All superhero movies should be like this
JAMES BATMAN (1967, Philippines). Click on the image above for the .WMV clip, which comes from here. Or read a review here.
posted by Dylan Horrocks at
11:58 AM
Monday, July 24, 2006
JAMES BATMAN (1967, Philippines). Click on the image above for the .WMV clip, which comes from here. Or read a review here.
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For the amount of leisurely looking around Batman does when he gets out of his car, he sure gets ambushed easily.
If you haven't seen it I highly recommend RatPfink A Boo Boo by Ray Dennis Steckler, director of the more famous but in my opinion less impressive The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies. You can tell how good it is by the fact that it was supposed to be called Rat Pfink And Boo Boo, but the titles came back wrong and it would have cost Steckler fifty dollars to have them corrected. Steckler's approach to film-making is more-or-less summed up by the fact that the film began as a serious screenplay entitled The Depraved about a gang of delinquent youths menacing a wealthy young woman. He stuck with this plan for the first half of the film, until somebody on the set suggested that it would be funny if rockabilly legend Lonnie Lord and Titus the gardener went into the cupbaord and came out as masked crime-fighters. This struck Steckler as such a good idea that he abandoned his other plans and ran with it. After the villains were defeated there was apparently some film left over, so we are treated to an unconnected sequence in which Rat Pfink and Boo Boo pursue Kogar, the swinging ape. The film concludes with a musical number about a "Big Boss Go-Go Beach Party".
As I said, it's well worth watching.
Now that's what I'm talking about!
Nothing like a "through the legs" shot to build the tension in a scene...
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