Nice shots and nice explanation, thanks!
I remembered Harry Hamlin and Ray Harryhausen were involved, but dayum! Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Sian Phillips, and Laurence frickin' Olivier!
Looking forward to seeing this for the first time in [coff!] decades.
Just noticed the the text colour I chose is the same as that of his teeth. :D
"He still claims I was biased and that we pretended his car had broken down when it hadn't. Even though it had. I should really have sued him back, but I feared he'd call me a paedo, so instead I just waited on the riverbank for his body to float past. And now it has."
The Mirror - Jeremy Clarkson 'declares victory' over Elon Musk after lengthy legal battle
Well, that timeline has already been derailed.
Watched it last night (on Tubi). Hilarious!!! Thanks so much for this discovery. I'm going to try to find other Wakaliwood films.
My log:
Many spoilers
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The high security enclosure for the money exchange... is made of cardboard.
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Narrator: "I have a key." Swaz smashes window with hammer. Narrator: "Ugandan key!" :D
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How many Abba song titles is the narrator going to use?
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OMG, this narration :D 🤣
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SWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZ!
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Swaz shoots cop up the arse. Narrator: "My bums!"
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"I'm too old for this shit."
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Chase scene squeezing through narrow gaps in shanty town. Narrator: "The unfittables."
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After an absolutely insane pedal-to-the-metal opening 12 minutes, the orphan section really slows things down. But very soon "Ten years later". Phew!
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Man with eyes closed in chair. Narrator: "Is he dead?" Man rouses. "Oh, this is Uganda, I thought he's dead."
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"Sluuuuuurp"
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"How can you love this roach turd?"
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Little kid to US doctor: "I can train you to be a commando." SLAP! "First lesson." :D
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Shanty town boys chasing white doctor as part of his 'commando' training. Narrator: "Get the muzungu. Eat the muzungu. Cook him alive! He must be delicious."
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"This is ghetto. THIS IS GHETTO."
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"Mamma mia." Another Abba song title.
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Muzungu wants info on Big Black's location from little girl. Her: "First, give me my sweets." Narrator: "Ugandan women."
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Cop explaining plan: "My kung fu cops will surround them."
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"Predator's half-Jamaican, you know."
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"Uganda's first women in prison movie", starring the female Bud Spencer! SLAP!
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Supa criminal's demands: "... And I want '24' back on TV!"
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"What a movie! Good thing it's over."
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Character background? Narrator: "Booorrrriiing." Fast forward.
Yeah that would be my guess, too. Poor design choices making the user experience very frustrating.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. It's not a technical error message, but a media availability message.
- Contenido no disponible = Content not available
- Recuérdame - se te notificará por correo electrónico cuando esto esté dispnible - "Remind me: you'll be notified by email when this is available".
Lots of other movies on Tubi play just fine in my browser (Zen, mod of Firefox). But 90% of the movies featured on the home page are "Content not available".
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Book - "Cinema Bizarro: The Weird Kid’s Guide to Particularly Odd Horror and Sci-Fi Movies"
(forcesofgeek.com)
Found this review from Forces of Geek in my newsfeed, thought it might be of interest to folks here.
Cinema Bizarro is a very good book about (mostly) bad movies.
The fact that such all-time turkeys as Robot Monster and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters are treated with an equal level of respect to such genuine genre classics as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Blob says a lot about the mindset of these reviews.
A book for kids covering everything from 7 Faces of Dr Lao to Woman Eater!
Publisher's link:
THE THIRD ENTRY IN THE RONDO AWARD NOMINATED MONSTER MOVIE BOOK SERIES!
From the creators of Giant Bug Cinema - A Monster Kid’s Guide and Giant Beast Cinema - A Monstrous Movie Guide, both of which reached the Top Ten on Amazon for Horror Movie Books, comes Cinema Bizarro — a celebration of killer plants, eccentric aliens, and weird westerns!
Featuring insanely insightful reviews of 38 movies (plus 30 capsule reviews of Weird Westerns of the 1930’s and 1940’s), take a very unsafe tourbus through a terrifying terrain filled with sight-stealing triffids, alien gorillas in diving helmets, and the vampires ’n’ dinosaurs that vexed the wild west. Let Cinema Bizarro envelop you in its loving embrace like the cool, slimy clutches of The Blob!
The contributors are:
• Larry Blamire - Rondo-Award winning film historian and cult filmmaker of Sony’s The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Giant Beast Cinema
• Dan Madigan - former Writer for WWE, screenwriter/creator of See No Evil franchise.
• Tracy Mercer - Giant Beast Cinema, Host, My Favorite Shtty Movie podcast
• Mike Peros - José Ferrer: Success and Survival, Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart, Giant Beast Cinema, film critic for Noho Arts District
• Steven Peros - Co-Editor/Contributor to Giant Beast Cinema, screenwriter of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Cat’s Meow
• Nadia Robertson - Cinema Macabre Magazine, Rock and Roll Nightmares, and Co-Host of Cinema Chats podcast
• Brian R. Solomon - Godzilla FAQ, Giant Beast Cinema
• Phoef Sutton - Two-time Emmy winning writer for Cheers, co-host of Films Freaks Forever podcast.
• Mark Bailey - Conceived, designed, and co-edited entire monster book trilogy.
• Steven B. Orkin - Copy editor for monster book trilogy, Winner of Stephen King’s On Writing contest
Loads of people have thought "What if you had a time machine? Would you go back and kill Hitler?"
The Yesterday Machine addresses the question "What if you had a time machine and were a mad Nazi scientist? Would you go back and save Hitler? And bring him to present-day America?" (Hmmm....)
Apparently a cheapo "regional movie" made in Dallas and never distributed beyond the Texas drive-in circuit, its release is so shrouded in uncertainty that no one can quite agree on the year it first came out. (Suggestions include 1963, 1965 and 1966. Still filling out the bill in Texas drive-ins in the mid 70s.)
It opens with a completely gratuitous bit of majorette go-go dancing, and pans to also view... a knockoff Charles Napier. At which point I went "And this movie is gonna have Nazis... is this a RUSS MEYER MOVIE???"
But as the titles roll, it becomes clear this is by a completely different director. Russ Marker. See, 3 whole letters different from Russ Meyer!
We also know it's not the œuvre of the world's favourite Nazi-obsessed director by the fact that the majorette and other actresses lack Meyer's trademark... topheaviness. And the film is not nearly gonzo enough. It's a fairly action-free hour before the Nazis even show up, at which point the mad scientist spends like 15-20 minutes just explaining his time travel "science" in front of a blackboard. I genuinely dozed off at this point. (But presumably at the drive-in, this would be when the teens would be rounding third base, so... who cares?)
A literal snooze fest. Don't bother watching... once the go-go dancing is over.
Not Charles Napier, in a movie by not Russ Meyer
Info:
Teaser:
Movie (apparently it's in the public domain now, so it's everywhere):
- The Internet Archive
- Cinetimes (where I found it)
- YouTube: a gazillion uploads. Take your pick.
£ says: "The fuck they are, mate!"