zahn's book "Night Train to Rigel"?
I love the idea that Arnold tricked Stalone into "stop or my mom will shot" only to have his self indulgent (but still fun in my opinion) Action comedy movie to be across the board lesser then this movie, especially after the scene with the Stalone terminator joke in "Last Action Hero".
What's your boggle?
this is so awesome. As always, fantastic.
to be fair, as someone who grew up in the 90s in Europe, I wouldn't know what Taco Bell was and probably would have thought it was made up for the movie. Still never tried it, but I do know it exists.
It's insane that this movie came out so coherent & prophetic with so many changes to actors, scripts, and scenes.
Thrill me.
21:49 "overtime & over budget", that phrase makes me think of research in Sword of the Stars.
Due to how they didn't send Stallone far enough into the future for the changes to society to really make a ton of sense, there's something interesting I've noticed in how there seems to be a pretty clear generational divide in San Angeles. That divide actually makes a bit more sense in why Stallone is treated as a Neanderthal by some people or a fascinating oddity by others despite 35 years not being all that far into the future. First, there's the 60+ group, represented by Bill Cobbs' older policeman character. They recognize how corny the future is and are a bit nostalgic for the 'good old days' when Stallone shows up, but they lived through how bad the 90s were and are willing to go along with Cocteau's future due to the results its produced and because it allows them to retire with some security. Then, you have the late 40s-50s cohort, represented by people like Cocteau, the Cyro Prison Warden, and the Police Captain. They're old enough to remember how bad things used to be and were probably in their 20s and 30s as the vanguard of the movement that created this future. That's why they're so openly hostile to Stallone as he's seen as a direct counter to what they've personally built. While they seem to be the only group in this future that actually still display things like anger, other than the outcasts, they're unable to counter Wesley Snipes as they've actively refused to learn how and when to use violence in their youths and it's too much of a mental leap in their middle age to do so now. Finally, you have the 20s-30s cohort, represented by Sandra Bullock. They don't remember any of the upheaval of the turn of the century, so things like violence are seen as exotic to them as they've never had to experience the consequences of it, although that's pretty blatantly text within the film itself.
25:31 - Bruh, Taco Bell STILL isn't well known outside of the U.S. TODAY.
I think it's only known outside of the US as a way to mock yanks that their diet is so bad the reason why Taco Bell gives them the shits is because that's the only thing they eat with actual nutrients in it
Stallone's playing type MAKES the film like Leslie Nielson's makes Airplane! If he was in on the joke it'd be less funny by way of contrast.
Dodged a bullet wrt to Stephen Segal
It was directed by vaders stuntman?
I suddenly want some Taco Bell...
As soon as I Heard Stuart Baird, Star Trek Nemeshit popped into my head.
Controlled Demolition Man. Truth is stranger than fiction, though not as entertaining.
All they had to do is cut from him saying it to a slower pan to the scene while doing the voice over
This is one of my favorite 90's films. I didn't know much of the background, so I'm looking forward to this Edit: The Mention of Oscar...I liked that film. I get why it flopped, but it was still a fun one to me
_Last Action Hero's_ problem, if it was supposed to be a comedy, was that it made such a huge point that the 'real' world was so boring. We didn't get an action hero doing action hero things real people can only dream of; we were reminded again and again that the action hero was silly and unrealistic. And then it relied on the action hero tropes _it had just spent most of the movie telling us were silly_ to resolve the movie.
This movie is great. But so is Last Action Hero.
In Australia the line was still " Taco Bell! " ,which is bizarre because Australia didn't have TBs at the time but we did have Pizza Huts.
Or else.
Oh man. Here we go.
Thirty years later, and I still don't know how to use the three seashells...
Watch the review and maybe you will…maybe
Correction on Die Hard, while Alan Rickman was English, his character, the villainous Hans Gruber was in fact German.
"deddinadors"
Finally, something i love and can get my teeth into. Cheers
This is my favorite Stallone movie. There I said it. I freaking love this movie. Snipes is great, LEARY is great, Sandra B is great! The atmosphere they built has a lot of care and logic put into it, which is a billion times more than I can say about a flick like “The Quiet Place”. This is a great film.
Cobra is great too, but for very different reasons. Scissored pizza anyone? 😂
I'm glad the algorithm decided to be kind to me today and alert me of this video. I loved this movie as a kid. Thanks for this!
Same! I haven't seen a SFDebris recommended in a long time. So happy to see this in my recommendations!
I also got my first notification of sfdebris' video today for IDK how many years. Had to re-sub though, the site's glorious robot decided to pretend the right to unsub me -- even though I know I subscribed to this channel even before my ex-wife & I started dating back in 2009.
It’s a movie that I think hits harder today, but to me it’ll always be that movie that has Stallone eating at a Taco Bell or Pizza Hutt depending on which version you’re watching.
so did they actually edit the signs or whatever in the foreign release? is he sitting there eating tacos behind a pizza hut sign? EDIT: Oh I see the restaurants are all taco bell branded, but they serve different food.
They did change 'em.
I have heard and read about many instances of method acting, which mostly end up with the method actor looking and acting like an asshole. That there's a counterpart of this with the Meisner technique, was however completely new information for me.
indeed
You've done such an intriguing, informative and comprehensive summary of this film. Thank you!
The velociraptors in the movie: Huh huh he dummy he ran into in a reflection The velociraptors in the book: It will cut you open in the darkness