"why this scene happens in front of polar bears breaking the fourth wall" I feel confident in saying this phrase has never been uttered before in human history.
It's true. Archer is the Uber-Bond. It even pokes fun at his recklessness through his apparent awareness that he miraculously pulls through impossible odds too often.
I think that's the funniest thing about Archer. He's got such a toxic personality and such an obvious slew of mental issues, but he keeps winning because of it so he never has to change. It's self-aware of his negative sides but is also a celebration of how ridiculously awesomely fun it is.
Bless you man. Being an Indian who speaks Telugu, this was was so nostalgic to revisit Krishna's movies from 70s and 80s. The man was so committed to entertain audiences he used to sign on for more than 10 films in a single year. Besides the stylish James Bond knockoffs, he also starred in Curry Westerns which were staple of the 70s in Southern India.
wow one question are they seen as rip offs or are they parodies because in some indian version of movies i saw i had the feeling they were bad subtitled and sold as knock offs but they were intended to be sold as pariodies of the original films
In most Indian movies, you dont see this tongue in cheek self awareness that they are ripping off something popular because a lot of people from small towns and villages dont watch hollywood movies. Because these films are catering to those unknown people, they play it straight. If they do parodies, they will be a 100% parody like airplane or hot shots.
Stuck on bed rest due to covid/Pneumonia and I just discovered late last night. I've been watching all your stuff, and man, it's exactly what I've needed. You've got yourself another loyal fan. Excellent work, and thank you!!
The onslaught of gymnasts actually makes sense. It's connected to the Olympics craze that peaked in the 80s, and also the fact that so much cold war diplomacy and espionage was being done through international sports meets. For a little bit a famous gymnast really could be seen as a potential spy. Wish they'd put 'em on ice skates.
What’s weird is just how many of these eurospy films managed to have actors from the Bond series in them like Charles Gray, Luciana Palluzi, Kurd Yurgens and Adolfo Celi. Even stranger is that people cast in the unofficial Casino Royale ‘67 and Never Say Never again managed to get cast in a proper Bond film afterwards, with Angela Scoular in On her majesty’s secret service and Manning Redwood in View to a Kill.
"I'm the leader of a worldwide organisation with affiliations all over the world." Bad news, villain so keen on making sure we understand you operate on a global scale : The world is not enough.
Right at the very end, one of the most wonderful automated subtitling errors EVER: Archer is identified not as a "manwhore" but as a "manhole", a term which is so perfectly fitting as an insult that I completely forgot it's also an actual noun.
I'm friends with the guy that CGI animated Brosnan arctic kite surfing in Die Another Day. The story is fascinating, they CGI was terrible because it was a last minute decision, animated by rookies, and Brosnan had no idea what was going on or how he was supposed to me.
Have only recently discovered this brilliant channel, and as a Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, I've seen many of these good/bad films, so it's great to see someone else talking about them. 😁👌
The borrowing blockbusters series feels like something I would’ve stayed up to watch with my dad on a Saturday night. Amazing content, please keep it up.
In the film “Operación 67 with Santo, the main villain is played by Elizabeth Campbell. My mother. She’s alive and well at 85 years old, living in the Pacific Northwest. She was in several of the (rock n roll) Wrestling Women Vs…movies. She went on to be an actress in commercials and a Las Vegas show girl. Before meeting my dad and having me. Thus ending her entertainment career. I found many of her movie posters online a few years ago and had them framed. My mom finds it all pretty silly. But I think it’s awesome!
I am seriously disappointed that Blackadder never featured Rik Mayall as a 007 knock-off. Rowan Atkinson may have been Johnny English, but Lord Flashheart would have been a great James Blond.
No idea why, but this reminds me of a tongue in cheek Canadian show called Murdoch Mysteries about a turn of the twentieth century detective. It has an intermittent character who is an inept, Canadian version of James Bond who fights in a secret Cold War with America. Needless to say, it's played for laughs.
I was watching this inside a coffee shop. Had a very difficult time trying not to spew the coffee to two people sitting in the next table. I was convulsed with suppressed laughter and swelling tears. Made me recall the sensation of nearly drowning in a beach when I was 18.
These videos are all based on research I did for a book (sadly the publisher went under). There was a chapter on Kaiju clones though and one day I'll get to them!
Jesus...! I might have been 8 when I've seen "Freddie as F.R.O.7" with my class in now long defunct Kino Ognisko ("Campfire" Cinema) in Wroclaw, Poland. It somehow managed to make just enough of an impression, that I kept some very, very vague but intrusive memories of it for all the years to come. And now, after 3 decades I can put those memories to rest and FINALLY stop looking for it. A dauntless task which most probably I'd otherwise never finish, given that most if not all of my "memories" of the movie became by now misplaced pictures and stories of other amphibian-related media I've been absorbing since. Thank you!
Freddie from F.R.O.7 (or Freddie the Frog as it was called here in the U.S.) was a movie my brother and I watched a lot as kids. I have no idea how our parents came across it, other than it was probably a cheap vhs! I didn't realize until I was older how prolific the voice cast was, or its history as a flop.
If you want a DANISH Bond, I can recommend "Slå først frede": A salesman is mistaken for at seceret agent and is used to smoke out an organisation of baddies. The Salesman is s typical done to earth dane, not heroic. All the tropes are there: an unknown evil mastermind, beautiful girls, gadgets and foolery. It was made in 1965 I think and the production value is great - all great danish actors from the era is featured.
Some of these I wouldn't call 'Bond Knock-Offs', the Matt Helm movies were based on their own series of books written by Donald Hamilton, the first of which was published in 1960, and Modesty Blaise was based on a popular comic strip.
47:21 Oh yeah that reminds me that those Viking chess pieces ended up as background props in The Man with the Golden Gun. I don’t know if it was a homage or a dig at Deadlier than the male, but it’s a nice detail regardless.
You can't just namedrop The Man with One Red Shoe and not mention its much better French originals, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe and its sequel.
Completely awesome video. Great clips and commentary. The research that went into this is astounding. So many bad movies resulting in so many nightmares. Thank you for your service!
The best Bond clone is probably Lupin the third. Globe trotting Adventures, a sexy woman that is an all encompassing Bond Girl in Fujiko Mine, a stylish dressed man and master of disguise in Lupin. Bond type villains. Tricked out cars he also sometimes makes his own gadgets, he doesn't need Q. He's basically Bond but better.
lupin the 3rd is more like phantom of pink panther. well if lupin held his cool more and was older. inspector makes an appearance too. or well, arsene lupin who the 3rd is named after and phantom is done after as well I suppose, the gentleman thief.
I can't imagine Lupin III beating a man to death in a bathroom like in Casino Royale. But then again it's not super easy to imagine Moore or Brosnan's Bond doing that.
Fahrettin Cüreklibatır (8 September 1937 - 28 June 2022), better known by his stage name Cüneyt Arkın, was a Turkish film actor, director, producer and martial artist.[1] Having starred in somewhere around 300 movies and TV series, he is widely considered one of the most prominent Turkish actors of all time. Arkın's films have ranged from well-received dramas to mockbusters throughout his career spanning four decades.
I wish "The Billion Dollar Threat" was more readily accessible. Seeing Patrick Macnee in a rare turn as a supervillain would definitely make it worth a watch.
Everytime I hear about a Brandon Lee movie I get so sad that we did get to enjoy more of his work. Honestly had Brandon lived he'd probably be John Wick
It was recommended but I thought it didn't sound very Bondy. You're not alone in suggesting it as an oversight, though, so I think I'll have to chalk it up as a missed opportunity. Next time!
I Love this channel. I watch atleast once a day or just have it in the background when im doing something else. Its nostalgic, funny and incredible good made,, Thank you
Being a young Bond fan I was one of the only American kids to actually go and see Freddie as FRO7 in a theatre. I haven't been able to see it since unfortunately, but I wouldn't mind revisiting it now as an adult. I remember liking it, but there were times where I've mentioned it and no one else remembers it to where I thought I'd imagined it! After watching this I have many more titles to try and check out that I haven't seen. Big Zapper looked entertaining as hell so that's a top priority.
Fun fact. If Looks Could Kill was renamed Teen Agent in the UK, but you already knew that probably. I think it was to cash in on the Teen craze started by Teen Wolf, followed by Teen Witch.
No mention for the Eiger Sanction or The Brotherhood of the Rose I get where he was coming from with this list as a 'spy' genre but government sponsored assassins should have been included, I mean how many times did Bond ever spy on the Russians to steal top secret files? His whole thing is to be told there is a problem then murder the shit out of people. The best State sponsored assassin film made was 1990's Le femme Nakita by Luc Besson wasn't even mentioned and the second and third best ones were, Point of No Return and Atomic Blonde I would understand if they were cheap unknown films that were bad but they were excellent films and should have had a large segment dedicated to them, I mean Red Sparrow wasn't mentioned as it wasn't that good but .
@@chinabluewho It's probably just a matter of not being able to cover every single relevant film. I'm sure we could think of several decent movies he didn't include. For example: Cloak & Dagger, the 1984 film in which a government spy, played by Dabney Coleman, teams up with then-child actor Henry Thomas. I loved that movie when I was young.
Im amazed how the narrator of this can narrate without bursting into laughter. I mean iv been cracking up all the way through but here he is a consummate professional.
I actually saw HARD TICKET TO HAWAII at my hometown movie theater in 1987. I can tell you that the audience was a mix of amused and weirded out as we all thought we were going to see a nationally released film. That was the first and only night HTTH showed at the mall’s CINEMA 4.
Matt Helm novels were early parodies of the James Bond style stories. It's fitting to know that Ian Fleming took inspiration from his experience at the OSS in his Bond novels intended to mock earlier spy novels
I'm really glad you managed to squeeze in "Freddie as F.R.0.7," because I've seen that film several times as a kid, and it was always the most strange film I was renting from the library back in the early 2000s. It's also vastly more bizarre than the Bond-esque parts of the plot would lead you believe.
@@FilmmakerJ Yeah. the fact he's prince to an apparently medieval kingdom, but he leaves the frog pond he went to after being transformed by his aunt and its apparently the modern day. Oh, and he's a six-foot human-frog, but becomes a top agent for French Intelligence, despite standing out as a horrifying freak and thus breaking one of the biggest rules of intelligence service, that one does not stand out.
@@weldonwin Absolute madness. I've never seen a more bonkers story attempted for a feature film except for maybe "Buckaroo Banzai," but that's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek nutty.
We had a number of Bondian inspired films here in Egypt. For example There's the 1969 crime/espionage film "الشيطان" El Shaitan (The Devil), starring onscreen tough-guy Farid Shawqi. Another 1969 Bond inspired film starring Farid Shawqi, " العميل77" El Ameel 77 (Agent 77), which is a more lighthearted film as he shares the billing with popular three-man comedy team, Tholathy Adwa Al Masrah (The Spotlight Theatre Trio) And there's 1989's " العميل 13" Al-Ameel Raqam 13 (Agent No.13), a spy parody starring Egyptian comedian, Mohamad Sobhi I had links to the films but TH-cam removed the comment. I've watched some of the German Kommissar X films and I enjoyed them, also I do remember one of the Lemmy Caution (the protagonist of 1965's French New Wave neo-noir film Alphaville) films, "Lemmy pour les dames" dabbled in some of the Bond tropes 77
4 words you didnt touch at all: Secret Agent Super Dragon. I have memorized every line from MST3k version. Joe Don Baker, who was actually in 3 bond movies, was also in SASD.
@greyone308 - Starring Ray Danton, right? I remember seeing an SASD trailer when, many years ago, I went to the cinema to see a blaxploitation movie called "Slaughter", with Jim Brown (which, to some extent, is also a Bond rip-off)!
This video is genius. Delivery, writing, editing, selection of material...plus I haven't p###ed myself laughing in so long. Having grown on up Bond and his knock offs, it's great to see a proper no holds barred revisionism of the spy thriller/fantasy/p##s take legacy over the last century of the silver and not so silver screen. Plus having met yourself and got a signed copy of 'The Bad Movie Bible' years ago makes me appreciate the comical genius of this video even more. Still value that meeting and the discovery of that volume to this day... and I've met Roger Moore!!!! 👍😊
The guy doing the dance sequence in Lady Janes bond looks like his outfit was based on a tunnocks tea cake wrapper🤣 i am perfectly aware that reference may be lost on a few....
Double O 007 or whatever it was staring Sean Connery's brother better be here. Y'know that movie did have one neat idea: a hero with hypnotism. Make for an interesting lead if he were the underdog in a political thriller, kind of like Lelouch from Code Geass.
I just found and subscribed to your channel this week. Thank you for mentioning "Deadly Spygames"! I'm really kind of shocked that movie isn't as well known as other ego projects like "Geteven". It's like a Neil Breen origin story for "Double Down"...now you know how he got all the medals.
I love this movie. Such a shame it isn't better known. I'd love to speak to Jack M Sell. He seems like the kind of guy who's relaxed enough to take the joke.
@@TheBadMovieBible That would be great. I'd love to know about how he shot the chase scene for "Psychotronic Man". No permits...and it's impressive the way it was shot and put together.
This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. From the subtle sarcasm with a hint of admiration, the deadpan delivery, and all the absurd movies.
Yes to all of that
Are you referring to all the bad movies or the automaton hosting the program?
Both. Automaton, lol
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"Who'd need a freelance rapist?" is some kind of line.
"why this scene happens in front of polar bears breaking the fourth wall"
I feel confident in saying this phrase has never been uttered before in human history.
It's true. Archer is the Uber-Bond. It even pokes fun at his recklessness through his apparent awareness that he miraculously pulls through impossible odds too often.
I think that's the funniest thing about Archer. He's got such a toxic personality and such an obvious slew of mental issues, but he keeps winning because of it so he never has to change. It's self-aware of his negative sides but is also a celebration of how ridiculously awesomely fun it is.
Archer is the worst aspects of Bond, combined with Napoleon Solo, and a dash of Flashman.
Bless you man. Being an Indian who speaks Telugu, this was was so nostalgic to revisit Krishna's movies from 70s and 80s. The man was so committed to entertain audiences he used to sign on for more than 10 films in a single year. Besides the stylish James Bond knockoffs, he also starred in Curry Westerns which were staple of the 70s in Southern India.
I came to really like him watching these movies. Such charisma!
wow one question are they seen as rip offs or are they parodies because in some indian version of movies i saw i had the feeling they were bad subtitled and sold as knock offs but they were intended to be sold as pariodies of the original films
In most Indian movies, you dont see this tongue in cheek self awareness that they are ripping off something popular because a lot of people from small towns and villages dont watch hollywood movies. Because these films are catering to those unknown people, they play it straight. If they do parodies, they will be a 100% parody like airplane or hot shots.
@@TheBadMovieBible goodachari has been rebooted in 2018 to massive commercial success. Krishna lives again!
This channel is criminally underrated
"They began to film in glorious... Jesus... 'Colour'"
Your dry wit kills me everytime.
Typhoon the Baboon legitimately having a more impressive career than his human co-star is amazing.
🤣🤣
These videos are out of this world. Please never stop making them.
A true masterclass in obscure movies curation.
You are doing amazing work buddy.
“They started filming him in glorious...(Jesus!)... color”
And I love that the Bond vehicle keeps changing as it moves around the map
"Who'd need a freelance rapist?" made me laugh for 10 straight minutes.
The french foreign legion?
“Hunter’s Breen-like lack of self-awareness” is a genius line
One of the pilot movies for The Six Million Dollar Man was a Bond type movie. Even had Dusty Springfield singing the theme.
Technically “Never Say Never Again” COULD be considered a Bond knock-off (even if it has Connery in it) 🧐
Same goes for the 1960s version of Casino Royale.
Stuck on bed rest due to covid/Pneumonia and I just discovered late last night. I've been watching all your stuff, and man, it's exactly what I've needed. You've got yourself another loyal fan. Excellent work, and thank you!!
Cheers!
This is just wonderful. I love the global perspective. You're doing a great service to film history.
"STOP FINGERING THAT F***ING PIANO!"
My new favorite clip. Well done.
The onslaught of gymnasts actually makes sense. It's connected to the Olympics craze that peaked in the 80s, and also the fact that so much cold war diplomacy and espionage was being done through international sports meets. For a little bit a famous gymnast really could be seen as a potential spy. Wish they'd put 'em on ice skates.
What’s weird is just how many of these eurospy films managed to have actors from the Bond series in them like Charles Gray, Luciana Palluzi, Kurd Yurgens and Adolfo Celi.
Even stranger is that people cast in the unofficial Casino Royale ‘67 and Never Say Never again managed to get cast in a proper Bond film afterwards, with Angela Scoular in On her majesty’s secret service and Manning Redwood in View to a Kill.
"I'm the leader of a worldwide organisation with affiliations all over the world." Bad news, villain so keen on making sure we understand you operate on a global scale : The world is not enough.
"Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure ". ❤
I'm glad you mentioned 'O.K. Connery'. A classic.
I cannot tell you how happy I am for this. Well done, as always!
Thanks, Scott!
Right at the very end, one of the most wonderful automated subtitling errors EVER: Archer is identified not as a "manwhore" but as a "manhole", a term which is so perfectly fitting as an insult that I completely forgot it's also an actual noun.
"The only real loser is the notion of copyright" ❤ love it
Without doubt, this is an awesome documentary. Hilarious clips, fantastic jokes and sharp analysis. Kudos, sir, kudos.
I'm friends with the guy that CGI animated Brosnan arctic kite surfing in Die Another Day. The story is fascinating, they CGI was terrible because it was a last minute decision, animated by rookies, and Brosnan had no idea what was going on or how he was supposed to me.
Have only recently discovered this brilliant channel, and as a Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, I've seen many of these good/bad films, so it's great to see someone else talking about them. 😁👌
After a long hard day, nothing makes happier than dry British wit & facts about film history.
The borrowing blockbusters series feels like something I would’ve stayed up to watch with my dad on a Saturday night. Amazing content, please keep it up.
In the film “Operación 67 with Santo, the main villain is played by Elizabeth Campbell. My mother. She’s alive and well at 85 years old, living in the
Pacific Northwest. She was in several of the (rock n roll) Wrestling Women Vs…movies.
She went on to be an actress in commercials and a Las Vegas show girl. Before meeting my dad and having me. Thus ending her entertainment career.
I found many of her movie posters online a few years ago and had them framed. My mom finds it all pretty silly. But I think it’s awesome!
I am seriously disappointed that Blackadder never featured Rik Mayall as a 007 knock-off. Rowan Atkinson may have been Johnny English, but Lord Flashheart would have been a great James Blond.
No idea why, but this reminds me of a tongue in cheek Canadian show called Murdoch Mysteries about a turn of the twentieth century detective. It has an intermittent character who is an inept, Canadian version of James Bond who fights in a secret Cold War with America. Needless to say, it's played for laughs.
I was watching this inside a coffee shop. Had a very difficult time trying not to spew the coffee to two people sitting in the next table. I was convulsed with suppressed laughter and swelling tears. Made me recall the sensation of nearly drowning in a beach when I was 18.
Have you thought of covering King Kong & Godzilla knock-offs? There's plenty to choose from. You could even put them in one video.
These videos are all based on research I did for a book (sadly the publisher went under). There was a chapter on Kaiju clones though and one day I'll get to them!
@@TheBadMovieBible I would love to see your book reprinted under a different publisher
@27:15 I love how you casually inform us which is the 'Bond' costume. 🤣🤣🤣
The line read at 50:26 had me howling. And that shootout from No. 1 of the Secret Service looked so fun. Like Bond meets Revolver Ocelot.
Jesus...!
I might have been 8 when I've seen "Freddie as F.R.O.7" with my class in now long defunct Kino Ognisko ("Campfire" Cinema) in Wroclaw, Poland. It somehow managed to make just enough of an impression, that I kept some very, very vague but intrusive memories of it for all the years to come. And now, after 3 decades I can put those memories to rest and FINALLY stop looking for it. A dauntless task which most probably I'd otherwise never finish, given that most if not all of my "memories" of the movie became by now misplaced pictures and stories of other amphibian-related media I've been absorbing since.
Thank you!
God damn that Secret Service one had thirty shots in those five shot revolvers.
Freddie from F.R.O.7 (or Freddie the Frog as it was called here in the U.S.) was a movie my brother and I watched a lot as kids. I have no idea how our parents came across it, other than it was probably a cheap vhs! I didn't realize until I was older how prolific the voice cast was, or its history as a flop.
If you want a DANISH Bond, I can recommend "Slå først frede": A salesman is mistaken for at seceret agent and is used to smoke out an organisation of baddies. The Salesman is s typical done to earth dane, not heroic. All the tropes are there: an unknown evil mastermind, beautiful girls, gadgets and foolery. It was made in 1965 I think and the production value is great - all great danish actors from the era is featured.
Pretty much a mix of 'Olsen-banden' and James Bond.... 🤣
Your delivery is so deadpan yet so funny. You, my friend, are a genius.
Some of these I wouldn't call 'Bond Knock-Offs', the Matt Helm movies were based on their own series of books written by Donald Hamilton, the first of which was published in 1960, and Modesty Blaise was based on a popular comic strip.
Exactly. And Bond in turn was based on prior Spy/Detective novels, Bulldog Drummond meets Mike Hammer.
47:21 Oh yeah that reminds me that those Viking chess pieces ended up as background props in The Man with the Golden Gun. I don’t know if it was a homage or a dig at Deadlier than the male, but it’s a nice detail regardless.
You can't just namedrop The Man with One Red Shoe and not mention its much better French originals, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe and its sequel.
Completely awesome video. Great clips and commentary. The research that went into this is astounding. So many bad movies resulting in so many nightmares.
Thank you for your service!
"My copy had no subtitles, so I'm not sure why people keep exploding." OMG I'm dying. 😂😂😂
The tall blonde with the black shoe is a master piece!
Very funny tragicomedy with an incredible soundtrack.
I'm from Argentina and watching our dearest Sandro in the list was unexpected and funny as hell, all at the same time.
The best Bond clone is probably Lupin the third. Globe trotting Adventures, a sexy woman that is an all encompassing Bond Girl in Fujiko Mine, a stylish dressed man and master of disguise in Lupin. Bond type villains. Tricked out cars he also sometimes makes his own gadgets, he doesn't need Q. He's basically Bond but better.
lupin the 3rd is more like phantom of pink panther. well if lupin held his cool more and was older. inspector makes an appearance too.
or well, arsene lupin who the 3rd is named after and phantom is done after as well I suppose, the gentleman thief.
Lupine the third is following the literary figure of Arsene Lupin written even before Bond.
@@christianemden7637 I know but if you look up interviews with his creator, Monkey Punch, he used to talk about the influence Bond had on Lupin.
I can't imagine Lupin III beating a man to death in a bathroom like in Casino Royale.
But then again it's not super easy to imagine Moore or Brosnan's Bond doing that.
I love Lupin The Third, the franchise mix good humor with globe growing adventures, plus he is a one woman man deep inside.
"Kraftwerk fighting John Barry" That gave me a chuckle
Fahrettin Cüreklibatır (8 September 1937 - 28 June 2022), better known by his stage name Cüneyt Arkın, was a Turkish film actor, director, producer and martial artist.[1] Having starred in somewhere around 300 movies and TV series, he is widely considered one of the most prominent Turkish actors of all time. Arkın's films have ranged from well-received dramas to mockbusters throughout his career spanning four decades.
4:45 The long anticipated fight between Debbie Harry and Linda Ronstadt 😂
That was superb! You are to be applauded for dredging through that dross to extract the worst bits! Outstanding!
I wish "The Billion Dollar Threat" was more readily accessible. Seeing Patrick Macnee in a rare turn as a supervillain would definitely make it worth a watch.
Everytime I hear about a Brandon Lee movie I get so sad that we did get to enjoy more of his work. Honestly had Brandon lived he'd probably be John Wick
Yeah! A real- life John Wick!
Thank you for mentioning What's Up Tiger Lily. Remember seeing that in the Seventies and nearly dying laughing.
Fantastic. The most sublimely dry narration too. I can even forgive you forgetting 'Three Kinds of Heat'.
It was recommended but I thought it didn't sound very Bondy. You're not alone in suggesting it as an oversight, though, so I think I'll have to chalk it up as a missed opportunity. Next time!
@@TheBadMovieBible not a problem mate - there were much more exciting films to cover. Three Kinds of Heat is terrifically dull.
This has to be one of the most undersubscribed channels on YT.
I Love this channel. I watch atleast once a day or just have it in the background when im doing something else. Its nostalgic, funny and incredible good made,, Thank you
Being a young Bond fan I was one of the only American kids to actually go and see Freddie as FRO7 in a theatre. I haven't been able to see it since unfortunately, but I wouldn't mind revisiting it now as an adult. I remember liking it, but there were times where I've mentioned it and no one else remembers it to where I thought I'd imagined it! After watching this I have many more titles to try and check out that I haven't seen. Big Zapper looked entertaining as hell so that's a top priority.
I love the jewel thief dogs. They look so sweet and gentle.
Fun fact. If Looks Could Kill was renamed Teen Agent in the UK, but you already knew that probably. I think it was to cash in on the Teen craze started by Teen Wolf, followed by Teen Witch.
Eerie fact. I went on my first date to see the movie that, to me, is absolutely called Teen Agent.
@@TheBadMovieBibleI must admit "If Looks Could Kill" is a better title in my opinion.
So many gems in this subgenre!
Colossal work, thanks.
27:15 killed me. DAMN IT.
Your dry humour is fantastic XD
I was so gutted you didn't include Bill Cosby's Leonard 6 on this... Still an absolute blast!😂👌🏻
No mention for the Eiger Sanction or The Brotherhood of the Rose
I get where he was coming from with this list as a 'spy' genre but government sponsored assassins should have been included, I mean how many times did Bond ever spy on the Russians to steal top secret files? His whole thing is to be told there is a problem then murder the shit out of people.
The best State sponsored assassin film made was 1990's Le femme Nakita by Luc Besson wasn't even mentioned and the second and third best ones were, Point of No Return and Atomic Blonde
I would understand if they were cheap unknown films that were bad but they were excellent films and should have had a large segment dedicated to them, I mean Red Sparrow wasn't mentioned as it wasn't that good but .
@@chinabluewho It's probably just a matter of not being able to cover every single relevant film. I'm sure we could think of several decent movies he didn't include. For example: Cloak & Dagger, the 1984 film in which a government spy, played by Dabney Coleman, teams up with then-child actor Henry Thomas. I loved that movie when I was young.
Just found your channel and I have to say it's amazing! Your videos deserve so many more views. Thank you.
1:48 barney's dead eyes
4:20 unusually proactive insurance agent
7:22 gene simmons
7:38 barley watchable calamities
9:19 best ninja
The child sidekick in Gudachari 117 is Krishna's son in real life and is currently a leading star in Telugu film industry.
Thank you for including Dragon Lives Again! Ironic as Enter the Dragon is probably the best Bond knock off ever.
42:03 Im presuming that’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang getting destroyed by the train. Nice in joke 😂
Im amazed how the narrator of this can narrate without bursting into laughter. I mean iv been cracking up all the way through but here he is a consummate professional.
I was not ready for this.
The Our Man Flint movies were so good because James Coburn did tongue in cheek so well!
@17:59 _"Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure."_
Now *that's* a perfect byline! How did I miss spying this collection before? Thank you!
Sounds like the tagline for an Indiana Jones nock-off...
I actually saw HARD TICKET TO HAWAII at my hometown movie theater in 1987. I can tell you that the audience was a mix of amused and weirded out as we all thought we were going to see a nationally released film. That was the first and only night HTTH showed at the mall’s CINEMA 4.
the jewel thieve dogs almost had me fall off the chair laughing. my own dog however was intrigued.
One of the funnest and best curated channels on Earth. Well done man!
Thank you!
I have only “Too hot for June” to add but you offered a lot of interesting suggestions to search and watch! Very good job!
'Kraftwerk fighting John Barry'...
... is NOT an image I'll get out of my head anytime soon!
that gunfight at the 52:35 mark with the spinning guns had me pissing myself
One of the things these movies seem to do, is to make the villains in actual Bond-movies look normal and grounded
Matt Helm novels were early parodies of the James Bond style stories.
It's fitting to know that Ian Fleming took inspiration from his experience at the OSS in his Bond novels intended to mock earlier spy novels
I actually thought for a second you were going to talk about the first James Bond 1956 Barry Nelson
I'm really glad you managed to squeeze in "Freddie as F.R.0.7," because I've seen that film several times as a kid, and it was always the most strange film I was renting from the library back in the early 2000s. It's also vastly more bizarre than the Bond-esque parts of the plot would lead you believe.
You mean like the title character being a human-frog hybrid, who is apparently centuries old and has literal magic powers?
@@weldonwin ...and is the Prince to a kingdom that has been left frozen in time?
Yes.
@@FilmmakerJ Yeah. the fact he's prince to an apparently medieval kingdom, but he leaves the frog pond he went to after being transformed by his aunt and its apparently the modern day. Oh, and he's a six-foot human-frog, but becomes a top agent for French Intelligence, despite standing out as a horrifying freak and thus breaking one of the biggest rules of intelligence service, that one does not stand out.
@@weldonwin Absolute madness. I've never seen a more bonkers story attempted for a feature film except for maybe "Buckaroo Banzai," but that's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek nutty.
7:31 That’s the scariest I’ve ever seen Chuck Norris.
We had a number of Bondian inspired films here in Egypt.
For example There's the 1969 crime/espionage film "الشيطان" El Shaitan (The Devil), starring onscreen tough-guy Farid Shawqi. Another 1969 Bond inspired film starring Farid Shawqi, " العميل77" El Ameel 77 (Agent 77), which is a more lighthearted film as he shares the billing with popular three-man comedy team, Tholathy Adwa Al Masrah (The Spotlight Theatre Trio)
And there's 1989's " العميل 13" Al-Ameel Raqam 13 (Agent No.13), a spy parody starring Egyptian comedian, Mohamad Sobhi
I had links to the films but TH-cam removed the comment.
I've watched some of the German Kommissar X films and I enjoyed them, also I do remember one of the Lemmy Caution (the protagonist of 1965's French New Wave neo-noir film Alphaville) films, "Lemmy pour les dames" dabbled in some of the Bond tropes 77
Wow, what a collection of good bad Bond knockoffs! So much to love here, but my favourite part is the comments about the films. Thanks!
4 words you didnt touch at all: Secret Agent Super Dragon. I have memorized every line from MST3k version. Joe Don Baker, who was actually in 3 bond movies, was also in SASD.
@greyone308 - Starring Ray Danton, right? I remember seeing an SASD trailer when, many years ago, I went to the cinema to see a blaxploitation movie called "Slaughter", with Jim Brown (which, to some extent, is also a Bond rip-off)!
Why doesn't this video have 100k views? such a must see channel for any cinephile!
This video is genius. Delivery, writing, editing, selection of material...plus I haven't p###ed myself laughing in so long. Having grown on up Bond and his knock offs, it's great to see a proper no holds barred revisionism of the spy thriller/fantasy/p##s take legacy over the last century of the silver and not so silver screen. Plus having met yourself and got a signed copy of 'The Bad Movie Bible' years ago makes me appreciate the comical genius of this video even more. Still value that meeting and the discovery of that volume to this day... and I've met Roger Moore!!!! 👍😊
"Unfortunate competence!" Oh gods thank you so much! I nearly had an accident....
The guy doing the dance sequence in Lady Janes bond looks like his outfit was based on a tunnocks tea cake wrapper🤣 i am perfectly aware that reference may be lost on a few....
Laser Mission is awesome! Thanks for the cheat sheet to other great bad Bonds! Subscribed!
Double O 007 or whatever it was staring Sean Connery's brother better be here. Y'know that movie did have one neat idea: a hero with hypnotism. Make for an interesting lead if he were the underdog in a political thriller, kind of like Lelouch from Code Geass.
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Your videos are incredible. That's some quality editing and compilation. Your channel seriously deserves to take off.
Why are there only 300 likes after 11 months... This is gold
Great job, man! That’s no small amount of work and dedication. Much respect.
I just found and subscribed to your channel this week. Thank you for mentioning "Deadly Spygames"! I'm really kind of shocked that movie isn't as well known as other ego projects like "Geteven". It's like a Neil Breen origin story for "Double Down"...now you know how he got all the medals.
I love this movie. Such a shame it isn't better known. I'd love to speak to Jack M Sell. He seems like the kind of guy who's relaxed enough to take the joke.
@@TheBadMovieBible That would be great. I'd love to know about how he shot the chase scene for "Psychotronic Man". No permits...and it's impressive the way it was shot and put together.
I was an extra In "The Order of the Black Eagle" I remember when Steve got hurt that night.