Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

On the note of tonight's movie, to me, it seems I made a net wrong choice. If I'd known that Bonsai would be alone 'again', I would have joined, even if I was bored to death in the process. But these things happen.

On a different note, Sean hinted that we might rerun The Apple eventually (possibly only for John and I to see the reasons it was given an X), and I was wondering if there are other movies that could be rerun, most specifically The Wall and UHF, the former because the infamous "review" from the Nostalgia Critic made me want to watch the real version and the latter because I wanna watch it again with a group (Galaxina I didn't mind missing because I saw it relatively recently). Thoughts?

We watched UHF over this past summer, so that's probably a bit to early to revisit. The Wall, on the other hand, we haven't seen in quite a few years, so that one would be more likely. However, with Halloween season approaching in another week, it'll probably have to wait until November, at the earliest. Anyway...

Oh, HO-OH-HOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo...

This Kung Fu Friday, we're running The Blazing Temple—the story of 106 surviving disciples of Shaolin who emerge from the ashes of their burning temple and exact revenge on the tyrant emperor who sought to destroy them.

Starring a young Carter Wong (from Big Trouble in Little China) as the emperor.

Class, tonight we're going take a field trip to The Blazing Temple. Please keep all hands and feet inside the vehicle until the tour is finished. Remember, fire is hot and it can burn!

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It got a ★. Nothing at all to say. None of the characters had character, as Norm put it.

Edited by BonsaiForest on Oct 4th 2019 at 9:29:33 AM

I know we dig the hell out of Marat/Sade, starring the incredible Dame Glenda Jackson. We also got a kick out of Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm () not too long ago. Mix those two together along with Oscar Wilde's Salome and a Whitechapel brothel and you have Salome's Last Dance, yet another of those obscure arthouse films that the critics couldn't give a crap about.

For some context, here's late director Dan Ireland, who produced some of Russell's films including Salome and White Worm.

I'll have to keep that one in mind.

Anyway, what we have here tonight... Uh, Bonsai, I'm curious to know how you came across this one. The basics appear to be a movie about some college guys who create their own dating app to score with women... and George Hamilton is around for some reason.

This is called Swiped...

I forget how I rediscovered it recently, but I do remember hearing about it a few years ago and how bad it was. Though I don't remember what I saw that told me about it.

Alright, we're kicking off with more of Nathan Barley.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, this movie gets Swiped (most likely "swiped left").

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So tonight, we roll out a peculiar low-budget 80's action flick about a man who gets revenge on his sister's killers... who, in the course of doing so, discovers that the killers were part of a multi-millionaire's "death game," where someone is hunted through the streets of Los Angeles by teams of killers who get a big-money prize for bagging the quarry. And, now, our "hero" suddenly finds that he's become a target in said game.

Submitted for your approval, here comes Death Chase...

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Oct 6th 2019 at 12:33:08 PM

Tonight, join us on a Death Chase!

Before that, though, we're speedrunning Medan in the pre-show.

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So tonight's movie I really can't wait to share.

I would dare to argue that this could deserve bold letter distinction, but I'll concede that this movie makes it very easy to argue otherwise.

The most "polite" way I can hype this is "Faces of Death disguised as a movie with something a bit more meaningful to say."

The most "straightforward" way I can describe this is "An exploitative documentary (shockumentary) about post-WWII death and violence in America."

Produced by Japan, this movie basically runs through isolated incidents of violent crime, mass shootings, serial killings, and assassinations (to name a few) to frame a larger, general picture of the United States as "A Land of A Million Guns" where death and carnage are simply accepted parts of everyday life. While a bit has changed in the nearly 40 years since this was made (and its late-70's "grindhouse style" will certainly date a lot of it), parts of it still have resonance today.

Submitted for your approval, I give you The Killing of America.

And a word of caution, this movie actually does contain several instances of authentic REAL GORE and acts of violence captured on camera (including the infamous Zapruder Film, which the producers paid $20,000 to put in the movie). Even the trailer is not for the faint of heart...

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Oct 7th 2019 at 1:27:08 PM

aww yeah

Appropriate enough for a night like this... We'll begin with some uncomfortable "mondo" food gorn. One being cRiT1KaL's recent discovery of Kay'sGoodCooking and another video from Vice in the literal sense.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, join us for the sensational, controversial "shockumentary" The Killing of America.

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Serving up a novel double-header over the next two nights.

At one point in time or another, you may or may not have heard in passing of a "legendarily awful" movie by the title of Lambada: The Forbidden Dance. However, no such single movie actually exists. The truth is there are two separate movies that were made around the exact same time to cash in on the same "dance craze", managed to get released on the same day... and are more or less equally terrible. One was simply called Lambada while the other became The Forbidden Dance, after the producers of Lambada successfully forced the latter movie to remove the word "Lambada" from its own title (FYI, the original full title was The Forbidden Dance is Lambada).

Now, we'll be getting around to both of these movies and check them out for ourselves, starting with the "worse" of the two movies, which isn't JUST about dancing but also shoehorns a narrative about preserving the Amazon rainforest.

Produced by Menahem Golan (without his cousin, Yoram Globus), whose appreciation for music and dance movies we should ALL now be very familiar with, after the The Apple and two Breakin' movies.

Directed by Greydon Clark of Uninvited (say no more)!

Starring Laura Harring of Mulholland Drive, Richard Lynch... and Sid Haig as an Amazon witch doctor (which also makes tonight our own memorial tribute, after his passing two weeks ago).

I give you The Forbidden Dance...

Alright, we're kicking off with the final episode of Nathan Barley.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we boogie down with The Forbidden Dance, from the director of Uninvited!

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Now for more of the same tonight, with less concern for saving the rainforest (pity): Lambada.

As if the competition between this and last night's movie wasn't tight enough, yesterday I mentioned that The Forbidden Dance was produced by Menahem Golan of Cannon Films and directly responsible for the Breakin' movies. Meanwhile, tonight's movie actually was one of Cannon Films' final movies and even features Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones from the Breakin' films.

Another suggestion, hoo boy it's a juicy one. This is definitely something for after Halloween.

In the Southwest, a sheriff struggles to keep his small town clean. His old friend is now a drug kingpin vying for the love of the sheriff's girlfriend. To add to the trouble, a screwed-over black ops unit comes to town seeking revenge on said kingpin.

An ode to Sam Peckinpah, adapted from a story by John Milius, directed by Walter Hill, starring (drooling yet?) Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, Rip Torn, and William Forsythe.

This is Extreme Prejudice.

!!!!!

Anyway, hop on in for a pre-show with cRiT1KaL, Everything Is Terrible... and some kind of "religious conspiracy" video which may or may not be sincere (Poe's Law).

Then, at the top of the coming hour, get ready to boogie down again to the Lambada.

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So Blizzard Entertainment, Tiffany's, the NBA, and now FIFA are bending over for the Chinese government. We should watch something in the aftershow about this. It's really getting very disgusting.

I seriously need to watch this.

Anyway, tonight we're revisiting the horrendously awful "Christian Horror" movie about masturbating/bringing pornography to an overnight youth retreat (or something). I just remember it being astoundingly awful: The Lock-In.

No trailer or clips, but do enjoy this TOTALLY UNRELATED trailer to another cheap horror movie with a very similar name:

Edited by SeanMurrayI on Oct 10th 2019 at 11:27:41 AM

~Mystic Ecclectic ~Tropers/{{iflewaway}

...I'm sure you guys have been dying to treat your ears to this one for a few weeks now: Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," sung by David Hasselhoff in collaboration with Al Jourgensen and Ministry...

But is it "better" than Revolting Cocks' cover of Olivia Newton John's "(Let's Get) Physical"?

~Mystic Eclectic

~iflewaway

Jeez, I'm 0 for 2.

Okay, tonight, we're going to The Lock-In.

But we're gonna get there by riding on an Infinity Train.

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