[Sorry, no photo again. Apparently I can add them from work, but not from home.]
FROM THE VAULT
- The Best Spy Movie Title Until The Nude Bomb — posted by KeithA on February 23, 2009
- A League of Their Own — posted by KeithA on November 19, 2014
- …and the lunatics have taken over — posted by lyzard on January 25, 2017
- B-Fest 2011 — posted by El Santo on March 27, 2011
- Missing the cut — posted by lyzard on May 28, 2009
Pages
- About the Cabal
- Full Index of Reviews
- Roundtables
- 01: Brainathon ’99
- 02: Bangs'n'Whimpers
- 03: Post-Apocalypso
- 04: Review All Monsters
- 05: Pretty Mad Scientists
- 06: Tainted Love
- 07: Days of Future Past
- 08: Secret Santa
- 09: Catch a Throwing Star
- 10: Four-Color Features
- 11: Big Bugs
- 12: Fish With Bicycles
- 13: Go Go Go-Go Boys!
- 14: paLe IMITATIONS
- 15: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Roundtable
- 16: Whoa… Deja Vu.
- 17: Month of the Living Dead
- 18: B-Masters Beach Party
- 19: Kinji Fukasaku – The Man No Genre Could Tame.
- 20: Home Video Holocaust – The Video Nasties
- 21: Father Dearest: Who's Your Daddy?
- 22: So Sorry…
- 23: Back to the Well
- 24: Another Month of the Living Dead
- 25: The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back
- 26: Rubber Soul
- 27: Shhhhhh
- 28: Month of the Alternative Living Dead
- 29: On Time & Under Budget
- 30: These Kids Today…
- 31: Mea maxima culpa
- 32: Stingathon ’09
- 33: 10,000 B.S.
- 34: Foot Notes
- 35: Don’t Touch That Dial!
- 36: He Conquered the World
- 37: Secret Santa’s Revenge
- 38: At the Movies of Madness
- 39: They Might Be Giants
- 40: The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- 41: The Dark Guys of London
- 42: Falling Stars
- 43: To Be or Not To Be! (Pilot Error)
- 44: Teeth and Tentacles
- 45: Brunoween
- 46: Howl of the B-Masters
- 47: It’s Alive!
- 48: Bad, Black and Beautiful
- 49: Don’t Quit Your Day Job
- 50: B-Mentia 15
- 51: Quelle Horreur!
- 52: Carradine, Thou Wayward Son!
- 53: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
- 54: Pets Gone Wild
- 55: The Bad Place
- 56: From The Bible To Barbarella
- 57: A Fistful Of Pennies
- 58: Hello, Dolly
- 59: No, Not That One!
- 60: Dr Terror’s House Of Honours
- 61: WTF!?
- 62: In The Key Of B
- 63: The Forgotten Dawn Of Horror
- 64: The Most Dangerous Roundtable
- 65: Room For One More
- 66: Were-WHAT?
- 67: The China Anniversary Syndrome
- 68: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 2
- 69: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 3
- 70: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 4
- The Links We Love
#1 by lyzard on June 4, 2008 - 7:57 pm
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I very much like Reap The Wild Wind, chiefly because when I first saw it I was completely taken off-guard by the bait-and-switch they pull with the male leads. It actually strikes me as pretty daring that the hair-and-wardrobe-obsessed, gentrified, God-forbid-lawyer not only gets the girl, but turns out to be the most honourable character on show….particularly when his rival is – gasp! – John Wayne!! And I love that the plot turns on the fact that all the others simply ASSUME that he will abuse his position of power and destroy his rival, and act accordingly. You might be right about it being no Gone With The Wind; but then, Gone With The Wind doesn’t have a GIANT KILLER INFLATABLE SQUID….so guess which film I watch most often?
I was fortunate enough to see this before Wake Of The Red Witch. Try looking at the GIANT KILLER INFLATABLE OCTOPUS in that with a straight face these days.
#2 by hman on June 5, 2008 - 9:46 am
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Here we are fawning over one of the greatest action actors ever having fought not one, but two giant cephalopods during his career. Do we have a modern analog (is that the right word? something analogous) for today’s stars? I’m hard pressed to think of something.
#3 by El Santo on June 5, 2008 - 12:34 pm
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Are we talking specifically about fighting lame rubber monsters (for which we would presumably have to substitute lame CGI monsters in a present-day context), or is the issue merely gigs that today seem far below the dignity of the actor in question? Because if it’s the latter, then I remind you that Sylvester Stallone made a porno (I forget the original title, but it was reissued as The Italian Stallion in the wake of Rocky), and that Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Hercules in New York; I’d say either one of those is worth two or three inflatable rubber cephalopods.
#4 by Ken Begg on June 5, 2008 - 12:56 pm
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Santo, if you think *I* think fighting a big rubber octopus / squid isn’t the very coolest thing these actors have ever done, than man, you don’t get me at all.
#5 by hman on June 5, 2008 - 1:44 pm
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Well, fighting lame CGI monsters isn’t such an uncommon thing anymore. I think Humphrey Bogart playing a zombie may count as the biggest actor to ever play a zombie. That was “The Return of Mr./Dr. X”, right?
#6 by Matthew Fudge on June 6, 2008 - 3:47 am
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Man, if only Clint Eastwood had fought a rubber shark or something. That would have been great.
#7 by KeithA on June 6, 2008 - 7:58 am
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He did twice pal around with a sassy orangutan. And Burt Reynolds once.
#8 by hman on June 6, 2008 - 8:27 am
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Here’s one: The greatest actor to do martial arts in a film (one that obviously didn’t build his career around the genre): Tom Cruise (ha!)? Keanu Reeves? Tom Laughlin? James Cagney? (Patience guys, I’m trying to develop my snark)
#9 by Ken Begg on June 6, 2008 - 8:41 am
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Sinatra in Manchurian Candidate? Richard Burton in The Klansman (bonus points for wailing on Cameron Mitchell)?
#10 by hman on June 6, 2008 - 9:07 am
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Hmm…Cagney, Sinatra, and Burton are looking like top contenders. Did Robert Mitchum do any judo or karate or kendo in “The Yakuza”?