Thanks for all the amazing comments. They warm the cockles even more than The Spear of Destiny. Housekeeping: I don't usually do TV shows, but there are always exceptions; obvious omissions tend to be down to a movie not having much to talk about or show (which isn't necesarily the same as me not liking it); and I don't know why I can't get onboard Cannon's King Solomon mine train, it's my kind of thing in every way. (Still less of an ordeal than Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.)
At 51:50 you didn't comment that the sentient knife that stabs the Hindu mystic's hand in "Anji" is in fact a ripoff of the Phurba from "The Shadow" (1994). A Phurba is a ceremonial Buddhist dagger, so this might also be some sort religious commentary on the side. Both "The Shadow" and "The Phantom" (1996) would make great examples of the proto-Batman if you ever did a "Borrowing Blockbusters" on Batman, because both characters predate the Dark Knight by either by nine years (The Shadow) or three (The Phantom).
I reckon a Bad Movie Bible set of Top Trumps Cards; points for the little Oscar and of course, the little Tommy, would be a great idea for next Christmas 👍🏻
I bet the algorithm doesn't promote these videos because of copyright strikes or potential of strikes. Because this is hilarious and supremely edited, like top notch AAA editing.
How long do you think we'll have to wait for him to do a video about the best and worst knock-offs of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy or the Harry Potter movie franchise? There are quite a few examples that never got a sequel despite the intentions of trying to create a trilogy of sorts.
I remember when it came out, in a lot of ways I liked it better than Indy. I was especially impressed by the two leads, both of whom went on to show they were among the best actors of their generation.
Also, King Solomon’s Mines and its back to back sequel are based very loosely on Allan Quatermain books. There are also two mockbusters, one by the Asylum in the 2000s and another by a British studio released to compete with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
As a Filipino I can tell you that at 41:10 the last two lines are "Terrific! Buwayatic!" "Buwaya" is "crocodile" in Tagalog with the added suffix of "tic" because all the words before it ends with "tic" and I can't believe I get to explain it in a TH-cam comment. Tito Vic and Joey movies were a staple in the 80s they churned out new movies like every other month and movie tickets were cheap. In the 90s Tito Sotto went into politics so Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon were the ones who kept making movie parodies in name only. Their formula was simple: Pick a Hollywood blockbuster concept or hit song or even just its title and mix in blue collar worker woes, rich vs poor drama, a token love interest and comedic sidekick, gay, fat and ugly jokes, a sudden song and dance number on a beach resort with whichever love team or singer was popular at that time and an action shoot out sequence in the final act in either a cooking oil factory or some rich person's mansion.
Hey, I’ve watched The Joey de Leon Starzan trilogy, which is the Pinoy answer to the two live action Disney distributed George of the Jungle movies, even though they were released years earlier in 1989 and 1990.
That Child Juicer really needs some safety / warning stickers. There's potential there for someone to really get hurt. For instance if they were wearing a tie and it got caught or a ponytail. The blood is a slipping hazard, also.
When I was a kid my family would go to Chuck-E-Cheese a lot. There was this big shredder that you'd feed all the arcade tickets you won into and it'd give you a slip of paper to get a prize. I had a lot of terrifying near misses with that machine
It definitely needs some OSHA-approved yellow warning stripes on the floor around it, too! Probably an emergency stop switch, maybe even an interlock switch to prevent the operator getting one hand caught inside. Yeah, definitely needs work.
The Ducktales movie is interestingly recursive, since the Scrooge McDuck comics are believed to have been one of the inspirations behind Indiana Jones.
Yeah I was about to throw punches when this movie was listed as being derivative. The rolling boulder gag is from the 1954 Scrooge McDuck comic, and it’s not “believed to have been one of the inspirations” Lucas and Spielberg are on record saying that they loved those comics growing up, and that it was directly influential. Anyone should look at just how “Indiana Jonesey” the old comics are and you’ll understand where all the adventure really came from.
@@davidswanson5669 I phrased it like that because I don't know if Spielberg and Lucas have *technically* acknowledged it as an Indiana Jones inspiration, though I know that they've praised the comic. (And yes, the similarities are pretty obvious.)
I find it hard to believe that "Tales of the Gold Monkey" (1982, Universal) with Stephen Collins wasn't included in this. As a 13 year old I loved the show but I guess it didn't last long.
FIRST thing I thought of, even though the producer actually pitched the idea before Raiders was made. Just this evening I was surveying a wooded lot and commented "my dog needs an eyepatch to be here..."
This just made my day! I spent yesterday sick and injured, watched all the videos from the Borrowing Blockbusters playlist during that time. Today I'm feeling better, getting to head out to work and I see this. My man, you NEVER miss! 💯🙏🏾
FYI: There are no Nazis in King Solomon's Mine. The movie is clearly set before 1918. When Germany tried colonialism like, for example, its greatest rivals France and Great Britain.
The thing with brownface/yellowface in these films, I recently learnt that although that I always knew that these films used brownface/yellowface, that the gongman at the start of Temple was a very good friend of my grandfather. MY grandfather was a farmer who got into animal wrangling at Ardmore Studios, and worked on a ton of movies from Spy who Came in from the Cold, Excalibur, Zardoz, the Fu Manchus, Hammer's the Viking Queen, the Commitments, My Left Foot, etc. And he basically befriended all the stuntmen who'd work at Ardmore, and our house became a b and b for stuntmen, and one of the lads who stayed was the gongman, Bill Reed, who was actually a big Irishman.And having watched Temple more than any other film possibly, the idea that I was watching it in my house, not realising that guy had stayed a few yards away on the other side of our garden was astonishing.
My Mrs bought me your Bad Movie Bible for Christmas (good woman). Ever since, I've been advising my mates to check out your channel so they can share in my love for terrible, terrible movies. Bravo Sir.
We had Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold on VHS when I was growing up. I always remembered thinking to myself “Why is James Earl Jones in this?”
@@CelestialWoodway it's just a variation of "tomorrow I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly" punchline, it isn't about any specific thing but someone in a bad situation (often of their choice) gets ripped for it and answers by being petty about something the one who mocked them cannot change.
@@SpaceCatttttim aware what itnis. Took latin for three years (doesnt mean i retained much, however.) Im chalking it up to spellcheck and sloppy phine typing
It's worth mentioning with "High Road to China" that Selleck was cast as Indiana Jones, but Magnum PI was picked up by CBS and he couldn't. We don't need it to imagine what Selleck would have been like as Jones. Selleck has always played Selleck. (Also there's the test footage available). It's such a common fact I wonder how many people who would care don't know it.
Magnum P.I. had an Indiana Jones episode actually. It was in season 8, episode 10, called "The Legend of The Lost Art". Tom Selleck even dressed up as Indiana Jones in it.
I think everyone knows the Selleck casting backstory at this point, but I mention it near the end when talking about the Magnum episode based on Raiders.
@@TheBadMovieBible I suspect if we look at your stats, your audience knows. I'm not sure if people under 25 would know because I'm surprised at what they don't know that an old guy like me thinks is normal.
Another great selection. Thanks for all the hard work, always a good day when there's a new one. And one of the few channels I'm excited to watch a 45+ minute video. Longer the better! :D
I got the movie Vibes on a whim and the chemistry between Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper is so perfect and great I thought "They must be friends IRL" ...looked it up.... no they hated each other and he tried to get her fired. A testament to their acting that they're still the most charming on-screen couple of the 80s.
@@TheBadMovieBiblefor everyone reading this - do go watch Vibes, then tell yourself that they started dating on set and were together for years. This the only noble lie I support
I enjoyed that movie and yeah, I was stunned at how good their chemistry was given that they hated each other... Still, they both had the impossible task of not being upstaged by Columbo.
How strange. Maybe Lauper was a prima-donna behind the scenes or something. She has a surprising amount of range as an actor, and her and Goldblum do a great job at hiding their mutual dislike. Much better than Ford and Young in Blade Runner in that it doesn't make the movie worse. Also, I'm glad I watched the movie just cause it confirmed for me that Peter Falk just IS Columbo.
How, just how did you put all this together. I can't imagine how difficult this was to research, write and cut together all the footage. Incredible amount of work and time put into this no one can possibly begin to understand not even me. Underrated channel and video.
I was literally just finishing up the Vanity Projects video again when I look in my recommended videos and not only is it a fresh Ripoffs video, but one about a series I am 110% Ride or Die for. Ooooh, this is gonna be good!
From what I recall, Tennessee Buck was mix of soft core and indigenous horror film. Imagine the shock of parents who thought it just a cheesy Indy knock-off. I never considered VIBES an Indiana Jones knock-off. Maybe it's the lack of an alpha male protagonist and all the 80's new age psychic stuff. "King Solomon's Mines" was around the WW1 era. No Not-Zees.
"But by the time the wife jumps out of Jango's coffin to machine gun the villain, I'd made peace with my ignorance." Things I'd never thought I'd hear, but I'm glad I did.
5:42 You know you've seen too many B movie reviews when you start thinking that Brandon Tenold is about to make a cameo from just the background music.
These videos are incredibly well made and this entire channel is criminally underrated. IMHO its content dwarfs many much more popular movie critic channels.
Allan Quartermain and the City of Gold was atrocious. Looped the same song every two minutes, totally wasted James Earl Jones, every prop weapon looked like it was made out of licorice. And then there’s the guy doing a Justin Trudeau cosplay.
I am a tiny bit surprised that there was no mention of 1987's Crystal Triangle, a rare anime version of an Indy knockoff. It's about a college professor who gets roped into searching for the titular artifact while fighting off the CIA, the Soviets, an ancient race of demons, and the immortal Queen Himiko. It ultimately leads him to a secret spaceship under a Japanese mountain where God (who is a giant space worm) will grant its holder the knowledge and power of the missing 11th commandment. Needless to say, it is A Lot. It is admittedly quite obscure, having only received a single English-subtitled laserdisc release in the early 1990s in the west (although uploads are freely available on TH-cam). It was no more popular in Japan than it was in the US, and the director's career was saved only by the fact that he was also the creator of the popular Dream Hunter Rem OVAs.
Rob, you are a continuing bright spark in my movie watching life. Consistently brilliant content and glorious recommendations, thank you sir. But I must ask, any other Silver Lining videos on the horizon?
I have no idea how your channel doesn't have so many more subscribers. You're putting out some of the best researched, most entertaining and most interesting documentaries in the film sphere!
Fine video, but you might have mentioned that in creating Indy, George Lucas was also influenced by the 1950s Uncle Scrooge comics that partly inspired DuckTales.
I can never watch these 'Borrowing Blockbusters' videos without instantly wanting to look up half the movies mentioned, lol. I've got the 'Videos'/'Movies and TV' Store fired up on my Xbox right now (on my other monitor) and have discovered that, for some reason, Armor/Armour of God _IS on there_ mislabeled and mis-described as Operation Condor. Very baffling! But yeah, now I have a whole bunch of stuff to look into thanks to this very, very entertaining and enlightening video. Wonderful work, as always BMB!
Sir! Your brilliant, poetic,, and alliterative introductions and their captivating delivery!!...written like the refrains of old. Legendary lexical skills my man!
Excellent video and thanks for including Chiranjeevi's two movies. The earlier ripoff 'Hero' is more of a spoof of both hollywood and bollywood movies that were popular in India, but Anji is a whole different beast. Besides few ripoff scenes from Indi movies -- the tale of 'Aatma Lingam' aka Sankara Stone is actually a mythical legend in India. The director and producer of Anji were the pioneers of early digital effects in Indian cinema. They originally slated Anji to include over 1000 blue-screen shots and even outsourced the entire visual effects to an American company, which had done all of it, but went bankrupt and closed down its offices, just 2 months before Anji's announced released. The producer of the movie knew about the shut down only when he came to the US and found their offices locked. They somehow managed to get another company and jetpacked the visual effects production in the next 2 months. Even though the story is fine, the bloated effects, shoddy reshoots didn't work and the movie bombed badly.
I hadn't seen much of Chiranjeevi before this but I loved him. Thanks for sharing, that's really interesting. To be fair the effects are no worse than in many Hollywood movies of the era
@@TheBadMovieBible In comparison, Anji is still better than bollywood's Naksha which has meterosexual men doing cringe comedy and look clean af all the time in the middle of a rain forest
Ah, that explains everything.... It's deliberately being ridiculous. You can't always tell with Bollywood, but yeah the clips here had clear parody vibes, like I can picture Leslie Nielsen running from same boulder for multiple takes shown in a row.
Romancing the Stone is not an Indiana Jones knock off. The script was written long before Raiders of the Lost Ark. It did not get made into a movie until after the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Same with the Allan Quatermain movies.
@@3baxcb True. A lot of good & bad scripts sat around doing nothing until Raiders smashed the box office records and then every lazy greedy asshole in Hollywood decided they had to copy the formula and pray for easy money. At least Romancing the Stone was fun. Those cheap Allen Quartermain films didnt live up to expectations.
This is the first time I've heard of or saw any videos from your channel on youtube. But it's quite excellent. As a side note, though, when you present you remind me of one of my favorite characters from Red Dwarf, Holly, portrayed by Norman Lovett, and I Love it.
Awesome work, as always! Charlton Heston also had that exact pre-Indy look of the fedora and leather jacket in The Greatest Show On Earth which came out two years before The Secret of the Incas. According to The Fabelmans, The Greatest Show On Earth inspired Spielberg to start making movies.
I always love these! It is absolutely incredible how many knockoffs of every blockbuster there are, and even more incredible how lovable so many of them are!
Dora and the Lost City of Gold is worth a mention as well. It mixes up the formula by making the adventurer an indigenous person & being simultaneously a parody & straight example of kidificiation.
I love this latest vid dude! My personal favorite is Temple of Doom. People say it sucks the most but your explanation of him being "More straight forward action hero" made me love the movie more. There was movie released last year in theaters that was trying to be like an Indiana Jones movie, it was called The Dial of Destiny.
I think people hate the pacing... Middle really drags on and is kind of a weird mix of drama (starving village), comedy (that dinner) and horror (snake pit)... It has a really good finale but you have to GET THERE. Also when people say it's dark, they don't just mean the subject matter... It's like Nolan or DC, their movies are physically hard to watch because of sound and light being so low.
I actually rate them Last Crusade, Temple, Raiders. Which feels like sacrilege, but I just watched the first two more as a kid. Last Crusade was both my first cinema trip and my first VHS, so it'll always be special to me.
I'm a fairly recent subscriber but I've been bingeing and catching up on content of late. Then I realized that I've owned The Bad Movie Bible for several years now. I'm not a book guy at all and that's one of maybe a half-dozen books that I've bought in 20 years at least. Great stuff, great channel!
Was hoping you’d mention Ulli Lommel’s Revenge of the Seven Stars “starring” Klaus Kinski who refused to stay in one place during shooting so they had to make his character a ghost! Love the video though, your work makes me so happy
@@TheBadMovieBible maybe you could devote a whole separate episode to it hahaha - it is definitely obscure and very weird! A lot of characters were shot in different locations and then edited together
I also saw that movie when I was a kid when it came out and I've been looking for it to watch it again. Can you tell me where you found the movie to watch it? I can't find it online anywhere.
The Armor of God movies starring Jackie Chan is a really great example of a good knockoff, it's obviously inspired by the Indy movies but it is a great funny action movie to stand on its own.
Thanks for this. I love your deadpan delivery. Reminds me of Barry Norman back in the day. Do you watch all of these movies? It must be soul destroying
King Solomon's Mines is a pretty fun movie all things considered, it helped that I watched dubbed in my country's language by VAs that can actually act unlike certain actors in that very film.
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Thanks for all the amazing comments. They warm the cockles even more than The Spear of Destiny.
Housekeeping: I don't usually do TV shows, but there are always exceptions; obvious omissions tend to be down to a movie not having much to talk about or show (which isn't necesarily the same as me not liking it); and I don't know why I can't get onboard Cannon's King Solomon mine train, it's my kind of thing in every way. (Still less of an ordeal than Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.)
At 51:50 you didn't comment that the sentient knife that stabs the Hindu mystic's hand in "Anji" is in fact a ripoff of the Phurba from "The Shadow" (1994). A Phurba is a ceremonial Buddhist dagger, so this might also be some sort religious commentary on the side. Both "The Shadow" and "The Phantom" (1996) would make great examples of the proto-Batman if you ever did a "Borrowing Blockbusters" on Batman, because both characters predate the Dark Knight by either by nine years (The Shadow) or three (The Phantom).
I reckon a Bad Movie Bible set of Top Trumps Cards; points for the little Oscar and of course, the little Tommy, would be a great idea for next Christmas 👍🏻
Please do more - your content is fantastic.
Of course Tom Selleck was going to play Indiana Jones, but "Magnum, P.I." got in the way - hence "High Road to China".
@@jpRetroGaming I've actually looked into this. Sadly it's not cheap.
One of the most underrated channels on TH-cam
Fancy seeing you here!
Always happy to see shoutouts from the bigger channels!
OMG it's Vincenzo Vinesauzo, the director of classic cult B movies such as "SPEEN 2: SPEEN HARDER" and "Capussi Please!"
hello binty
Yes binty!
I bet the algorithm doesn't promote these videos because of copyright strikes or potential of strikes. Because this is hilarious and supremely edited, like top notch AAA editing.
When the world of rip-offs and mockbusters needed him most, he returned.
Welcome back, you handsome borrowing bastard.
I don't think he's ever "gone", it's that he has to watch 100 bad films between videos.
@@kyleolson8977 Good point.
How long do you think we'll have to wait for him to do a video about the best and worst knock-offs of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy or the Harry Potter movie franchise? There are quite a few examples that never got a sequel despite the intentions of trying to create a trilogy of sorts.
Romancing the Stone is classic 90s ITV Saturday/Sunday afternoon entertainment.
Man! It seems like I watched it so many times at my grandparent's house, on cable! It seemed to always be on. LOL
I remember when Michael Douglas riding the mudslide and landing right between Kathleen Turner’s legs was considered salacious.
Saw it in Theatres, it wasso much fun!!! great movie!!
I remember when it came out, in a lot of ways I liked it better than Indy. I was especially impressed by the two leads, both of whom went on to show they were among the best actors of their generation.
It was a great movie. I was 10, perfect target audience. looking at it now it still would cater to 10 year olds.
Technically the Germans in King Solomon’s Mines are from WWI.
This just another delusional zoomer who is repeating another zoomer.
Also, King Solomon’s Mines and its back to back sequel are based very loosely on Allan Quatermain books. There are also two mockbusters, one by the Asylum in the 2000s and another by a British studio released to compete with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
As most people have expressed in comments on this video and others, thanks for your effort on these precious pieces of entertainment
These are “drop everything” videos. There’s no plans today until this is done. ❤
As a Filipino I can tell you that at 41:10 the last two lines are "Terrific! Buwayatic!"
"Buwaya" is "crocodile" in Tagalog with the added suffix of "tic" because all the words before it ends with "tic" and I can't believe I get to explain it in a TH-cam comment.
Tito Vic and Joey movies were a staple in the 80s they churned out new movies like every other month and movie tickets were cheap. In the 90s Tito Sotto went into politics so Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon were the ones who kept making movie parodies in name only. Their formula was simple: Pick a Hollywood blockbuster concept or hit song or even just its title and mix in blue collar worker woes, rich vs poor drama, a token love interest and comedic sidekick, gay, fat and ugly jokes, a sudden song and dance number on a beach resort with whichever love team or singer was popular at that time and an action shoot out sequence in the final act in either a cooking oil factory or some rich person's mansion.
Hey, I’ve watched The Joey de Leon Starzan trilogy, which is the Pinoy answer to the two live action Disney distributed George of the Jungle movies, even though they were released years earlier in 1989 and 1990.
That Child Juicer really needs some safety / warning stickers. There's potential there for someone to really get hurt. For instance if they were wearing a tie and it got caught or a ponytail. The blood is a slipping hazard, also.
When I was a kid my family would go to Chuck-E-Cheese a lot. There was this big shredder that you'd feed all the arcade tickets you won into and it'd give you a slip of paper to get a prize. I had a lot of terrifying near misses with that machine
Indeed
@@belindabountyblumenthal Infinitely scarier than the animatronics, for sure.
It definitely needs some OSHA-approved yellow warning stripes on the floor around it, too!
Probably an emergency stop switch, maybe even an interlock switch to prevent the operator getting one hand caught inside. Yeah, definitely needs work.
@@gregmark1688 You get a job from the temp agency and they send you to work at the child juicing plant twelve hours on the night shift
The Ducktales movie is interestingly recursive, since the Scrooge McDuck comics are believed to have been one of the inspirations behind Indiana Jones.
I loved that damn cartoon, not talking about the new stuff but the much older Ducktales and new video games were AWESOME!
Ducktales movie rules. Anyone who says otherwise sucks.
Even the poster is made by Drew Struzan, who made poster for several of the Indy movies.
Yeah I was about to throw punches when this movie was listed as being derivative. The rolling boulder gag is from the 1954 Scrooge McDuck comic, and it’s not “believed to have been one of the inspirations” Lucas and Spielberg are on record saying that they loved those comics growing up, and that it was directly influential. Anyone should look at just how “Indiana Jonesey” the old comics are and you’ll understand where all the adventure really came from.
@@davidswanson5669 I phrased it like that because I don't know if Spielberg and Lucas have *technically* acknowledged it as an Indiana Jones inspiration, though I know that they've praised the comic. (And yes, the similarities are pretty obvious.)
Your writing and comic timing make this the best "bad movie" channel.
YES! Time for Alan Quartermaine and the Raiders of the Public Domain
I find it hard to believe that "Tales of the Gold Monkey" (1982, Universal) with Stephen Collins wasn't included in this. As a 13 year old I loved the show but I guess it didn't last long.
FIRST thing I thought of, even though the producer actually pitched the idea before Raiders was made. Just this evening I was surveying a wooded lot and commented "my dog needs an eyepatch to be here..."
And Bring Them Back Alive.
Tales of the Gold Monkey was an amazing show and it took years for me remember the name! Props for giving it a shout out!
I'd like to throw in Relic Hunter, 'cause Tia Carrere looked good in a tank top.
beat me to it, was gonna say the same
This just made my day! I spent yesterday sick and injured, watched all the videos from the Borrowing Blockbusters playlist during that time. Today I'm feeling better, getting to head out to work and I see this. My man, you NEVER miss! 💯🙏🏾
Get well!
He’s pretty good
I hope you feel better soon. 🤒
@@onkcuf @andia6865 Thank you! Just got home so I'm about to watch the hell out of this! 😁
FYI: There are no Nazis in King Solomon's Mine. The movie is clearly set before 1918. When Germany tried colonialism like, for example, its greatest rivals France and Great Britain.
The thing with brownface/yellowface in these films, I recently learnt that although that I always knew that these films used brownface/yellowface, that the gongman at the start of Temple was a very good friend of my grandfather. MY grandfather was a farmer who got into animal wrangling at Ardmore Studios, and worked on a ton of movies from Spy who Came in from the Cold, Excalibur, Zardoz, the Fu Manchus, Hammer's the Viking Queen, the Commitments, My Left Foot, etc. And he basically befriended all the stuntmen who'd work at Ardmore, and our house became a b and b for stuntmen, and one of the lads who stayed was the gongman, Bill Reed, who was actually a big Irishman.And having watched Temple more than any other film possibly, the idea that I was watching it in my house, not realising that guy had stayed a few yards away on the other side of our garden was astonishing.
My Mrs bought me your Bad Movie Bible for Christmas (good woman). Ever since, I've been advising my mates to check out your channel so they can share in my love for terrible, terrible movies. Bravo Sir.
Thanks very much!
That communication by telephone with a diver at the bottom of the ocean is possibly the greatest terrible thing I have ever seen
We had Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold on VHS when I was growing up. I always remembered thinking to myself “Why is James Earl Jones in this?”
I am so ashamed that the 'and you'll still be bald' line got a chuckle out of me
Only the great Chuck Norris can make wonders with that line.
@@tyrannozilla more like that line is so good no one could fuck it up
@@murciadoxial8056 Especially, the Chuck.
Kind of strange comment since his best friend Louis Gosset Jr. Is also bald. 😂
@@CelestialWoodway it's just a variation of "tomorrow I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly" punchline, it isn't about any specific thing but someone in a bad situation (often of their choice) gets ripped for it and answers by being petty about something the one who mocked them cannot change.
Also.... Requiescat In Pace, Louis Gossett Jr.
Firewalker
Iron Eagle series
The Principal
......the list goes on. What an amazing actor
R.i.p
Don't forget "An officer and a gentleman" where he won an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Enemy Mine, Jaws 3D.
It's "Requiescat". You wrote that it's "necessary" for Louis to rest in peace...
@@SpaceCatttttim aware what itnis. Took latin for three years (doesnt mean i retained much, however.) Im chalking it up to spellcheck and sloppy phine typing
It's worth mentioning with "High Road to China" that Selleck was cast as Indiana Jones, but Magnum PI was picked up by CBS and he couldn't. We don't need it to imagine what Selleck would have been like as Jones. Selleck has always played Selleck. (Also there's the test footage available). It's such a common fact I wonder how many people who would care don't know it.
Magnum P.I. had an Indiana Jones episode actually. It was in season 8, episode 10, called "The Legend of The Lost Art". Tom Selleck even dressed up as Indiana Jones in it.
@@seancomrie4714 Alright.
I think everyone knows the Selleck casting backstory at this point, but I mention it near the end when talking about the Magnum episode based on Raiders.
@@TheBadMovieBible I remember watching that episode on TV as a kid and thinking "What the hell is going on here? Are they allowed to do this?"
@@TheBadMovieBible I suspect if we look at your stats, your audience knows. I'm not sure if people under 25 would know because I'm surprised at what they don't know that an old guy like me thinks is normal.
Another great selection. Thanks for all the hard work, always a good day when there's a new one. And one of the few channels I'm excited to watch a 45+ minute video. Longer the better! :D
Well, this is an unexpected treat! 😊 Another brilliant and hilariously deadpan documentary! I can’t imagine how much work these are, thank you!
You're meant to look at Mrs. Stone, not listen to her.😶🌫️
I got the movie Vibes on a whim and the chemistry between Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper is so perfect and great I thought "They must be friends IRL" ...looked it up.... no they hated each other and he tried to get her fired. A testament to their acting that they're still the most charming on-screen couple of the 80s.
I didn't know that! Damn they're good together though.
@@TheBadMovieBiblefor everyone reading this - do go watch Vibes, then tell yourself that they started dating on set and were together for years. This the only noble lie I support
I enjoyed that movie and yeah, I was stunned at how good their chemistry was given that they hated each other... Still, they both had the impossible task of not being upstaged by Columbo.
How strange. Maybe Lauper was a prima-donna behind the scenes or something. She has a surprising amount of range as an actor, and her and Goldblum do a great job at hiding their mutual dislike. Much better than Ford and Young in Blade Runner in that it doesn't make the movie worse. Also, I'm glad I watched the movie just cause it confirmed for me that Peter Falk just IS Columbo.
How, just how did you put all this together. I can't imagine how difficult this was to research, write and cut together all the footage. Incredible amount of work and time put into this no one can possibly begin to understand not even me. Underrated channel and video.
I was literally just finishing up the Vanity Projects video again when I look in my recommended videos and not only is it a fresh Ripoffs video, but one about a series I am 110% Ride or Die for.
Ooooh, this is gonna be good!
Welcome back, my man. Felt so long since the last one of these Borrowing Blockbusters videos.
In 1999 there was Relic Hunter with Tia Carrere.
That was more a Tomb Raider rip-off, which makes it kind of an Indiana Jones Grandchild knockoff
So freaking glad we get a new video! Amazing work as always!
From what I recall, Tennessee Buck was mix of soft core and indigenous horror film. Imagine the shock of parents who thought it just a cheesy Indy knock-off.
I never considered VIBES an Indiana Jones knock-off. Maybe it's the lack of an alpha male protagonist and all the 80's new age psychic stuff.
"King Solomon's Mines" was around the WW1 era. No Not-Zees.
yes Rob!! ive been watching back through your old videos over the last week or so. i cant wait to watch this!
"But by the time the wife jumps out of Jango's coffin to machine gun the villain, I'd made peace with my ignorance."
Things I'd never thought I'd hear, but I'm glad I did.
5:42 You know you've seen too many B movie reviews when you start thinking that Brandon Tenold is about to make a cameo from just the background music.
thought the same thing
These videos are incredibly well made and this entire channel is criminally underrated. IMHO its content dwarfs many much more popular movie critic channels.
It's been a while Rob. Thanks for dropping another awesome video👌👌👌
I just love this channel. Another one to infinetly rewatch.
Allan Quartermain and the City of Gold was atrocious. Looped the same song every two minutes, totally wasted James Earl Jones, every prop weapon looked like it was made out of licorice. And then there’s the guy doing a Justin Trudeau cosplay.
Amd how on earth did he melt the gold with an AXE?? 🤣
I am a tiny bit surprised that there was no mention of 1987's Crystal Triangle, a rare anime version of an Indy knockoff. It's about a college professor who gets roped into searching for the titular artifact while fighting off the CIA, the Soviets, an ancient race of demons, and the immortal Queen Himiko. It ultimately leads him to a secret spaceship under a Japanese mountain where God (who is a giant space worm) will grant its holder the knowledge and power of the missing 11th commandment.
Needless to say, it is A Lot.
It is admittedly quite obscure, having only received a single English-subtitled laserdisc release in the early 1990s in the west (although uploads are freely available on TH-cam). It was no more popular in Japan than it was in the US, and the director's career was saved only by the fact that he was also the creator of the popular Dream Hunter Rem OVAs.
Definitely not one made by Italians.
Didn't Melody Anderson stop acting after "Firewalker"? Says it all.
Self-awareness and irony are intensely overrated in movies.
Jalal Merhi related to the Merhi in Pepin Merhi Entertainment?
"DuckTales: The Movie "!
yes! always a treat when a new BMB video drops
"Indiana Jones for the profoundly undemanding" is one of the funniest series of words I've heard in my life.
Rob, you are a continuing bright spark in my movie watching life. Consistently brilliant content and glorious recommendations, thank you sir. But I must ask, any other Silver Lining videos on the horizon?
Thank you kindly. I'd like to do more Silver Linings but I think you and I might be the only ones!
Man your channel is public service. I had seen bits on some of those movies, but I could never find their titles. Thanks a ton
a new BMB video always sparks joy!
Thumbs upping immediately because this is the greatest 'bad movie' content out there AND so much more
this dude deserves more subs, love this channel!
I have no idea how your channel doesn't have so many more subscribers. You're putting out some of the best researched, most entertaining and most interesting documentaries in the film sphere!
My day has been made!
Fine video, but you might have mentioned that in creating Indy, George Lucas was also influenced by the 1950s Uncle Scrooge comics that partly inspired DuckTales.
I can never watch these 'Borrowing Blockbusters' videos without instantly wanting to look up half the movies mentioned, lol. I've got the 'Videos'/'Movies and TV' Store fired up on my Xbox right now (on my other monitor) and have discovered that, for some reason, Armor/Armour of God _IS on there_ mislabeled and mis-described as Operation Condor. Very baffling! But yeah, now I have a whole bunch of stuff to look into thanks to this very, very entertaining and enlightening video. Wonderful work, as always BMB!
I like how when he gets to Armor of God he goes "yeah not much to say here 10/10 moving on to movies I can actually make fun of"
Excellent stuff as usual. My favourite Indy knock-off is still the Terry's chocolate orange ad, though.
Sir! Your brilliant, poetic,, and alliterative introductions and their captivating delivery!!...written like the refrains of old. Legendary lexical skills my man!
Got here from Oliver's channel and I can't help but love Rob's way with words!
Excellent video and thanks for including Chiranjeevi's two movies. The earlier ripoff 'Hero' is more of a spoof of both hollywood and bollywood movies that were popular in India, but Anji is a whole different beast. Besides few ripoff scenes from Indi movies -- the tale of 'Aatma Lingam' aka Sankara Stone is actually a mythical legend in India. The director and producer of Anji were the pioneers of early digital effects in Indian cinema. They originally slated Anji to include over 1000 blue-screen shots and even outsourced the entire visual effects to an American company, which had done all of it, but went bankrupt and closed down its offices, just 2 months before Anji's announced released. The producer of the movie knew about the shut down only when he came to the US and found their offices locked. They somehow managed to get another company and jetpacked the visual effects production in the next 2 months. Even though the story is fine, the bloated effects, shoddy reshoots didn't work and the movie bombed badly.
I hadn't seen much of Chiranjeevi before this but I loved him. Thanks for sharing, that's really interesting. To be fair the effects are no worse than in many Hollywood movies of the era
@@TheBadMovieBible In comparison, Anji is still better than bollywood's Naksha which has meterosexual men doing cringe comedy and look clean af all the time in the middle of a rain forest
Ah, that explains everything.... It's deliberately being ridiculous. You can't always tell with Bollywood, but yeah the clips here had clear parody vibes, like I can picture Leslie Nielsen running from same boulder for multiple takes shown in a row.
I love everything you post, and always go back for a re-watch or three.
I just love your channel, man. Thank you!
I have a soft spot for 'High Road To China', it feels like it could be in the same universe at Raiders but the characters have their own charm.
you just pulled McGyver:Atlantis from a deep dark corridor of my psyche. To the light! from tomb to light.
I'm not even a minute into this video and I already gave it a 👍
Fantastic work, as always.
" Fighting in Trees " would be a great name for a nineties indie band ......
But which music genre?
I watched it on Patreon last week, and you bet I'm going to watch it again tonight. Amazing work as always!
Thank you!
THESE CLIPS AND YOUR COMMENTARY ARE HILARIOUS!
Romancing the Stone is not an Indiana Jones knock off.
The script was written long before Raiders of the Lost Ark. It did not get made into a movie until after the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Same with the Allan Quatermain movies.
Hmm, it’s almost as if renewed interest in the genre might have influenced the decision to make RTS, same with the 85-86 Quartermain movies.
@@ripleyjlawman.3162 and I am sure direction and sets wouldn't be the same if not Indy's influence.
That wouldn't be too surprising but neither might have never been green-lit if Raiders Of The Lost Ark was never made.
@@3baxcb True. A lot of good & bad scripts sat around doing nothing until Raiders smashed the box office records and then every lazy greedy asshole in Hollywood decided they had to copy the formula and pray for easy money. At least Romancing the Stone was fun.
Those cheap Allen Quartermain films didnt live up to expectations.
There’s also an Indiana Jones knockoff movie named Kenya Boy and its own preceding tv show, made by Toei, but both are based on a novel series.
This is the first time I've heard of or saw any videos from your channel on youtube. But it's quite excellent. As a side note, though, when you present you remind me of one of my favorite characters from Red Dwarf, Holly, portrayed by Norman Lovett, and I Love it.
I'd LOVE for you to do one on Rambo.
Awesome work, as always! Charlton Heston also had that exact pre-Indy look of the fedora and leather jacket in The Greatest Show On Earth which came out two years before The Secret of the Incas. According to The Fabelmans, The Greatest Show On Earth inspired Spielberg to start making movies.
I always love these! It is absolutely incredible how many knockoffs of every blockbuster there are, and even more incredible how lovable so many of them are!
Dora and the Lost City of Gold is worth a mention as well. It mixes up the formula by making the adventurer an indigenous person & being simultaneously a parody & straight example of kidificiation.
Another excellent video. Thank you for doing the hard work of rounding up all these knock offs.
I love this latest vid dude! My personal favorite is Temple of Doom. People say it sucks the most but your explanation of him being "More straight forward action hero" made me love the movie more. There was movie released last year in theaters that was trying to be like an Indiana Jones movie, it was called The Dial of Destiny.
Temple of Doom might be my favourite too.
I think people hate the pacing... Middle really drags on and is kind of a weird mix of drama (starving village), comedy (that dinner) and horror (snake pit)... It has a really good finale but you have to GET THERE.
Also when people say it's dark, they don't just mean the subject matter...
It's like Nolan or DC, their movies are physically hard to watch because of sound and light being so low.
I actually rate them Last Crusade, Temple, Raiders. Which feels like sacrilege, but I just watched the first two more as a kid. Last Crusade was both my first cinema trip and my first VHS, so it'll always be special to me.
Absolutely incredible, as always. I feel as if I've just watched 200 bad movies, most of which had CGI snakes
Only 62k subs!! That’s ludicrous, this channels fantastic.
Your videos are excellent. Absolute hoot. Funny, way back in the 90's you'd have your own telly show.
Thank the internet we have you now. So funny
I really enjoy your videos, found you today, and now I have watched all of your videos like this one, and I hope there are more to come.
I've been in a Indiana Jones mood for the past couple of days, seeing this video pop up is truly a blessing 👏🏻🙌🏻
Thanks for making these videos - you dig up some real gems which I would be otherwise ignorant of : )
This made my day. Thank you! I needed this 😊
"High Road to China" with Selleck was a blast! Highly recommended
Was looking for someone else to scratch my Red Letter Media itch, and i’m glad I found you! You put a lot of effort into your vids
One of the most entertaining borrowing blockbusters youve ever done!
I'm a fairly recent subscriber but I've been bingeing and catching up on content of late. Then I realized that I've owned The Bad Movie Bible for several years now. I'm not a book guy at all and that's one of maybe a half-dozen books that I've bought in 20 years at least. Great stuff, great channel!
I really needed this today. Thank you.
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos thanks
Excellent work. A lot of effort went into this.
Was hoping you’d mention Ulli Lommel’s Revenge of the Seven Stars “starring” Klaus Kinski who refused to stay in one place during shooting so they had to make his character a ghost! Love the video though, your work makes me so happy
I don't know this one, even though I love Kinski, but it looks intriguing.
@@TheBadMovieBible maybe you could devote a whole separate episode to it hahaha - it is definitely obscure and very weird! A lot of characters were shot in different locations and then edited together
Another great video! I watched Treasure of the Four Crowns when young and it took me decades to figure out title to watch again!
I also saw that movie when I was a kid when it came out and I've been looking for it to watch it again. Can you tell me where you found the movie to watch it? I can't find it online anywhere.
YES! Every new upload is like candy to me!
This video was just what I needed today. Thank you, sir.
I love the "I didn't edit this" indicator
Nice videos -- quite some, I'd never even heard of.
Thanks for the info and effort, cheers from Austria!
this remains one of the best researched and edited video series on youtube.
So much fun watching this. Thank you for all your efforts 😁
Ducktales was based on carl barks' comics which Lucas and Spielberg where bigs fans of and drew inspiration from
The Armor of God movies starring Jackie Chan is a really great example of a good knockoff, it's obviously inspired by the Indy movies but it is a great funny action movie to stand on its own.
Aw man, I gotta add even MORE to my list. Really thought I'd caught them all. At least I got most of them!
Thanks for this. I love your deadpan delivery. Reminds me of Barry Norman back in the day. Do you watch all of these movies? It must be soul destroying
King Solomon's Mines is a pretty fun movie all things considered, it helped that I watched dubbed in my country's language by VAs that can actually act unlike certain actors in that very film.
Another great video. Here in the States we had a kids' game show called Legends of the Hidden Temple in the 1990s. Very much based off Indiana Jones.