Re: The NEW, "What's that in your eyeballs?" thread. Part 20

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Warlords of Atlantis is on Legend, at 6:40.

I've just put it on.

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This fillum is completely bizarre.

A proper, yes, a proper gallimaufry.

AAAAND, there's just been a scene that they ripped off wholesale in Flash Gordon.

But kind of more profound and challenging and pseudo-scientifically, psycho-geographically 'accurate'.

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I used to think this was the runt of Doug McClure's litter but, nowadays, I think it's easily his best.

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I think it's quite adept in the way it integrates Nazi pseudo-history into its themes.

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I wonder if Graham Hanckock's ever seen this film?

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I think it's quite adept in the way it integrates Nazi pseudo-history into its themes.

This is what I have been saying.

It's like the kind of stuff that was the central theme to Raiders of the Lost Ark - teh Narzis being obsessed with mythology and 'manifest destinies' and all that malarkimabobbles.

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It's got the bloke from Carry On up the Khyber in it. The one they think is dead, so they cover his body, and then he complains that he's still alive.

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I think he was also a pirate, or something, in Carry On Jack.

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Flying fish, attacking like the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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Flying fish, attacking like the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Although they do look more like they're just being thrown by bored stage hands.

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Flying piranhas!!

Four whole years before Piranha II: Flying Killers.

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Is this the ending where there's just an endless series of explosions in the water?

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It's definitely Kevin Eldon's finest performance.

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Heroine's doing a Caroline and refusing to leave with Doug.

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Totally annoying and pointless bit where the girl can't go back with 'Dishy' Doug.

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Heroine's doing a Caroline and refusing to leave with Doug.

Do you think that these were decisions based on actual plot considerations or something to do with not wanting - or not being able to shoot within budget - the scenes where they're all back in the normal world with either Caroline Munro or this woman who looks like Kate O'Mara crossed with Ken Dodd?

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Some syntax gallimaufry there.

But, you get my point?

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Oh, right, there's another bit and that snuggle rumpusing octopus is going to turn up now.

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This film is going on too long now.

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