Odd, Speedracer's always the example used by cinephiles as ideal use of cgi for a fleshbag cartoon cosplay (because 'live action' is an asinine term that irks the literalist in my adhd brain) never considered its cheesy fun bad I just can't stand Shia. Agree, the Core is a great cast that just works, isn't bad or dumb because they built their world and played in its parameters with the stakes, conflict + use of unobtanium. Sick of the youth's recent demand for realism that's ruining the implicit agreement the audience had in watching with suspension of disbelief from the 1930s on when movie makers used to have fun by making their own rules for the world and characters. Give me the obvious dummy stunt doubles, rear projection for falling, models, and visible wires over cgi sfx when people fall off buildings or crash cars or get blown away by gas stove explosion (just watched Laurel +Hardy this am). Long list of mine, but I genuinely appreciate Wood Jr's passion, prescient speeches,sound design and scoring in 1954 Plan 9 from Outer Space; Ice Pirates 1980? robots, time fuckery + hairdos in final chase; the Riddick trilogy, most Corman films...will be back after check my list offline.
Absolutely. We all have our own range of acceptable things in movies and wallowing in bad movies is comforting because we can do so without our analytical faculties getting any exercise.
Speaking of "The Core", my Grand-father in-law was Dr Robert Shurney. He was an African American physicist at N.A.S.A. for over 20 years and was consulted as the model for Delroy Lindo's character in the film. He had some pretty cool pics of him and the cast. I think some set pics as well. Pretty cool experience for him and a fun flick.
The way simple animation was used so effectively is really impressively in the original series. Visual Effects in the new one somehow emulated that style.
so glad you don't use the term guilty pleasure,I'm 50 this year and the one thing i say to my younger friends is never apologize for your taste in films(music,reading,etc)its you who are enjoying them,another gratifying thing is that they love a lot of the older films warts and all and recognize them as products of the time
I'm surprised that I've never heard of _That's Adequate._ That seems like a movie I would enjoy. _Superman 3_ gets a lot of criticism but I love it because it doesn't take itself too seriously. It puts the "comic" in comic book movie. A lot of people complain that it's more of a Richard Pryor movie than a Superman movie, but I have no problem with that. The scene in which Superman gets drunk and then fights himself in the junkyard is a lot of fun to watch.
@@terrytalksmovies She and Robert Vaughn are brilliant in it. I also liked Pamela Stephenson's character. For some reason the DVD cuts one of her best lines. Fir some reason she is always hiding her true intelligence. When Richard Pryor is laying his blueprint out, Vaughn asks what it is and Stephenson says "It's a computer". Missing from the DVD is the moment when Vaughn looks at her incredulously and she checks herself and says "A hairdryer? Is it a hairdryer?".
Hey, Speed Racer *isn't* a bad movie. It was just misunderstood on release. Along the same lines, the movie that's generally considered "bad" that I genuinely think is good is *Head,* the Monkees movie. It's a monumentally ahead-of-its-time meta/deconstructionist look at pop stardom, and I really think it resonates more today, now that people understand how "prefab" pop stars really are.
I love 'The Core'. It's exactly the sort of movie that Irwin Allen would have made. Questionable science aside, it has more ideas in it than most movies put together. It has a great heart, too, but don't get too attached to any of the characters. Plus it uses the term 'Unobtanium' six years before 'Avatar'. Delroy Lindo is superb - but the first time I watched it, I didn't realise it was him behind the beard and glasses. Nice also to see a still from one of my favourite movies, Abel Gance's 1927 masterpiece, 'Napoleon', in your intro. I've seen the 1983 five and a quarter hour cut twice, and it blew me away both times.
The movies that Hammer made rarely made it to the theaters and drive-ins here in Texas, but when they did, it was worth it to go check it out. I have never been disappointed in Hammer movies, I have seen enough of them to know that they are superbly produced.I am not a drinking man but I would respond appropriately were someone to raise a toast to Hammer Studios. Great memories, I have seen two of these,and I reckon that now I have some searching to do.
I will always watch Buckaroo Banzai, Repo Man, and Flash Gordon. The first two for the one-liners and the last for the awful effects that look awesome and of course the Queen soundtrack. Another guilty pleasure is the original Ultraman live action TV show. I'll kick in a second vote for Barbarella too.
That's Adequate reminds me of several mockumentaries that are out on DVD like "Kentucky Fried Movie" and "Cat Women from Outer Space" Odd that this one wasn't released.
Incomprehensible plots were the bread and butter of Speed Racer, and the Wachovskis actually had a plot that could be followed. The sisters made a movie that was actually what it was supposed to be - not a Speed Racer in name only, like say the Emmerich Godzilla.
As I have seen none of these selections... I can't really add my 2 cents in! I can't agree with you enough that sometimes profoundly flawed films are the most fun!
I have never understood why The Core was listed as a bad film. I thought it was a great homage to the 1950s films that inspired it. It moves well, it has a good cast, there is no Tennesee Williams dialogue but what there is I find enjoyable. It is one of the few positive sci-fi moves made in the last fifty years. I have not even HEARD of That's Adequate (1989) and will try finding it, It sounds fun and I am surprised it flew under my radar as it is my type of humor. Great work as usual.
Love The Core. Other movies I like, which snobs may eschew: The Abominable Dr. Phibes; Return to Me; Score (Radley Metzger); Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow); Galaxy Quest; Tora! Tora! Tora! ;The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinneman) etc. etc. Keep up the good work! Cheers
totally agreed that bad films are educational-- guilty pleasures, or just pleasures. i sat in a theatre in Sydney watching Speed Racer and was one of 4 people there in a huge auditorium; it had only opened that week. Ominous! But it's gotta be one of the most diabetes-inducing eye candy I've ever seen! like a drug experience for people who wont need to (or ever will) take drugs. "Thats Adequate" sounds a hoot, and from look of it real hard to find. Hoping "Ginger" gets some proper remastering on disc cos what's available via amazon looks cheaply produced while charging a fortune for it. never heard of it but now i'm determined to see it! "Madame Sin" looks like it's got all the hallmarks of a "camp classic", like "Boom!"
My favorite "so bad it's great" movie is "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers." The worst sfx Ray Harryhausen ever did, stiff acting, stupid dialogue, the whole package.
Having seen this video, I REALLY want to see THAT'S ADEQUATE. I don't care what anyone says; I enjoyed THE CORE. I loved the Wachowskis SPEED RACER. The casting was spot-on. I didn't think the story was incomprehensible at all. And for those who decried the movie, calling it a live-action cartoon...they were exactly right and that was the whole point. It was meant to be a live-action anime. Having watched the SPEED RACER (MAKKA GO-GO-GO) cartoon as a kid, I can say that the Wachowskis checked all the boxes with their movie; the brilliantly saturated color palette, the crazy hyperkinetic action, and so many elements from the original anime. It was a movie made by fans for fans.
You piqued my interest with That's Adequate Terry, thanks for the recommendation I'd never heard of it. EDIT: Jeez, talk about obscure - I can't find this one in any of the 'usual' places.
@@terrytalksmovies Lol the thrill of the hunt is half the fun for me I think! I remember when I first got broadband the film I looked for for the longest time was The Touchables (1968) took a couple of years but I found it online. That Anthony Newley flick with the stupid bloody title Mercy Humppe etc. was another. Its always good to have a few obscure 'holy grails' on the wanted list to keep an eye out for.
I've got a copy! Former rental VHS that I picked up when one of the local supermarket chains decided to stop selling and renting videos. Not even sure what the present-day equivalent of that would be (thrift-store rack, maybe?)
I watched The Core cold, not knowing anything about it. I remember being thoroughly engaged and entertained through the entire thing. Honestly, I'd have to be a pretentious ahole to then jump on the bandwagon and slag all its so-called failings off, when in truth it totally delivered on doing what a movie like that should do. Glad I'm not alone in liking this movie!
I adore Ghost Rider; Spirit of Vengeances. Didn't dig the first movie at all but the 2nd one (looking like it was made on a 10th the budget) was kind of a madcap supernatural Road Warrior meets Omen IV.
Nice ratio! Saw Willy's Wonderland at the Astor Theatre which was outdone by the "Nicholas Cage Loses his Shit" shot before it. Honestly I would have rather have watched the clip of him saying "I'm a vampire!" for an hour. The audience was enthusiastic as they could be but MANDY was worth seeing again.
Man, I love Speed Racer. I know this is an odd observation, but I think it's actually a great Kung Fu movie, not because of the martial arts, but because the core story is about transcendence through excellence in one's chosen skill.
Actually rented all 3 of the Ginger movies. The local video shop had the series in the back of the store along with the requisite copy of zone troopers. They were laughably bad along with the worst martial arts choreography. But I was 16 and well, you know...😉 I think Wing Commander and various Elvis movies are my picks
After Warner Bros. announced the cancellation of Wonder Woman 3 (dir. Patty Jenkins) I made a list of women-led action films to see how many managed a sequel, and how many succeeded in making more. Fortunately, there are more films that managed to achieve at least three. I'll gladly add the Ginger films to that list. I believe the industry back then had an easier time producing such films - no matter the quality. Studios today have become so greedy and focused on a winning formula. There are fewer chances being taken.
It's unbelievable. During the 1990s there were a slew of low quality action films from a guy named Andy Sidaris. He managed to have the same two women reprise their characters over several of his films. These movies look ridiculous but they gave those women more opportunities to play the same heroines.
I never knew that _The Core_ was considered a bad movie. Guess that's what I get for not listening to the critics. I love everything about that film! It's a great sixties-style sci-fi premise, bolstered by a terrific cast who give us a variety of fascinating character studies. Well paced, exciting, tense. terse ... in my book a great movie on all levels!
There are some movies so bad I can't watch 'em, but here are my favorite terrible movies I watch at least once a year: (1) Irwin Allen's _The Swarm;_ (2) _Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2;_ (3) Howie Long's _Firestorm;_ (4) _The Giant Claw;_ (5) _The Horror of Party Beach._
Showgirls (1995) has a cult following for getting unintentional laughs and is enjoyable only because it's known as one of the worst scripted, directed, and acted major studio released movies ever! It really is funny in moments that are supposed to be serious.
I saw "The Core" in a theater when it was originally released. It's OK, and I didn't mind the lack of scientific accuracy. I thought Stanley Tucci's final scene, especially his final line, was hilarious.
“Face/Off” was another fun movie with a ridiculous premise. It was intentionally silly. “Battlefield Earth” was entertaining, but probably not in the way intended.
Got a few so-bad-it's-good titles myself (not including Ed Wood, Uwe Boll or Tommy Wiseau) - THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1958) - REPTILICUS (1961) - SHEENA (1984)
My guilty pleasure: Godzilla 1998. Yes it deserts the Toho Company Kaiju schtick. but that is exactly why it worked for me. It's not a campy Gojira movie, it's a campy 1950's atomic giant monster movie. Matthew Broderick is so woefully miscast as an action adventure hero that it just adds to the fun. It is a mindless popcorn muncher, which is what giant monster movies should be. It deserves so much more love that it gets. It is a Devlin/Emmerich mega-budget B movie movie in every way, and probably would have been recognized for what it is, if they would have called it anything but "Godzilla" (which is what it isn't. And that's a good thing.) .
My humble choices: 1) Abbott and Costello Go to Mars--the snarky New York Times quipped, "It's about time!" But I like that the title is wrong and that half the movie is spent on a Universal backlot set of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And why is limburger cheese so smelly, anyway? Kudos to the rocket effects department for a job well done. 2) In the Year 2889--once again the title is wrong. This grade-Z flick is actually a remake of Roger Corman's b-movie The Day the World Ended. Roger had bought the copyright to the Jules Verne short story of the same name and the director just slapped it on for good measure. 3) Stealing Home--This baseball movie actually found a place in Roger Ebert's book titled "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie." But I didn't. Jodie Foster is my favorite modern day actress, and she dominates this movie despite being off screen for most of its running time. The film reeks of sentimentality, with waves of nostalgia tossed in for effect, but I can still enjoy it if I'm in the right mood...thanks for listening.
When I was a kid, I had three favorites, The Black Knight, a really bad movie starring a too-old Alan Ladd, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a sparkling film featuring the all-time great James Mason and Kirk Douglas, and Ulysses, a cheap Italian film starring Douglas and the incomparable Silvana Mangano. Ulysses had a great scene where Ulyssses tricks Polyphemus (the cyclops) by getting him drunk. So, one stinker out of three is not so bad.
I remember my dad let me rent KFM when I was like 12,for me and my friends for a sleepover. Needless to say, he checked in on us at the Catholic High School Girls segment and flipped out! lol He made us turn it off. We of course, just waited for him to go to bed to finish it. He didn't take the tape or hide it, so I don't know what he was expecting. lol If you like those make sure you check out The Groove Tube.
_The Core_ is a ridiculous movie...but it's seamlessly entertaining & features one of the best structured modern blockbuster screenplays I've seen filmed. It's a screenplay/film so flawlessly constructed & perfectly measured as Pop entertainment, it should be taught in film schools as a standard of the medium.
The only movie I've seen on this list is Speed Racer and the style just didn't appeal. Perhaps if I had a connection with the anime series but like most people that wasn't the case. As for 70's movies the vast majority of them have that kitschy charm not needing a coherent story-line at all.
If I was teaching film school/basic do's and don'ts I'd have one class in which I screened two films back-to-back, namely INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN and its remake, ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES (yes, they even made a mistake in the opening titles). Using much the same script for the major story and for much of the dialogue, one can immediately see the myriad mistakes and just plain old ineptitude displayed by the remake ---shot by amateurs---over the original film that (despite whatever faults it has) was shot by an experienced crew and director. It's quite eye-opening (no pun intended) in the way----as you say---you can learn a lot from watching bad films. But SAUCER MEN has the advantage of having been shot, essentially, twice, once by pro's and once by inexperienced people. I think these two films, paired together, make for a pretty solid teaching tool in terms of demonstrating basics of staging, lighting, camera placement, acting, movement and even "work-arounds" for lack of money for effects and props.
@@terrytalksmovies True, but what I'm talking about shows film making flaws in a much much clearer and obvious way, boils it down so that anyone can pick up the very ground floor basics. And I think they also could spur the imagination in terms of "what would I do here to fix this problem, or that problem", again in a very basic way. This is meant for people just starting out who could use a very diagrammatic lesson. The films you mention are giant works of art compared to ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES! (have you seen it?---it's on YT, and same re SAUCERMEN). I think, also, they would be very enjoyable and fun to watch, the former especially, as the number of flaws could have a class going crazy (the good crazy!) pointing out problems from the very first frame. But that's just my opinion as an idea for a way to establish some very basic ground rules instead of just listing them abstractly....Of course, then one would move on to films with far more subtle problems for analysis and dissection.
these are 5-7 bad movies that i like but they are more like guilty pleasures to me , Amazing Spiderman 2 batman forever Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland street fighter Matrix Reloaded Matrix Revolution X-men Origins Wolverine
Around the time of The Core, but three years later try, The Sound of Thumder.(2006) It was entertaining and ill received by critics. The Time Machine remake was just lousy. as was The Day the Earth Stood Still. reboot
Two "guilty pleasures" that I've immensely enjoyed were "Zardoz" and "Silent Running." Film critics have had tons of fun ridiculing "Zardoz" from its sketchy plot to Connery's wearing a diaper through most of it but I got a kick out of it during my college days while drooling over Charlotte Rampling and John Boorman's bold camera trickery. Regarding "Silent Running," Bruce Dern's manic depressive Lowell was an interesting character study and the "robots" were a fun experiment in low-tech costume design (they were played by amputees). Maybe they can be reviewed on this channel at a later date...
Zardoz is a mad movie. Silent Running is let down by the idea that a botanist wouldn't realise that plants need sunlight. The eco message is solid but that flaw took me out of the movie.
@@terrytalksmovies I could go on and on about why "Silent Running" is a pseudoscientific disaster! That's why I call it a "guilty pleasure" and not "one of my favorite SF films." It's NOT an SF film! It was probably one of my favorite Bruce Dern performance and I'll always get a kick out of seeing those robots walk (on their hands). The ending alone is a head-scratching delight! Here's an idea for a movie review: "John Boorman: Master of Kitsch Cinema!" What do you think?
@@terrytalksmovies You misunderstood my post. I lack your skills regarding posting a review on TH-cam. I was making a request in the form of a suggestion. If it's not a good time, I completely understand.
Had the jab...always kinda liked 2012 john cusack ?....and the core also defo agree time to make some proper sci fi looking forward to the new dune movie...as for the david lynch version is very shonky but i also love it....
Love Speedracer. Pure psychedelia. Also Battle Beyond the Stars. Night of the Comet, too. Stakeland is a B movie, but well crafted, like a Cormac McCarthy novel with vampires.
Ok That's Adequate is NOT a bad movie! It is a fukkin great movie. I will happily get drunk and fight you about this. In fact I am drunk now and willing to fight my neighbor who knows nothing about this movie.
I genuinely liked The Room more than Blade Runner 2049.. I also have a soft spot for The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen but I would never say I love those Maybe you can do an opposite of this video - highly rated films you just dont rate much...I guess it will be open to so much trolling and flaming
@Nospater I think well thought out and well argued critiques of sacred cows is VERY hard to do. There used to be a short lived series in the UK called J'accuse and each episode had a person critiquing a variety of things one of them being Citizen Kane. Utterly on point criticisms. I still think CK is a good movie though The danger is that even when that happens people cannot accept that the movie they cherish can be seen as utter crap by other people
On my list of movies I originally hated, but couldn't stop watching, a film which has played on my mind ever since is "Under the silver lake" Whilst watching it, my husband and I were saying, this is the worst movie ever, when it was finished I kept thinking about it and I now realise it was a genius movie. I would like to recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it, it comes with a warning, a warning to expect a wild, sometimes, uncomfortable or uneasy ride. Watch for the very talented Andrew Garfield in the lead, also watch for the beautiful Riley Keogh - Elvis's granddaughter
I loved "The Core"! I remember seeing it as a triple feature of The Core, Deep Impact and Armageddon the only one I didn't like was Deep Impact it was the worst of the lot. I remember seeing The Ginger movies at the drive-in as a kid but for movies in that genre I preferred the Ilsa Trilogy. These were the good old days when they would actually show hard core pornography at drive-in theaters.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that liked Speed Racer. That movies was exactly what it was supposed to be and I think it was lost on a lot of people because they never saw the cartoon.
Speed racer is very clever! Like anime the foregrounds and backgrounds are both in sharp focus! So they used special camera techniques to do this. Nobody has done this since in any film. Anime fans really appreciate the effort taken to replicate anime techniques in film. 🤯🤯🤯🤓🤓🤓😎😎😎
@@terrytalksmovies but we had better movies way back then! Big thanks for all your uploads! Btw - I am 62 now and from germany , nearby Hannover (only a few movies were sync'd for the german for TV and movie theaters but better than nothing)
I remember watching Speed Racer with a friend for the first time, I loved it but my buddy was lost and falling asleep. I think the non linear aspect of it threw some people off or something.
It's not "bad", but it's racist as Hell -- THE MASK OF FU MANCHU, starring those great Asian actors Boris Karloff (who was part Anglo-Indian, so he could at least claim Asian ancestry) and Myrna Loy (who was often bewilderingly cast as Asian seductresses in pre-Code movies!). I recommend it because Karloff and Loy are so much more appealing as the villains, and it wears its anti-Asian bigotry and British Imperialism so proudly on its sleeve, that the movie ends up subverting the very assumptions it's championing! With you on THE CORE, only caught part of SPEED RACER on a miscalibrated television at Sears with "motion smoothing" on so the damned thing looked like a soap opera, vaguely heard of THAT'S ADEQUATE! but never saw it, though I did see the first two movies of the GINGER Trilogy.
Speedracer was great! My only complaint is one far too common these days. It is far too long for young kids to enjoy, especially in theater seats. Sadly, far too many movies, television programs, video games and even(especially!) comic books which should be suitable for children are not. Instead they are aimed at and written for adult shut-ins that never really grew up and discovered girls.
He has to point out the "evil by current standards" stuff in order to help deflect hate and accusations. It's like legal disclaimers -- just something you have to do to stay out of trouble.
Odd, Speedracer's always the example used by cinephiles as ideal use of cgi for a fleshbag cartoon cosplay (because 'live action' is an asinine term that irks the literalist in my adhd brain) never considered its cheesy fun bad I just can't stand Shia. Agree, the Core is a great cast that just works, isn't bad or dumb because they built their world and played in its parameters with the stakes, conflict + use of unobtanium. Sick of the youth's recent demand for realism that's ruining the implicit agreement the audience had in watching with suspension of disbelief from the 1930s on when movie makers used to have fun by making their own rules for the world and characters. Give me the obvious dummy stunt doubles, rear projection for falling, models, and visible wires over cgi sfx when people fall off buildings or crash cars or get blown away by gas stove explosion (just watched Laurel +Hardy this am).
Long list of mine, but I genuinely appreciate Wood Jr's passion, prescient speeches,sound design and scoring in 1954 Plan 9 from Outer Space; Ice Pirates 1980? robots, time fuckery + hairdos in final chase; the Riddick trilogy, most Corman films...will be back after check my list offline.
Absolutely. We all have our own range of acceptable things in movies and wallowing in bad movies is comforting because we can do so without our analytical faculties getting any exercise.
Speaking of "The Core", my Grand-father in-law was Dr Robert Shurney. He was an African American physicist at N.A.S.A. for over 20 years and was consulted as the model for Delroy Lindo's character in the film. He had some pretty cool pics of him and the cast. I think some set pics as well. Pretty cool experience for him and a fun flick.
That's so cool!
Speed Racer was EXTREMELY underrated. So much fun.
The way simple animation was used so effectively is really impressively in the original series. Visual Effects in the new one somehow emulated that style.
so glad you don't use the term guilty pleasure,I'm 50 this year and the one thing i say to my younger friends is never apologize for your taste in films(music,reading,etc)its you who are enjoying them,another gratifying thing is that they love a lot of the older films warts and all and recognize them as products of the time
The best thing I liked when I turned 50 was the realization that life is too short to care about nonsensical bullshit. Very liberating, actually 😊
Hmmm I eventually got around to adding this... Roger Cormans 1990s version of The Fantastic Four - a miniscule budget to make an epic superhero flick
It was made to keep the rights. Kooky flick.
I like the idea of dinosaurs watching the meteor headed for Earth and saying, "Let's fix this shit!"
I'm a lover of film parodies and have always wanted to see That's Adequate. After seeing your review, now I must find it--thanks:)
I actually love "Glen or Glenda", "Robot Monster" and "Plan 9..." give me those over modern fantasy movies every day.
I'm surprised that I've never heard of _That's Adequate._ That seems like a movie I would enjoy.
_Superman 3_ gets a lot of criticism but I love it because it doesn't take itself too seriously. It puts the "comic" in comic book movie. A lot of people complain that it's more of a Richard Pryor movie than a Superman movie, but I have no problem with that. The scene in which Superman gets drunk and then fights himself in the junkyard is a lot of fun to watch.
Superman III is bugfuck crazy. It also has Annie Ross in it, and she was a great jazz singer.
@@terrytalksmovies She and Robert Vaughn are brilliant in it. I also liked Pamela Stephenson's character. For some reason the DVD cuts one of her best lines. Fir some reason she is always hiding her true intelligence. When Richard Pryor is laying his blueprint out, Vaughn asks what it is and Stephenson says "It's a computer". Missing from the DVD is the moment when Vaughn looks at her incredulously and she checks herself and says "A hairdryer? Is it a hairdryer?".
Ozu used to break the 180 degree rule and he's considered one of the greatest directors of all time.
Yep but he was Ozu and knew when and how to do it.
Am I behind the curve? "The Brain That Wouldn't Die " is one of my favorites.
The Killer Shrews has always been a good one, too!
@@continentalgin I haven't had the pleasure of seeing that one.
You'll have to remember to specify which version. There is the original 1962 version, the remake in 2020, and a new one in development. incredible.
@@palmercolson7037 I had no idea, I've only seen the first.
Hey, Speed Racer *isn't* a bad movie. It was just misunderstood on release. Along the same lines, the movie that's generally considered "bad" that I genuinely think is good is *Head,* the Monkees movie. It's a monumentally ahead-of-its-time meta/deconstructionist look at pop stardom, and I really think it resonates more today, now that people understand how "prefab" pop stars really are.
I did a video about Head. th-cam.com/video/lhGwLDDlYyU/w-d-xo.html
@@terrytalksmovies Oh cool, I'll check it out tomorrow.
I disagree...felt the same about the TV cartoon as well.
a recent fav in this mindset has been 'the Name of the Game is Kill'; seamy, arty and memorable. 'that's adequate' is now on my list..
I love 'The Core'. It's exactly the sort of movie that Irwin Allen would have made. Questionable science aside, it has more ideas in it than most movies put together. It has a great heart, too, but don't get too attached to any of the characters. Plus it uses the term 'Unobtanium' six years before 'Avatar'. Delroy Lindo is superb - but the first time I watched it, I didn't realise it was him behind the beard and glasses.
Nice also to see a still from one of my favourite movies, Abel Gance's 1927 masterpiece, 'Napoleon', in your intro. I've seen the 1983 five and a quarter hour cut twice, and it blew me away both times.
Napoleon is on my list of shame but I enjoyed putting in the Easter egg. 😀
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I remember seeing Madame Sin on TV as a kid and it creeped the hell out of me.
The synopsis of The Core reminds me of that old Pirelli tyres advert where the Earth stood rotating and a woman driving a Ferrari starts it up again.
Yep but it's such fun. The actors lean in to the absurdity and go for it.
The movies that Hammer made rarely made it to the theaters and drive-ins here in Texas, but when they did, it was worth it to go check it out.
I have never been disappointed in Hammer movies, I have seen enough of them to know that they are superbly produced.I am not a drinking man but I would respond appropriately were someone to raise a toast to Hammer Studios.
Great memories, I have seen two of these,and I reckon that now I have some searching to do.
The search is always worth it, Kenny.
I will always watch Buckaroo Banzai, Repo Man, and Flash Gordon. The first two for the one-liners and the last for the awful effects that look awesome and of course the Queen soundtrack. Another guilty pleasure is the original Ultraman live action TV show. I'll kick in a second vote for Barbarella too.
Repo man's got all night, every night. One of my absolute favorites. Tank Girl as well.
@@godzillafan4033 Tank Girl is a great choice! Lori Petty is absolutely insane and the movie is bad but great.
Buckaroo banzai is a good movie! ☺️
@@godzillafan4033 life of a repo man is always intense 😊
@@m.e.3862 Find one in every car, you'll see.
Great list, man!
Thanks, mate.
I always thought Speed Racer was a little before it's time. Anime hadn't hit its stride in the U.S. yet.
The Wachowskis are always ahead of pop culture.
That's Adequate reminds me of several mockumentaries that are out on DVD like "Kentucky Fried Movie" and "Cat Women from Outer Space" Odd that this one wasn't released.
That's Adequate is more of a mockumentary. I love it.
I will check those out. Appreciate greatly😎🌹
Incomprehensible plots were the bread and butter of Speed Racer, and the Wachovskis actually had a plot that could be followed. The sisters made a movie that was actually what it was supposed to be - not a Speed Racer in name only, like say the Emmerich Godzilla.
Speed Racer's reputation keeps ascending and I'm here for that.
I loved Speed Racer as a kid, and I loved Gigantor even more. Any chance of a live-action Gigantor someday, or has it been done already and bombed?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0371310/ already been done.
As I have seen none of these selections... I can't really add my 2 cents in! I can't agree with you enough that sometimes profoundly flawed films are the most fun!
You had me at Tony Randal.
Any monster movie, especially from The Asylum is my vulgar pleasure!
I have never understood why The Core was listed as a bad film. I thought it was a great homage to the 1950s films that inspired it. It moves well, it has a good cast, there is no Tennesee Williams dialogue but what there is I find enjoyable. It is one of the few positive sci-fi moves made in the last fifty years.
I have not even HEARD of That's Adequate (1989) and will try finding it, It sounds fun and I am surprised it flew under my radar as it is my type of humor.
Great work as usual.
Out of these, I have only seen MADAME SIN -- but now I want to see the others!
They're all fun.
The Ginger Films are wonderful and really deliver the goods
Love The Core. Other movies I like, which snobs may eschew: The Abominable Dr. Phibes; Return to Me; Score (Radley Metzger); Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow); Galaxy Quest; Tora! Tora! Tora! ;The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinneman) etc. etc. Keep up the good work! Cheers
Thanks!
totally agreed that bad films are educational-- guilty pleasures, or just pleasures. i sat in a theatre in Sydney watching Speed Racer and was one of 4 people there in a huge auditorium; it had only opened that week. Ominous! But it's gotta be one of the most diabetes-inducing eye candy I've ever seen! like a drug experience for people who wont need to (or ever will) take drugs. "Thats Adequate" sounds a hoot, and from look of it real hard to find. Hoping "Ginger" gets some proper remastering on disc cos what's available via amazon looks cheaply produced while charging a fortune for it. never heard of it but now i'm determined to see it! "Madame Sin" looks like it's got all the hallmarks of a "camp classic", like "Boom!"
Speed Racer is very popular with people who self-medicate while watching movies.
Love The Core! Great ensemble cast and very enjoyable.
I'd be curious to know what other travels you've taken down the exploitation trail.
My favorite "so bad it's great" movie is "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers." The worst sfx Ray Harryhausen ever did, stiff acting, stupid dialogue, the whole package.
Having seen this video, I REALLY want to see THAT'S ADEQUATE.
I don't care what anyone says; I enjoyed THE CORE.
I loved the Wachowskis SPEED RACER. The casting was spot-on. I didn't think the story was incomprehensible at all. And for those who decried the movie, calling it a live-action cartoon...they were exactly right and that was the whole point. It was meant to be a live-action anime. Having watched the SPEED RACER (MAKKA GO-GO-GO) cartoon as a kid, I can say that the Wachowskis checked all the boxes with their movie; the brilliantly saturated color palette, the crazy hyperkinetic action, and so many elements from the original anime. It was a movie made by fans for fans.
You piqued my interest with That's Adequate Terry, thanks for the recommendation I'd never heard of it.
EDIT: Jeez, talk about obscure - I can't find this one in any of the 'usual' places.
It isn't easy. Sorry.
@@terrytalksmovies Lol the thrill of the hunt is half the fun for me I think! I remember when I first got broadband the film I looked for for the longest time was The Touchables (1968) took a couple of years but I found it online. That Anthony Newley flick with the stupid bloody title Mercy Humppe etc. was another. Its always good to have a few obscure 'holy grails' on the wanted list to keep an eye out for.
@@barrymurphy1337 We all have those movies, mate. Fortunately, some of them do emerge on quality blu-ray releases. Keep looking!
Yep its the only one listed that seems like I would enjoy too
I've got a copy! Former rental VHS that I picked up when one of the local supermarket chains decided to stop selling and renting videos. Not even sure what the present-day equivalent of that would be (thrift-store rack, maybe?)
I watched The Core cold, not knowing anything about it. I remember being thoroughly engaged and entertained through the entire thing. Honestly, I'd have to be a pretentious ahole to then jump on the bandwagon and slag all its so-called failings off, when in truth it totally delivered on doing what a movie like that should do. Glad I'm not alone in liking this movie!
I adore Ghost Rider; Spirit of Vengeances. Didn't dig the first movie at all but the 2nd one (looking like it was made on a 10th the budget) was kind of a madcap supernatural Road Warrior meets Omen IV.
Nice ratio! Saw Willy's Wonderland at the Astor Theatre which was outdone by the "Nicholas Cage Loses his Shit" shot before it. Honestly I would have rather have watched the clip of him saying "I'm a vampire!" for an hour. The audience was enthusiastic as they could be but MANDY was worth seeing again.
Man, I love Speed Racer. I know this is an odd observation, but I think it's actually a great Kung Fu movie, not because of the martial arts, but because the core story is about transcendence through excellence in one's chosen skill.
I also love the OG Speed Racer. That 1960s Japanese limited animation is my jam.
Actually rented all 3 of the Ginger movies. The local video shop had the series in the back of the store along with the requisite copy of zone troopers. They were laughably bad along with the worst martial arts choreography. But I was 16 and well, you know...😉
I think Wing Commander and various Elvis movies are my picks
We each have our own faves.
Also Ghosts of Mars come to think of it
After Warner Bros. announced the cancellation of Wonder Woman 3 (dir. Patty Jenkins) I made a list of women-led action films to see how many managed a sequel, and how many succeeded in making more. Fortunately, there are more films that managed to achieve at least three. I'll gladly add the Ginger films to that list. I believe the industry back then had an easier time producing such films - no matter the quality. Studios today have become so greedy and focused on a winning formula. There are fewer chances being taken.
The Ginger Trilogy is definitely 70s weirdness. I'd love a DVD or blu-ray release of it.
It's unbelievable. During the 1990s there were a slew of low quality action films from a guy named Andy Sidaris. He managed to have the same two women reprise their characters over several of his films. These movies look ridiculous but they gave those women more opportunities to play the same heroines.
I never knew that _The Core_ was considered a bad movie. Guess that's what I get for not listening to the critics.
I love everything about that film! It's a great sixties-style sci-fi premise, bolstered by a terrific cast who give us a variety of fascinating character studies. Well paced, exciting, tense. terse ... in my book a great movie on all levels!
I love it, embracing its silly and scientifically inaccurate moments. It works as entertainment.
Did Don Schain and Cheri Caffaro go on to produce High School Musical?
If only we had a way to look that up... 😉
“The Teahouse of the August Moon” starred Marlon Brando in yellowface, and it was an actually good movie.
Yeah but the yellowface is a deal breaker for me.
There are some movies so bad I can't watch 'em, but here are my favorite terrible movies I watch at least once a year: (1) Irwin Allen's _The Swarm;_ (2) _Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2;_ (3) Howie Long's _Firestorm;_ (4) _The Giant Claw;_ (5) _The Horror of Party Beach._
Showgirls (1995) has a cult following for getting unintentional laughs and is enjoyable only because it's known as one of the worst scripted, directed, and acted major studio released movies ever! It really is funny in moments that are supposed to be serious.
It's All About Eve with books.
I saw "The Core" in a theater when it was originally released. It's OK, and I didn't mind the lack of scientific accuracy. I thought Stanley Tucci's final scene, especially his final line, was hilarious.
The Tooch can do no wrong.
“Face/Off” was another fun movie with a ridiculous premise. It was intentionally silly.
“Battlefield Earth” was entertaining, but probably not in the way intended.
I'm not watching that sperm splat of a movie, Battlefield Earth. I don't want to give Scientology any oxygen.
You're not missing anything -- it's like they were TRYING to make it terrible. (Saw it on some cable channel, so no money to Xenu.)
@@stevenscott2136 Yay! Another bullet dodged.
Got a few so-bad-it's-good titles myself (not including Ed Wood, Uwe Boll or Tommy Wiseau)
- THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS (1958)
- REPTILICUS (1961)
- SHEENA (1984)
My guilty pleasure: Godzilla 1998. Yes it deserts the Toho Company Kaiju schtick. but that is exactly why it worked for me. It's not a campy Gojira movie, it's a campy 1950's atomic giant monster movie.
Matthew Broderick is so woefully miscast as an action adventure hero that it just adds to the fun.
It is a mindless popcorn muncher, which is what giant monster movies should be. It deserves so much more love that it gets. It is a Devlin/Emmerich mega-budget B movie movie in every way, and probably would have been recognized for what it is, if they would have called it anything but "Godzilla" (which is what it isn't. And that's a good thing.)
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I've always referred to that movie as FERRIS BUELLER MEETS GODZILLA.
My humble choices:
1) Abbott and Costello Go to Mars--the snarky New York Times quipped, "It's about time!" But I like that the title is wrong and that half the movie is spent on a Universal backlot set of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And why is limburger cheese so smelly, anyway? Kudos to the rocket effects department for a job well done.
2) In the Year 2889--once again the title is wrong. This grade-Z flick is actually a remake of Roger Corman's b-movie The Day the World Ended. Roger had bought the copyright to the Jules Verne short story of the same name and the director just slapped it on for good measure.
3) Stealing Home--This baseball movie actually found a place in Roger Ebert's book titled "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie." But I didn't. Jodie Foster is my favorite modern day actress, and she dominates this movie despite being off screen for most of its running time. The film reeks of sentimentality, with waves of nostalgia tossed in for effect, but I can still enjoy it if I'm in the right mood...thanks for listening.
I love how broad a range of movies people are selecting. Nice choices!
When I was a kid, I had three favorites, The Black Knight, a really bad movie starring a too-old Alan Ladd, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a sparkling film featuring the all-time great James Mason and Kirk Douglas, and Ulysses, a cheap Italian film starring Douglas and the incomparable Silvana Mangano. Ulysses had a great scene where Ulyssses tricks Polyphemus (the cyclops) by getting him drunk. So, one stinker out of three is not so bad.
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I don't mind saying that Ive always been a huge fan of the movies Cooneskin, Barbarella and The Kentucky Fried Movie.
Let your freak flag fly!
I remember my dad let me rent KFM when I was like 12,for me and my friends for a sleepover. Needless to say, he checked in on us at the Catholic High School Girls segment and flipped out! lol He made us turn it off. We of course, just waited for him to go to bed to finish it. He didn't take the tape or hide it, so I don't know what he was expecting. lol If you like those make sure you check out The Groove Tube.
_The Core_ is a ridiculous movie...but it's seamlessly entertaining & features one of the best structured modern blockbuster screenplays I've seen filmed. It's a screenplay/film so flawlessly constructed & perfectly measured as Pop entertainment, it should be taught in film schools as a standard of the medium.
WOW, Big Big THX for mentioning "Crack In The World", one of my Fave Flicks of All Time!!! :D :D :D
My pleasure 😀
Oooo! "Crack in the World". Haven't seen that one for ever. "The Core" is fun, but totally unbelievable.
Stanley Tucci is a great actor.
Bad movies need love, too.
More than good movies. Good ones get the $$$s.
Beastmaster, can't resist it.
Love this.
The only movie I've seen on this list is Speed Racer and the style just didn't appeal. Perhaps if I had a connection with the anime series but like most people that wasn't the case. As for 70's movies the vast majority of them have that kitschy charm not needing a coherent story-line at all.
If I was teaching film school/basic do's and don'ts I'd have one class in which I screened two films back-to-back, namely INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN and its remake, ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES (yes, they even made a mistake in the opening titles). Using much the same script for the major story and for much of the dialogue, one can immediately see the myriad mistakes and just plain old ineptitude displayed by the remake ---shot by amateurs---over the original film that (despite whatever faults it has) was shot by an experienced crew and director. It's quite eye-opening (no pun intended) in the way----as you say---you can learn a lot from watching bad films. But SAUCER MEN has the advantage of having been shot, essentially, twice, once by pro's and once by inexperienced people. I think these two films, paired together, make for a pretty solid teaching tool in terms of demonstrating basics of staging, lighting, camera placement, acting, movement and even "work-arounds" for lack of money for effects and props.
There are lots of those. Barb Wire is a remake of Casablanca and Showgirls is All About Eve.
@@terrytalksmovies True, but what I'm talking about shows film making flaws in a much much clearer and obvious way, boils it down so that anyone can pick up the very ground floor basics. And I think they also could spur the imagination in terms of "what would I do here to fix this problem, or that problem", again in a very basic way. This is meant for people just starting out who could use a very diagrammatic lesson. The films you mention are giant works of art compared to ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES! (have you seen it?---it's on YT, and same re SAUCERMEN). I think, also, they would be very enjoyable and fun to watch, the former especially, as the number of flaws could have a class going crazy (the good crazy!) pointing out problems from the very first frame. But that's just my opinion as an idea for a way to establish some very basic ground rules instead of just listing them abstractly....Of course, then one would move on to films with far more subtle problems for analysis and dissection.
Some of mine:
Big Man Japan
Tower of Evil
Frankenhooker
Old Dracula
Vampire Girl meets Frankenstein Girl
Nice!
A so bad it's good movie from the early 1980s..."Space hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone"...was shown in theatres as a 3D film. Total schlock.
these are 5-7 bad movies that i like but they are more like guilty pleasures to me ,
Amazing Spiderman 2
batman forever
Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland
street fighter
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolution
X-men Origins Wolverine
I love The Core!!!
Around the time of The Core, but three years later try, The Sound of Thumder.(2006) It was entertaining and ill received by critics. The Time Machine remake was just lousy. as was The Day the Earth Stood Still. reboot
A Sound of Thunder was woeful. The plot has more holes in it than a shooting range.
I Love “The Abductors”!
Talk about politically incorrect, sexploitation fantasy. This movie has got them all. It’s the best!
Two "guilty pleasures" that I've immensely enjoyed were "Zardoz" and "Silent Running." Film critics have had tons of fun ridiculing "Zardoz" from its sketchy plot to Connery's wearing a diaper through most of it but I got a kick out of it during my college days while drooling over Charlotte Rampling and John Boorman's bold camera trickery. Regarding "Silent Running," Bruce Dern's manic depressive Lowell was an interesting character study and the "robots" were a fun experiment in low-tech costume design (they were played by amputees). Maybe they can be reviewed on this channel at a later date...
Zardoz is a mad movie. Silent Running is let down by the idea that a botanist wouldn't realise that plants need sunlight. The eco message is solid but that flaw took me out of the movie.
@@terrytalksmovies I could go on and on about why "Silent Running" is a pseudoscientific disaster! That's why I call it a "guilty pleasure" and not "one of my favorite SF films." It's NOT an SF film! It was probably one of my favorite Bruce Dern performance and I'll always get a kick out of seeing those robots walk (on their hands). The ending alone is a head-scratching delight! Here's an idea for a movie review: "John Boorman: Master of Kitsch Cinema!" What do you think?
@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs Go for it!
@@terrytalksmovies You misunderstood my post. I lack your skills regarding posting a review on TH-cam. I was making a request in the form of a suggestion. If it's not a good time, I completely understand.
@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs it could show up in a future video. It's on a list I have of 70s SF. Sorry for any misunderstanding. 😀
I like Laser Blast. Sad but true.
And why not? Go for it.
Got The Abductors and Girls are for Loving. Having trouble with the first one.
I hear it is the most difficult to get.
The Ginger movies: was the "Bad Guy" Andy Kaufman??
Nope
Crack in the World is one of my guilty pleasures.
Had the jab...always kinda liked 2012 john cusack ?....and the core also defo agree time to make some proper sci fi looking forward to the new dune movie...as for the david lynch version is very shonky but i also love it....
Lynch's Dune is deeply weird but I'm looking forward to Villeneuve's version.
yes Yes YES!!! I'll watch what he's watching.
Love Speedracer. Pure psychedelia. Also Battle Beyond the Stars. Night of the Comet, too. Stakeland is a B movie, but well crafted, like a Cormac McCarthy novel with vampires.
Speed Racer loved the cartoon hated the movie. My 5
1. Bloodrayne
2. Split Second
3. Star Trek into darkness
4. Event Horizon
5. Robot Jox
Ok That's Adequate is NOT a bad movie! It is a fukkin great movie. I will happily get drunk and fight you about this. In fact I am drunk now and willing to fight my neighbor who knows nothing about this movie.
I genuinely liked The Room more than Blade Runner 2049.. I also have a soft spot for The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen but I would never say I love those
Maybe you can do an opposite of this video - highly rated films you just dont rate much...I guess it will be open to so much trolling and flaming
I'm going to avoid hate videos. They won't help the channel become the kind of space I want it to be.
@Nospater I think well thought out and well argued critiques of sacred cows is VERY hard to do. There used to be a short lived series in the UK called J'accuse and each episode had a person critiquing a variety of things one of them being Citizen Kane. Utterly on point criticisms. I still think CK is a good movie though
The danger is that even when that happens people cannot accept that the movie they cherish can be seen as utter crap by other people
On my list of movies I originally hated, but couldn't stop watching, a film which has played on my mind ever since is "Under the silver lake" Whilst watching it, my husband and I were saying, this is the worst movie ever, when it was finished I kept thinking about it and I now realise it was a genius movie. I would like to recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it, it comes with a warning, a warning to expect a wild, sometimes, uncomfortable or uneasy ride. Watch for the very talented Andrew Garfield in the lead, also watch for the beautiful Riley Keogh - Elvis's granddaughter
It's on my list. The DVD is on my coffee table.
I loved "The Core"! I remember seeing it as a triple feature of The Core, Deep Impact and Armageddon the only one I didn't like was Deep Impact it was the worst of the lot. I remember seeing The Ginger movies at the drive-in as a kid but for movies in that genre I preferred the Ilsa Trilogy. These were the good old days when they would actually show hard core pornography at drive-in theaters.
Not here. But the Ginger movies got cinema releases in Australia.
@@terrytalksmovies Correction: There were 4 Ilsa movies not 3.
Speed Racer's not a bad movie tho
In fact it's actually legitametely fantastic
people just can't judge anything or person of the past by current standards
Not judge. Evaluate and contrast.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that liked Speed Racer. That movies was exactly what it was supposed to be and I think it was lost on a lot of people because they never saw the cartoon.
in the intro?
Adam Sandler...... Comedies? those are supposed to be COMEDIES ? ? ?
Difficult to say.
Speed racer is very clever! Like anime the foregrounds and backgrounds are both in sharp focus! So they used special camera techniques to do this. Nobody has done this since in any film. Anime fans really appreciate the effort taken to replicate anime techniques in film. 🤯🤯🤯🤓🤓🤓😎😎😎
It was fun to revisit.
Thats my main problem with The Wachowski Brothers movies they are typically just eye candy
@@atomiccritter6492 The Wachoskis identity as female. But their recent output like Sens8 on Netflix is much more sophisticated.
I thought The Core was terrible, it was one of the dumbest and simultaneously most boring movies I ever watched.
I loved the cast and it's an old school 1960s style science fiction adventure, with dumb science.
How I miss those old but wonderfull times!
Todays world is a bad mess ...
It always was.
@@terrytalksmovies but we had better movies way back then! Big thanks for all your uploads! Btw - I am 62 now and from germany , nearby Hannover (only a few movies were sync'd for the german for TV and movie theaters but better than nothing)
I remember watching Speed Racer with a friend for the first time, I loved it but my buddy was lost and falling asleep. I think the non linear aspect of it threw some people off or something.
It's not "bad", but it's racist as Hell -- THE MASK OF FU MANCHU, starring those great Asian actors Boris Karloff (who was part Anglo-Indian, so he could at least claim Asian ancestry) and Myrna Loy (who was often bewilderingly cast as Asian seductresses in pre-Code movies!). I recommend it because Karloff and Loy are so much more appealing as the villains, and it wears its anti-Asian bigotry and British Imperialism so proudly on its sleeve, that the movie ends up subverting the very assumptions it's championing!
With you on THE CORE, only caught part of SPEED RACER on a miscalibrated television at Sears with "motion smoothing" on so the damned thing looked like a soap opera, vaguely heard of THAT'S ADEQUATE! but never saw it, though I did see the first two movies of the GINGER Trilogy.
Freddy Got Fingered (2001). It's really that old? Anyway, stupid fun.
I see how some people like Freddy Got Fingered but it seemed too deliberately aiming for cult movie status to me.
Adam Sand(man)ler ZZZZZ!
Speedracer was great! My only complaint is one far too common these days. It is far too long for young kids to enjoy, especially in theater seats. Sadly, far too many movies, television programs, video games and even(especially!) comic books which should be suitable for children are not. Instead they are aimed at and written for adult shut-ins that never really grew up and discovered girls.
The long kids movie thing isn't new. Happened with Doctor Dolittle in 1967, too.
Speed Racer is woefully underappreciated.
Plus, John Goodman.
Wish this guy didn't pander so much to today's supposed "standards" of what is acceptable and what supposedly isn't.
I call them as I see them. Acknowledging the flaws of the past and then reviewing movies is what I do.
@@terrytalksmovies Fair enough but reviewing movies minus the trendy social commentary would be refreshing, just sayin.
He has to point out the "evil by current standards" stuff in order to help deflect hate and accusations. It's like legal disclaimers -- just something you have to do to stay out of trouble.
@@stevenscott2136 No. It's something I do because it's the right thing to do.
@@stevenscott2136 Virtue signaling/bending the knee to the "woke" mob is the problem, fuck them.
Yellow face, red face or black face. who cares as long as the acting is good !
Anyone who isn't white and can't get a gig because a white person got the job.