I've not yet had time to watch this, been a busy weekend. None the less, I like starting the "Learning" threads so here it is, what did you learn from the Wonder Women (re: Not Charlie's Angels)?
I learned that the cheesiness of a Ross Hagen film is directly proportional to its budget.
I learned that it is still not possible to have a car chase in a sillier vehicle than the Enforcers in Space Mutiny. But damnit if this movie didn't try!
I learned that the Philippines have absolutely NO film animal safety laws!
So this movie is a combination of the exploitation of Angels Revenge, the plot of The Atomic Brain, the color palette of Diabolik, and the animal treatment of Catching Trouble.
I did NOT learn what the hell was the deal with the little kid. He just up and disappeared from the movie after ASSASSINATING A GUY! You'd think that would be kinda important, but apparently the movie disagrees.
I learned there's a sequel called Warrior Women. You know you want it.
In Indonesia, ALL of the people are out standing in the street, all of the time
Quote from: ManUnderMask on January 04, 2015, 09:26:15 PM
I learned there's a sequel called Warrior Women. You know you want it.
Oh, they have to tackle that later this year! (Like they did the Carradine Future Force/Zone movies a couple months apart.)
Watched this last night. I learned:
The fight choreography in "The Guy From Harlem" was much more competent and nuanced than that in this one.
There were quite the pool of harsh-faced looking women/models available to be in this movie.
(It's a bit crude of me, but I'm sorry. I'm sure all of the actresses who were in this movie were lovely ladies just trying to earn a paycheck (only to be disappointed when their payment for this movie was a 70s equivalent of a gift card for Red Lobster) but some of the women in this movie just seemed to have very strong-looking, angular, faces. Maybe it was lighting, make-up, or something, but just something I noticed. I consider myself a feminist, but I'm still a man and with little else to go on (like personality and such) I notice these things when looking at women. I'm a piece of crap, I know.)
Our hero seemed more-or-less okay with the experiments and stuff going on at Dr. Evil's private island or whatever the hell this was. He just wanted to collect his charge.
You can have a movie featuring a number of good-looking women, a doctor performing brain-transplants and not ONCE have her consider putting a man's brain in a woman's body. Of all her animal experiments in the dungeon and not one of them was a new "woman" sitting in the corner exploring "his" new body?
You can have a movie start of with a lot of gratuitous nudity to let everyone rub one out and get it out of the system and then just titillate them for the rest of the feature with scantily clad women.
It's possible to make sexy "cat-fighting" unsexy.
It's possible to make a foot and car-chase through crowded streets ridiculous and overlong.
When chasing someone, go out of your way to knock someone of a staircase.
Cock-fighting, dare I say, actually looks kind of fun? (What?! I don't give a crap about chickens! I say let the loser be immediately plucked, battered, and fried and then served to the winner's owner!)
The filmmakers of Manilla really hate chickens! (I mean cock-fighting is one thing, but running into them with cars out of the blue is another. At least in cock-fighting they have a fighting chance.)
At least one innocent pedestrian died while making this movie.
Maybe it's because I've been drinking, but that movie made the least sense since Frankenstein Island. The guys seemed like they really enjoyed riffing this, which always makes it funnier.
Also Manilla taxi drivers are crazy loyal.
I learned in the 70's they just put guys in drag rather than use female stunt doubles.
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Heh. I want to "Like" that post.
I learned what "jai alai" is other than thinking it was "some-sort-of goofy-looking lacrosse.
I learned there were no likable men during the 70s.
I learned that someone, somewhere, has at one time, actually given a shit about Jai Alai.
Jai Alai- So boring even Canadians won't play it!
It's crazy dangerous. Jai Alai balls are like rocks. They cost upwards of $100, but will often fall apart after only 20 minutes of play. Getting slammed into a granite wall at 150 mph over and over has that effect.
Quote from: CJones on January 08, 2015, 06:44:46 PM
It's crazy dangerous. Jai Alai balls are like rocks. They cost upwards of $100, but will often fall apart after only 20 minutes of play. Getting slammed into a granite wall at 150 mph over and over has that effect.
Sort of like having sex with Lady Ga Ga.
I can't think of Jai Alai without thinking about Archer so I was kinda disappointed there were no Archer-based riffs.
Quote from: TriffRax on January 09, 2015, 11:31:54 AM
I can't think of Jai Alai without thinking about Archer so I was kinda disappointed there were no Archer-based riffs.
Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of too.
I did like in this movie when even one of the characters (I forget which one), actually says "all of this over a Jai Alai player?"
Actually the whole film was kind of like an episode of Archer except with a more unpleasant leading man.
I had to Google "jeepney" after watching this movie.
If you accidentally hit someone while filming your car chase scene, you may as well use the footage.
I learned that the guy who played Satan in Beast of the Yellow Night makes a really horrible hippie.
Quote from: Trekker4747 on January 06, 2015, 02:11:36 PM
Heh. I want to "Like" that post.
I learned what "jai alai" is other than thinking it was "some-sort-of goofy-looking lacrosse.
Apparently it's big as a betting sport in Vegas.
I learned there's a depiction of Jai Alai outside of the first season of Mad Men (I THINK it was the first season. . . it was an early season).
I learned that Bill will abandon rhyme and meter to speak the truth.
I learned the importance of a good fight choreographer by seeing what happens when you don't have one.