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Sci-Fi Classic Review: INNERSPACE (1987)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- This Joe Dante riff on Fantastic Voyage was considered a flop when it first released, but it had legs on the home video market and remains a minor cult classic today.
If you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I love this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in cinema history.
In other words, please stop commenting on how my videos aren't what you consider "reviews."
#Innerspace #JoeDante #DennisQuaid
00:00 Every Sneeze is Cancer
00:48 Intro: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
02:06 Synopsis
02:49 Production Background
04:13 Shameless Self-Promotion
04:54 Casting
09:57 Filming
11:03 Release & Legacy
12:16 Opinion & Analysis
13:56 Outro
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Mel Blanc was the voice of Bugs Bunny. Chuck Jones just produced the best ones....and the Grinch movies.
I saw this in a movie theater back in the day. It's one of my favorite sci-fi movies from the Eighties. Dante has always excelled when he can work with satirical material (e.g. Small Soldiers).
With excellent jay Mohr and Dennis Leary in cast. And great gag about the spice girls?
Saw this movie in theater. The audience loved it. At the end with the Jack Putter to the rescue they went nuts.
I saw an interview with Picardo recently and a lot of his early roles were using a lot of special effects makeup. In fact he was interested in playing Nelix on Voyager as he thought the doctor was a pretty vague character and he thought he could work with the alien makeup. I thought Picardo was hysterical in Innerspace.
I found your channel randomly with your Millennium review. I'm a child of the 80's and this is one of my favourite 80's classics. I hadn't rewatched this until Voyager was well into its run, I laughed so hard when I saw it was Robert Picardo. I found out at a similar time he was the voice of JonnyCab in Total Recall. There are some great names for alternative casting but it's hard to see anyone else in the roles. It's easy to see from your clips why they thought Martin Short could be a bit overpowering but when you see this and The 3 Amigos from the year before, he's funny but on a more sustainable level. Great humour, fantastic effects and characters who had chemistry and that you cared for. Great review.
Innerspace is my favorite movie about shrinking people. The next best is the Incredible Shrinking Man and the1960s Fantastic Voyage. My favorite sight gages that I remember from the movie were the man dressed as a penguin handing a balloon to a nun who has the traditional black and white nun clothing and robot hand that has to be used to insert a chip into a socket. After they establish how slow it is early in the movie, they show it the second time and the technician grabs the chip to hurry the process--and he gets electrical shocks because of it.
The book of Fantastic Voyage was written by one Isaac Asimov... Just to replace the 'dry for wet' swimming sequences, I'd love to see a remake. It can be shot-for-shot, with little mucking about - like the Dennis Quaid starred remake of Flight Of The Phoenix (quite remarkable, as on the one hand, it's a bit updated due to vis f/x and acting styles, yet...).
Lovely video.
This is an amusing film. Thanks for looking at it.
I know it's not super old but you might consider doing Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has a fascinating production story...
I agree this film is very underrated. Sort was such a perfect final cast! His talent and developed skill seemed endless! If I wanted you to groan, I'd suggest the Hitchcockian twist of a regular guy moving through day suddenly getting involuntarily swept up in a high stakes, wild situation. [Note: While the forward movement of tech seems to "date" it now, that same progression makes the movie Cellular such a good watch. Evans is very good and they did great when, instead of trying to "glam up" Pfeiffer, they let her be what she was: an attractive middle-aged woman. Ignore the "older" versions of tech and roll with the story and you'll get a great thrill ride!]
Loved this film. I think I saw it shortly after it was released on VHS.
Martin Short is a brilliant Comedian. To this day Jiminy Glick is one of my favorite characters. Wish he had kept that up for many more years
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was one of my favorites as a kid.
And since it has a shrinking scene, I'm going to give it a slight nod over The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Hmmm... Now I'm imagining how much better this film would have been with Tom Hanks inside of Rick Moranis.
Science fiction, at its core, is a predictive proposition. While accuracy of known science towards that goal is appreciated,
it's hardly a requirement for entertainment value.
That being said, where DID all of the probe's mass go when they shrank it...? :)
I don't know if there's still time this season, but it'd be interesting to see our Host dive into the 80s flick "The Night They Saved Christmas", which dives into "science" of Santa Claus. It all made perfect sense when I was 8.
Thank you brilliant review !
This has been a favourite of mine for years and is an overlooked classic. I saw it originally at the cinema ( showing my age now) and loved it.
I was poised over my keyboard in case you missed out any of the cameos but of course you didn't (:
Off to buy this on Blu ray now to replace my DVD version (:
One of my alltime favorites. Loved it from the first time I saw it. Such fun.
The scene that is mind blowing is where Tuck alters Jack’s face into the Cowboy. Then when Jack as the Cowboy gets threatens turns back.
There is "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", another so '80s film.
I would love it if you reviewed "The Quiet Earth". It's basically a re-working of "The World, the Flesh and the Devi" with a sci-fi twist. Made in New Zealand and released in 1985 it is a gripping film with a knockout ending.
That movie blew my mind the first time I saw it. Rest assured, it’s on my list!
Thanks. I love that movie. It is a brain twister.@@TheUnapologeticGeek
Yeah, this is a fun flick. I always thought it held up well-especially as a SciFi film from 1987 when the medium was struggling to get away from miniature effects and monsters.
12:45 H. G. Wells had corrected the label of sci-fi writer in interview. As he explained, Verne wrote science FICTION (something which is possible) while he, Wells, wrote science FANTASY, something which is NOT possible but Wells would gussy it up with just enough correct science info to pass it off; he equated it to substituting "science" for a "magic ring" to one invisible, etc. So, a nice take there.
Oh I loved this movie. Haven't seen it in years. I'll have to find it again sometimes and watch it! Thank you for the great reminder!!
Yup. It's a fun little romp. I like this film. I felt it got boring quickly though, a sort of one-trick-pony. It overstayed it's welcome and could have been trimmed a little. Like Back to The Future 2 it seemed too long on first sitting. However, like a bottle of Methylated Spirit, it mellowed with time.
When this came out, my mother and brother saw it. They left the theater and my mom was confused. After going over the plot, my brother realized our mom didn’t get that Tug was inside Martin Short?!?
They basically saw two different films 😂
Cracking review of a gem of a movie. Dante proving yet again that he valued loyalty with many repeat players and finding a place for the DOP he couldn't hire to act in his movie sounds partly politically motivated by him (thru studio bs) .
I had major major crush on Wendy in the movie. Thought meg Ryan a runner up (sorry for crass sexism).
William schllater (sure I misspelt his name) was always great in whatever he in (Mork and Mindy, the forbin project) , dennis quaud an outstanding leading man-after the right stuff , dreamscape and well ignore jaws 3. A truly brilliant slice of the eighties. Why are movies so dreary now? Should be fun going to cinema and cheaper
He did tend to hire people in order to counter studio nonsense. For example, he almost always gave cameos to the screenwriters for his movies-with at least one speaking line-to justify having them on set when studios preferred not to have them there.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek I think John Landis possibly did this as well. Although Landis career over effectively by 1990.
"The Incredible Shrinking Man"
Looks like John Marquette being punch in the stairwell towards the end
As a kid, I thought the cowboy was played by David Lee Roth!
I agree with you: Short is annoying. I would prefer Woody Allen in this film I did not like at all. But with another protagonist maybe I would re-watch it.
time crimes could be a fun movie to revisit.
I don't think that you've covered "Brother From Another Planet" yet!!
I would love to hear your review of that cool flick!
Not yet! But I should totally put it on my list.
You'll be pleasantly surprised!!@@TheUnapologeticGeek
Would love to see you cover Moon 2009.
Great review 😊
The Incredible Shrinking Man.
In your research into Richard Donner and his career arc, do not forget to include the imput of the less than beloved Laura Schuler Donner. Please.
Very cool 🎉
Robert Picardo is hilarious in this, but Kevin McCarthy (not THAT one) is underrated. I thought he was hilarious! He was so gleeful about being an asshole. "Who will have that edge, Jack? What country will control miniaturization? Frankly, I don't give a shit." His timing was perfect. "All right, what do you say? Never beg. Never beg!"
Agreed!
"Cowboy stop! Don't do that! I was just kidding!"🤣
Great content at 1.25
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I love Dante but I found Short too wacky. I hate Jerry Lewis as well. I may review
4:13 'The Ice Pirates' or 'Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor'.
4:48 Ayn Rand wouldn't want you to feel ashamed about promoting yourself. She'd also be critical of the anti-competitive monopolistic tendencies of the bad guys in this movie.
Edit/Note: Robert Heinlein would criticize them for that AND for being internationalist traitors.
7:29 Ackchyually, it's "Cliff's Notes."
7:44 An Italian-American pretending to be Cuban counts as brownface?
12:59 Black Mesa versus Aperture Science
13:59 Innerspace. Btw, if you splice the "Grey-M" boss battle theme from the Sega CD version of Microcosm into the scene where Tuck fights Mr. Igoe, it fits perfectly.
14:20 What's with her hand placement?! Why do movie people have such a hard time with that?! No wonder Igoe just stood there like, "Heh. I can tell you're not experienced enough to defeat me."
This movie is marginal/OK. It would have been much better if they had toned down the goofiness.
This was when Kathleen Kennedy could be said to associate with good movies, not the tripe she destructs now.