To be fair, at least dildos bring some form of satisfaction to the people that use them. I'm pretty sure the same cannot be said for the movie Ghost Dad, much less Leonard Part 6. If you want to see a film with a detective/government operative storyline that has quality comedy, just watch The Naked Gun movies. Leslie Neilson knows how to do the genre justice! ^_^
@@loneronin6813 Yeah Cosby is mugging for the camera too much in this. He knew how TV comedy works but not movie comedy...and he also knew how to get away with horrific crimes.
The scene where the assassin attacks the kitchen, but the staff doesn’t bat an eye and just keeps doing their jobs, does have comedic potential. Put some line in there about “how once you’ve dealt with the Sunday brunch crowd, it takes more than some jerk with a gun to faze us” and you have a nice gag.
As a current culinary student myself, I feel it would have made more sense to take a darker route and have everyone in the kitchen either trying to get out of the way or help Leonard with whatever they have on hand-- sharp knives, spraying the floor with a dishwasher hose, grease fires, the works. There's ENDLESS gallows slapstick potential there that went unused. XD
Also, I really appreciate the way Sean deals with hot button topics. He manages to handle them compassionately and responsibly without losing a comedic edge. If I was wearing a hat, I’d take it off to him.
The Office devoted an entire episode to riffing on this movie with Michael Scott writing, producing, and starring in a homemade movie very similar to this called Threat Level Midnight. It was glorious.
@@sonicjrjr14 There were 2 Threat Level Midnight episodes, one where they just read the script and one where Michael actually makes the movie before he leaves the office. I don't think either of them were remotely similar to Leonard Part 6 though apart from being ridiculous spy thrillers.
@@Tornado1994 Not that they had a bad case, but that they promised him they wouldn't file criminal charges against him, which in turn led to Cosby taking part in depositions related to the civil cases instead of exercising his right to silence. Then prosecutors reneged on the promise and used his deposition testimony against him at trial. Sadly, even for a high-profile POS like Cosby, that's not the kind of thing prosecutors can get away with. Indeed, if they did it for Cosby it makes you wonder what they do for "ordinary" people charged with serious crimes.
@@zombiedodge1426 No mention on Stephen Collins, the Father on 7th Heaven, an admitted PEDOPHILE, who everyone ignored and brushed off. His scandal broke the SAME time as Cosby's, but because he's White, everyone OVERLOOKED this Scumbag's Confessions of Horrendous things he did to young girls.
One thing to note about the Coke product placements is that not only was Bill Cosby the spokesperson for the product, but at the time, the film's distributor, Columbia Pictures, was a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company. Why a soda manufacturer owned a movie/TV studio at one time, I will never know.
I read a book about British producer David Puttnam, who was was head of Columbia at the time. Seems that Puttnam knew the script was a stinker, but didn't dare say no to Cos because of the latter's special relationship with the Coca-Cola people who owned the studio. (After he got removed, the new team promptly agreed to make GHOST DAD.)
So Leonard Part 1: Phantom Leonard. Leonard Part 2: Leonard Tendency. Leonard Part 3: Leonarddust Crusaders. Leonard Part 4: Leonard is unbreakable. Leonard Part 5: Golden Leonard. Leonard Part 6: Stone Leonard. Leonard Part 7: Steel Leonard Run. Leonard Part 8: Lenlenlion.
@@diggerfan9319 If you watch I Hate Everything's review he shows a scene where the butler says Leonard's first five adventures are classified or something.
6:16 The birch leaves bit is a part of Swedish (Scandinavian?) sauna culture. You get hot in the sauna, you cool off in the snow, and you flagellate one another with birch branches to bring the blood up, under the skin. It's not supposed to be like a caning, more like being battered with a loofah.
Yeah, the reason why Cosby never made it as a movie star is he cannot act. His TV shows were him playing basically himself and even then they almost never did anything too heavy that would expose his lack of acting chops. He was kind of like Seinfeld, before Seinfeld. But Seinfeld knew he was not an actor, but Cosby never got that memo.
The Honorable Reverend Addison Bortion the Cosby Show was also sexist and a lot of the jokes have run their course and are super dated. But the drugging and raping his many victims take the cake!
And I don’t blame the director for this one. When big comedies come out that might be risky, a comedian might hire a first time director, that way they can not only take the fall, but they can also do whatever they’re told. Look at something like “the love guru” Mike Myers had a first time, and so far only time, director take the reins of that film. But Mike is a well-known perfectionist, so it’s not unfair to assume that they picked a first time director with no pull or ability to take full control, that way if the movie tanked, they can blame the director. This movie was Cosby doing whatever he wanted, and when he saw the final product was dog shit, I tried to find someone else to take the blame Now while the director spoke out against Cosby, who Ended up keeping their career?
The birch branches thing is actually customary in Russian style Saunas. It’s supposed to help open up your pores or something. So that was one of the few sensible things in this movie.
I think it is because Cosby already had such a deal with Jello, that he would actually lose money by paying himself for Jello/Pudding product placement.
_Buckaroo Banzai_ did the "part 6" joke much better, and they didn't explain anything, even the watermelon, or why Pecos was in Tibet. Or who Pecos was.
@@SlyDante It was the 'Pluto Nash' of the '80s, a massive turd of a genre comedy that lost a ton of money. So does "So Fine," "Yes Giorgio," "Jinxed," "The Survivors," "Stroker Ace," "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3," "Crackers," "Swing Shift," "City Heat," "Best Defense, "Rustlers' Rhapsody," "Bad Medicine," "Clue," "A Fine Mess," "The Best of Times," "Ishtar," "Campus Man," "The Garbage Pail Kids Movie," "Surrender," "The Squeeze," "Sweet Hearts Dance," "Switching Channels," "Arthur 2," "She's Having a Baby," "Caddyshack 2," "Hot to Trot," "MAC and Me," "My Stepmother is an Alien," "Big Top Pee-wee," "Bert Rigby, You're a Fool," "Troop Beverly Hills" & "The Big Picture".
Speaking of talented people who worked on his awful films, did you notice that the director of photography for Leonard 6 is Jan DeBont - the guy who directed Speed.
And the next movie he photographed was Die Hard. Fortunately his cinematographic style worked much better for that film since it was an action film/thriller while this was meant as a comedy and just looks unpleasant. Also maybe helps Die Hard took place almost entirely in one location, so more visual unity.
2:24 wow... Jan DeBont was the Director of Photography? Well.. at least he went on to do better things. 12:15 and that would be Darla from THE CROW. She also played Clarence Worley's almost date in the beginning of TRUE ROMANCE.
"Well.. at least he went on to do better things." Yeah, like directing Speed 2, which was also nominated for a Razzie. And he was nominated for Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. But he lost to Kevin Costner and The Postman in all the categories.
@@sammohunk But Jan took many breaks from cinematography to directing since 1966 with notable hits like Speed, Twister, The Haunting and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life.
One of his good movies wasn't mentioned here: 'Mother, Jugs, and Speed.' It was the story about a chaotic EMT service, and featured Cosby drinking beer at the wheel of his ambulance. Track it down, it's pretty good.
Gloria has been acting since 1964's The Cool World and all the way through here with 2003's The Matrix Reloaded. This was her final film role. She died in 2002 in New York City at the age of 67.
I saw this once. I get the feeling that Cosby wanted to do some kind of experimental comedy different than anything he had ever done before, and was probably so hyped up on his success that he believed he could pull it off. As the review said, nobody would tell him otherwise and he made his train wreck.
18:05 OMG....1987 had a mother lode of bad films. Aside the other nominees including Ishtar, Who's That Girl, and Jaws 4, there were snubs including Master of the Universe, Superman 4, and The Garbage Pail Kids movie. There might have been more
1987 was kind of a meh year for movies anyway. The biggest film of the year was freaking "Three Men and a Baby." At least "Predator" came out that summer.
James Foley among with co writer Ken Finkelman, several producers, as well as numerous artists and technicians were parted ways with 1987’s Who’s That Girl and replaced Howard Zieff and his long time collaborators behind House Calls, The Main Event, Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours, The Dream Team and the My Girl franchise.
I just learned at 2:25 that this movie's director of photography was Jan De Bont, the director of Speed and Twister among others and the director of photography of Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October and Basic Instinct among others.
CAN you? Can you really look at the stuff he did and still enjoy anything he’s in now? Also, “Even If”? You’re playing devil’s advocate so hard, the Devil is telling you this is a bad idea.
Our system IS fucked, do to the fact so many (innocent) men are convicted for crimes they did not commit, while the women who’ve accused them are the ones who get to walk off Scott-free!
The ultimate "great cinematographer and legendarily awful movie" combo is Janusz Kaminski and "Cool As Ice." Admittedly he was just getting started in Hollywood at the time. I *love* that several TH-cam compilations of Kaminski's work include "Cool As Ice" scenes. When you watch the movie now you come away thinking he's literally the only person involved in the production who was even trying.
@@zombiedodge1426 He was fired off from the project after he and helmer David Kellogg were clashing and hating each other's guts. So were the production designer Nina Ruscio, editorial consultant Caroline Biggerstaff, editor Debra Goldfield, casting directors Nina Axelrod, Nancy Nayor and its entire crew, including the post-production sound crew were also fired from the 1991 movie All of them were replaced. "Cool as Ice" has been honored a MTV Movie Award Nomination in 1992. A Carolco/Le Studio Canal Plus/IndieProd/Industry Entertainment/BBS Production, A Universal/AFD Release.
I had to look it up, I had never heard of it. I read the synopsis, and....jesus fuck is it bad. I can't even imagine having to sit through that garbage. Poor, poor Sean...
6:48 "Fish that bark like dogs"? Aw heck, the Three Stooges had already done that gag 28 years prior, and did it far better! Shemp: "Oh boy, a dogfish!" Larry: "I hope it ain't got fleas!" [gets poked in the eyes by Moe] Oh, and the villain being a female African-American health fanatic? That had already been done in the obscure 1970s comic book The Gormandizer.
But he was an Emmy and Oscar winning legend has been scoring several projects since 1955. But more than that, Elmer Bernstein was also been blacklisted in Hollywood and by 1958, his music career in Hollywood was revitalized starting with "Some Came Running" at Warner Bros-Seven Arts and continues until 2003.
Hey, Smeghead, has Rambo: First Blood Part II been so far the ”least worst” Razzie-award winning film you’ve reviewed? Also, that Joe Arpaio quip at 4:15-4:17 was a great burn.
Rambo First Blood Part 2 has earned a 1986 Oscar nomination for best sound effects editing as well as a 1986 MPSE Golden Reel Award nomination for best sound editing - dialogue and ADR. A Carolco Production, A Columbia - Delphi lll Release. Released on Friday August 23, 1985 with its full widescreen format - 2.55:1.
Leonard...Part 6. There is nothing more I can add here that you didn't say, nor I when I reviewed it back in 2017. When it makes "Pluto Nash" look "watchable" in comparison? Then ya know ya got a turkey on yer hands. I...LOVED...IT. Leonard: Part 6? Six ****** (out of 5). Best film of all time
Another reason for the Coke product placement, they were the parent company of the film's distributor Columbia Pictures at the time (before they sold it off to Sony in 1989). Oh and I notice the DP is one Jan de Bont. This was before he hit it big as cinematographer for 'Die Hard' and director of 'Speed'.
Steel Magnolias, Music Box, Total Recall, Narrow Margin, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2, Basic Instinct and Cliffhanger were the biggest hits in Sony's history.
You also left out the fact that Columbia Pictures was owned by Coca-Cola at the time. The failure of this and a few other films would eventually lead to them getting sold to Sony.
@@Tornado1994 I was just starting to pay attention to the business side of Hollywood in the late eighties, and I remember Columbia being in a really bad slump around that time. They released "Ishtar" the same year as this! Even "Ghostbusters II" seriously underperformed, and they didn't get a huge hit until "City Slickers" in 1991. Even now I find them to be the most inconsistent Hollywood studio. It seems hard to believe the same company made the Spider-Verse movies *and* "Morbius."
@@zombiedodge1426 After a string of flops such as Leonard Part 6, Ishtar, Little Nikita, Vibes, Fresh Horses, Lock-up et cetera... Sony was looking for a string of hits and sleepers such as Rambo 3, Red Heat, Iron Eagle 2, The Big Blue, Troop Beverly Hills, She's Out of Control, Winter People, Ghostbusters 2, When Harry Met Sally, The Music Box, Steel Magnolias, Total Recall, Lord of the Flies, The First Power, Flatliners, Postcards from the Edge, Pacific Heights, Narrow Margin, Air America, Jacob's Ladder, L.A. Story, The Doors, My Girl, Quicksilver, City Slickers, T2, Boyz n the Hood, Hook, The Prince of Tides, Bugsy, Daniel Petrie's Article 99, Basic Instinct, A League of Their Own, Universal Soldier, Mo' Money, Howard's End, Thunderheart, Husbands & Wives, Love Field, Married to It (co-produced with Focus Features), A Few Good Men, Chaplin, Groundhog Day, Amos & Andrew, Cliffhanger, Last Action Hero, In the Line of Fire, Sleepless in Seattle, Poetic Justice, Posse, Kalifornia, True Romance, Calendar Girl, Nowhere to Run, Geronimo: An American Legend, The Remains of the Day, Philadelphia, My Girl 2 and more.
Right? I sat through Jaws: The Revenge AND Superman IV: The Quest for Peace in one afternoon, of my own free will, and yet I have never been able to make it through more than a couple of minutes of this crap-tank.
@EbberDeeMills I saw it on Netflix a while ago, and I think it had the ending where the shark gets stabbed. I heard about the other ending and I thought that was the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It felt like they had the shark explode in that version only because it happened in the first film, except THAT makes much more sense in the plot.
@EbberDeeMills I saw the "Mario dies, shark impaled" version in the theater and that was bad enough, but the utter screaming nonsense of the alternate "unexplained detonation" ending (recycling footage from the original Jaws AND featuring the "Mario lives" cast splashing around in the worst studio tank get-up I've ever seen) makes me curse like a sailor and want to break furniture. (EDIT: Looking at UnknownThomasFan1 's comparison video, I realize the same studio tank, with the stained "sky" and water splashing on the "horizon," appears in the theatrical cut as well. So...bonus rage, I guess?)
At least Ishtar has fans AND is getting reanalyzed as an alright comedy with an unintentionally bloated budget (since Coca-Cola wanted to get some of those funds in Morocco, while Elaine May and Columbia Pictures' original plans to shoot the film in California would've only cost $25 mil at most). You don't see that with Leonard Part 6. Maybe it could've worked had Cosby been better at writing off-the-wall surrealist humor and alternative comedy as a means to point out the inherent absurdity in spy pictures, but like you said, it's not his forte. At all. In any known universe. He's trying so hard to be Joe Dante - or to be like an early Woody Allen parody film - but it's like he saw the random-at-first-glance jokes in Gremlins and Sleeper and thought that any random thing will do in his picture. Also it kinda helps that Cosby turned out to be a monster AND Elaine May's career was destroyed by the heads at Columbia because Ishtar wasn't successful.
Yes. Martin Scorsese,Edgar Wright,Quentin Tarantino,Lena Durnham and many others are fans of Ishtar... and "Leonard part 6"...well...family guy mentioned It?
@@1997residente I'm a fan of Ishtar as well I especially love how everything builds up at the end to the point where the CIA has to bankroll the careers of two very untalented lounge musicians because those two got one up on them And there's a ton of heart in it. It kind of reminds me of Mikey and Nicky in how it's about these two dudes trying to cope with a harsh world that keeps pushing them down Also blind camel
@@MrChaotic4 I concur. COCKTAIL is perfect escapist entertainment: imagine being Cruise's friend, just hanging out with hot ladies in the Caribbean, having a good time through the melodrama. Why CADDYSHACK II didn't get the award is beyond me. I've seen the Snob's review and it is bad.
You wanna hear something strange? Not only did Tom Cruise star in that film, the Worst Picture winner of the year, but also Rain Man, the Best Picture winner of the year.
@@gageperuti5519 I have to wonder if that didn't play a big part in COCKTAIL winning, because after going to Wikipedia and looking at the list of films up for "Worst Picture", COCKTAIL should not have won. I mean, how is COCKTAIL _worse_ than MAC AND ME _and_ CADDYSHACK II?!
@@gageperuti5519 Similarly, in 2009, Sandra Bullock won Worst Actress for All About Steve and Best Actress for The Blind Side in the same year. She actually accepted her Razzie in person and handed out copies of All About Steve to the audience in attendance. And those are pretty much the only copies of the movie that anybody owns.
I suspect that Cosby thought that the dumbest parts of this movie were hilarious spoofs of the weird parts of spy movies. He was wrong. I saw this movie when I was about 11, and thought I was missing something when I didn't think it was funny. My favorite part, by far, was the crazy vegetarian lady. I also loved her as the Oracle in the Matrix movies.
You can't spoof a spoof, and the James Bond movies had already gone to clown town with all the special effects cartoonish Fatalities that weren't in Ian Fleming's books, which as far as I remember took themselves as seriously as Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum.
Ugh, 1987...that was probably a banner year for the Razzies. It was the first year every single Worst Picture nominee - Leonard Part 6, Ishtar, Who's That Girl, Jaws: The Revenge, & Tough Guys Don't Dance - each won at least one Razzie. And to point out how crowded the competition was this year, other nominees included Masters of the Universe, Superman IV, & The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. Those DIDN'T get nominated for Worst Picture, & you can actually make an argument the five that did are all worse! Anyhow, great review! I admit I would like to see more, if only because as far as I know, the only other online presence to recap this film was The Agony Booth in a text recap, which is now Patreon-only. Nostalgia Critic, Cinema Snob, many others...too horrible for them. Which again, says a lot. It should be noted that while Cosby was trashing the movie, he apparently put all the blame on the director. basically, the one major role in making the film he didn't have a part in. So it's a karmic twist that Cosby won all his Razzies, but the director didn't. Finally, if they wanted to make the "Part 6" gag work, then they also should have made direct allusions to previous adventures (beyond the bit involving cheating), sort of like Carrie Fisher's character in Blues Brothers or such. But oh, this was no Blues Brothers.
The '80s and '90s had a lot of stinkers, didn't they? I'm not going to say movies today are better than they were back then, but something like this would never get made now. And there are a lot of movies from the '90s in particular whose mere existence confounds me, whereas the only film released recently I could say that about is The Emoji Movie.
Slapping oneself with birch leaves is a Russian & Finnish thing when taking a sauna. They're dipped in cold water and you smack yourself with them to help you cool down a bit.
Anyone recognize the woman @ 7:54? She'd go on to appear in Seinfeld as Susan's (George's fiance) mother. Also, the blonde fortune teller would go on to have a regular segment in the 90s HBO comedy variety show Hardcore TV.....................and later appear in Unforgiven (1992) as the woman (forgot her character's name) who gets physically abused by Gene Hackman.
6:05 It's actually common in Russian or Finnish saunas for people to hit each other with branches of birch leaves. Supposedly, they give off an invigorating odor, sort of like aromatherapy. It's called a "banny venik", or bath broom. Still isn't funny in the movie.
It's called vihta or vasta in Finland and the point is to increase circulation. It hurts about as much as slapping yourself with a dishtowel. Or scratching. There is also versions of vihta made from juniper or nettles. The nettle one apparently helps with arthritis.
“And Ghost Dad was dildos.”
Pure poetry.
TheHeroOfTomorrow on the other hand. With the right editing it makes for a good horror movie.
To be fair, at least dildos bring some form of satisfaction to the people that use them. I'm pretty sure the same cannot be said for the movie Ghost Dad, much less Leonard Part 6. If you want to see a film with a detective/government operative storyline that has quality comedy, just watch The Naked Gun movies. Leslie Neilson knows how to do the genre justice! ^_^
@@loneronin6813 Yeah Cosby is mugging for the camera too much in this. He knew how TV comedy works but not movie comedy...and he also knew how to get away with horrific crimes.
@@loneronin6813 Leslie Nielsen is a god, I know he's dead but that makes him even more of a god. I can't think of one role I didn't like him in
@@dylankaiser5546 I agree whole-heartedly! :D
The scene where the assassin attacks the kitchen, but the staff doesn’t bat an eye and just keeps doing their jobs, does have comedic potential. Put some line in there about “how once you’ve dealt with the Sunday brunch crowd, it takes more than some jerk with a gun to faze us” and you have a nice gag.
As a current culinary student myself, I feel it would have made more sense to take a darker route and have everyone in the kitchen either trying to get out of the way or help Leonard with whatever they have on hand-- sharp knives, spraying the floor with a dishwasher hose, grease fires, the works. There's ENDLESS gallows slapstick potential there that went unused. XD
Also, I really appreciate the way Sean deals with hot button topics. He manages to handle them compassionately and responsibly without losing a comedic edge.
If I was wearing a hat, I’d take it off to him.
The Office devoted an entire episode to riffing on this movie with Michael Scott writing, producing, and starring in a homemade movie very similar to this called Threat Level Midnight. It was glorious.
Which episode was this?
@@sonicjrjr14 There were 2 Threat Level Midnight episodes, one where they just read the script and one where Michael actually makes the movie before he leaves the office. I don't think either of them were remotely similar to Leonard Part 6 though apart from being ridiculous spy thrillers.
@@sonicjrjr14 the whole 'movie' is now one youtube, just seach for 'threat level midnight'
I never put that together 🤔
@@randy5880because it wasn't inspired by Leonard Part 6. At all.
“Leonard, played by The Rapist”
Ok. That was funny.
It sure was...
Is it shameful that I laughed at that?
@@FillmGeekOfDoom I don't know! I think it might be, but I am right there with you.
Best part of the whole video hahahahaha
That's therapist, not the...oh, never mind.
"He is now behind bars."
Sadly this isn't the case anymore. Goddamn legal loopholes.
Naw, the Prosecutors had a Pretty lame case.
Everyone knows the truth - he has to live with that for eternity
@@Tornado1994 Not that they had a bad case, but that they promised him they wouldn't file criminal charges against him, which in turn led to Cosby taking part in depositions related to the civil cases instead of exercising his right to silence. Then prosecutors reneged on the promise and used his deposition testimony against him at trial.
Sadly, even for a high-profile POS like Cosby, that's not the kind of thing prosecutors can get away with. Indeed, if they did it for Cosby it makes you wonder what they do for "ordinary" people charged with serious crimes.
@@zombiedodge1426 No mention on Stephen Collins, the Father on 7th Heaven, an admitted PEDOPHILE, who everyone ignored and brushed off. His scandal broke the SAME time as Cosby's, but because he's White, everyone OVERLOOKED this Scumbag's Confessions of Horrendous things he did to young girls.
@@zombiedodge1426 So all of this is because of incompetence? Goddamn it I hate it here.
"Dancing Vegetarian Birdmen" would be an awesome band name.
I call bassist.
One thing to note about the Coke product placements is that not only was Bill Cosby the spokesperson for the product, but at the time, the film's distributor, Columbia Pictures, was a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company. Why a soda manufacturer owned a movie/TV studio at one time, I will never know.
The One Man Box Office The same reason why Sony bought it from Coca-Cola a few years later.
COLUMBIA! THE GREATEST COCA COLA COMPANY!
you'd be surprised when you look up who owns what these days
I read a book about British producer David Puttnam, who was was head of Columbia at the time. Seems that Puttnam knew the script was a stinker, but didn't dare say no to Cos because of the latter's special relationship with the Coca-Cola people who owned the studio. (After he got removed, the new team promptly agreed to make GHOST DAD.)
Ask Pepsi. Terminator 2 was a giant Pepsi commercial.
So Leonard Part 1: Phantom Leonard.
Leonard Part 2: Leonard Tendency.
Leonard Part 3: Leonarddust Crusaders.
Leonard Part 4: Leonard is unbreakable.
Leonard Part 5: Golden Leonard.
Leonard Part 6: Stone Leonard.
Leonard Part 7: Steel Leonard Run.
Leonard Part 8: Lenlenlion.
Why the hell was it part 6 to begin with?
Is that a motherfucking JoJo reference?
What a lovely Jello Pudding Snack
*smacks with a newspaper* No! Bad Jojo fan! Don't associate with Cosby!
@@diggerfan9319 If you watch I Hate Everything's review he shows a scene where the butler says Leonard's first five adventures are classified or something.
6:16 The birch leaves bit is a part of Swedish (Scandinavian?) sauna culture. You get hot in the sauna, you cool off in the snow, and you flagellate one another with birch branches to bring the blood up, under the skin. It's not supposed to be like a caning, more like being battered with a loofah.
The Russians have copied it. Probably other people who have sauna-like things.
2:24 Don't forget that Jan DeBont (director of Speed and Twister) was the DP.
This is the second time a new video gets uploaded just when I'm about to got to sleep. Dang Timezones...
I'm glad I saw Batteries Not Included instead of Leonard Part 6
Leonard Part 6. Comedy not included.
Underrated film for sure.
Damn, I remember this! And that's making me feel old...
I loved that film. Saw it as a kid made me cry even. Batteries not included should have a Blue Ray.
...fighting off vegetarians by threatening them with meat?
Guess the woman who wrote Troll 2 had some kindred spirits in Hollywood.
Sean needs to review Troll 2!
Your "Oh my God!" reaction at 15:07 was priceless!
Yeah, the reason why Cosby never made it as a movie star is he cannot act. His TV shows were him playing basically himself and even then they almost never did anything too heavy that would expose his lack of acting chops. He was kind of like Seinfeld, before Seinfeld. But Seinfeld knew he was not an actor, but Cosby never got that memo.
Clearly this would end up being the greatest stain on Cosby’s career.
Oh, wait...
@@martythetickler No, that was Ghost Dad. Bar none
The Honorable Reverend Addison Bortion dont forget the “spanish fly.”
@@andrewguerra9343 No, Ghost Dad is worse than any crime committed by man. It is an assault on the eyes, ears, mind, body and soul. 0/10
The Honorable Reverend Addison Bortion the Cosby Show was also sexist and a lot of the jokes have run their course and are super dated. But the drugging and raping his many victims take the cake!
Stewie Griffin: "And Ghost Dad was the best movie I've seen since Leonard Part 6.
What?!
I can't see the name "Leonard" without hearing how Christopher Lloyd's character says it in Food Fight
"Survival of the fittest, Leonaaaaaaard!!!!'
And I don’t blame the director for this one. When big comedies come out that might be risky, a comedian might hire a first time director, that way they can not only take the fall, but they can also do whatever they’re told. Look at something like “the love guru” Mike Myers had a first time, and so far only time, director take the reins of that film. But Mike is a well-known perfectionist, so it’s not unfair to assume that they picked a first time director with no pull or ability to take full control, that way if the movie tanked, they can blame the director. This movie was Cosby doing whatever he wanted, and when he saw the final product was dog shit, I tried to find someone else to take the blame
Now while the director spoke out against Cosby, who Ended up keeping their career?
These are really good reviews - why not a million hits?
There's always room for jello!
“He is now behind bars.”
Well, that didn’t age well.
Wait he’s out? He’s should be in jail for life!
The birch branches thing is actually customary in Russian style Saunas. It’s supposed to help open up your pores or something. So that was one of the few sensible things in this movie.
Thank you for teaching me something new.
Now I want to see you tear "Ghost Dad" a new one too....
🤣 I'm just trying to figure out why "dildoes" is insulting when they bring so much joy and much less harm than the serial abuser
😊
Additionally there are no consent issues and the women are usually awake while handling such contraptions...
It is a funny word.
No joke, as soon as I saw the thumbnail I let out an audible “Oh no!”
Thank God, thank God!!! I've been waiting for this for a long time!!
I think it is because Cosby already had such a deal with Jello, that he would actually lose money by paying himself for Jello/Pudding product placement.
This film is one big fever dream. Things just change from one to another with little to no explanation.
Saying this movie and Ghost Dad are dildos is an insult to dildos which bring far more joy to people's lives.
_Buckaroo Banzai_ did the "part 6" joke much better, and they didn't explain anything, even the watermelon, or why Pecos was in Tibet. Or who Pecos was.
Buckaroo Banzai: He doesn't rape people. 😇
Spaceballs also did the joke better than this crap, starting at Chapter 11.
There was a toy tie-in with Ponderosa restaurants.
And a tie-in with the Action Max VHS console (yes, there was such a thing). All because Coca-Cola owned Columbia Pictures and Worlds of Wonder toys.
So Leonard escapes Medusa's lair on an ostrich that flies?
Ostriches. Don't. Fly.
This movie is one of the greatest bombs of all times.
I forgot it existed
It was the Pluto Nash of the '80s, a massive turd of a genre comedy that lost a ton of money.
That movie and Ishtar was a major reason why Coca-Cola sold Columbia Pictures to Sony a few years later.
@@Yeen125 It was October of 1988, Columbia, TriStar, Triumph, Screen Gems, and Metro Goldwyn Mayer are finally sold to
Sony Pictures Entertainment.
@@SlyDante It was the 'Pluto Nash' of the '80s, a massive turd of a genre comedy that lost a ton of money. So does "So Fine," "Yes Giorgio," "Jinxed," "The Survivors,"
"Stroker Ace," "Smokey and the Bandit Part 3," "Crackers," "Swing Shift," "City Heat," "Best Defense, "Rustlers' Rhapsody," "Bad Medicine," "Clue," "A Fine Mess," "The Best of Times," "Ishtar," "Campus Man," "The Garbage Pail Kids Movie," "Surrender," "The Squeeze," "Sweet Hearts Dance," "Switching Channels," "Arthur 2," "She's Having a Baby," "Caddyshack 2," "Hot to Trot,"
"MAC and Me," "My Stepmother is an Alien," "Big Top Pee-wee," "Bert Rigby, You're a Fool," "Troop Beverly Hills" & "The Big Picture".
I never ever ever cared for Cosby. Never fooled me. Never humored me.
The part 6 gang reminded of The Naked Gun 2 1/2.
I found it haha-weird when I saw it as a kid.
0:00 Low key ProJared roast.
I see you're a man of culture
I never thought of ProJared as funny.
ProJared looks like a horrifying live action Steven Universe adaptation that someone didn’t do a good job of burying.
welcome to early 2019
Next time, we move from an egotistical tv star, to an egotistical movie star.
But at least that egotistical movie star actually makes good movies now and then and seems to be one of the only guys in Hollywood who isn't a rapist.
Gage Peruti let me guess, Kevin Spacey?
Gage Peruti Nah. He’s just a part of a wacky space cult.
Speaking of talented people who worked on his awful films, did you notice that the director of photography for Leonard 6 is Jan DeBont - the guy who directed Speed.
Don't forget Twister.
Yep, and the person responsible for the effects also worked on Ghostbusters and Big Trouble in Little China.
And the next movie he photographed was Die Hard. Fortunately his cinematographic style worked much better for that film since it was an action film/thriller while this was meant as a comedy and just looks unpleasant. Also maybe helps Die Hard took place almost entirely in one location, so more visual unity.
@@GamerGuysReviews That's Richard Edlund of ILM & EEG's Boss Film Studios unit.
“Speed” was his only good movie.
Ipso Facto outfit looks like it waa for another film that never got produced, like the rest of the props in this film.
2:24 wow... Jan DeBont was the Director of Photography? Well.. at least he went on to do better things.
12:15 and that would be Darla from THE CROW. She also played Clarence Worley's almost date in the beginning of TRUE ROMANCE.
And medusa was played by the oracle in "Matrix"
"Well.. at least he went on to do better things."
Yeah, like directing Speed 2, which was also nominated for a Razzie. And he was nominated for Worst Director and Worst Screenplay. But he lost to Kevin Costner and The Postman in all the categories.
He was also originally supposed to direct Godzilla 1998 instead of Roland Emmerich.
@@sammohunk But Jan took many breaks from cinematography to directing since 1966 with notable hits like Speed, Twister, The Haunting and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life.
@@billybarnett9518 Jan was dropped out and replaced by Roland Emmerich.
13:45
“HEY KIDS, IT’S MARTY SCURLL!”
I figured you would have made an Endgame Vlog by now.
And it probably would have 3 hours...
One of his good movies wasn't mentioned here: 'Mother, Jugs, and Speed.' It was the story about a chaotic EMT service, and featured Cosby drinking beer at the wheel of his ambulance. Track it down, it's pretty good.
And Hollywood can suck it! Words of wisdom right there and very relevant considering what they're doing nowadays.
Gloria Foster? The Oracle? Well, better things would come . . . one day
Gloria has been acting since 1964's The Cool World and all the way through here with 2003's The Matrix Reloaded. This was her final film role.
She died in 2002 in New York City at the age of 67.
I saw this once. I get the feeling that Cosby wanted to do some kind of experimental comedy different than anything he had ever done before, and was probably so hyped up on his success that he believed he could pull it off. As the review said, nobody would tell him otherwise and he made his train wreck.
Avant-garde/ Experimental 101:
David Lynch: A+
Bill Cosby: F
Others: A- to C- but still better than Cosby!
Bill Cosby watched Monty Python once and thought "I could do that"
I think this guy's reviews of these awful movies are funny and entertaining.
18:05
OMG....1987 had a mother lode of bad films. Aside the other nominees including Ishtar, Who's That Girl, and Jaws 4, there were snubs including Master of the Universe, Superman 4, and The Garbage Pail Kids movie.
There might have been more
There were good films that year including The Living Daylights.
1987 was kind of a meh year for movies anyway. The biggest film of the year was freaking "Three Men and a Baby."
At least "Predator" came out that summer.
James Foley among with co writer
Ken Finkelman, several producers,
as well as numerous artists and
technicians were parted ways with
1987’s Who’s That Girl and replaced
Howard Zieff and his long time
collaborators behind House Calls,
The Main Event, Private Benjamin,
Unfaithfully Yours, The Dream Team
and the My Girl franchise.
I remember going to video city and they had a big cardboard cutout of Leonard part 6 where he's holding a globe,the hell?
The odd Travolta movie, The Fanatic, has credits oddly reminiscent of those for Leonard Part 6…
Two more months until Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier.
Cassidy Jay Williams he already reviewed it though
Michael Ugwueke
That was actually Star Trek the Motion Picture.
Heeeeeeey! You did really well on this. Proud of you :)
Well, Thank You!
I just learned at 2:25 that this movie's director of photography was Jan De Bont, the director of Speed and Twister among others and the director of photography of Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October and Basic Instinct among others.
Even if Cosby did terrible things, You can still appreciate his works that he did in the past. This is not one of them.
CAN you? Can you really look at the stuff he did and still enjoy anything he’s in now?
Also, “Even If”? You’re playing devil’s advocate so hard, the Devil is telling you this is a bad idea.
This is a bad take.
Cierra Townsend If you mean the other guy’s take, I agree.
@@Torterra625 I think you didn't read properly... (or a comment is missing, wouldn't be the first time I'd be confused by that) 😯
The man never did "terrible things", the women who accused him of said things are EXTORTIONIST HAGS, plain and simple.
3:45 Sean, Maybe they bought the TV rights back in the states... Because they aired it regulary here in Argentina during the mid 90's.
I feel as though this channel has been manipulated by TH-cam. This guy should’ve been at a million subscribers.
ENJOY THE SCHADENFREUDE. this is the best warning screen cinematic excrement has ever shown. Epic.
Who’s here after Cosby got off scot free? Our system is fucked yo
Our system IS fucked, do to the fact so many (innocent) men are convicted for crimes they did not commit, while the women who’ve accused them are the ones who get to walk off Scott-free!
@@liampatrick3110 except ya know Cosby did in fact do it
@@poker8100 Uh, no I don’t, and neither do YOU. And why? Because there’s no goddamn EVIDENCE of it!
Saw it in theater when I was 12...I was really excited...I'm so uncool.
Just discovered your channel on my newsfeed today . Subscribed!
I think i remember seeing this when it came. damn i had forgetten all about and this reactivated my memory. how do i unforget now?
That background music in the beginning...I've heard that before. On another show about movies. Ever listen to the Late Seating podcast?
I didn't know Jan DeBont was the DoP on this turd. At least he bounced back with Speed.
It's a toss up as to whether this or Roar was his most painful on set experience. And he got his scalp torn off on Roar.
Also the next movie he worked on was Die Hard.
The ultimate "great cinematographer and legendarily awful movie" combo is Janusz Kaminski and "Cool As Ice." Admittedly he was just getting started in Hollywood at the time.
I *love* that several TH-cam compilations of Kaminski's work include "Cool As Ice" scenes. When you watch the movie now you come away thinking he's literally the only person involved in the production who was even trying.
@@zombiedodge1426 He was fired off from the project after he and helmer David Kellogg were clashing and hating each other's guts.
So were the production designer Nina Ruscio, editorial consultant Caroline Biggerstaff, editor Debra Goldfield, casting directors
Nina Axelrod, Nancy Nayor and its entire crew, including the post-production sound crew were also fired from the 1991 movie
All of them were replaced. "Cool as Ice" has been honored a MTV Movie Award Nomination in 1992. A Carolco/Le Studio Canal Plus/IndieProd/Industry Entertainment/BBS Production, A Universal/AFD Release.
So the next movie is “Cocktail”, huh?
Like this comment if you’ve never even heard of that movie
Who’s in the mood for listening to The Beach Boys?
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I had to look it up, I had never heard of it. I read the synopsis, and....jesus fuck is it bad. I can't even imagine having to sit through that garbage. Poor, poor Sean...
This only tells us you are young.. not interesting or above it all.
6:48 "Fish that bark like dogs"? Aw heck, the Three Stooges had already done that gag 28 years prior, and did it far better!
Shemp: "Oh boy, a dogfish!"
Larry: "I hope it ain't got fleas!" [gets poked in the eyes by Moe]
Oh, and the villain being a female African-American health fanatic? That had already been done in the obscure 1970s comic book The Gormandizer.
00:41, My God, how could have I forgotten about that!?
(Sarcasm)
I know, right?
15:07 my reaction exactly i can sympathize Sean!
2:25 The guy who directed Speed and Twister was the DP on this stinker.
He was also the DP of Die hard and Basic Instinct.
This ain't right, you know? For 1996's Twister,
the real DP was of this picture was
Academy Award nominee Jack N. Green.
This would work better as an installment of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Elmer Bernstein did this movie's score apparently as a favour for someone at Columbia.
But he was an Emmy and Oscar winning
legend has been scoring several projects
since 1955. But more than that, Elmer
Bernstein was also been blacklisted
in Hollywood and by 1958, his music
career in Hollywood was revitalized
starting with "Some Came Running"
at Warner Bros-Seven Arts and
continues until 2003.
Hey, Smeghead, has Rambo: First Blood Part II been so far the ”least worst” Razzie-award winning film you’ve reviewed? Also, that Joe Arpaio quip at 4:15-4:17 was a great burn.
Who’s Joe Arpaio?
Victor Hernandez Look for a video titled: Last Week Tonight - Joe Arpaio.
Rambo First Blood Part 2 has earned a 1986 Oscar nomination for best sound
effects editing as well as a 1986 MPSE
Golden Reel Award nomination for
best sound editing - dialogue and ADR.
A Carolco Production, A Columbia -
Delphi lll Release. Released on Friday
August 23, 1985 with its full widescreen format - 2.55:1.
Leonard...Part 6.
There is nothing more I can add here that you didn't say, nor I when I reviewed it back in 2017.
When it makes "Pluto Nash" look "watchable" in comparison? Then ya know ya got a turkey on yer hands.
I...LOVED...IT.
Leonard: Part 6? Six ****** (out of 5).
Best film of all time
always nice to see more from you Sean
Another reason for the Coke product placement, they were the parent company of the film's distributor Columbia Pictures at the time (before they sold it off to Sony in 1989).
Oh and I notice the DP is one Jan de Bont. This was before he hit it big as cinematographer for 'Die Hard' and director of 'Speed'.
Steel Magnolias, Music Box, Total Recall, Narrow Margin, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2, Basic Instinct and Cliffhanger were the biggest hits in Sony's history.
Columbia Pictures has bought by Sony on Tuesday, June 18, 1985.
You also left out the fact that Columbia Pictures was owned by Coca-Cola at the time. The failure of this and a few other films would eventually lead to them getting sold to Sony.
After a series of hits and flops, Columbia, TriStar, Screen Gems and Triumph were now sold by Sony Pictures Entertainment
in November of 1989.
@@markelijio6012 October 6, 1988. Columbia was sold to Sony in 1988.
@@Tornado1994 Thank you so much. Happy New Year 2023!
@@Tornado1994 I was just starting to pay attention to the business side of Hollywood in the late eighties, and I remember Columbia being in a really bad slump around that time. They released "Ishtar" the same year as this! Even "Ghostbusters II" seriously underperformed, and they didn't get a huge hit until "City Slickers" in 1991.
Even now I find them to be the most inconsistent Hollywood studio. It seems hard to believe the same company made the Spider-Verse movies *and* "Morbius."
@@zombiedodge1426 After a string of flops such as Leonard Part 6, Ishtar, Little Nikita, Vibes, Fresh Horses, Lock-up et cetera...
Sony was looking for a string of hits and sleepers such as Rambo 3, Red Heat, Iron Eagle 2, The Big Blue, Troop Beverly Hills,
She's Out of Control, Winter People, Ghostbusters 2, When Harry Met Sally, The Music Box, Steel Magnolias, Total Recall,
Lord of the Flies, The First Power, Flatliners, Postcards from the Edge, Pacific Heights, Narrow Margin, Air America, Jacob's Ladder, L.A. Story, The Doors, My Girl,
Quicksilver, City Slickers, T2, Boyz n the Hood, Hook, The Prince of Tides, Bugsy, Daniel Petrie's Article 99, Basic Instinct,
A League of Their Own, Universal Soldier, Mo' Money, Howard's End, Thunderheart, Husbands & Wives, Love Field,
Married to It (co-produced with Focus Features), A Few Good Men, Chaplin, Groundhog Day, Amos & Andrew,
Cliffhanger, Last Action Hero, In the Line of Fire, Sleepless in Seattle, Poetic Justice, Posse, Kalifornia, True Romance,
Calendar Girl, Nowhere to Run, Geronimo: An American Legend, The Remains of the Day, Philadelphia, My Girl 2
and more.
The car jump in the water by itself to get out of being in this movie any more.
Cinematic Excrement can you review Maleficent.
Anyone else amazed it took him this long to use the Joker clip despite this not being his first "comedy" review?
This had the same dp as the one who did Die Hard and directed Speed.
Let that sink in for a minute...
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I was watching your videos, and then this came up. This review is gonna be goooooooood.
And I thought Jaws: The Revenge was the worst film of 1987. This makes that film look like the original classic by comparison.
Right? I sat through Jaws: The Revenge AND Superman IV: The Quest for Peace in one afternoon, of my own free will, and yet I have never been able to make it through more than a couple of minutes of this crap-tank.
@EbberDeeMills I saw it on Netflix a while ago, and I think it had the ending where the shark gets stabbed. I heard about the other ending and I thought that was the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It felt like they had the shark explode in that version only because it happened in the first film, except THAT makes much more sense in the plot.
I've seen Superman 4, Jaws The Revenge AND Garbage Pail Kids and they look like MASTERPIECES compared to this crap.
@EbberDeeMills I saw the "Mario dies, shark impaled" version in the theater and that was bad enough, but the utter screaming nonsense of the alternate "unexplained detonation" ending (recycling footage from the original Jaws AND featuring the "Mario lives" cast splashing around in the worst studio tank get-up I've ever seen) makes me curse like a sailor and want to break furniture. (EDIT: Looking at UnknownThomasFan1
's comparison video, I realize the same studio tank, with the stained "sky" and water splashing on the "horizon," appears in the theatrical cut as well. So...bonus rage, I guess?)
At least Ishtar has fans AND is getting reanalyzed as an alright comedy with an unintentionally bloated budget (since Coca-Cola wanted to get some of those funds in Morocco, while Elaine May and Columbia Pictures' original plans to shoot the film in California would've only cost $25 mil at most).
You don't see that with Leonard Part 6. Maybe it could've worked had Cosby been better at writing off-the-wall surrealist humor and alternative comedy as a means to point out the inherent absurdity in spy pictures, but like you said, it's not his forte. At all. In any known universe. He's trying so hard to be Joe Dante - or to be like an early Woody Allen parody film - but it's like he saw the random-at-first-glance jokes in Gremlins and Sleeper and thought that any random thing will do in his picture.
Also it kinda helps that Cosby turned out to be a monster AND Elaine May's career was destroyed by the heads at Columbia because Ishtar wasn't successful.
Yes. Martin Scorsese,Edgar Wright,Quentin Tarantino,Lena Durnham and many others are fans of Ishtar... and "Leonard part 6"...well...family guy mentioned It?
Well, at least Elaine May's career was still focusing as an Honorary Oscar winning actress/writer and
doing the stuff that she really loves the most.
@@1997residente I'm a fan of Ishtar as well
I especially love how everything builds up at the end to the point where the CIA has to bankroll the careers of two very untalented lounge musicians because those two got one up on them
And there's a ton of heart in it. It kind of reminds me of Mikey and Nicky in how it's about these two dudes trying to cope with a harsh world that keeps pushing them down
Also blind camel
@The Isaac Baranoff Channel Sadly, Spies Like Us was Bob Hope's final film appearance. He died at the age of 100 in 2003.
Fine!
Next month: Cocktail.
At least, you don't have to review fellow nominee Caddishack 2... yet.
Cocktail is one of the least bad of the Worst Picture winners.
@@MrChaotic4 I concur. COCKTAIL is perfect escapist entertainment: imagine being Cruise's friend, just hanging out with hot ladies in the Caribbean, having a good time through the melodrama.
Why CADDYSHACK II didn't get the award is beyond me. I've seen the Snob's review and it is bad.
You wanna hear something strange? Not only did Tom Cruise star in that film, the Worst Picture winner of the year, but also Rain Man, the Best Picture winner of the year.
@@gageperuti5519 I have to wonder if that didn't play a big part in COCKTAIL winning, because after going to Wikipedia and looking at the list of films up for "Worst Picture", COCKTAIL should not have won.
I mean, how is COCKTAIL _worse_ than MAC AND ME _and_ CADDYSHACK II?!
@@gageperuti5519 Similarly, in 2009, Sandra Bullock won Worst Actress for All About Steve and Best Actress for The Blind Side in the same year. She actually accepted her Razzie in person and handed out copies of All About Steve to the audience in attendance. And those are pretty much the only copies of the movie that anybody owns.
I was waiting for this. I am not disappointed.
Where's Leonard 1 through 5 😔
Nathaniel Foga in another universe
1000 points for the Marty Scurll reference! Was not expecting that
I was laughing from the warning, thank you very much.
I suspect that Cosby thought that the dumbest parts of this movie were hilarious spoofs of the weird parts of spy movies. He was wrong. I saw this movie when I was about 11, and thought I was missing something when I didn't think it was funny. My favorite part, by far, was the crazy vegetarian lady. I also loved her as the Oracle in the Matrix movies.
You can't spoof a spoof, and the James Bond movies had already gone to clown town with all the special effects cartoonish Fatalities that weren't in Ian Fleming's books, which as far as I remember took themselves as seriously as Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum.
Dude couldn't pick a movie script to save his life.
Every once in awhile I think about Leonard 6. Several months of sheltering in place will do that to a man.
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That “OH MY GOD!!” made me laugh my ass off😂😂😂
Ugh, 1987...that was probably a banner year for the Razzies. It was the first year every single Worst Picture nominee - Leonard Part 6, Ishtar, Who's That Girl, Jaws: The Revenge, & Tough Guys Don't Dance - each won at least one Razzie. And to point out how crowded the competition was this year, other nominees included Masters of the Universe, Superman IV, & The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. Those DIDN'T get nominated for Worst Picture, & you can actually make an argument the five that did are all worse!
Anyhow, great review! I admit I would like to see more, if only because as far as I know, the only other online presence to recap this film was The Agony Booth in a text recap, which is now Patreon-only. Nostalgia Critic, Cinema Snob, many others...too horrible for them. Which again, says a lot.
It should be noted that while Cosby was trashing the movie, he apparently put all the blame on the director. basically, the one major role in making the film he didn't have a part in. So it's a karmic twist that Cosby won all his Razzies, but the director didn't.
Finally, if they wanted to make the "Part 6" gag work, then they also should have made direct allusions to previous adventures (beyond the bit involving cheating), sort of like Carrie Fisher's character in Blues Brothers or such. But oh, this was no Blues Brothers.
The '80s and '90s had a lot of stinkers, didn't they? I'm not going to say movies today are better than they were back then, but something like this would never get made now. And there are a lot of movies from the '90s in particular whose mere existence confounds me, whereas the only film released recently I could say that about is The Emoji Movie.
I was wondering when we'd see you again, welcome back.
That warning had me dying 😂😂
At least we didn't have to know about the first five Leonards.
Slapping oneself with birch leaves is a Russian & Finnish thing when taking a sauna. They're dipped in cold water and you smack yourself with them to help you cool down a bit.
Anyone recognize the woman @ 7:54? She'd go on to appear in Seinfeld as Susan's (George's fiance) mother. Also, the blonde fortune teller would go on to have a regular segment in the 90s HBO comedy variety show Hardcore TV.....................and later appear in Unforgiven (1992) as the woman (forgot her character's name) who gets physically abused by Gene Hackman.
That's Anna Levine.
@@markelijio6012 Okay, thanks for the info!
6:05 It's actually common in Russian or Finnish saunas for people to hit each other with branches of birch leaves. Supposedly, they give off an invigorating odor, sort of like aromatherapy. It's called a "banny venik", or bath broom.
Still isn't funny in the movie.
It's called vihta or vasta in Finland and the point is to increase circulation. It hurts about as much as slapping yourself with a dishtowel. Or scratching. There is also versions of vihta made from juniper or nettles. The nettle one apparently helps with arthritis.