Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is
Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And today we're
Speaker 1: getting the team back together. Or I guess we're not
Speaker 1: getting the team back together because they were never together before.
Speaker 1: So we're getting the team together in the first place,
Speaker 1: because Rob, is this our first example of a a
Speaker 1: turbo team or dream team style movie of the of
Speaker 1: the genre where you have a specialist of several different
Speaker 1: kinds and they combine forces to go on a mission together.
Speaker 1: It might be it's a It's one of these genres
Speaker 1: that I think is easy to take for granted because
Speaker 1: it's such a core aspect of the Marvel cinematic universe,
Speaker 1: from the Avengers to Guardians of the Galaxy. It's also
Speaker 1: a key part of our sort of role playing Dungeons
Speaker 1: and Dragons sense of adventure. You have a diverse group
Speaker 1: that's brought together. Everybody has their own skill set. Uh,
Speaker 1: they come from different backgrounds, different species even, and you
Speaker 1: know a lot of that's probably based on the sort
Speaker 1: of blueprint provided by the Fellowship of the Ring. Ah. Yes,
Speaker 1: so you have a warrior king and a wizard and
Speaker 1: an elf archer and uh, well, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: guess a lot of what the various parties in The
Speaker 1: Fellowship do is is basically fight in one way or another.
Speaker 1: But that's also true of some of these dream team
Speaker 1: turbo team type movies. There are people who just fight
Speaker 1: with different Uh I don't know, weapons or specialties. You'll
Speaker 1: have like an explosives expert or somebody who has a sword.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, good heist movie, right well, or even more
Speaker 1: to the point, a terrible heist movie will will inevitably
Speaker 1: have this, uh this as part of the plot. You
Speaker 1: gotta bring it, you gotta have your safe cracking dude,
Speaker 1: you gotta have your heavy weapons dude for some reason,
Speaker 1: and so forth. It's a proven formula. Why question it.
Speaker 1: So what is the specific movie we're looking at to
Speaker 1: a It is a nineteen eighty six film called Eliminators. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going back to six with this one, a banner
Speaker 1: year for genre films, and we're also going back to
Speaker 1: the filmographies of Peter Manougian and producer Charles band. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I think Manougian is the first
Speaker 1: director we've come back to for a second film on
Speaker 1: Weirdout Cinema, though certainly we've covered multiple films produced by
Speaker 1: such names as Charles Band, Roger Corman, et cetera. And
Speaker 1: of course we've come back to different films featuring some
Speaker 1: of the same actors. Oh yeah, Arena. Manugian did Arena
Speaker 1: the the space alien boxing movie. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you've yet monster m m A where it had like
Speaker 1: a human fighter getting into punching matches with giant squid
Speaker 1: and stuff. Uh, that was a fun one, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go right ahead and say there is
Speaker 1: no contest whatsoever. Arena was a better movie than Eliminators,
Speaker 1: though you can see the connective stissue. You can see
Speaker 1: some of this, some some more themes. You know, they're
Speaker 1: both films feature cyborgs, and both films feature star trek actors. Uh,
Speaker 1: so they have a lot in common. Now, for those
Speaker 1: of you out there who are on the edge of
Speaker 1: your seats wondering, I know, I know, I know, But
Speaker 1: will there be boats in this movie? You can rest assured. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and if you don't believe me, you can consult
Speaker 1: one of the nine stills from the film included on
Speaker 1: the back cover of the VHS box. Uh, there is
Speaker 1: photographic guarantee there will be gratuitous watercraft in this movie.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, there there are a lot of boats
Speaker 1: in this film. Oh so many boats. About fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: in I started getting the feeling that this is going
Speaker 1: to be one of those movies where the title actually
Speaker 1: doesn't feature in the movie at all. And what do
Speaker 1: you know, my fears were well founded. In fact, the
Speaker 1: team of eliminators in this movie are never called eliminators
Speaker 1: by anyone. They never refer to themselves as eliminators. None
Speaker 1: of what they're doing could really all that easily be
Speaker 1: described as eliminating. I guess they're sort of on a
Speaker 1: mission against a guy. Maybe they're trying to eliminate his
Speaker 1: evil doings. But overall, I would just say that the
Speaker 1: title of this movie is a more or less random word,
Speaker 1: and if you were to go by primary themes, a
Speaker 1: more appropriate title for this film would have been either Mann,
Speaker 1: droid or boats. Yes. Um, Now, if if you want
Speaker 1: an elevator, pitch that that sells you on the elimination
Speaker 1: aspect of this picture. Uh, really, the back of the
Speaker 1: VHS box does it? Because this is what it says
Speaker 1: in a hidden fortress concealed by impenetrable jungle dwells, dr
Speaker 1: Abbott Reeves a brilliant but devious scientist who has the
Speaker 1: power to create and the will to destroy. He must
Speaker 1: be eliminated. There you go. And who is going to
Speaker 1: do this eliminating? Well, it's obviously going to take a
Speaker 1: team off eliminateurs, I guess so. Oh. And the the
Speaker 1: poster or the front cover of the VHS tells you
Speaker 1: exactly who's doing the eliminating, because it says there's a
Speaker 1: period between all these words man, droid, mercenary, scientist, ninja,
Speaker 1: each one a specialist. Together they are eliminators. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have I have a framed copy of this poster. By
Speaker 1: the way, it is a beautiful poster. And I remember
Speaker 1: seeing the VHS box art and I remember thinking it
Speaker 1: looked amazing like this. This encapsulates everything I wanted to see,
Speaker 1: uh in the the eighties and nineties, you know, But
Speaker 1: somehow I didn't which And I have no idea how
Speaker 1: I avoided actually watching this movie renting in at some point.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there was something about it. It seems slightly
Speaker 1: too grown up for me as a child, like Oh
Speaker 1: that looks cool, but I don't know, I dare not
Speaker 1: though ultimately it's a pretty pretty harmless film for the
Speaker 1: most part. Yeah, it is rated p g Uh would
Speaker 1: you say that it has mature themes but not adult
Speaker 1: themes or the other way around? Actually, I guess i'd
Speaker 1: say it has neither. Well, I mean, there's a Erica
Speaker 1: who steals a smooch um. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: badly behaving characters. Yeah, has Also there's a lot of boats.
Speaker 1: I don't know, ready to b for boat, I guess.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but this poster is brilliant because mainly, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some people in the background with some guns and
Speaker 1: some knives. There's a tiny floating robot that you can
Speaker 1: barely see, but mainly the man droid center stage. It's
Speaker 1: this brilliant, just glistening uh, you know, clearly half human
Speaker 1: half machine. And then also he's like a tank centaur,
Speaker 1: like his lower half appears to just be like tank treads.
Speaker 1: It's it's beautiful, beautiful to behold. I also like imagining
Speaker 1: the design conversation that went into the back cover of
Speaker 1: the VHS, because it's like, Okay, which of these stills
Speaker 1: from the movie should we include over the synopsis and
Speaker 1: the answer is all what all nine? All nine go
Speaker 1: on their grid of nine? Well, they did choose to
Speaker 1: go with the one they spent the most money on,
Speaker 1: I guess in terms of effects and costuming. Now, if
Speaker 1: if we were to give of a I guess a
Speaker 1: more specific elevator pitch, I would say it goes as follows.
Speaker 1: A roboticist, a robot, a cyborg, a martial artist, and
Speaker 1: a low life river rat must join forces to take
Speaker 1: on a time traveling mad scientists intent on conquering ancient
Speaker 1: Rome with a suit of power armor and a death
Speaker 1: ray with the help of a couple of tough guys
Speaker 1: in a boat. Oh yeah, did we even mention that
Speaker 1: this involves time travel yet? And it is? Uh? Oh boy,
Speaker 1: this is quite a time travel if you want to.
Speaker 1: If you want a time travel movie that makes transfers
Speaker 1: to feel like primer, then The Eliminators is here for you.
Speaker 1: The time travel is almost kind of an afterthought in it.
Speaker 1: Like usually with the time travel movie, what your main
Speaker 1: characters are doing is time travel, but instead the time
Speaker 1: travel is just sort of a uh an intro and
Speaker 1: an outro. Here, it's the beginning premise and then the
Speaker 1: very code of the film. But the real travel that
Speaker 1: goes on in this movie, at least the hero's point
Speaker 1: of view is mostly is mostly by boat. It's basically
Speaker 1: a higher speed Heart of Darkness with time travel. Well,
Speaker 1: on that note, let's go ahead and have have the trailer.
Speaker 1: Let's just go ahead and listen to the entire trailer
Speaker 1: because the audio is pretty tremendous in this in a
Speaker 1: hidden fortress concealed by impenetrable jungle dwells, dr Abbott Reeves
Speaker 1: a brilliant but devious scientist with a power to create
Speaker 1: help the mandroid from the cage Dakota any malfunctions. I
Speaker 1: had some trouble with this. It feels like a delay
Speaker 1: in the neurosenece trigger and the will to destroy memory.
Speaker 1: Then just mentally it's half human. He must be eliminated.
Speaker 1: Colonel Norah Hunter has the brains to mastermind the operation.
Speaker 1: We need a full time mechanic. My friend Fontana the
Speaker 1: river ran so there's in a movie one when he
Speaker 1: finds himself in a tight spot, someone else has to
Speaker 1: pick up the pieces. Fucci the Ninja. He has the
Speaker 1: martial skills to destroy his enemies the mandroid, more machine
Speaker 1: than man. His special powers will determine whether or not
Speaker 1: they survived. We got robots, we got cave Man, we
Speaker 1: got Kung Fu. What is this anyway? Some kind of
Speaker 1: damn comic book. It is the most perilous journey any
Speaker 1: one of them has undertaken, and once they reached their destination,
Speaker 1: they face the most awesome power on earth. You don't understand.
Speaker 1: Soon I shall rule the world. M It will take
Speaker 1: all their combined skills to defeat him. Each one is
Speaker 1: the ultimate specialist in his field. Together they are the eliminators.
Speaker 1: I haven't checked out this trailer yet, but I got
Speaker 1: to imagine it's pretty enticing because this is, like many
Speaker 1: of the movies we talked about on the show, clearly
Speaker 1: a marketing first, kind of kind of creative project. I
Speaker 1: had the poster for this movie before I ever saw
Speaker 1: the movie. In fact, that the poster was a gift
Speaker 1: from a friend, but I understand why he gave it
Speaker 1: to me. It is a it It encapsulates so much feeling.
Speaker 1: It's got the feeling of these movies from that there.
Speaker 1: It's not like a coherent genre, but it's like a
Speaker 1: vibe of eighties movies. That includes other ones we've talked
Speaker 1: about like metal Storm, The Destruction of Jared Sin. This
Speaker 1: this isn't that kind of bucket and has those kind
Speaker 1: of feelings coursing through its arteries. Well you know, it
Speaker 1: is produced by by Charles Band. It is an Empire
Speaker 1: International picture. And speaking of I'm now remembering, of course,
Speaker 1: Charles Band was our first director that we came back
Speaker 1: to for second helping. Uh because he did he did
Speaker 1: both Transfers to and metal Storm, The Destruction of Jared Sin.
Speaker 1: So my apologies to Sir Charles Band on that one.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, let's this is This is an Empire
Speaker 1: International picture. It is a born out of Charles Band's Empire,
Speaker 1: as was the director Peter manougi in Um. We talked
Speaker 1: about Peter manouge In previously on the Arena episode uh
Speaker 1: Born nine. He directed a segment in their second feature,
Speaker 1: Empire International second feature, the anthology film The Dungeon Master.
Speaker 1: That was his first directional credit, following work as an
Speaker 1: assistant actor on a string of Band directed films, as
Speaker 1: well as Galaxy of Terror, and he was a production
Speaker 1: manager on several other films, including Humanoids from the Deep
Speaker 1: and a lovely little thriller that they filmed on on
Speaker 1: Tybee Island in Georgia, The Slayer. Are you joking with Lovely?
Speaker 1: This one always looked gross. Um, it's mostly lovely. Like
Speaker 1: it's it's a better film than you then you would
Speaker 1: think that The Slayer, Um, the monster that is prominently
Speaker 1: featured on some of the material barely shows up like
Speaker 1: shows up right at the end. It's is mostly an
Speaker 1: attempt to to do a kind of like psychological horror picture.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you have any connection to
Speaker 1: Tybee Island, have you ever been there? Then maybe maybe
Speaker 1: that that helps grease the wheels a little bit. Manougian
Speaker 1: directed a string of Empire International pictures, uh including uh Arena,
Speaker 1: which we already have covered on the show the eliminating
Speaker 1: or eliminators rather not be eliminators that we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: and then he would transfer into the full moon era
Speaker 1: of the Charles Band Empire as well with Seed People.
Speaker 1: Uh so, uh yeah, definitely definitely a Charles Band guy
Speaker 1: at this Manugian and the same can can definitely be
Speaker 1: said for the writers on this film. Danny Bilson born
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty six and Paul DeMeo, who lived nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: three through two thousand and eighteen. Uh. These two got
Speaker 1: their start very mention the Charles band camp with such
Speaker 1: pictures as Transfers. Um. Also they did eighty nine Arena
Speaker 1: and the They later got into video game writing and
Speaker 1: recently um they wrote the screenplay for twenties to five Bloods,
Speaker 1: directed by Spike Lee, which was released after Demo's death.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's really upward dark. Yeah yeah, so interesting
Speaker 1: assent there. Uh. You know, you may start out doing
Speaker 1: monsters and uh and cyborgs, but who knows, who knows
Speaker 1: where your career will take you. So familiar cast of
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes characters there. Let's get into the
Speaker 1: actors on this baby, because this is it's a pretty
Speaker 1: pretty fun group that they put together. Well, Rob, I
Speaker 1: know this is not the order you had it in,
Speaker 1: but I feel like there's we have an obligation to
Speaker 1: begin with our man droid. Yes, before before I even
Speaker 1: talk about who plays the man and right, I also
Speaker 1: have to point out something that they kept bugging me
Speaker 1: a little bit while watching it, as they call him
Speaker 1: a mandroid, but android already means mandroid, Like that's the
Speaker 1: man of man Uh, so it's kind of pointless to
Speaker 1: change it to mandroid or if you were to change
Speaker 1: it even more and make it human roid, I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's very confusing because so android
Speaker 1: means in the form of a man. But I think
Speaker 1: then I think because android was used in like science
Speaker 1: fiction to refer to robots that are in the form
Speaker 1: of a man, then it just got shortened to like
Speaker 1: droids in Star Wars, and then people just started thinking
Speaker 1: droid mint robot. But really it means like it's a
Speaker 1: shortening of the word meaning form of a man. So
Speaker 1: then you have to add man back on to it
Speaker 1: in order to say, oh, but this this droid is
Speaker 1: like a man. It's part man's that's a It's a
Speaker 1: beautiful circular etymology. At any rate, our our man droid
Speaker 1: in this picture is played well, I mean, he's mostly human.
Speaker 1: The human part is played by Patrick Reynolds Born And
Speaker 1: you know, you'd be forgiven for not being all that
Speaker 1: up on the acting career of Patrick Reynolds. This is
Speaker 1: probably his most prominent role, though he pops up in
Speaker 1: mostly small roles and some uncredited roles on various films
Speaker 1: and TV shows. Prior to this, including Robert Altman's Nashville
Speaker 1: Hair Airplane, Pumping Iron, and Zanna Do Wait, who is
Speaker 1: he in Pumping Iron? I think he's just himself uncredited.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Pumping Iron, but maybe he's standing in
Speaker 1: the background in a gym or something like. That's the
Speaker 1: sort of caliber of roles he often had, I think earlier,
Speaker 1: or you know, for much of his career. He's just
Speaker 1: kind of he's just kind of hanging out. I mean,
Speaker 1: is he is he pumping? Is he like in the
Speaker 1: the gym with Arnold Schwarzenegger feeling the pump? I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe he's He doesn't seem like super beefy in this film,
Speaker 1: but he seems pretty cut, like he seems like like
Speaker 1: maybe he he frequented the gym's. So the interesting thing
Speaker 1: here though about Patrick Reynolds is that he is the
Speaker 1: grandson of R. J. Reynolds, who lived eighteen fifty through
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen, the founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Now,
Speaker 1: Patrick Reynolds was himself a smoker for many years, but
Speaker 1: he quit in ninety five, and he became a prominent
Speaker 1: anti smoking activists around the same time and founded the
Speaker 1: Foundation for a Smoke Free America. Uh so it really
Speaker 1: ultimately most notable as an anti smoking activist who was
Speaker 1: also once a mandroid. Yeah, when I google him, he
Speaker 1: comes up as an anti smoking guy, and then it's
Speaker 1: got a little section of his Wikipedia page where it's
Speaker 1: like he was also in some movies where he played
Speaker 1: like a robot. Well, this is it, and you know
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's been pretty influential. There's a movie
Speaker 1: that I did see when it came out in an
Speaker 1: eleven from Steven Kostanski. It's kind of a sci fi
Speaker 1: sort of a comedy, kind of like a dry comedy.
Speaker 1: It's called Manborg h And it has a character that's very,
Speaker 1: you know, very clearly inspired by Mandroid. Well, throughout this movie,
Speaker 1: I kept mixing up the words man, droid and man borg,
Speaker 1: probably because of the existence of that movie, which I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen. But yeah, he's he's a borg,
Speaker 1: he's a man, he's a droid, he's annoyed, he's all
Speaker 1: of the above. All Right, who do you want next,
Speaker 1: Joe Pick pick a member of our adventuring crew. Well,
Speaker 1: I feel like after that we got to pick our
Speaker 1: other main hero which has got to be Denise Crosby
Speaker 1: playing Colonel Norah Hunter. Right. Yes, Denise Crosby born ninety seven,
Speaker 1: best known to Trek fans as Tasha Yare on the
Speaker 1: first season of Star Trek the Next Generation. I think
Speaker 1: she gets killed by a like sentient puddle of mud. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some sort of black ooze. Right. Uh so she she
Speaker 1: ends up dying, but then she ends up coming back
Speaker 1: playing a character named Celia I think or Sella. I
Speaker 1: don't remember this character, but this is um This would
Speaker 1: be Tasha Yar's half Romulan daughter, possibly from an alternate timeline.
Speaker 1: I'm not not certain on that she also plays the mother,
Speaker 1: though in the original movie version of Pet Cemetery she does. Yes,
Speaker 1: I also have to This is an admission I have
Speaker 1: to make. I've been working much of my life under
Speaker 1: the assumption that she was rock legend David Crosby's daughter,
Speaker 1: but she is not. She's not related to David Crosby
Speaker 1: at all. Her father was Dennis Crosby, son of Croon
Speaker 1: or Bing Crosby. So, uh you know, so somehow I
Speaker 1: kind of switched that around. I'm like, okay, famous music family. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's let's switch it over to David Crosby instead, and
Speaker 1: like to the point where I would look at her
Speaker 1: and I would be like, yeah, you can see the resemblance.
Speaker 1: You can see the David Crosby a little bit. Just
Speaker 1: imagine her doing a duet with the son of Steven Stills. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But hey, already famous families are coming together to make eliminators.
Speaker 1: I like it. Um. Now it's worth pointing out that
Speaker 1: Denise Crosby here has been in a lot of TV,
Speaker 1: including the likes of Madmen, Red Shoe Diaries, The X Files.
Speaker 1: Do you remember her on X Files? Huh? I did
Speaker 1: watch X Files. I don't remember what she was on their. Well,
Speaker 1: she showed up, she was on she was on The Magicians,
Speaker 1: and she's still active today. Um. In this she plays
Speaker 1: a very serious and attractive cyborg scientist. Um. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a I feel like it's also kind
Speaker 1: of a genre deluded version of Kathleen Turner's Joan Wilder
Speaker 1: character in Romancing the Stone. But you know, she does
Speaker 1: a good job with what she's given here. Well. I
Speaker 1: like about her character that she has random expertise in
Speaker 1: like everything. So she is she's a colonel, but she's
Speaker 1: also a scientist and a roboticist who invince robots that
Speaker 1: go to other planets. But then at other points in
Speaker 1: the movie we also find out that she's an expert
Speaker 1: in boat repair, Roman history because she like can can
Speaker 1: read site read Latin and oh and when and then uh,
Speaker 1: well spoiler, we're gonna have to talk about this later.
Speaker 1: There there happened to be some Neanderthals who time travel
Speaker 1: in this movie, and when she sees them, she's just like,
Speaker 1: they look like Neanderthals, And I'm like, how would anyone
Speaker 1: today know that? But this is a scientist syndrome from
Speaker 1: one of these eighties action movies. You just have a
Speaker 1: scientist and they don't just have expertise in their subject
Speaker 1: area because they're a scientist. They're just general purpose smart
Speaker 1: person and they know everything. Well. It's very Dungeons and
Speaker 1: Dragons in that respect, right, it's just do an intelligence
Speaker 1: check and then she nails it, natural love it, or
Speaker 1: maybe it's just indicative of I don't know, whatever educational
Speaker 1: path she was on and gave more well rounded education.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't just get your subject area, you
Speaker 1: also get a little bit of everything. You get. You
Speaker 1: get the humanities you you can site read Latin. You
Speaker 1: know what a neandertal looks like. For some reason, All right,
Speaker 1: who do you want next? You want our rogue or
Speaker 1: do you want our warrior class? Oh? God, well, which
Speaker 1: is which? No? I know which is which? At least
Speaker 1: from a moral point of view, we gotta go rogue
Speaker 1: because I think we're going in recruiting order, right, So
Speaker 1: we start with man droid, and then we go to scientists.
Speaker 1: That's Dennise Crosby, Colonel Nora Hunter, and then we go
Speaker 1: to rogue. But in this case it's a it's a
Speaker 1: special breed of rogue. It's a water rogue, that's right.
Speaker 1: The character Harry Fontana, played by Andrew Prine born six
Speaker 1: Prian is an American actor who was it seemed to
Speaker 1: have been active from nineteen so pretty long career. There
Speaker 1: a lot of work TV work in the sixties, a
Speaker 1: lot of Westerns naturally, and in nineteen seventy one he
Speaker 1: started in as the title character in Simon King of
Speaker 1: the Witches, a movie about hippies and warlocks that was
Speaker 1: kind of deceptively promoted at the time as a satanic shocker.
Speaker 1: In the wake of the Manson murders. Yeah, I've never
Speaker 1: seen that one. Yeah, it's it's said to be a
Speaker 1: far tamer film than the marketing would have had people believe.
Speaker 1: But it's still weird, still has a following, and I'm
Speaker 1: to believe it's one of the reasons that Rob Zombie
Speaker 1: cast him in The Lords of Salem in twelve. You know,
Speaker 1: he brought in a lotta movie, Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: brought a lot of people in from which movies and
Speaker 1: uh uh put together quite a cast. Now, the rest
Speaker 1: of Primes filmography is kind of all over the place.
Speaker 1: He he pops up in Gettysburg in nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 1: is the miracle worker. You know, both mainstream, largely well
Speaker 1: regarded films of their time. But he was also in
Speaker 1: Charles B. Pierce's nineteen seventy six slash of the Town
Speaker 1: That Dreaded Sundown, as well as the nineteen seventy three
Speaker 1: Spanish horror film Hannah, Queen of the Vampires a k.
Speaker 1: Crypt of the Living Dead. Now, The Town That Dreaded
Speaker 1: Sundown in case that went by anybody out there, That
Speaker 1: was by the same writer and director as the Boggy
Speaker 1: Creek movies, one of which we've covered on the show
Speaker 1: before I've seen it. I'm not a fan of the
Speaker 1: Town That Drifted Sundown. I think it's kind of a bummer.
Speaker 1: M well. He. He also appeared in Alan Rudolph's film
Speaker 1: Terror Circus, a k A. Nightmare Circus. I haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: but um, Alan Rudolph can be a very interesting filmmaker,
Speaker 1: so maybe I should give it a shot. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Now Prime continued to be in what can only be
Speaker 1: described as all sorts of TV uh. He pops up
Speaker 1: in six Ft Under Weird Science, the TV series Baywatch Nights,
Speaker 1: Doud Star Trek, Deep Space nine, the Next Generation Mattlock Murder.
Speaker 1: She wrote Freddie's Nightmares, plus much much more. In this film,
Speaker 1: he plays low life river rat Harry Fontana, a character
Speaker 1: who seems to me to be very much in the
Speaker 1: in the post Romancing the Stone trope of a cantankerous rogue,
Speaker 1: much like Michael Douglas's character Colton in that film which
Speaker 1: came out earlier, and it seems like we see this
Speaker 1: in a number of films post Romancing with Stone. Romancing
Speaker 1: with Stone was supposed to be a bomb and ended
Speaker 1: up being a huge hit, so you know, everybody was
Speaker 1: going to get in on that a little bit and
Speaker 1: get some sort of a sweaty uh you know, kind
Speaker 1: of greasy um rogue character to pilot a boat and
Speaker 1: have a woman fall in love with him. I think
Speaker 1: you see it here. You also seem to see some
Speaker 1: version of it and Cannibal Women in the Avocata Jungle
Speaker 1: of Death, starring Bill Maherr as the sort of rogue
Speaker 1: e boat captain. It would seem to me that a
Speaker 1: lot of this has got to draw from the Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones tradition, but just not quite managing to nail the
Speaker 1: lovable nous of Indiana Jones. Right. Yeah, if you can't
Speaker 1: get the chemistry quite right for your Indiana Jones character,
Speaker 1: you end up with that with the Michael Douglas character.
Speaker 1: And if you're and then if you're aiming for that,
Speaker 1: you can't quite It's kind of like a game of telephone,
Speaker 1: where by the end of it, what do you have?
Speaker 1: You have? You have Andrew Prin playing this um It's likable,
Speaker 1: but not nearly as charismatic character, but but still a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Like this is a performance that has
Speaker 1: a lot of roguish energy and it's I I constantly
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching to see what Prian was going to do
Speaker 1: with his face next, Like what kind of weird um
Speaker 1: uh cell he was going to give on things? He
Speaker 1: also had kind of ah for some reason, I was
Speaker 1: thinking he had kind of John Karradine vibe to. It's
Speaker 1: something about his sort of lankiness. Oh yeah, okay, I
Speaker 1: was thinking a much less creepy James Woods. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's spot on as well. All right.
Speaker 1: That leads us to the final member of this party,
Speaker 1: not counting the robot that flies around. We'll discuss that
Speaker 1: in a bit, But we have the character Cougie, played
Speaker 1: by Conan Lee, who also served as fight choreographer on
Speaker 1: the picture. He was born in nineteen fifty nine Chinese
Speaker 1: American action movie actor and stuntman. Um He was born
Speaker 1: born in China, but uh you know, grew up in
Speaker 1: New York if I'm remembering correctly. The same year as
Speaker 1: this picture, eight six, he appeared as a Change Sing
Speaker 1: gang member in Big Trouble and Little China Chang Sing.
Speaker 1: Those are those are the good guys, right, They're the
Speaker 1: guys who Victor Wong recruits. Yes, Now, Conin Lee also
Speaker 1: had roles in jim Kata uh Ninja in The Dragon's
Speaker 1: Den that would. In that one he appeared alongside hiro
Speaker 1: Yoki Sonata would not to of course, become a major
Speaker 1: not only Japanese film star, ban international film star. He's
Speaker 1: also done some voice work and some directing and writing. Um.
Speaker 1: He also appears in the Fred Ollen Ray movie from
Speaker 1: nine six Armed Response that starred David Carradine Lee Van Cliff, Mako,
Speaker 1: Ross Hagen, Dick Miller, and Michael Berryman. So quite a
Speaker 1: cast there, that's a that's a full on captain's platterer. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're getting the sampler, all deep pride alright. A couple
Speaker 1: of bit players of note that will this will become
Speaker 1: more important important in a bit. But we have the
Speaker 1: the actor Peter Schrum playing Ray, who is the primary
Speaker 1: henchman in this picture. Essentially, Um, what would what would
Speaker 1: you say? Uh? Because he's the Darth Vader of this movie.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Not the Darth Vader he would be. Um,
Speaker 1: he's the m hmm, what would you say? He's sort
Speaker 1: of the Clarence Bodicker of this movie. I mean, except
Speaker 1: he's like this, this large beefy guy with the big
Speaker 1: red Beard who wears a vest and he he's kind
Speaker 1: of bumbling but murderous at the same time. And uh,
Speaker 1: and the main the main bad guy does force lightning
Speaker 1: to his crotch. Yes, he played Santa Claus in Transfers. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was the real Santa Claus, just
Speaker 1: a Santa Claus. And he also played Lloyd in Terminator too.
Speaker 1: Now if you don't remember Lloyd, Lloyd is the character
Speaker 1: who pulls a shotgun on the eight hundred, and the
Speaker 1: eight hundred steals a shotgun, right so, Arnold Schwarzenegger spends
Speaker 1: the rest of Terminator to wearing Peter Shrum's sunglasses and
Speaker 1: carrying his shotgun who wore at best? I don't know,
Speaker 1: Some say Lloyd I don't know, but but but who
Speaker 1: who does he work for? In this movie? Ray the
Speaker 1: Henchman works for the big bad of eliminates abbott Reeves
Speaker 1: played by really Detrice. Oh yes, how can I skip?
Speaker 1: Roy to Trice? Um? Yeah, Roy to Trice is great
Speaker 1: in this Uh. He lived through twenty seventeen. Quite a
Speaker 1: legendary voice. Game of Thrones audio book fans will recognize
Speaker 1: him as their beloved narrator and the I think he
Speaker 1: had like a Guinness Book of World Records record for
Speaker 1: like the number of characters voiced distinctive voices in a
Speaker 1: given audiobook performance. Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I have listened
Speaker 1: to some of those audio books, by the way, and
Speaker 1: he does a good job, though occasionally. I don't know
Speaker 1: if this has been corrected in subsequent editions or anything,
Speaker 1: but in the ones I listened to, some errors got through.
Speaker 1: I remember there was at least there were at least
Speaker 1: a couple of points where he referred to Geoffrey as
Speaker 1: Jeffrey and it was just in there. Now. His George R.
Speaker 1: Martin connections seemed to go back to Beauty and the Beast,
Speaker 1: the TV series This is the one with Ron Pearlman
Speaker 1: in it on that played the character Jacob father Wells,
Speaker 1: and I think at one point he even wrote an
Speaker 1: episode of the show, so he must have he must
Speaker 1: have gotten gotten along quite well with George R. Martin.
Speaker 1: His last role was playing the Pyromancer character on the
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones TV series, small part, but memorable now.
Speaker 1: He was also in a wide array of projects throughout
Speaker 1: his long career. This is always a fun When he
Speaker 1: dubbed Harvey Kitel's voice and Saturn three, which is came
Speaker 1: out it's very much and I think Kirk Douglas is
Speaker 1: in that one. And Uh, basically it's an evil scientist character.
Speaker 1: And Uh. The story has has always been that the
Speaker 1: director decided he didn't like Harvey Kyitel's voice like he
Speaker 1: sounded to you know, New York Uh in the picture
Speaker 1: to be a mad scientist. And depending on who's telling
Speaker 1: the story, either they just decided to dub him over
Speaker 1: or they wanted Kytail to come back in and do
Speaker 1: his own dubbing, but he wasn't available. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how it went down, but we end up with uh,
Speaker 1: with Roy's voice and Harvey's appearance. He was also noted
Speaker 1: notably uh in Amadeus. He played Leopold Mozart. In that Oh,
Speaker 1: Mozart's dad, imperious and threatening even after his death. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at any rate, it makes for a great British goateede villain,
Speaker 1: which he certainly is to a t in this picture. Ohhh,
Speaker 1: but lest we forget my favorite character in the film,
Speaker 1: we cannot we cannot leave out by You Betty, Yes,
Speaker 1: um by You Betty is a character that like when
Speaker 1: she first shows up, it's just well, we'll get to it.
Speaker 1: She's she's tremendous. You just don't expect this to be
Speaker 1: a major character in the film, and then she comes
Speaker 1: back and you're delighted to have more. Uh. Played by
Speaker 1: Peggy Mannix for nine A spirited performance from a long
Speaker 1: time TV bit player. She also has done a lot
Speaker 1: of theater work and I think has been very much
Speaker 1: involved in like storytelling, uh sort of ventures. Um. I
Speaker 1: think this might be her most notable acting role, though.
Speaker 1: I mean she's popped up as a bit player in
Speaker 1: number of things, Like I think she she shows up
Speaker 1: on Seinfeld at some point. By you, Betty's the heart
Speaker 1: and soul of this movie. Just just a ray of sunlight. Um.
Speaker 1: Another thing I caught though when I didn't notice it
Speaker 1: until the final credits were rolling when the movie was over,
Speaker 1: but Rachel actually called it out. She pointed, she said, hey,
Speaker 1: look John Carl Biekler, and sure enough, special effects, makeup
Speaker 1: and eliminators by John Carl Biekler. I think he also
Speaker 1: did some effects for Arena, unless I'm remembering that wrong.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy who did a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of special effects for movies of this type throughout the eighties,
Speaker 1: but he also directed some movies of his own, including
Speaker 1: The Original Troll and Friday Thirteenth Part seven, the one
Speaker 1: with the Psychic Powers. Good catch, Good catches there. Rachel
Speaker 1: um I do generally mentioned the music on this The
Speaker 1: music is nothing really to write home about in this picture.
Speaker 1: It's fine. It's it's you know, heroic and everything. But
Speaker 1: it comes to us from Bob Summers, who also did
Speaker 1: scores for The Boogins, Uh, the Annihilators, and worked in
Speaker 1: the music department on scores for such films as Sideways,
Speaker 1: Night of the Comet and Metal Storm, Destruction of jared'son Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one in Only, which is similar scores, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, very heroic, but also kind of generic. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I thought the music and this one
Speaker 1: was was pretty weak. There's a lot of uh, kind
Speaker 1: of kind of plinking one note MIDI versions of of
Speaker 1: like I don't know, the two thousand one of Space
Speaker 1: Odyssey theme and and stuff like that. Yeah, so sometimes
Speaker 1: I may say, hey, this score deserves a special edition
Speaker 1: vinyl release. This this score does not deserved a special
Speaker 1: edition vinyl release. Special edition MIDDI. Maybe maybe one of
Speaker 1: those junior size cassettes, but not the full size cassette. Okay,
Speaker 1: you want to get into the plot, let's do it. First.
Speaker 1: Thing I noticed in this movie shows you the title
Speaker 1: right right at the top. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is the version I was looking at or what, but
Speaker 1: why is the title so dim? It's like they were
Speaker 1: showing the movie an energy saver mode? Yeah, I I
Speaker 1: had the same experience during the early stage of this
Speaker 1: this movie. I was actually wondering, is this is this
Speaker 1: an an energy saver mode? Did I buy a bad television? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's going with my TV? Yeah? It's it's very grimy
Speaker 1: and uh and dark at the beginning. Luckily, it's not
Speaker 1: going to take us too long to be in a
Speaker 1: boat about in broad daylight, where we'll spend most of
Speaker 1: the picture. But yeah, they're early stages of this are
Speaker 1: a little grimy. So while the credits roll, we get
Speaker 1: some background imagery and some scenes going on. We see
Speaker 1: a terminator face just this straight up roop off the
Speaker 1: terminator with the red eye, uh, surrounded by fire. And
Speaker 1: then we see a fighter pilot like in one of
Speaker 1: those little uh oh, I don't know what do you
Speaker 1: call it? The bubble top? Uh? Pilots seat uh and
Speaker 1: he's screaming, may day, may day, I'm going down. And
Speaker 1: then we see some ancient Roman soldiers and there there's
Speaker 1: spears and we're in the little leather skirts and they're
Speaker 1: fighting a battle against some enemy equipped with lasers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's already just confusing, as I'll get out what
Speaker 1: what is happening? Right? What could this all mean? Well,
Speaker 1: we're about to find out. So the credits montage dissolves
Speaker 1: into some kind of darkened laboratory with electricity arking all
Speaker 1: over the place. This is the zap room, and we
Speaker 1: meet to scientists. We've got We've got Dr Takata played
Speaker 1: by Tadashi Horino, who is a kind hearted elder scientist
Speaker 1: who's apparently elated at the success of whatever experiment they
Speaker 1: just pulled off. And then on the other hand, you've
Speaker 1: got Roy Detrice playing Dr Abbott Reeves, a sadistic, mad
Speaker 1: scientist with Rutger Hower hair. Also half of his face
Speaker 1: is kind of melted, and just from moment one he
Speaker 1: is like a gentleman to evil. You know, I think
Speaker 1: nothing illustrates how rushed this movie feels more than having
Speaker 1: a mad scientist character named Abbott. Reeves like, well, that's
Speaker 1: the best you could come up with. There's so many,
Speaker 1: you know, sardonic names you could devise, but you go
Speaker 1: with with Reeves, which of course brings to bhind like
Speaker 1: Steve Reeves and Superman and so forth. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: sound evil enough. I agree. But but but Roy to
Speaker 1: Trees is going for that evil flavor with Gusto. Rachel
Speaker 1: and I were talking about it and we figured out
Speaker 1: that he's he's playing this role basically half as Donald
Speaker 1: Pleasants and half as Rutger Hower. Okay, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a good mix if one can achieve it. But on
Speaker 1: the other hand, you've got Dr Takata, who is he's
Speaker 1: like a good guy, but for some reason, he has
Speaker 1: just taken a job at the Institute for Twisted Cruelty
Speaker 1: Studies under Dr satan Here and I don't know why.
Speaker 1: But putting that aside for the moment, so what happens
Speaker 1: in the scene, Well, Takada is like the experiment worked,
Speaker 1: and Reeves says, only if he brought proof. So Takata
Speaker 1: is trying to celebrate, but Reeves is just trying to
Speaker 1: He's just ordering him around. He's like helped the men
Speaker 1: Droid from the cage at once, So they open up
Speaker 1: some kind of chamber and out pops our man droid.
Speaker 1: For the film, how to describe what this guy looks like?
Speaker 1: He's he's half of his head is like, uh, is
Speaker 1: a terminator head? Yeah, you have half a terminator head,
Speaker 1: red eye glaring. The rest of his body is kind
Speaker 1: of you know, hodgepodge of of armor, like sort of
Speaker 1: power armory looking stuff that I guess is supposed to
Speaker 1: imply that he's he's actually robot underneath all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I think. So his left arm is like a mega
Speaker 1: man arm. It's like a gun for an arm. The
Speaker 1: man droid he comes up to Reeves, He hands over
Speaker 1: a plastic prop shield and roy jitrices Alton, Yes, first
Speaker 1: centuries centurion shield no less magnificent uh and and let
Speaker 1: I would have thought, Okay, how would he know this?
Speaker 1: Why does this mad scientists know things about ancient Rome?
Speaker 1: And he's able to identify artifacts. But I think this
Speaker 1: actually doesn't make sense because he's apparently obsessed with ancient Rome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we find out much later in film that he is
Speaker 1: a connoisseur of these items. I don't know why he
Speaker 1: is he just is you know, he's kind of a
Speaker 1: you know, a megalomaniac clearly, and he he likes the
Speaker 1: he likes the shine of of the Roman Imperial period,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's why he at some point decides,
Speaker 1: I want to use time travel technology to go back
Speaker 1: in time and conquer ancient Rome and become their ruler. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the big deal, I'm just a Caligula enthusiast. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh but yeah, I guess we're kind of burying the
Speaker 1: lead now. So the weird thing is, did you also
Speaker 1: get the feeling that the movie is maybe trying to
Speaker 1: be a little bit coy about what the deal with
Speaker 1: the experiment was, like building up to a reveal later on,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't work because like, obviously it was time
Speaker 1: travel and they sent the man droid back to like
Speaker 1: shoot Roman soldiers and steal one of their shields. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like that might have been the case. Like
Speaker 1: they're trying to leave you guessing, but we we all know,
Speaker 1: we all know it's time travel. Wow, what was the experiment?
Speaker 1: How did he get this shield? Why are their cavemen
Speaker 1: running around scenes of Roman soldiers? I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: time travel. What else could it be? You're running a
Speaker 1: Westworld park. I mean, that's the only other possible explanation. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Dr Takada, he's over here showing his sensitive side because
Speaker 1: Roy Detrees is doing his megalomaniac thing. But Takadah, he's like,
Speaker 1: he wants to know how the mandroid feels. And the
Speaker 1: mandroid says he can barely remember, except he he knows
Speaker 1: on his journey he saw flashes of memories. He says,
Speaker 1: I was in my plane going down again. So our
Speaker 1: man droid is haunted by horrible memories of a plane
Speaker 1: crash that are rippling through his borg brain. And uh,
Speaker 1: and then Roy Detrees does something I was just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out. He like plugs himself into a tube
Speaker 1: of some kind. Is he supposed to be on some
Speaker 1: kind of dialysis or is he is he like part
Speaker 1: robot at this point and plugging himself into recharge. Well,
Speaker 1: he also has a like he has all these wounds
Speaker 1: on his face too, right, Like he's he's using mad
Speaker 1: science to read who from something. But I don't think
Speaker 1: we're ever quite I told what it was, right, He's
Speaker 1: just he gets a little better each time we see him.
Speaker 1: Takada wants to send the man droid off to heal
Speaker 1: and be repaired. You know, he tells him, you've done well,
Speaker 1: my friend, because he is a kindly scientist. But then
Speaker 1: immediately Reeves is like, no, destroy it, make it suffer,
Speaker 1: and to uh, Takata is like, but you know his
Speaker 1: his brain is half human. It's he's alive. You can't
Speaker 1: do that. But Reeves says, since when have we ever
Speaker 1: been concerned with compassion? What compassion was ever shown to me?
Speaker 1: And then you get a good like burned face reveal
Speaker 1: he's kind of dabbing at his his burns. Now the
Speaker 1: whole thing with the mandroid having these visions of being
Speaker 1: in a like a World War two plane crash. Uh,
Speaker 1: that means they bone jacked him, right, Like these guys
Speaker 1: are bone jackers. Yes, yes, they got the meat, but
Speaker 1: the meat was damaged. Thus, then I guess the meat
Speaker 1: was damaged. That's why you make a man board, right,
Speaker 1: a man droid? You or did they just aside, no,
Speaker 1: we need a we only need to use part of
Speaker 1: the meat and create the mandroid. We need a man
Speaker 1: droid for our various time travel uh uh? Thefts well,
Speaker 1: apparently they don't need him that long because Reeves roy
Speaker 1: Detres is like, no, destroy him. So Takada is like, okay,
Speaker 1: well I'm I'm gonna have to set the Mandroid free
Speaker 1: so he you know, he conspires with them. He says,
Speaker 1: we will escape this place tonight, and the Mandroid says,
Speaker 1: I'll need my mobile unit. And the mobile unit I
Speaker 1: love the mobile unit. How to describe the mobile unit?
Speaker 1: Rob When I say mobile unit, what words come to
Speaker 1: your mind? Oh? Um, well, now it is clearly going
Speaker 1: to be um like a tank centaur situation. You know
Speaker 1: it is this um. I don't know what the words
Speaker 1: would have have brought to mind previously, but I knew
Speaker 1: where we were going because I've seen the poster. The
Speaker 1: mobile unit is one of these effects that really, this
Speaker 1: is fabulously done. This looks amazing, It looks great. At
Speaker 1: the same time, the rest of the picture is cheap
Speaker 1: enough to where like, this effect looks a little hokey,
Speaker 1: even though the effect itself, I think looks looks extremely solid,
Speaker 1: It looks very good, but it also looks really unintentionally funny.
Speaker 1: And the reason I would put it there is they
Speaker 1: came up with a really quite good special effect, but
Speaker 1: they filmed it in such a way and edited it
Speaker 1: in such a way that like you see it moving
Speaker 1: in awkward ways, like he so it's a guy on
Speaker 1: tank treads like he's a tank centaur. He takes his
Speaker 1: legs off and plugs his torso into this tank thing.
Speaker 1: But then when you actually see him moving around on it,
Speaker 1: it looks like it would be more efficient for him
Speaker 1: to just use his legs because he's really like gets
Speaker 1: stuck rolling around on stuff and then tries to do
Speaker 1: a three point turn and it's really funny. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's kind of like when a child
Speaker 1: is like, no, I want to take my scooter and
Speaker 1: the parents like, oh god, this is gonna take even
Speaker 1: longer it would. It would be easier if you walked.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, it also comes back to the basic
Speaker 1: premise we've discussed before, like, no matter how good your
Speaker 1: monster costume is, or in this case, your your your
Speaker 1: half tank cyborgs centaur costume happens to be if you
Speaker 1: just shoot it in broad daylight, you're not doing it
Speaker 1: any favors, agreed. But anyway, they get caught while they're
Speaker 1: trying to escape, and unfortunately the kindly. Doctor Takata is
Speaker 1: killed in their escape attempt, but before he dies, he
Speaker 1: tells the Mandroid that he must go and find a
Speaker 1: scientist named Colonel Hunter, and if he finds Colonel Hunter,
Speaker 1: he can he can have all the answers. So then
Speaker 1: there's a big escape sequence where he's rolling around on
Speaker 1: his tracks and he's trying to get out of the
Speaker 1: compound and then we meet here. We get our first
Speaker 1: meeting with Ray the Hinchman, who when when Rachel and
Speaker 1: I first saw him, we were like, oh, it's Cringe
Speaker 1: Shaw from Barky Creek because he's got he's got a
Speaker 1: big red beard. Uh. And he's dressed kind of like
Speaker 1: a like a bayou guy but not quite in like
Speaker 1: just the shirtless with overalls like Cringe Shaw. But he's
Speaker 1: halfway there and he uh, and he's on sniper duty.
Speaker 1: He's trying to like shoot the man Droid with this
Speaker 1: big weird gun that has these three red scopes on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that the gun looks like it's some sort of
Speaker 1: futuristic device, you know, it's it's a it's very much
Speaker 1: like a sci fi sniper rifle. But there's nothing else
Speaker 1: about Ray that that suggests science fiction, Like, he's just
Speaker 1: this bearded dude. Uh, you know, might be just a
Speaker 1: trucker that was making a shipment to the Mad Science
Speaker 1: Lab and was hired on the spot Ray looks like
Speaker 1: a guy who would own a food truck called wild
Speaker 1: Bubba's Boot and Balls. Yeah, yeah, very much though, and
Speaker 1: and you know, looking at him, you know that he
Speaker 1: owns a boat. Well. Anyway, the mandroid escapes, he parks
Speaker 1: his mobile units somewhere in the jungle, puts his leg
Speaker 1: units on, which is great. This is a great sequence.
Speaker 1: Like it said again, they just really thought out this
Speaker 1: mobile unit thing. Yes, uh, and then he he walks
Speaker 1: out of the jungle and then next thing, we're just
Speaker 1: immediately into some place that looks like a modern art museum.
Speaker 1: This is where we meet Denise Crosby and she's there
Speaker 1: doing science again. This is Colonel Hunter, Colonel Nora Hunter,
Speaker 1: and she's doing tests on a robot prototype that she
Speaker 1: has developed called Spot. Yeah, and Spot is um not
Speaker 1: as great an effect. I mean, he's just a little robot.
Speaker 1: It's it's neat, it's not you know, it's not the
Speaker 1: worst robot effect I've seen. But he looks a little hokey,
Speaker 1: and later on in the picture, especially when he's flying around,
Speaker 1: it really just looks real bad. So SPOT is an acronym.
Speaker 1: It stands for Search, Patrol and Operational Tactician. And I
Speaker 1: think what they're going for is because they've got a Mandroid,
Speaker 1: they've got like a gritty uh you know, a gritty
Speaker 1: assassin bot that shoots torpedoes and lasers and stuff, they
Speaker 1: wanted to also have a cute robot in the vein
Speaker 1: of like short Circuit or R two D two right
Speaker 1: that this guy's not cute. I mean this is it's
Speaker 1: very forced, much like the name of the creature, and
Speaker 1: it's it's just their little um reconnaissance robot. But she's
Speaker 1: doing tests with Spot and then meanwhile man droid and
Speaker 1: filtrates the perimeter. Apparently he's in disguise. I'm saying that
Speaker 1: with scare quotes here, because his disguise is he's still
Speaker 1: a Mandroid, but he's wearing like an alligator skin fedora
Speaker 1: and a rain poncho. Yes, yeah, he looks very very
Speaker 1: suss as the kids say, kind of Phantom of the
Speaker 1: Opera asked rather hilarious. Actually, in fact, it's even funnier
Speaker 1: when he takes the stuff off to reveal him. So
Speaker 1: he you know, he meets Denise Crosby and he's like hello,
Speaker 1: and she's like who are you? And he uh. This
Speaker 1: is after he is, by the way, knocked out some
Speaker 1: security guards by spurring green gas in their face. But
Speaker 1: then he comes up and she's like, oh, who are you?
Speaker 1: What's going on? And then he removes his fedora and
Speaker 1: his poncho to clearly, this is supposed to be like
Speaker 1: a gasp borg reveal, but we've already seen him, so
Speaker 1: we know what he looks like. She's acting very surprised.
Speaker 1: But are we supposed to believe that people don't notice
Speaker 1: that half of his face is a terminator as long
Speaker 1: as he's wearing the hat. Like later in the movie
Speaker 1: he hides the terminator half under bandages, but he's not
Speaker 1: doing that here. He's just this is a half terminator,
Speaker 1: but he's wearing a hat. Well, I guess we're just
Speaker 1: supposed to imagine that his head was it just the
Speaker 1: right angle throughout all of this so we could see
Speaker 1: the terminator stuff that she could not. Well, So he
Speaker 1: explains the backstory that we've already seen. He talks about
Speaker 1: his you know what happened before he was borned he
Speaker 1: he remembers crashing a plane and he says his body
Speaker 1: was taken up river. And then he says, when I
Speaker 1: woke up, I saw this, I think, referring to his
Speaker 1: droid body and uh and she and she starts looking
Speaker 1: at the technology that he has been outfitted with, and
Speaker 1: she says, your arms, your leg units, it's my work,
Speaker 1: all of it. So we find out that the man
Speaker 1: droid is actually based on technology that was originally intended
Speaker 1: for peaceful uses in space exploration. And uh so, so
Speaker 1: Dr Reeves is not only an evil, mad scientist, he's
Speaker 1: also a thief who has been stealing the intellectual property
Speaker 1: of Denise Crosby to make unholy Man droids in the jungle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, once he goes back in time to uh
Speaker 1: what is it for first century? Uh CE or or
Speaker 1: b C. I'm not I remember him. Like, once he
Speaker 1: goes back, clearly he has all the copyrights, all the trademarks.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's a good point. I didn't think about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably just bringing stuff back with him
Speaker 1: just to just like he's bringing super soakers and he's
Speaker 1: just like Nope, I invented it, clearly. But here we
Speaker 1: also find out the doctor Reeves is like borging himself
Speaker 1: as well, because Denise Crosby says, but Reeves died five
Speaker 1: years ago, and the man Droids says, no, he prolonged
Speaker 1: his life through grafting and transplants. All right, So that
Speaker 1: explains what's going on and what what we continue to
Speaker 1: see going on with Dr Reeves. But then I liked
Speaker 1: how so she's like, well, what's going on with your head?
Speaker 1: So he just sits down and she starts she opens
Speaker 1: up his head and starts working on it, like soldering
Speaker 1: his brain chips while he's sitting there awake, and he's
Speaker 1: like ah, and he he hallucinates some Roman centurions and uh.
Speaker 1: And then they eventually agree that they've got a team up.
Speaker 1: They've got to form a turbo team to go on
Speaker 1: a mission to the jungle to stop Abbott Reeves from
Speaker 1: doing whatever he's doing. So this is the first hint
Speaker 1: of the team. The Turbo team begins. He begins with
Speaker 1: two team partially assembled. But before we get to the jungle,
Speaker 1: I thought, when there was a really funny scene where
Speaker 1: they're driving in a car in whatever city, Dennis Crosby
Speaker 1: was working in UH and there is a car jacking
Speaker 1: attempt where a guy like busts out the window and
Speaker 1: tries to steal her robot spot Um. And before before
Speaker 1: he busts out the window, he's like, hey, you need
Speaker 1: some body work, and the of course mandroid is very
Speaker 1: confused by this. He's like, are you talking to me?
Speaker 1: And she's like no, he's talking about at the car.
Speaker 1: Then the guy breaks the window tries to grab her robot,
Speaker 1: and then the man droid gets out of the car
Speaker 1: and like shoots torpedoes at these random carjackers, and he
Speaker 1: delivers the first of this movie's several absolute clunker comebacks.
Speaker 1: You're the one who will need body work? Well, he had,
Speaker 1: he has damaged processor at this point that's been established.
Speaker 1: He can't be expected to really come up with any
Speaker 1: singers on the spot. His Zinger circuits are badly in
Speaker 1: need of repair. Area. Well, so, anyway, I think they
Speaker 1: go down to Mexico where they're supposed to be finding
Speaker 1: a way to UH to take a boat up the
Speaker 1: river to find Abbott Reeves. So they're gonna need a
Speaker 1: boat and a guide. And this is where we get
Speaker 1: to our Cantina scene, a tremendous scene, a real milestone
Speaker 1: in the movie. Um, how do you even begin here?
Speaker 1: I mean, so this is where we meet our I
Speaker 1: was gonna say bounty hunter, but he's not a bounty hunter.
Speaker 1: Our our mercenary, our guide, our river rat, one of
Speaker 1: our new turbo team members. This guy is Harry Fontana.
Speaker 1: This is uh, what's his name, Andrew Prine. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: a slimeball river rat with long hair and a five
Speaker 1: o'clock shadow. And it's a real kind of Tim Thomerson
Speaker 1: sort of role. Yeah. In fact, it's funny that you
Speaker 1: say that. It's my understanding that Tim Thomerson was was
Speaker 1: originally offered the role, like he was originally who they
Speaker 1: wanted in this role, but for some reason that didn't
Speaker 1: work out inter inter um prime. And you know, I
Speaker 1: have to say, I think Thomerson would have been too
Speaker 1: likable in the role. I think I think Thomerson has
Speaker 1: is just his charisma is a little a little more
Speaker 1: wholesome somehow, And I like that we have a more
Speaker 1: proper river rat on our hands here. But also, but
Speaker 1: he's not the only thing in the scene. The scene
Speaker 1: also has this weird bar tender who had What was
Speaker 1: going on with that guy's accent? It was so he
Speaker 1: you would expect him to have, I guess a Mexican accent.
Speaker 1: This is in Mexico, but he's sort of halfway has
Speaker 1: a Scottish accent. The one thing that vaguely made me
Speaker 1: think of is the the old black and white film
Speaker 1: Wages of Fear, which I think we have memory serves,
Speaker 1: revolves around like a bunch of ex pats. You know,
Speaker 1: they're kind of stuck somewhere in South America. I think, um,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they're trying to sort of scheme
Speaker 1: their way out, like so maybe there's a certain certain
Speaker 1: uh dash of that flavor added to this picture. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. But then, of course, into my favorite character,
Speaker 1: by you Betty, who saunters into the bar surrounded by
Speaker 1: a gang of obsequious, cowardly Frenchman and by you Betty
Speaker 1: is apparently a rival river rat, so you've got Harry
Speaker 1: Fontana your main river rat. And then by you Betty,
Speaker 1: she is a different riverboat guide who is not happy
Speaker 1: that Fontana is stealing her business. She accuses him of
Speaker 1: undercutting I'm not sure exactly what she thinks the problem is.
Speaker 1: But maybe it's that people, you know, people are paying
Speaker 1: to ride in his boat instead of paying to ride
Speaker 1: in her boat because he charges less money. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's that's the case. Anyway, she she has an
Speaker 1: informed and bio Betty. I have to say, bio Betty
Speaker 1: feels kind of like a like an Amy Sedaris character,
Speaker 1: Like like this could be an Amy Sedaris character. That's
Speaker 1: the best way I can describe it. By you. Betty
Speaker 1: is a. Yeah, she's a She's a tough, violent Cajun
Speaker 1: woman who enjoys threatening and punching people. And uh, there's
Speaker 1: there are a number of things that make me think
Speaker 1: that the makers of this movie believed that Louisiana is
Speaker 1: located within, uh like the forested part of southern Mexico
Speaker 1: because it has Cajun river guides. And then Ray the
Speaker 1: Crnshaw henchman, he's plausibly a Louisiana guy too. He like
Speaker 1: he's got a very crawled ad kind of energy. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. But where we go
Speaker 1: to next is is great, Like it feels like something
Speaker 1: out of a Popeye cartoon. Because Denis probably is entered.
Speaker 1: She needs to hire a riverboat guide, and so how
Speaker 1: are you going to determine this? So are you gonna
Speaker 1: look at the resumes? No? No, She just comes in
Speaker 1: and says, hey, I need the toughest guide to this river.
Speaker 1: And I guess Bayou Betty. You know she's she's she's
Speaker 1: all about action. She she puts her money where her
Speaker 1: mouth is. She hauls off and slugs her own French
Speaker 1: henchman in the jaw and then just a big fight
Speaker 1: immediately breaks out. Everybody in the cantina starts punching each other.
Speaker 1: People are slamming glass bottles and smashing each other of
Speaker 1: her tables. Why I don't know, but it's great. But
Speaker 1: not Harry Fontana. Now he he ducks behind the bar,
Speaker 1: helps himself to a little free alcohol, and waits till
Speaker 1: everybody has kind of fought themselves into a stupor. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then smashes a bottle on the back of Bio
Speaker 1: Betty's head. Now he's the clear winner, he claims the business. Right,
Speaker 1: he out skunked them all. He proved his worth worthiness
Speaker 1: by being a coward and a thief. Yes. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then from here, for the next approximately thirty six hours,
Speaker 1: this movie becomes the saga of boat. Yeah. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just there's there's boats chasing each other, running for people
Speaker 1: falling out of boats, people climbing into boats, stuff exploding
Speaker 1: next to boats, boats exploding. Uh, just any variation on
Speaker 1: the theme you might be looking for eliminators has it.
Speaker 1: And then you think the boat chase is over, and
Speaker 1: then the next scene is like the characters start talking
Speaker 1: and then a new boat chase starts. But that's kind
Speaker 1: of great because so after the cantina scene, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love by You Betty. I was
Speaker 1: so afraid she would just vanish from the movie here
Speaker 1: and that would be all the by You Betty we get.
Speaker 1: But middle stretch of the movie is mostly like so
Speaker 1: it's Harry Fontana, the river rat, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what it is that that that the band droid and
Speaker 1: Denise Crosby or after you know, he's like do you
Speaker 1: want gold? You want diamonds? What are you doing here?
Speaker 1: And then meanwhile by You Betty is chasing them in
Speaker 1: a fleet of boats with armed henchmen, all apparently so
Speaker 1: she can have their fair Like she's hunting them down
Speaker 1: with all these weapons so so that she can convince
Speaker 1: them to ride into her boat instead of is yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean she must be. She must be working up
Speaker 1: to wanting to cut off the treasure, because that's ultimately
Speaker 1: what Fontana is all about. Too. He's like, he thinks
Speaker 1: this is about gold. This is about, you know, something
Speaker 1: from some other jungle adventure movie, some sort of ancient
Speaker 1: treasure situation, and he wants a cut of it. That's
Speaker 1: that's where he's going to really excel. But of course
Speaker 1: they're all wrong. This There is no gold. This is
Speaker 1: a this is a mission of elimination. Uh not not
Speaker 1: not treasure hunting. Right, but along the way we get
Speaker 1: lots of boat stunts and boat chases. Oh and then
Speaker 1: I thought was part of the scene is Harry Fontana
Speaker 1: learning valuable lessons about overcoming sexist attitudes, because at one
Speaker 1: point they're they're trying to fight off Bayou Betty's henchman,
Speaker 1: and uh, somebody needs to drive the boat. And Denise
Speaker 1: Crosby's like, I can drive the boat and he's like,
Speaker 1: you can't drive it. You're a woman. So he um.
Speaker 1: But then the man Droid like shames him into relenting.
Speaker 1: The man Droid literally yells at him that's wrong. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then the same pattern is repeated with fixing the
Speaker 1: boat's engine. Uh he he doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: But Denise Crossby comes in she can fix it, which
Speaker 1: she does by grabbing out of his hand what looks
Speaker 1: like a bottle of white wine. I think it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be liquor, but it's like yellow colored, and then
Speaker 1: she pours it into the engine somewhere Yeah and yeah,
Speaker 1: somehow fixes it with what seems to be to the
Speaker 1: alchemy or something. I don't know. She fixes it if
Speaker 1: it starts again. Like nobody has ever said to me,
Speaker 1: Are you haven't trouble getting your car to start? Have
Speaker 1: you tried pouring just alcohol on the motor? That seems
Speaker 1: to work? It works in this one film I saw.
Speaker 1: There was one part where I didn't understand what was happening,
Speaker 1: But like that they are driving and Fontana keeps wildly,
Speaker 1: like causing the boat to veer back and forth instead
Speaker 1: of driving it in a straight line, and they're like,
Speaker 1: ease up, and then he goes, this is what you
Speaker 1: hired me for. And I don't know what that means
Speaker 1: or why any of it's happening, but anyway, there are
Speaker 1: a bunch more boat chases is eventually, uh, the man
Speaker 1: Droid has to intervene to get them to escape by
Speaker 1: you Betty's goons by shooting a torpedo at Betty's boat.
Speaker 1: And then of course Fontana is like, whoa wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I saw you shoot a torpedo out of your arm.
Speaker 1: And then he gets the man Droid reveal, like he
Speaker 1: takes off his poncho and it's he's a man droid, um.
Speaker 1: And then there are more boat chases, this time with
Speaker 1: Ray you know, our Crnshaw guy. And basically for the
Speaker 1: rest of the movie, they're just on the mission with
Speaker 1: various little vignettes and boat things happening. Uh. So maybe
Speaker 1: we could just go a little bit less seen by
Speaker 1: seeing here and describe some of the standout vignettes from
Speaker 1: the mission. I'd say one of the big ones, of course,
Speaker 1: is meeting our final member of the turbo team, Kuji
Speaker 1: the Ninja. Yes, who is um? Is he supposed to
Speaker 1: be the son of the good scientists from earlier. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's the son of Dr Takata, right, and so he's
Speaker 1: he's he's on on location here, I guess for vengeance.
Speaker 1: This is a vengeance mission for him, and do they do.
Speaker 1: They explicitly say he's a ninja. Yeah, I don't remember it.
Speaker 1: Kung fu is alluded to by Fontana, but I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's clear that Couji is very good with weapons
Speaker 1: and fighting. There's a big, big fight scene that takes place.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's got an unlock. Yeah, now, Rob, what
Speaker 1: did you make? There was one part where where I
Speaker 1: was like, what is going on? But it was when
Speaker 1: the Turbo team is captured by the caveman from the
Speaker 1: Geico commercials uh and this is this is the part
Speaker 1: where Ginese cross they get captured in Denise Crosby's like
Speaker 1: they look like Neanderthals. Um, But of course we we
Speaker 1: figure out that they are. They are here for some
Speaker 1: reason because they have been brought here through time travel experiments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's really all I had to go on, Like
Speaker 1: he must have retrieved some Neanderthals and just like let
Speaker 1: them go, or they escaped and on their living wild
Speaker 1: or maybe he he is like, well, I'll just introduced
Speaker 1: them into the area and they'll sort of serve as
Speaker 1: a buffer between me and any you know, people that
Speaker 1: show up to mess with my science. I don't know, um,
Speaker 1: but they're there, and uh, and the makeup effects, though
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how accurate they truly are regarding Neanderthals.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good basic cave you know, it's pretty good
Speaker 1: cave man makeup. They look pretty good. So they're they're
Speaker 1: played more for comic relief, I think than a serious threat. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff happens. We we find out
Speaker 1: some things about Man Droid's past. He at one point,
Speaker 1: Denise Crosby like dives into a crashed plane to retrieve
Speaker 1: a family photo. I think this was the plane that
Speaker 1: the man who Mandroid was before he was Droid. Id uh,
Speaker 1: you know that this is the plane he flew and
Speaker 1: his family photo is in there. And so some more
Speaker 1: things happen, but eventually we get down to the final
Speaker 1: confrontation with Abbott Reeves with roy De Trees, who is
Speaker 1: now a full on cyborg himself and nearly invincible. You know.
Speaker 1: They shoot stuff at him and he just easily deflects it.
Speaker 1: It's it seems like he's unbeatable. How will they ever
Speaker 1: defeat him? Yeah, yeah, he's he's fully powered. He's blasting everything.
Speaker 1: He has a what is that? What does he referred
Speaker 1: to a special weapon as it um is an ion
Speaker 1: destroyer or an ion reverse or um. Oh there's the
Speaker 1: thing where he says it will turn the atoms in
Speaker 1: your body inside out. I like that, so of course
Speaker 1: we see it, dude, nothing of the sort. He just
Speaker 1: kind of this The cyborg gets blasted with it a
Speaker 1: few times, and you know, it's just sort of typical
Speaker 1: robot and gets hit with a laser gun sort of affair.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I'm not really believing him all that much
Speaker 1: on the claims regarding this weapon, right, But our our
Speaker 1: heroes fight through his hinchman. But then of course Abbot
Speaker 1: reeves in the end, escapes into his time machine and
Speaker 1: we find out his plan is to travel back in
Speaker 1: time to ancient Rome and crown himself the cyborgs Caesar.
Speaker 1: So can our heroes save history from being borgified? Well,
Speaker 1: at first it looks like no, because he already gets
Speaker 1: into the time machine and he leaves, and they're like,
Speaker 1: he's gone. We can't stop him. But oh wow, oh wow,
Speaker 1: this ending, yeah of Fontana basically saves the day, right
Speaker 1: because they're like, look, it's too late, he's already gone back.
Speaker 1: And then they see the date there on the time
Speaker 1: machine controls and Fontana just starts like hitting the machine,
Speaker 1: essentially vandalizing the machine. And then something happens. Well you
Speaker 1: can say what it is, Well, do we want to
Speaker 1: spoil this terrific and yes we do. UM. So basically, uh,
Speaker 1: instead of going back to uh you know, first century
Speaker 1: uh C E or b C every get which instead
Speaker 1: takes him way back, like like all pretty much all
Speaker 1: the way back, uh you know, not not you know,
Speaker 1: primordial ooze level, but to the silurian Um time period.
Speaker 1: So send him all the way back to to a
Speaker 1: time when there's nothing to conquer, nothing to to to overpower.
Speaker 1: Um and uh, and we we get this wonderful scene
Speaker 1: where he we see the time machine is crashed in
Speaker 1: this primordial landscape. Uh. He gets out of it, and
Speaker 1: then he's like no, because he quickly realizes that he
Speaker 1: has gone far too back in time. There's no way back,
Speaker 1: and now he's the king of nothing. It's a pretty
Speaker 1: killer ending. I should have looked into this before we
Speaker 1: started recording. I don't know if there would have been
Speaker 1: breathable atmosphere at the time. Well, he's all sideboarded up
Speaker 1: at this point, right, So Okay, so he can be
Speaker 1: he'll he'll be fine in a CEO two atmosphere. Maybe,
Speaker 1: I don't know, who are we to doubt the scene
Speaker 1: that we we witness here. I mean there would be
Speaker 1: some things to rule over, right, I mean mostly marine organisms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something. I mean, you know something about babe. By
Speaker 1: day two he might have gotten over into like all right,
Speaker 1: it's it's all right, Reeves, it's not too bad. We're
Speaker 1: you know, the Caesar of slimes with the fish, the
Speaker 1: Caesar of fish. Uh, so we have that going for
Speaker 1: us least. That would have been a great scene. Actually
Speaker 1: he goes to the water's edge and there are these
Speaker 1: weird fish creatures and he's just like kneel before me.
Speaker 1: That would have been good. So it's quite it's quite
Speaker 1: an ending. And it's one of these where like our
Speaker 1: heroes save the day essentially by vandalism and kind of
Speaker 1: through the technicality, like basically the villain one, but they
Speaker 1: found a loophole in his victory. So I would say
Speaker 1: overall this was not a very good movie, but it
Speaker 1: was a goobery good time. Yeah, it's uh, this one's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It's real dumb. But in a
Speaker 1: in a wonderfully watchable since so I highly recommend it
Speaker 1: um now. We watched it as part of the the
Speaker 1: excellent shout Factory Sci Fi Movie Marathon DVD set, which
Speaker 1: also includes Arena and two films that I have not
Speaker 1: seen America three thousand and the Time Guardian. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen them either, so no comment. I think Carrie Fisher's
Speaker 1: in one of them. I think she's in the Time Guardian,
Speaker 1: but that's all I know about now. Shout Factory also
Speaker 1: put out Eliminators on Blu Ray, and and eighty eight
Speaker 1: Films did a combo Blu Ray DVD release in I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if Eliminators is streaming anywhere at the moment
Speaker 1: as of this recording, but I think it has popped
Speaker 1: up on places like Prime in the past, so you know,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're looking out on to be or
Speaker 1: in places of that of that nature, you're bound to
Speaker 1: see it pop up eventually. All Right, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: and close it out, But of course we'd love to
Speaker 1: hear from anyone out there if we have any uh
Speaker 1: Eliminators fans out there. Uh, certainly if you saw this
Speaker 1: movie back in the eighties, we'd love to hear from you. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Before I was really familiar with this film at all,
Speaker 1: I heard a sample from it on the track sci
Speaker 1: Fu is um off the Wax Factor album SSI Fu.
Speaker 1: I know this is an artist that now goes by
Speaker 1: the name of Pete Sasquax that's s A s q
Speaker 1: W a X, and he's put out a ton of
Speaker 1: great content over the years. Most of his work is
Speaker 1: currently on band Camp, and I think you can still
Speaker 1: access si Fu the album on Apple Music, but he
Speaker 1: may be putting it out on band Camp in the
Speaker 1: future as well. UH. For all of his links. Check
Speaker 1: out his link tree on his Instagram page. He is
Speaker 1: again Pete Sasquax. That's p E t E s A
Speaker 1: s q w a x. I reached out to him
Speaker 1: and he gave us to go ahead to play part
Speaker 1: of sci Fu is um here. Uh. It has a
Speaker 1: lot of great samples in it, including just a real
Speaker 1: gym of a sample from eliminates anyway anyway, some kind
Speaker 1: of costumes, comic books, comic books, comic books, comic books.
Speaker 1: We got thrown by, we got jay Man, we got
Speaker 1: to sign pau what Brad Ghetow we read then to
Speaker 1: get up Brain lay the rain, yellowbow yarrow, every ever brake,
Speaker 1: but never a brain in the yellow anyway,