Dec. 24, 2025

The Beastmaster (1982)

The Beastmaster (1982)
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Season 51982 MoviesAdventure

"Born with the courage of an eagle, the strength of a black tiger, and the power of a god." For this episode, we are discussing the sword and sorcery adventure, 'The Beastmaster.' The movie stars Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Based on the 1959 novel The Beast Master written by Alice "Andre" Norton.

The Beastmaster - IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520beastmas
The Beastmaster - Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beastmaster

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Hello, and welcome to the All Eighties Movies podcast podcast,

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where we talk about the blockbusters, love loves, and everything

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in between from one of the precious decades from movies,

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the nineteen eighties. Her host Bill Bant. Along with you

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on this journey revisiting eighties movies is my co host

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Jason Massek.

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Hello, Jason, dar The gods have put that mark on you,

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and someday you'll find out why. Till then, this mark

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will be your guide. My sword and my copa will

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be your trusted companions, protect a email, your home, and

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if anything should happen to me, look for our enemies

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at the gems, and you may search for your destiny

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in the valley of a rook.

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That's right, listeners, we are discussing with spoilers. The Plenty

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the nineteen two fantasy adventure The Beast Master. It was

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produced by the Leisure Investment Company and distribed it by

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mgm UA Entertainment Company. The movie stars Mart Singer, Tanya Roberts,

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John Amos, and Rip Torn. Directed by Don Coscarelli, this

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movie is rated at PG with the running time of

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one hour and fifty eight minutes. Is loosely based on

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the nineteen fifty nine novel The Beast Master by Alice Norton.

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So what is this movie about? What's on the box?

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If you grow up the nineteen eighties and what's your

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local video store to rent this movie? You would find

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this description on the back of the VHS box. It

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is what's on the box? Take it away, Jason.

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Set in a wild and primitive world, The Beast Master

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is the gripping tale of a mythical hero engaged in

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a life and death struggle with overwhelming forces of evil.

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Filmed by Academy Award winning cinematographer John Alcott, it boasts

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spectacular sets, a topknot cast, and spine tingling action. Mark

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Singer stars as Dar, the sole survivor of a barbarian massacre.

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Determined to take his revenge. A golden warrior born with

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the courage of an eagle and the strength of a

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black panther, Dar must nevertheless face awesome enemies that threaten

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his destruction. At his side is Tanya Roberts, a heroic

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slave girl who battles the barbarians with a fervor equal

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to Dar's own. New horrors await them at every turn,

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a witch that crawls backwards across the ceiling. A race

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of cannibalistic Batman and rip torn as may Ax, the

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high priest of a fiendish cult, whom Dar must meet

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and destroy if he is to survive. Though far outnumbered,

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the forces of good are abetted by a supernatural secrets

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revealed to you in the heart pounding climax of the

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beast Master.

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Beast Master. So that was What's on the Box. Let's

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move on to our eighty snapshot as we highlight some

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of the creative forces from this movie. Jason, who do

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you have?

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I will tell you in just a moment. Bill Bant.

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First of all, it's just a pleasure to be doing

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this with you today. I'm really looking forward to this one.

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At the end of the What's on the Box segment,

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there is this supernatural secret revealed that is mentioned. What

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are they talking about? I have to ask you this

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because I keep reading this and I'm like, what is

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there something that I missed at the end of this movie?

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Was there a huge reveal?

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There is not. I have no idea, Okay.

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So I'm just What's on the Box segment just threw

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me for a moment there, and I love that What's

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on the box synopsis up to that point through me

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for a loop. All right, all right, enough of that,

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Let's get into The beast Master a little bit. Starting

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with our eighties snapshot. I chose Mark Singer, of course,

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in the titular role of the beast Master aka Dar.

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Mark Singer's career goes back to the seventies when he

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did a lot of TV appearances, but getting right to

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his eighties. He did do five episodes of a show

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called The Contender nineteen eighty. He does a bunch of

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TV movies, a film called If You Could See What

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I Hear? That's in nineteen eighty two. He does this

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The beast Master in eighty two, then the other thing.

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He's most known for playing the role of Mike Donovan

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in a couple episodes of V in nineteen eighty three,

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then three more episodes as Mike Donovan in the series

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V The Final Battle in eighty four. He does three

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episodes of The Love Boat in eighty four, and of

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course the nineteen episodes of the actual TV series V

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from eighty four to eighty five. He does twelve episodes

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of Dallas in eighty six, then more episodic TV ranging

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from the Twilight Zone to murder She wrote in The

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Hitchhiker from eighty eight to eighty nine. He does reprise

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his role as Dar in bast Master two Through the

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Portal of Time in ninety one, and again in the

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ninety six TV movie sequel beast Master three The Eye

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of Braxis. He does the voice of man Bat in

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Batman the Animated Series for three episodes in nineteen ninety two,

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which I thought was interesting because it's kind of a

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callback to The Beast Master where we have some man

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bats he does, you know. Just after that a bunch

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of TV B movies. He shows up twenty two episodes

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of The Youngerman The Restless in ninety nine, and then

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reprises his role again as Dar or should I say

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Dartanis in six episodes of The beast Master TV show

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from two thousand and one to two thousand and two.

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He shows up in a TV reboot a V for

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an episode, just one episode in twenty eleven, but not

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as Mike Donovan, instead a new character named Lars Tremont.

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And that's all you really need to know, just a

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little bit of trivia. Mark Singer is the brother of

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actress Lori Singer. We know her from Footloose, of course,

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which we covered on this very pod. He's got a

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couple other siblings, brothers Claude Singer and Gregory Singer, and

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he is the cousin of director Brian Singer. Mark Singer

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is also black belt and kung fu, and along with

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a Jane Badler, he is one of only two actors

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to appear in both V from eighty four and VV

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in two thousand and nine. That's Mark Singer for you.

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Who do you Got for your eighties? And Snapshot?

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I have co writer and director Don Coscarelli Junior, who

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was born in North Africa but was raised in southern California.

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At just nineteen years old, Coscarelli became the youngest director

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to have a feature film distributed by a major studio

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when The Jim, the World's Greatest and independently British Drama,

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was picked up by Universal Pictures. Don is best known

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for creating the cult horror classic Phantasm from nineteen seventy

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nine and its sequels, the series that earned him a

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lasting reputation in the genre. Phantasm was a highly imaginative

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and surreal freight thriller that marked Coscarelli's breakthrough in the

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horror world. In two thousand two, he directed the offbeat

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cult hit Boba Hoopetet, starring horror icon Bruce Campbell. The

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film features a bizarre yet memorable premise. Elvis Presley and

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a man claiming to be John F. Kennedy reside in

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a Texas rest home, where they must battle a three

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thousand year old cowboy mummy feeding on the souls of

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the elderly costco. Corelli's other works from the eighties include

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phantasand two from nineteen eighty eight and the adventure thriller

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Survival Quest from nineteen eighty nine, which starred Lance Hendrickson, Dermot,

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Marooney and Catherine Kinnear. That's writer director Don Cascarelli junior stuff.

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So this leads us to earliest memories. We're the earliest

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memories of beast Master. Now, Jason, I was super surprised

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to find out this is the first time you've seen

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beast Master, which I don't know how the hell that happened.

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That movie was on every day from eighty three to

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eighty nine on some sort of cable channel. How did

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you miss this movie? Please explain?

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Yeah, I don't think super Surprised even covers it. It's

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absolutely one thousand percent extreme and wild that I never

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saw this, and that is a fact. I was searching

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my memory to try at least to remember some of

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the like snippets that I may have caught a clip

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here and there, and I must have come across it

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at some point and saw a scene or something, but

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I just never sat down and watched it in its

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entirety for some reason. So it really is one of

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those crazy, how the hell have I never seen this

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movie scenarios? But it's true. I mean, despite its incredible

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run on cable television and HBO, it got past me.

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It's all I can say. I was well aware of it.

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I knew what it was, I knew about the story

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somewhat loosely. I mean, it's pretty obvious, so I think

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I'd seen trailers for it, and I remember seeing images

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of Mark Singer looking totally ripped. I knew there was

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a hot lady in it. And speaking of which, it's

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one of those things. If I had recorded this way

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back when in the eighties on VHS, I would have

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worn the tape out, rewinding it and playing any scene

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featuring Tanya Roberts. But probably after seeing this movie today,

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I would have just rewounded and watched it a trillion times.

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I can see how watching this as a kid would

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have been an absolute blast. But honest, I never saw it.

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That's all I can say. I have no excuse Bill.

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Band Oh good, I guess.

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Bill bad is left speechless. It's insane.

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But hey, we finally got you to watch it, so

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that's all that.

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Matters, right. It only took forty years for me.

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My dad introduced me to this on cable on HBO,

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and I fell in love with it for the first time.

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And yeah, it was one I did record on BHS

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and I don't know why I needed to, because it

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was on so frequently. I mean, I would watch this

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movie over and over and over again. If I look

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back on the movies I watched in the eighties, the

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Beast Master would have to be in the top ten.

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And is it a quality movie like some of the

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others I watched. No, But it just had a lot

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of fun elements to it, and if it was on,

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I stopped what I was doing and would watch it.

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So thanks Dad. Darr for me was up there with

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Indiana Jones and Luke Skywalker's how much I love that character,

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and it just had everything for me.

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It was a cable watch in between HBO and TBS.

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It was on all the time and there was no

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stopping me from watching it.

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Yeah, that's great stuff, man, I totally see it. It

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makes complete sense. This is the kind of movie that

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just captures a boy's imagination, any young kids, teenager's imagination.

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It's just Taylor made for that. And also I love

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the idea of trying to figure out what eighties movie

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you watched the most on VHS as a kid. It's

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just great because for me, I believe probably the film

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I watched the most outside of Star Wars of course,

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would be Aliens. I think that's the one I watched

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the most. There was a summer I think I watched

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Aliens probably fifty times. Like it was something stupid, it

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was ridiculous. But I wished I had seen this now

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as a kid. But are we ready to get in

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some initial thoughts of the beast Master.

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Yes, let's get into it. What do you got?

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Well, you know, I just said this is Taylor made

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for like a boy's imagination because it's fantasy adventure, and

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I As I've said many times, love mythology and lore.

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Just in this movie is Conan the Barbarian meets Templa

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Doom meets Clash of Titans meets Doctor Toolittle and maybe

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a touch of manimal. But Bill bent this thing. I'm

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watching it for the first time. I'm like, this is

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just loaded. It's got an evil high priest, crazy f

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and witches, death Guard, the jun Horde, and cool animals

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and sword and sandal adventures, hot ladies, a ripped dude,

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a fun mythos origin story, a prophecy, and this background

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lore of far away lands. It's the chosen one who

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has the marketing or the special brand. It's the hero's

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journey to rescue the princess or in this case a

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slave girl or slash trove warrior. As we find out,

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it's got all the archetypes. So they really throw everything

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in this along with the Kitchen Sink. Is there any

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other film you want to throw in there that you

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can compare it to, either that it steals from or

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scantly clad women and warriors running around with their swords.

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we should rename the genre instead of sword and sandal

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or sword and sorcery, it should just be buff dudes

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running around swords. So you know what else is really

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featured in this that we love, Bill Bant? Butt cheeks?

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a lot of loin cloth in this and you just

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strong music here right from the beginning from composer Lee Holdridge.

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for me, but that's just me. It's still solid. Love

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it some good music to start with, and I'm like, okay,

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we're off to a good start. And you know what,

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Bill Bant, it's always good to see John Amos's name

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in the credits, like with John Amos is in this,

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I love that guy, all right. Really off to a

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good start here. When the movie begins, we get some

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naked witches standing around a cauldron and I'm like, wait

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a minute, what are we watching here? We got some

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hot ladies right, you know, right off the bat until

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you see their faces, of course, and then they're these

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like horrifically gross witches. But I was like, I'm in. Basically,

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it had me sold right from the start. And I

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have to say, it's really funny because there's an appearance

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by the King in the beginning of this movie and

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his name is King Zed, and every time I heard

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the name Zed, I was like, I all think it

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was pulp fiction. And Bruce Willis sang Zed's dead baby,

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pretty f and creepy. Start with the witch cutting the

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unborn from the queen, but not really cutting it at all.

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to get into detail with that, but I was just like,

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oh my god, where what is this movie all about?

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ten minutes of the movie, and then we have our

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grown up dar played by Mark Singer for the following

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ten minutes, and I gotta say, Bill, I was in.

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I'm like, Mark Singer is a specimen. I mean, Jesus

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CHRISTE look at those thighs. He's tall, he's toned, is

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a sexy guy, less than zero body fat. I mean,

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it's inescapable. What do you think, Bill Bant, I mean,

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the guy's a stud.

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ripped he was. Why wasn't he doing more actions movies

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in the eighties. He looked great.

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One thousand percent, And I thought he was fine in

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this as an actor. You know, we're going to talk

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about the cosmetics of this because you got a bunch

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of hot people running around on loincloths. You don't want

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to be too superficial here. But I think he was serviceable.

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I think he was. Okay, he's not you know, Lawrence Olivier,

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but the park doesn't call for that kind of performance,

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nor does this story or movie. So anyway, he's really

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really good at doing the hero shots, and there are

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plenty of those in this movie. He's just walking around

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swinging that big sword, if you know what I mean

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the whole time, just kind of showing off his abs

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and his pecks and just standing basically not even fighting.

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He's just swinging the sword around like, oh, okay, I

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got it, we got it, you're good with the sword.

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swinging that a lot, and by the way we get

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a lot of eagle screams in the beginning, and I

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was hoping to be able to do an eagle scream

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for this pod, but I still have to rehearse that.

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And yeah, I was talking about the fact that we

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just cover this right now, a lot of naked people

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running around or half naked people running around. I think

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this movie is pretty horny, but it could have been

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a lot hornier. And that's just a commentary I have

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kind of running through this whole thing. This movie is

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actually very violent as well. It's actually barbaric at points.

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We have a child sacrifice in this movie, Bill Bant.

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tiger obviously, who mauls like a thousand people in this.

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Really he always just mauls the same person. It's technically

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the tiger's trainer. He's just in different costumes.

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A so true. But we get several maulings in this,

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but it could have been even more violent in the

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way that for the gore factor, there actually isn't a

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great deal of blood in this It's kind of a

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weird thing about this film. I did enjoy the action

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in this film, a lot. We get plenty of action sequences.

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little bit slow, wasn't paced quite correctly. You've got a

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lot of bad guys extras just kind of standing around

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waiting for their moment to attack. It's pretty obvious, and

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it's pretty funny. Still good action, you know overall. And

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yes I mentioned butt cheeks and here we go. We

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do get our eighties boobs in this and we have

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a nice waterfall scene when Tanya Roberts is introduced, and

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we got to talk about her, of course, and what

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can you say, Bill Bant, She's heavenly, She's an absolute

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smoke show, gorgeous, it's undeniable, beautiful eyes. He's a gorgeous woman.

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lot to do. She doesn't. She's not really in much

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of the first hour of this film, which could be

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a major complaint if you wanted it to be. But

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she is in the latter half, and she's okay, doesn't

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now that I'm thinking about it. But fan Atanya Roberts,

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clearly rip torn is in this film. As our main antagonist,

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High Priest May acts. He's fun. Did you enjoy his performance.

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In this chewing up the scenery?

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Loved it, absolutely over the top, going for it. He

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does a lot of fantastic sideways glances in this. He

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gives a lot of side looks. He's never looking directly

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at people and built was I mistaken or does he

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have a giant nose prosthetic?

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something on the nose.

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Sometimes it looks great, but other times you just go, yeah,

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that's a prosthetic.

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you this weird nose prosthetic the big bump on it. Anyway,

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I mentioned John Amos at the start, his actual real

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entrance in this film. I enjoyed a lot really giving

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off Little John from robin Hood vibes kind of with

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the quarter staff. And speaking of John Amos, the only

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reason why I love John Amos is because of Coming

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to America. I just love him so much in coming

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to America. Then I see him in this and like, yeah,

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great to see him a lot of cool weapons in

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this This is you know again, I'm really kind of

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looking at this film, you know, watching it for the

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first time, almost with kind of very innocent point of view,

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maybe a childlike point of view, because I came into

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this with absolutely no expectations or maybe low expectations. So

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when I see when I mentioned like the Lord and

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the mythology, now I see these cool weapons, Like the

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priests have a cool gadget type of weapon. Dar inherits

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the Kappa. Is that what it's called Bill is a

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cape or Kappa from his adopted dad.

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It's capa.

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So you see the Kappa and you're like, wait a minute,

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isn't that the glove from Krull? But it's not. It's

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really cool though, and it's actually a I thought it

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was three blade. I think it's a four bladed weapon.

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unfold it. It's pretty cool boomerang type of weapon that's

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used throughout the film. Love the animals. I do love

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the animals. We get ru the black panther. We've got

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our lovely I should say, lovable ferrets. What were their names?

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Is it? Coto and Podo the thieving ferrets, and I

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was like, after this, I gotta get ferret as a pet.

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a roommate that had a ferret as a pet. Those

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things smell and bite.

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Well, there goes that dream. Thanks a lot, build Band.

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And the eagle is totally bad ass in this and

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all the animals seem to get cool names, and I

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was like, wait a minute, the eagle is the most

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bad ass. Why doesn't he you have a name or she?

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Was that mentioned in the film. I didn't hear that

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at all.

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I did the same thing when I saw the name.

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I'm like, wait a second, when does he name the eagle?

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And I go back and watch it. No, that didn't happen.

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I think it was named in the sequel, So it's retrove.

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Okay, that totally makes sense. All right. I'm an hour

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into this movie and I couldn't believe it, Bill Band,

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I was still really digging it. I pretty much dug

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this film through the whole way. And now we do

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have to talk about the overall total running time, which

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is close to two hours and I was like, that's

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way too long for this. It's just too long for

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this movie. This film should have never been two hours.

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I mean, I still enjoyed it. I'll say this, it

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was about twenty minutes too long for me. And this

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is a spoiler alert for those who haven't seen the film.

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But once our antagonist is oft Mayax the High Priest dies,

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You're like, oh, well, this is it. Time to roll

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the credits, and it goes on for another twenty minutes.

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You're like, what is happened? But as aforementioned, this movie

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just has a blend of great genres that appeal to me,

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to my sensibilities. It steals from a lot of other

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good eighties B movies and maybe other eighties movies to

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come after this stole from this. I don't know, but

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I was along for the ride. I'm not going to

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give my official rating our All Eighties Movies podcast official

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rating here, but I'm just gonna say I thought this

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was a great B movie and I was really pleasantly surprised.

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I'd even maybe give it an as It's not perfect

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by far. We'll get into it, but I'll just say

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it really worked for me. I had a lot of fun.

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What are your initial thoughts.

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Yeah, for me, eleven year old is given this five stars.

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I mean it has everything. We have sword fights, We

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have strange creatures that turn people to go bat people

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or bird people whatever they are. I still don't know

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what they're called, but they're cool. Yeah, quicksand eighties quicksand

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I love eighties quicksand gotta have it. That's awesome, of course,

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topless Tanya Roberts and you are that age Holy Molly.

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And then the glow in the dark SETI eels making

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people in the desk guards ere the death guards themselves,

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just crazy people running around with helmets and those spike gloves.

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We have our witches, which is with the bodies of

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a ten and faces of a negative seventeen. Those things

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are freaky get hot. At the same time, we have

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a ring with an eye in it, a real eye.

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Oh yeah, and that thing always freaked me out. Of course,

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the cool animal companions. I don't think I ever knew

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what ferrets were until I saw them in this movie.

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And then we have an eagle, and then I'll be honest,

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I didn't realize it was a tiger at first. I

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thought it was a panther until probably my relatives mentioned

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it during a holiday gathering that they couldn't believe they

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painted the tiger black. What are you talking about? And

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now watching this, it's so damn odious? How did I

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miss that as a kid? But I still enjoyed it.

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But I agree with you it's a little long. There

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are way too many close up shots and like you said,

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the hero shots, you could probably cut those in half. Sure,

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And yes, the double ending is strange, and I think

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what doesn't work is we don't really know who the

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true baddie is. Nice because you really start with Mayax

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and then we're introduced to the Guns and then you

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find out the two of them were working together, so

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it's who was really in charge? Was it Mayax or

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the Jones? And then one gets taken out and you go, okay,

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movie over, But no, the genes are still coming. You

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got to defend ourselves against that. So there's a lot

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going on. But I do like the fact, and especially

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as a kid, because you're getting introduced to so many

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00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:51.519
characters with names that are simple enough.

455
00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:53.240
Couldn't agree more for you.

456
00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:59.480
To remember dar Kirie, Mayax, Seth Tall, so they're easy

457
00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:02.559
to remember. You can keep track of everything. I still

458
00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:06.079
really enjoyed it. It's the length that it's kind of

459
00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:09.519
an issue. But I wouldn't go back and go all right,

460
00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:11.079
do I need to take out scenes?

461
00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:11.519
Yeah?

462
00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:14.160
I just think you need to take out shots. It

463
00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:15.799
just runs a little too long.

464
00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:19.079
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. You're spot on. That's the

465
00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.079
problem is you're confused a little bit as to which

466
00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:25.559
bad guy you're supposed to be invested in. And when

467
00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:29.279
we're introduced to the gun Horde that kills or wipes

468
00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:32.440
out and decimates Dars village in the beginning, you're like, oh, well,

469
00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:35.680
here's the clear villain. We'll probably be introduced to the

470
00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:39.799
leader or the chieftain of the gun Horde, but we're not. Instead,

471
00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:43.880
we're more exposed to or shown the evil high priest

472
00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:47.160
in Mayo's played but may Ax played by rip Torn.

473
00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:52.519
But then at the end, after Mayax's death, I understand

474
00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:55.559
why the film is extended to include the gen Horde

475
00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:01.039
battle because this then wraps up dars revenge, right. We

476
00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:04.559
need to see him overcome the gung Horde because they're

477
00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:07.640
the ones that killed, you know, his adopted father and

478
00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:10.519
wiped out his village. So I understand why they did that,

479
00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:14.240
but they didn't show us enough of the GHN Hoard

480
00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.519
characters or that chieftain throughout the film to care about

481
00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:20.400
him at all or know him at all. So then

482
00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:23.119
when he is introduced, because we have a major one

483
00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:26.640
on one battle between Darr and the GHN Horde chieftain,

484
00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:29.160
we're like, oh, I'm supposed to know this guy or

485
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.799
think he's a total badass or a really bad bad dude,

486
00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:35.799
and now root for Dar to overcome and for this

487
00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:37.880
chieftain to get his come up, and but I'm just

488
00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:39.279
not invested, so I didn't care.

489
00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:42.839
Yeah, it's almost you're introduced to our initial battie, which

490
00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:45.640
we think is Mayax, and then we're deduced to the

491
00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:49.519
Juns and they wipe out the village. So now Dar

492
00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:53.200
the beast Master, is on a quest for revenge. Then

493
00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:55.920
we pivot back to Mayx. It was almost like a

494
00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.400
side quest on his initial quest because he doesn't even

495
00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:03.000
know what Mayx had done to him. Correct and there

496
00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:05.680
is a scene where Mayax and the Genes seem like

497
00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:10.920
they're working together, but it's not explicit enough. They couldn't

498
00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:12.119
explain that a little bit better.

499
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.839
It's confusing. It's confusing because you're led to believe that

500
00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:18.200
Mayax is maybe the leader of the Jones at this

501
00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.640
point or is working alongside them, but then they're separate

502
00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:26.279
entities and it's I don't know, I don't know. So yeah, anyway,

503
00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:27.480
we can move on.

504
00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:31.000
Yes, but credit to the movie for being fun enough

505
00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:34.319
that it isn't deterring the enjoyment of the movie.

506
00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.759
Correct. It didn't ruin it by any stretch of the imagination.

507
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:39.279
It didn't ruin it for me. It didn't take me

508
00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:42.559
out completely. I still thoroughly enjoyed this, So let's move on.

509
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:46.640
Correct. Okay, let's move on to our favorite scenes or moments. Jason,

510
00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:49.960
what do you got four favorite scenes or moments from

511
00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:51.000
the Beast Master?

512
00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:53.400
All right, let's do it. I always like to start

513
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:55.880
from the beginning, so I'm going to start with my

514
00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.920
first scene being the weird baby trance for Slash Transportation.

515
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:05.039
At the very beginning of this film, we're like in

516
00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:08.039
the basement chamber of I believe it's supposed to be

517
00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:10.519
like the Temple of r in the city of Aruk.

518
00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:12.680
So yeah, we're like in the basement of this temple.

519
00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:16.160
We're introduced to our antagonist may Ax, who's this evil

520
00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.759
high priest, and we get these witches surrounding a cauldron.

521
00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:21.880
They look into the cauldron and we get our prophecy,

522
00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:25.359
and the prophecy is that the unborn child of the

523
00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:28.559
King and Queen will one day grow up to be

524
00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:31.200
the end of Mayox. The unborn son will grow up

525
00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:35.079
to end up killing Mayax. I keep saying, Mayox, it's Mayax,

526
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:38.240
and so of course evil high priests. Mayax says, well,

527
00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:41.880
can't have that, So we got to go cut out

528
00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.680
the unborn son from the queen's belly. Well that sounds

529
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:49.039
pretty freaking brutal. And of course King Zed walks in

530
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:51.440
and he's like, well, nope, I'm not going to stand

531
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.319
for that. You're banished. You're going to go to the

532
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:57.319
outlands and live with the Horde the juns. So on

533
00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:00.559
his way out, we know that Mayax one of the

534
00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:02.279
witches off to the side and kind of gives one

535
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:04.759
of his sideway glances, and the witch takes this to

536
00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:08.400
know that the mission is to get the unborn son.

537
00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:10.880
So cut to later that night, I believe, the witch

538
00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:14.039
goes into the Queen and King's tent and starts this

539
00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:18.319
really strange ritual pours some neon liquid over the necks

540
00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:20.599
of both the king and the Queen. They awaken, but

541
00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:23.000
they can't say anything. They're screaming, but that you can't

542
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:25.720
hear them. They're not audible, so that we know obviously

543
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:29.240
this liquid had some sort of magical power to silence them.

544
00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:32.160
And then the Witch does some weird circling with her

545
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.839
hand over the queen's belly, and there's some cool makeup

546
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.279
slash special effects here where you see the child within

547
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.480
her belly kind of pushing outward and pressing the skin outward,

548
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:44.079
which is really creepy. But here's the weirdest thing is

549
00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:48.480
the witch isn't alone. The Witch brought a giant white bull.

550
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:51.400
So there's a bull standing off to the side while

551
00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:54.240
this is going on, and the film cuts back and

552
00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:56.839
forth between her swirling her hand over the queen's belly

553
00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:59.599
and the child pressing outward to the belly of this bull,

554
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:01.480
and it's kind of glowing, and then all of a sudden,

555
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:05.640
the child is gone from the belly and we are

556
00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:09.680
to assume it has now been transported into the belly

557
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:14.359
of this bull. And I was like, what this movie

558
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:16.880
is not just going to be this typical sword and

559
00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:18.759
sandle thing. This is you know, we're dealing with some

560
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:21.960
real fantasy and fantastical stuff here, but it's weird. So

561
00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:24.559
I think we're led to believe here that the queen

562
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:27.079
dies in this moment in this process, and the King

563
00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:31.839
is left screaming and torment but can't is paralyzed. So

564
00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:35.279
cut to now clearing in the forest somewhere. The witch

565
00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.440
has brought the bull to this area and slices the

566
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:44.240
bull's belly open and out comes the chosen one, the baby,

567
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.440
And now she is going to sacrifice this baby. She

568
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.319
specifically has to perform this step by step process where

569
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:55.640
she brands the baby, which is horrific. She burns a

570
00:29:55.720 --> 00:30:00.359
marking into the baby's hand and then raises an knife

571
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:02.880
to slaughter the child. This is all being done in

572
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:05.119
front of a like a campfire, nice little camping, a

573
00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:07.720
little fireside chat with this baby, and it's not looking

574
00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.079
good for the child. Off to the side, a villager

575
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:16.200
happens to be walking by witnessing this evil, old haggard

576
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:20.880
witch about to slaughter this kid, and the villager becomes

577
00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:24.440
the hero and pulls out this Kappa weapon, this glave

578
00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:27.119
style weapon, throws it at the witch, stabbing her in

579
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:30.079
the back, and that doesn't stop her. They ensue in

580
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:35.240
a fight and the witch disappears, and it's really kind

581
00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:37.279
of a strange fight where she uses a force push

582
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.559
at one point. Basically the villager, this gentle old fellow,

583
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.519
then has vanquished this witch and now is in possession

584
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.599
of the child and has become its adopted father. So

585
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:51.880
that's it. It's just really wild, Bill, because of the

586
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.640
way that the baby is transported. We watched this, it's

587
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:57.680
really I think it's actually quite well done, but it's

588
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.920
just really strange. But the idea is that we also

589
00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:05.000
know now how dar gets his supernatural ability to be

590
00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:08.039
able to communicate with the animals, to talk to animals,

591
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:10.680
to see through their eyes and vice versa, is because

592
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.519
he was born of an animal. He was born of

593
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:16.440
a bull. That's cool, this is his origin story, but

594
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:19.799
it gives you kind of a real ick feeling because

595
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:21.640
the way it's laid out. What are your thoughts on

596
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:22.519
this opening scene.

597
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:25.559
I find the scene very disturbing. I remember watching as

598
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:28.319
a kid the first time and turning to my dad

599
00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:31.920
and going what is happening, and my dad just kind

600
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:35.279
of has that. How am I going to explain this

601
00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:40.200
to my son? Look, it gets me every time I

602
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:43.440
really feel for the queen when this is happening, it

603
00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:46.680
gets very intense for me. I don't like watching the scene.

604
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:50.119
And then the fact that this witch was going to

605
00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:55.319
sacrifice the baby, right, and here comes Dara's adopted father

606
00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:00.599
and we see the kPa and throws it into her back.

607
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.519
And then the witch was kind of stupid because she

608
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:08.480
should have just killed Dar's adoptive father. No problem. She

609
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.880
plays with him where she just arms him, but lets

610
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:14.200
the sword drop right in front of him and he

611
00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:16.519
just picks it up and stabs her in the chest.

612
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:19.799
Right, Oh me, pow are scaling issues here.

613
00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:23.839
And then disperses her into the fire and then she

614
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.079
gives that creepy laugh like she was happy she got killed.

615
00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:32.640
Oh okay, but it explains the origin the beast Master,

616
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:36.519
why the beast Master became what he was, what is important.

617
00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.440
It's definitely a reason why they probably should have made

618
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.480
the movie PG thirteen, even though we didn't have PG

619
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.640
thirteen back then. But that would definitely be a scene

620
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:49.160
to justify that rating.

621
00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:52.279
Oh yeah, and yeah, so I chose as a favorite

622
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:55.960
scene because I think it's weird, cool, it is disturbing.

623
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:59.680
It was unexpected. I was surprised by it as like, yeah, yeah,

624
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.039
so I kind of liked that aspect of it. I

625
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:04.200
do think it's fun. I forgot that the witches do

626
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.160
that cackling when they pull an obi wan kenobi and

627
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:09.400
they're like they disappear and the falls to the ground

628
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.160
sort of thing. My complaint with this, and yeah, definitely

629
00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.200
stepping on complaints here for myself, is that in the

630
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:18.200
opening sequence under the Temple, in the basement chamber with

631
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:22.079
the cauldron and the prophecy, Mayax literally walks up to

632
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.240
the king and says to his face that he's going

633
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:26.599
to cut out the unborn son of his wife love

634
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:30.279
the queen to stop this prophecy from being fulfilled, and

635
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:33.039
the king only banishes him. Why does the king not

636
00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:35.839
just put him in chains right there or put him

637
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:38.920
to death right in that very moment? Right this guy

638
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:42.200
just threatened to cut a child out of your wife's belly,

639
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.920
and he's like, Okay, you have to leave the city.

640
00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:49.640
That's the punishment, And then they escort Mayax out and

641
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:53.079
leave the witches there. Hello, they're in on this too.

642
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:55.759
Shouldn't they be escorted out?

643
00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:59.079
Yeah, not a perfect scene, but it's fun. What do

644
00:33:59.119 --> 00:33:59.960
you have? Yeah?

645
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:01.920
For me, one of my favorite scenes is the John

646
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:06.720
attack on Emar, and this is where Dar ends up

647
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:10.519
growing up, and you know, he's adopted by Dar's father,

648
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:14.039
whose name we never learn. So Dar and the younger

649
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:16.840
villagers are out tilling the fields and all of a sudden,

650
00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.760
this really bad composite of a dust ball is coming

651
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:25.599
over the hills and Dar knows it's the Juns. We

652
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:27.639
have no idea what the Jardans are. And they start

653
00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:31.360
streating back to Humor to try to help with the fight,

654
00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:34.000
and they get there too late. All the Juns show

655
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.599
up outside the village of Vmar, and the village is

656
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:41.400
a small circle with all the huts are suspended on stilts,

657
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:43.320
very high in the air. And the Juns show up

658
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:46.519
and we see Dar's father, You're still there in the

659
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:49.079
village and he knows right away the guns are here

660
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:52.400
that they meet business, and he gets a sword and

661
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:54.679
walks out to the front entrance, and I love he

662
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:55.679
makes the line the.

663
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:57.880
Dirt, literally drawing a line in the sand.

664
00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.440
Yeah, like, if you cross this line, we're going to

665
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:02.280
kick your butt and here come the juns and the

666
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.400
guns just truck them. There's no resistance whatsoever at that point.

667
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:11.519
But I have to get the villagers of Niemer some credit.

668
00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:14.639
They did put up a good fight even though the

669
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:17.760
guns come in and basically slaughter everyone. The people Emar

670
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:19.880
were fighting back as best as they could with the

671
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.719
limited resources that they had. Then Dar and the younger

672
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.559
villagers come in and they joined the fight, but they're

673
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.599
still overmatched. And there's a great moment when Dar gets

674
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.440
knocked out and he's lying there and Dar has this

675
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:36.719
dog named Toto with a d not Toto, and Toto

676
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.880
grabs Dar and starts pulling him out of the village.

677
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:43.079
And at one point when the guns sees this and

678
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.440
shoots the dog, and the dog stops briefly and keeps

679
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:48.519
pulling Dar with an arrow in his side. So that

680
00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:52.039
was impressive. I mean, granted, Dar was probably getting a

681
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:54.119
little additional help. You can tell if you watch the

682
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:57.079
foot as closely that he's just getting pulled by something

683
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.079
else besides the dog. But overall, watching the destruct in

684
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:02.360
the village, it was cool. I thought it was a

685
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.079
good battle scene. Then later on Dar wags up goes

686
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:09.320
to the village. Everybody's dead, a lot of them were

687
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:13.960
impelled on poles. And then Dar constructs a funeral pyre

688
00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:17.599
where he takes all the villagers and puts them in

689
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:20.320
the shape of the village symbol, a circle with the

690
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:24.519
diagonal slash, takes his dog, puts it in the arms

691
00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:28.000
of his adoptive father, and then sets it a flame

692
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:30.760
and then decides to go off to seek his revenge.

693
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:33.400
So good opening. Actually the scene for me.

694
00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:36.880
One thousand percent on that one. I totally agree. I

695
00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:38.679
was saying it to myself while watching it. I'm like,

696
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:42.079
this is some pretty good action. It exceeded my expectations.

697
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.840
I had low expectations or no expectations, and I was like,

698
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:47.559
pleasantly please. I was like, this is some good action.

699
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:50.239
Some of the cinematography here a shout out again to

700
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:54.639
John Alcott, because when Darr and his fellow villagers while

701
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:56.960
they're all like working the fields in the distance and

702
00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:59.039
they see the horde approaching and they have to run

703
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:01.079
back to the village, don't get there in time, there's

704
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:04.559
some great sweeping like landscape shots and you're like, oh,

705
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:07.400
they are not close to the village. At first, You're

706
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:09.920
like they should get there in time. They're like, oh no,

707
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:12.119
but so some really cool shots of them having to

708
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:14.679
run a really long distance across these fields to get

709
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.079
back to the village. But you're right, nice to see

710
00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:20.119
the villagers fighting back. Get some real Vlad the Impaler

711
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.679
vibes afterward, with all these poor souls impaled on these posts.

712
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:27.760
But love the dog, Love the dog, yes, not happy

713
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:31.199
about his death, don't don't kill the dog right off

714
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.159
at the start here come on, really cool dog funny

715
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:38.400
moment dragging a Dar out of the burning You were right,

716
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:42.079
there's because there obviously there's some people off screen pushing

717
00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:44.360
Dar to help, you know, to make it look like

718
00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:47.440
the dog is dragging him across the sand or the dirt.

719
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:51.320
But there's one moment when the dog actually stops pulling Dar,

720
00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:57.599
but Dar keeps moving along, sliding across the ground. You're like, oh, okay, whoops,

721
00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:00.360
it's really kind of funny. But the other moment I

722
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:03.519
wanted to call out is a really cool idea where

723
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:06.880
Dar managed to get one of the shields away from

724
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:10.400
the John Horde. And there's somebody I think, on horseback,

725
00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:12.760
a bad guy on horseback that shoots an arrow at

726
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:16.960
him and it goes through the shield. So he then

727
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:21.079
this is dar flips the shield around so the arrowhead

728
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:26.159
is facing outward when the jun attacks him and he

729
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:28.639
falls backwards and the gun leaps on top of him,

730
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:31.000
and then of course impales himself on the arrow sticking

731
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.880
out of the shield. I thought that was really cool. Yeah,

732
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:35.760
then he just drives it into his right, he thrusts

733
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:39.119
it through. I was like, that's a cool idea for

734
00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:42.239
the fight choreography, and it's it's interesting now when we

735
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:45.280
are just so like spoiled with John Wick movies and

736
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.800
you think, man, how are they going to come up

737
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:49.679
with more original, fresh choreography. I mean, if you're a

738
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:51.719
fan of any kind of kung fu movies, you see

739
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:53.239
it all the time. You're like, how are you going

740
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:55.639
to show me something new? So I thought that was

741
00:38:55.639 --> 00:38:58.519
a cool move I hadn't seen before in this type

742
00:38:58.519 --> 00:38:58.840
of movie.

743
00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:00.800
All right, what do you have next? Four favorite scene

744
00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:01.239
or moment?

745
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:04.320
All right, I've got the weird side adventure with the

746
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:08.719
what I call Mimic creatures, because these weird bat slash

747
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:12.639
men or bird men reminded me of the creatures from

748
00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:16.199
the film Mimic starring Mirisovina, which now I need to

749
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:17.920
see again. I kind of like that movie that's kind

750
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:19.880
of a cult never seen, a weird called classic for me.

751
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:22.239
You should check it out. It's not bad, gonna have

752
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:27.079
to no great. Yeah, they look very similar, very very creepy.

753
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.400
And that's why I actually thought the costume design here

754
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.840
was excellent. Why I'm mainly why I'm choosing the scene.

755
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:36.920
So during his travels, Darr has just met We have

756
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:40.400
our meat cute between Darr and a slave girl, Kiri

757
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:42.880
played by Tanya Roberts. They have a little bit of

758
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:46.119
a back and forth. Nothing much comes of it. She's

759
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:48.119
got to go back to the city of Arup because

760
00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.199
she's a slave and she if she'd gone too long,

761
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.519
that's not gonna be good for her. Dar moves on

762
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:56.760
with his trusty sidekicks, his animals Shahrak, Koto, Poto, and Rue.

763
00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:01.199
He decides to actually follow Kiri instead of going off

764
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:05.199
on some other path. As he's about to go after Kiri,

765
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.800
night falls and it's getting kind of foggy and creepy,

766
00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:11.480
and he looks upward to see a top of a cliff.

767
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:15.079
There's a grouping of trees with these hanging orbs of light,

768
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:17.880
and he goes to do a little recon check it out,

769
00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:20.880
and now it's night. It's super creepy. He comes upon

770
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.239
this clearing with these like circle of trees. There's a

771
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:26.079
giant tree at the center of it, and hanging from

772
00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:28.920
one of the tree branches is this wooden cage and

773
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.199
there's a male prisoner inside of it. So this setting

774
00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:35.400
is a little ominous. Let's just say that is little foreboding.

775
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:38.480
And there's also a cauldron here. As it turns out,

776
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.960
we get Dar walking over to the cauldron and Rue,

777
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:44.719
his trusty black panther, is with him. It's kind of

778
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.400
funny moment where he does a little taste test. He

779
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:50.119
dips the ladle into the cauldron and has Rue try

780
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:51.599
to taste it. I don't think Ru even takes the

781
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.800
taste of it, just smells it and backs off and

782
00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:56.440
we look into the Yeah, not having this. Why would

783
00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:58.840
you want me to drink from this cauldron? What are

784
00:40:58.880 --> 00:40:59.119
you doing?

785
00:40:59.199 --> 00:40:59.400
Dark?

786
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.159
Come on, love you, but I'm not tasting that. And

787
00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:05.159
Dar looks back into the cauldron and a severed head

788
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:07.760
rises to the surface of the liquid within the cauldron.

789
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:09.400
Not good.

790
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:15.760
Then Dar turns around and all of a sudden, these tall, leathery,

791
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:19.320
winged sort of creatures have appeared. They're just kind of

792
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:23.840
standing very still, very stoic, and there's several of them

793
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:28.159
in a few rows, and they're silent. It's hard to

794
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:32.320
describe these creatures. They're very tall, they're almost featureless outside

795
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:35.320
of these just kind of a leathery appearance. They don't

796
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.039
have any hair. You can just see their eyes really,

797
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:41.920
so it's very creepy. Dar Freeze the prisoner from the cage.

798
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.360
The prisoner tries to escape, running through the rows of

799
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.480
these creatures, and one of the creatures, this is a

800
00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:50.239
really scary moment, whips its arms open and that's when

801
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:53.320
you realize that they're these sort of bat like winged

802
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:57.880
creatures and envelops this male prisoner, and you just see

803
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.440
the prisoner writhing within this the grasp the grip of

804
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:05.039
this creature, and you hear his screams, they're muffled screams.

805
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:08.480
And then all of a sudden, from beneath the wings

806
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:11.000
at the feet of the creature, you see this green

807
00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:14.079
goo coming out, and you know, oh, that's not good,

808
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:18.199
not good for this prisoner. He's basically being dissolved within

809
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:21.000
the wings, and you can pretty much assume this bird

810
00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:25.880
man creature is eating the first that's how they are feeding.

811
00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:30.480
Then the winged creature opens up its wings, giant wings man,

812
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:33.320
and just the bones of this man fall to the ground.

813
00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:38.440
Not good. So now it's time for Dar to face

814
00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:41.159
these creatures. And he's got his giant sword and Rue

815
00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:43.679
is standing at his side. There's several of these things.

816
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:45.840
How's Dar going to defeat these things? But guess who

817
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:52.280
shows up? Sharrak the eagle, which is awesome, and the

818
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.320
creatures look up to see this eagle fly in to

819
00:42:55.840 --> 00:43:01.480
assist Dar, and the eagle lands on a statue which

820
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:05.440
is of a bird or eagle itself, And then you

821
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:08.639
realize the statue's been here this whole time, and that

822
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:13.960
these creatures, it seems, worship some kind of bird god.

823
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:17.159
So when they see Sharrak the Eagle appear on the

824
00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:21.000
scene and land on this very structure, the statue, and

825
00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:24.039
they can tell that Dar is friends with the eagle,

826
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:28.039
that they are connected. They now have a newfound respect

827
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:32.400
for Dar if he is aligned with this bird, the eagle.

828
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.039
That is, so they allow they're about to allow Dar

829
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:39.360
to pass. There's a really cool moment where he has

830
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:41.960
to get past one of these bird men creatures and

831
00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:46.119
Dar has his sword upheld and there's this quick move

832
00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:48.280
that scared the crap out of me, where the bird

833
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:53.159
creature extends its wings and then clasps the sword very quickly,

834
00:43:53.199 --> 00:43:58.079
making a sharp noise, and down the blade slides a

835
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:00.960
chain with an amulet at the end of it with

836
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:04.239
that symbol of the bird statue. It has the symbol

837
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:07.000
of the eagle on it, and you're like, Okay, now

838
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.480
these bird creatures not only respect Dar for being one

839
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.920
with the animals and the birds, but also gifted him

840
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:17.280
this and it's going to protect him some way, somehow,

841
00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:19.119
which there is a callback to it later, which I

842
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:21.719
thought was cool. So I like that moment, that's it.

843
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:24.280
Then Dar manages to pass. And then initially when I

844
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:26.079
saw the scene, I was like, what was the purpose

845
00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:29.440
of this scene? They just had these cool bird creatures

846
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:32.039
and just wanted to do this for shits and giggles,

847
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:34.440
and it was just kind of cool, great costume design,

848
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:38.800
makeup effects, things like that. But they come back into

849
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:41.400
the story near the end, which is really cool. I

850
00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:44.159
thought it was really creepy. I was like, this is

851
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:46.719
new I haven't seen this before. Like that scene.

852
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:49.079
Yeah, I do love those creatures, especially when they open

853
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:51.719
their arms and make that kind of whoop sound.

854
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:54.119
I love that something.

855
00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:56.719
But with that scene, I still have no idea why

856
00:44:56.920 --> 00:45:00.639
Dar rescues the prisoner. Was that going to do at

857
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:03.440
that moment? Was he expecting him to help?

858
00:45:03.679 --> 00:45:04.079
Doubt it?

859
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:07.039
He basically just send him to his death. But those

860
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.440
creatures really cool, and I just love you have that

861
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:14.079
black ivory statue of the bird. It comes the eagle

862
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:18.880
and just happens to land right on the shoulder and

863
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:23.320
everyone's now bowing. It was the jump scare for me too,

864
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.840
when the bird back creature makes the path for Dar

865
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:32.880
and Dar's cautiously walking through and then that one appears

866
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.639
out of nowhere in front of him and drops the medallion.

867
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:37.920
And as a kid, I had no idea that was

868
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:41.199
coming into play later. I just thought that was it. It's

869
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:43.199
kind of funny looking at as an adult. This is

870
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.599
going to be important later on, And of course it is, right.

871
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:49.719
I get you would call that the Checkof's medallion. I

872
00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:53.000
guess right, right, I think I'm up next again. Yeah,

873
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:55.320
all right, yep, folks, you're gonna have to listen to

874
00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.800
me a little bit longer, because my next favorite scene

875
00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:02.719
is one it's a scene within a scene. The overall

876
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:06.639
scene is the escape from the Temple of r or

877
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.519
the Pyramid, or the city of Aruk. It's all of it.

878
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:12.400
I get confused, what's what in here? Some a little bit,

879
00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:15.480
but it's escape from the Pyramid, and there's a scene

880
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:20.840
within this giant long, extended action sequence that I enjoyed,

881
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:23.559
so I'm going to cut right to it. The mission

882
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:27.320
here is for Dar and Kiri and Seth and Tall

883
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:31.239
to rescue King Zed. The audience here we knows that

884
00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:34.119
King Zed is actually the true father of Dar, but

885
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.760
King Zed is also the father of young Tall. Now,

886
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:42.599
the king has been imprisoned within this temple and imprisoned

887
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:45.679
by the evil Mayax, and so they're going to rescue him.

888
00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.000
And when they are inside, they have to run this

889
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:53.920
gauntlet basically where these evil death guards are reaching out

890
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:55.840
trying to kill them, and because they have they have

891
00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:57.840
these sleeves with spikes on them and everything, and so

892
00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:00.239
that's kind of a fun sequence and it's a little

893
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.440
too convenient when they get to the room where King

894
00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:04.559
Zed is held because the door is open and they

895
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:07.679
go inside and they find King Zed. Is there great?

896
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:11.000
Not so great though for King Zed personally, because his

897
00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:14.440
eyes have been removed or gouged out at some point,

898
00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:18.199
so King Zed is very blind and he is a

899
00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:21.559
lot older at this point and wasting away in this cell.

900
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:25.719
So they got to him, which is great. But here

901
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:30.599
come Mayax and his friend Witch, and they slam the

902
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:32.840
door behind them to lock them in this room and

903
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:37.400
now they'll all be prisoners. However, here comes Rue down

904
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:40.599
the gauntlet, and Mayex and the Witch freak out because

905
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:43.000
here comes this giant panther approaching them, and so they

906
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:46.079
actually have to go inside the cell room as well.

907
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:48.480
They close the door behind them and Ru is stuck

908
00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:51.039
out in the hallway. Now we've got a little battle

909
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.960
sequence within this prison room. So we get a great shot.

910
00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:57.000
It reminded me of Evil Dead, Yeah, very much. So

911
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:00.159
I think with the Witch comes right at Dar if

912
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.280
it's like a depth of veal field sort of zoomed.

913
00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:04.719
Do you know what I'm talking about? Bill Ban That shot? Yeah,

914
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:06.800
it's kind of a cool shot with the where it's

915
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:10.639
like the Witch is floating towards Dar and so we

916
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:12.760
get a little one on one fight between the Witch

917
00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:15.599
and Dar, but it's actually short lived at first because

918
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:19.320
the Witch, while Dars swinging his sword, does this little

919
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:22.719
kind of explosive dust move and throws this dust in,

920
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:26.679
this magical explosive dust into Dar's eyes. And I love

921
00:48:26.719 --> 00:48:29.039
this moment because it's a real blood sport moment for me.

922
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:32.320
It's because you got Dar temporarily blinded, and he's like,

923
00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:37.639
ahh very John Claude Vonda. And now Dar is just

924
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:41.320
swinging wildly at the witch, but the witch because he's blinded,

925
00:48:41.400 --> 00:48:44.239
and the Witch is just backing off and off to

926
00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:47.880
the side. We've got Mayax versus Kiri. Kiri goes at Mayax,

927
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.719
but Mayax takes tall hostage here with a blade, so

928
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.639
Kiri has to back off. Then back to this one

929
00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:57.119
on one between Dar and the witch, and the witch

930
00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:00.280
has the upper hand because Dar is blinded, and there's

931
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:03.119
this cool effect where she backs up against the wall

932
00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:07.760
and she starts slithering up the wall, but backwards. She's

933
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:11.280
still facing forward, so she's sliding up the wall and

934
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:14.960
above Dar. And now Dark has no idea where the

935
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.199
witch is, and the Witch is literally getting the higher

936
00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:20.760
ground on him. Is up now attached to the ceiling

937
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.079
and can just jump right down directly onto him while

938
00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:26.960
he's still swinging his sword. But finally Dar just calms down.

939
00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:31.960
He relaxes because he knows his sidekick Panther is outside

940
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:34.840
in the hall. And Ru gets up on his hind

941
00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.199
legs and looks through the small window through the door,

942
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:40.840
and we know that Dar has the ability to see

943
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:44.360
through Ru's eyes, and Ru is looking into the room

944
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:47.440
and sees the witch on the ceiling. And now Dar

945
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:50.360
can see the witch on the ceiling directly above him,

946
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:54.079
and he thrusts his blade, his sword upward into the

947
00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:56.480
belly of the witch, and the witch falls to her death.

948
00:49:56.519 --> 00:49:58.360
And does she disappear and have a cackle here too?

949
00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:01.559
I'm sure something like that happens, but I just enjoyed

950
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:04.360
this sequence. I thought that was some cool action there.

951
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.760
Kirie managed to pull out a cool weapon from her risk,

952
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:09.360
because we know at this point she's not just a

953
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:12.159
slave girl. She wants a trove warrior. She has this

954
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:15.840
cool little weapon that she's armed herself with. She throws

955
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:18.239
I don't even know how to describe it, but she

956
00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:22.239
disarms Mayex and so Tall can get away from him.

957
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:25.000
Max just kind of runs off, and now you've got

958
00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:28.639
Tall and King Zed and Dar. And where's Seth in

959
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:31.559
the scene? Actually, now that I'm recalling it in my head,

960
00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:33.800
was he with them for this or was he doing

961
00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:34.280
something else?

962
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.280
No, he was never there because he was gathering other warriors.

963
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:39.599
Oh right, Okay.

964
00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:42.440
There's a lot of stuff going on in the Temple

965
00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.760
rescue and I was like, I can't touch this. Yeah,

966
00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:49.000
there's just way too much going on. But I like

967
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:52.559
that you picked that scene because it does show how

968
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:57.480
Dar's abilities as a beast master consistently help him get

969
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:01.599
through his trials and tribulations throughout the film. Here is Dar,

970
00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:05.840
he's blind, and Rue's right outside the door trying to

971
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:09.280
get in, and Rue can see that the witch is

972
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:12.719
above him, and then he just thrusts up his sword

973
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.039
and kills the witch. I thought that was cool.

974
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:15.480
Right.

975
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:19.440
There's a lot that goes on in the Temple rescue scene.

976
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:22.440
I think it's almost a twenty minute segment and you

977
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:25.519
touched on a two minute piece of it. There's just

978
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:26.760
so much going on.

979
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:29.000
Yeah, you get the death Guards in this whole scene,

980
00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:30.880
which are wild.

981
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:33.760
Right, who are chasing Poto and Coto. For some reason,

982
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:34.880
I don't know why.

983
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:37.559
That's why I didn't hold this hole do the whole

984
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:41.199
scene because that part was really cheesy to me. You

985
00:51:41.320 --> 00:51:45.440
got these crazy, huge death guard like chasing these little

986
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:47.800
ferrets and I'm like, this is now, We're into silly

987
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:48.599
territory here.

988
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:52.119
I guess they just go after anything that moves. But

989
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:57.079
there are former villagers who get these steady eel like

990
00:51:57.199 --> 00:51:59.559
things stuck in their ear and then they.

991
00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:03.320
Just become Yeah another real, really barbaric sequence, so that

992
00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:05.679
I touched upon in the early of the pod. We're

993
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:10.119
talking about this is awful. They're being tortured and transformed.

994
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:12.719
Yeah, because they're not just putting them in their ear.

995
00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:16.079
They're putting them in their ear and then all this

996
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:19.599
foam starts coming out and the priests are sticking tubes

997
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.719
in their ear and sucking out blood. This is not PG.

998
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:25.280
They're putting masks on them and they got it. Yeah,

999
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:28.639
it's it's gross all right. Time for you to go, man,

1000
00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:29.719
go with your scenes.

1001
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:33.280
Okay, So again this involves the guns and it's the

1002
00:52:33.320 --> 00:52:37.800
final battle. So Dar has taken out Mayax. You think

1003
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:40.599
the movie's over, but nope, they still have to fight

1004
00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.599
the guns and we know Dar's original mission was to

1005
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:47.440
get revenge on the guns. Well, the Gens are now

1006
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:50.039
coming to a rook and the villagers have to defend

1007
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:53.199
or flee, and they decide that they're going to defend.

1008
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:55.760
So Luckily, around the village it's a mode of tar.

1009
00:52:56.360 --> 00:52:58.880
So I thought this was smart. There's one bridge that

1010
00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:02.599
leads over the bat and then you can go into

1011
00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:05.280
the main gate. They move the bridge back the length

1012
00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.559
of the tar and then cover the tar with dirts.

1013
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:11.519
You cannot see it. So they figure when the Jungs approach,

1014
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:15.079
they'll go into the tar and they'll set them on fire.

1015
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.519
Boom done. So here we are the Gungs approach and

1016
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:22.199
the raid of battle. The Jungs do exactly what the

1017
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:24.920
villagers are hoping they do, and they step into the tar.

1018
00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:28.400
The problem is the villagers are having trouble lightning the tar,

1019
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:32.119
so Tal takes a torch and he runs through the

1020
00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:35.320
gate to set the tar on fire himself, and he

1021
00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:37.320
gets shot by one of the Juns with an arrow.

1022
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:40.679
Now Kiri comes to the rescue, and then Dar comes

1023
00:53:40.679 --> 00:53:44.079
to the rescue. I think even Seth comes to the rescue.

1024
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.039
It's basically the four of them taking on the juns.

1025
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:49.800
They're able to set the tar on fire. The Gengs

1026
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:52.360
are on fire, but some of them are still crawling

1027
00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:55.000
out of the tar on fire and they're still fighting.

1028
00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:57.679
This is when Dar then takes on the leader of

1029
00:53:57.679 --> 00:54:00.679
the guns and they have a big fight and Darr

1030
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:03.840
is able to take out the leader, but still he's

1031
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:07.360
out numbered and we think all is lost. But all

1032
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:11.519
of a sudden, we see the Eagle show up and

1033
00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:15.400
Dar knows they're okay. Before the battle had started, Darr

1034
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:18.199
took them in jallion he got from the bat Bird

1035
00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:21.159
Wing people and had the eagle go reach out to

1036
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:23.639
them for help. Yeah, the Eagle has brought them to

1037
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:26.719
the battle. So now all the bat bird Wing people

1038
00:54:26.760 --> 00:54:30.000
are attacking the gun and dropping them into piles of bones.

1039
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:34.199
Wo whoosh, whoosh. This is a good battle, but in

1040
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:37.079
the end the villagers win, even though they really did

1041
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:39.039
nothing except cover the moat. I thought it was a

1042
00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:41.320
good access sequence. The fight between Darr and the leader

1043
00:54:41.639 --> 00:54:45.000
wasn't too bad. I like that the leader accidentally pales

1044
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:48.000
himself with his own weapon and then Darr just whips

1045
00:54:48.039 --> 00:54:48.760
them into the tar.

1046
00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.840
H bill bant with the sound effects perfect. That is hilarious.

1047
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:55.320
In You're spot on. Yeah, so this is what makes

1048
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:57.920
the ending tolerable. We talked about it earlier where the

1049
00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:02.760
last twenty minutes seem it just feels long at this point,

1050
00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:06.599
but when the Birdmen show up, it is very cool

1051
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:09.719
and there is still some great action. It just right.

1052
00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:12.199
You're like, oh, the problem was you felt like the

1053
00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:14.880
movie was over and it's just not. Yes, but this

1054
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:19.320
actually is a cool sequence. Yes, So I'm totally in

1055
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:23.320
agreement with you. The moment before this happens, when Dar

1056
00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:29.639
gives the Amulet Slash medallion to Sharak the Eagle, I

1057
00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:32.280
was like, what was the significance of that? I completely

1058
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:35.000
spaced on it, like I was like, what what does

1059
00:55:35.039 --> 00:55:38.039
that mean? What is happening? And then we see that

1060
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:41.559
Sharak went back to the Birdmen village to recruit them

1061
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:44.880
to come help in this final battle, is like, oh,

1062
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:47.719
that's cool, and it is a little bit of a

1063
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:49.800
trope that you do see in other films and you

1064
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:52.559
forget about it, and it works on me every time.

1065
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:55.159
It's really smart because, as I mentioned, I love that

1066
00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:57.760
scene with when the Birdmen are introduced and you're like,

1067
00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:00.440
why why is this scene here? It's got to be here.

1068
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:02.960
For reason, but then an hour goes by and you

1069
00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:06.800
forget about them. Very smart. Those bird creatures are freaking cool.

1070
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:12.599
Okay, time to move on to Swiss cheese and complaint

1071
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:15.239
department and what do we call it Swiss cheese?

1072
00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:20.199
Because although this movie is delicious, it does have sword holes.

1073
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:22.239
And it doesn't have any of those sword holes. We

1074
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:25.199
just spile a complaint with the complaint department. So, Jason,

1075
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:28.000
what do you have for Swiss cheese or complaints? I

1076
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:30.360
think we kind of touched on the Swiss cheese with

1077
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:31.039
the double ending.

1078
00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:34.079
Yeah, that definitely. I'm actually looking at my first two

1079
00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:36.320
complaints here and I'm like, yeah, we cover that. Cover that.

1080
00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:39.719
Getting back to some of the fight choreography, it's pretty tough.

1081
00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:42.199
This one I'm going to call out is when the

1082
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:46.320
priest underlings, because we have, yes, the evil high Priest

1083
00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:49.239
in may Axe, but he's got like a group of

1084
00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:53.719
kind of monk like priest underlings that serve under him,

1085
00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:56.719
and they're all have shaved heads and wear these red

1086
00:56:56.840 --> 00:56:59.719
robes and such. Well, they have gone out into the

1087
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:03.039
world blderness to track down dar and they find him

1088
00:57:03.119 --> 00:57:05.719
and they corner him. Actually, one of them gets the

1089
00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:08.559
upper hand on Dar, slipping a noose over his head

1090
00:57:08.559 --> 00:57:11.239
and on his neck and is choking him. And one

1091
00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:14.000
of the reasons they found him too or they've identified

1092
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.239
him as Dar the chosen one, is that this particular

1093
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:19.920
priest has that ring you spoke of earlier that has

1094
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:23.480
a eye appears and then the witches back at the

1095
00:57:23.480 --> 00:57:26.280
homestead with Mayax can see through the eye and they

1096
00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:28.760
can see it's Dar, and they're like, yes, that is him.

1097
00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:30.920
You need to kill him now. And that's why the

1098
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:33.559
priest puts the noose over is that And the whole

1099
00:57:33.639 --> 00:57:37.280
time there's another priest on horseback with a crossbow. If

1100
00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:40.440
I'm not mistaken, that could have just shot Dar in

1101
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:44.400
that moment and does nothing. He does never, He's just

1102
00:57:44.519 --> 00:57:45.559
standing sitting there.

1103
00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:48.719
I know even I was screaming, shoot sh shoot shoe.

1104
00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:50.880
Why don't you just shoot Dar right there? You got

1105
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:55.239
him like dead to rights. Just he just sits on

1106
00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:57.239
his horse and is like, no, I'm just gonna wait

1107
00:57:57.239 --> 00:57:59.840
for my other, my buddy to choke him to death.

1108
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.199
And of course Dar gets out of it, and Rue,

1109
00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:04.639
I think mauls everybody are something, you know, and it

1110
00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:07.440
just it's it's crazy, and I think then Seth makes

1111
00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:11.239
his entrance also afterward, which I loved and a shout out.

1112
00:58:11.440 --> 00:58:13.440
I wanted to mention this real quick too. John Amos

1113
00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:15.639
is pretty great in this. I thought he was pretty

1114
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:19.559
physical and his staff work taken out batties with his

1115
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:22.559
kind of like his quarter staff pole or whatever. It

1116
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:25.840
was great just slipping that in here, which is a compliment,

1117
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:29.320
not a complaint. But the choreography is so slow at times,

1118
00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:31.199
like these bad guys are idiots.

1119
00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:34.159
Yeah, I think my favorite ones is the Junes and

1120
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:37.920
Dar is trying to free Ru and the Juns lift

1121
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:39.800
the sword over his head and just holds it there

1122
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:42.440
for Darr to turn around see him and slice him

1123
00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:45.599
across his chest. Hello, was your sword too heavy for

1124
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:48.000
you to swing it? He's holding that sword way too long.

1125
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:51.000
It's always a complaint in any action movie for me

1126
00:58:51.599 --> 00:58:54.639
when you have a group of bad guys with all

1127
00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:56.960
the villains the Horde if you will, in the film,

1128
00:58:57.239 --> 00:59:02.119
attacking a single hero and they each wait individually to

1129
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:05.079
attack instead of just all jumping on him at once.

1130
00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:07.679
They're like, Nope, I've got to wait my turn. This

1131
00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:10.159
guy's going to attack first, then I'll attack, and then

1132
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:12.880
Joe over there he's going to attack. No, you just

1133
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.159
mobbed the guy and you've got him, no problem. But

1134
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:18.039
they just wait, you know, wait their turn, and it

1135
00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:19.039
just doesn't make any sense.

1136
00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:22.840
Yeah, complain for me, the black tiger. Just leave the tiger.

1137
00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:26.400
Why do we have to paint that thing? I heard

1138
00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:30.079
Don Cascarelli wanted it black, and it's impossible to train

1139
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:32.920
an actual panther. But I think someone should have just

1140
00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:35.880
stepped up and said leave it alone. And I'll get

1141
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.719
into a little bit in the facts in trivia that

1142
00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:41.159
they should have just left the tiger. A tiger tiger

1143
00:59:41.199 --> 00:59:42.440
says to school in my book.

1144
00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:46.239
Absolutely, Why did it have to be a panther? No

1145
00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:49.239
idea I was that in the book. I don't know

1146
00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:51.639
that it was a panther. Maybe trying to stay true

1147
00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:55.199
to the original text. Right, it's not a huge difference.

1148
00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.920
It was still the tiger is totally badass. But it

1149
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:01.760
was interesting you bring that U because when immediately I

1150
01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:03.440
was like, have I ever seen it? I've never seen.

1151
01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:05.679
I was like, that's a tiger. That's definitely a tiger,

1152
01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:08.920
And have I ever seen a black tiger? Is there

1153
01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:12.119
are there black tigers out there? I was also thrown

1154
01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:15.639
off by it. I was questioning my own knowledge of tigers.

1155
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:19.599
So moving on with complaints. One thing we didn't get into.

1156
01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:22.440
It is kind of a cool scene, especially for Shark

1157
01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:26.039
the Eagle. Well it's a barbaric scene because there's a

1158
01:00:26.119 --> 01:00:28.880
child sacrifice and then there's a young girl that's about

1159
01:00:28.920 --> 01:00:32.079
to be sacrificed and Shark the Eagle saves her and

1160
01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:37.360
flies away with those complaints too, okay, and it's weird.

1161
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:42.800
This girl weighs sixty pounds. There's no way she's getting

1162
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:46.480
carried off. Max has a nice comeback after that. Yeah,

1163
01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:49.280
that's a great point. Did you have more complaints?

1164
01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:52.599
Yeah, the villagers of a rook. Why are they still

1165
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.719
staying in the village. It doesn't look like it's very

1166
01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:58.639
well guarded. You can come and go as you please.

1167
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:01.559
It's a great point to leave. It's a great point

1168
01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:02.639
go somewhere else.

1169
01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:06.559
Yeah, maybe just pack up, go or just leave your things,

1170
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:08.960
no big deal, get out of there. The only time

1171
01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:11.800
we saw guards is when they were escaping from the temple,

1172
01:01:12.039 --> 01:01:14.159
and there was one and that was it.

1173
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:16.920
Right, It doesn't make any sense that they could leave

1174
01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:18.800
it any time. Yeah, there's only one way in one

1175
01:01:18.800 --> 01:01:20.639
way out. You got to cross the bridge over the moat,

1176
01:01:20.679 --> 01:01:22.840
but still who cares there's no guards. That's the whole point.

1177
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:26.239
And it's wild because then I think even doesn't Dar

1178
01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:28.840
make a comment when they are going in to rescue

1179
01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:32.760
king Zed something like when they come upon the death guards,

1180
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:34.880
he says something like, oh, that's why there were no

1181
01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:38.199
guards posted outside. But that's dumb. Why are there no

1182
01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:41.239
guards posted outside? You've got a million death guards put

1183
01:01:41.239 --> 01:01:43.360
the death guards out there? Why are they not out there?

1184
01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:44.320
Makes no sense.

1185
01:01:44.599 --> 01:01:48.639
It's not a very well fortified village. It's a cool model, though.

1186
01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:50.639
We did like them. Malley, Yeah, for sure. There's a

1187
01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:53.760
great part here when Dar and his gang Seth tell

1188
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:57.199
everybody are going to rescue Kiri and the other slave

1189
01:01:57.239 --> 01:02:00.800
girls from being executed because the I guess it's the

1190
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:03.639
juns or the priests. It's the priests that are taking

1191
01:02:03.679 --> 01:02:06.000
them to be to be executed. And they take them

1192
01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:08.719
to like a remote area that's off like at a

1193
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:11.119
beach head, like on a lake. And you have Dar

1194
01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:13.039
in a boat with the rest of his gang and

1195
01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:16.119
they pull up to the pier and the dock or whatever,

1196
01:02:16.159 --> 01:02:18.519
and then a fight ensues because they have to rescue

1197
01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:21.599
these slave girls, including Kirie, of course. And my complaint

1198
01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:25.800
here is that they rescue Kiri and the other five

1199
01:02:26.400 --> 01:02:28.559
of the slave girls disappear.

1200
01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:29.920
Yes, what happened to them?

1201
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:32.679
They literally disappear. You see him in one shot and

1202
01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:35.000
then I'm like, wait a minute, you're just gonna rescue Kiri.

1203
01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:39.559
What about the slave girls? But they're all gone? What?

1204
01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:43.960
Totally agree? Speaking of Kirie, yeah, definitely not pc when

1205
01:02:44.039 --> 01:02:47.440
Dar forces himself on her with the stealing of the

1206
01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:50.800
clothes and Rue shows up. But then later on you

1207
01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:54.800
figure out Dar was probably making out with his cousin.

1208
01:02:55.239 --> 01:02:59.159
What's going on there? Kind of like it's a little yucky.

1209
01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:02.320
Oh yeah, good point, right, because the queen died of

1210
01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:03.280
the opening.

1211
01:03:02.920 --> 01:03:09.000
Scene incestuous, Maybe so some semi at least semi incestuous,

1212
01:03:09.079 --> 01:03:11.159
I don't know. Yeah, that's a great point. Yeah, it

1213
01:03:11.199 --> 01:03:15.480
gets a little convolute with the family tree here is

1214
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:18.639
to I think a complainer question I had for additional

1215
01:03:18.679 --> 01:03:20.400
questions was like, did they need to explain it a

1216
01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.840
little more or at least point out the fact make

1217
01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:27.840
it clear that Dar is technically Tall's half brother, right.

1218
01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.840
Yeah, because if the queen died in the opening scene

1219
01:03:31.159 --> 01:03:35.639
King Zed. Then the king probably remarried, right, and that

1220
01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:38.360
was where Tal came from.

1221
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:41.679
Right, because Tall's like almost twenty to thirty years younger

1222
01:03:41.719 --> 01:03:45.880
than Dar. But they're still half brothers because the king Zaid, yeah,

1223
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:47.599
is the father of both.

1224
01:03:47.880 --> 01:03:51.440
I think Dar's only twenty one, twenty two, He's still

1225
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:51.840
a kid.

1226
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:57.079
Oh, okay, fair enough. When they do they rescue King Zed.

1227
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:00.559
This is crazy to me, because you're right, Seth had

1228
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:03.280
gone off with Sako. We haven't discussed the character of Soako,

1229
01:04:03.400 --> 01:04:05.199
which is one of the villagers who happens to be

1230
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:07.800
the father of the girl that Shark the Eagle had rescued,

1231
01:04:07.880 --> 01:04:12.000
and they split up during this whole pyramid escape from

1232
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.480
Aruk and the city of rou and before they this

1233
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:17.920
is part of this extended action sequence before they can leave.

1234
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.280
When they get to the gate, it's down and there's

1235
01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:22.679
a whole sequence where they have to use the ferrets

1236
01:04:22.719 --> 01:04:25.519
to chew through the counterweight to open the gate and

1237
01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:28.880
there's a fight and this whole thing, so they can't

1238
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.639
leave the city without raising the gate. Well, then, how

1239
01:04:31.639 --> 01:04:34.119
did Soako and set how did they get out or

1240
01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:36.199
with King z because I think they had I don't

1241
01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:39.159
know that it didn't make any sense because half of

1242
01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:41.159
the crew managed to get out of the city. But

1243
01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:45.480
then Dar and Kiri and Soko. I think they're trying

1244
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:49.000
to escape. I'm getting confused. I'm sorry, confusing characters. But

1245
01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:51.199
they they get to the gate is lowered, but some

1246
01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:53.280
of the other characters got out, and I'm like, how

1247
01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:55.119
did they get out if the gate was down? But

1248
01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:57.280
we just were like, they must escape some other way.

1249
01:04:57.559 --> 01:04:59.960
Okay, yeah, that's a good one, and think about that.

1250
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:01.360
You can kind of get out some way.

1251
01:05:01.639 --> 01:05:06.400
Yeah, I got it. Here's animal deaths. They're brutal. Let's

1252
01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:11.239
just complain of mine. Toto the dog. Yeah, tough, it's tough.

1253
01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:16.079
But then Codo dies one of the ferrets self sacrifice.

1254
01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:20.280
I mean, it's a very heroic moment. But I was like, no,

1255
01:05:20.559 --> 01:05:22.559
you're not going to kill one of the ferrets, one

1256
01:05:22.599 --> 01:05:27.519
of the little cuddly ferrets. Oh, it's worse than old Yeller.

1257
01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:29.559
It's my opinion. I'm just saying right now, it's my

1258
01:05:29.599 --> 01:05:30.039
hot take.

1259
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:32.079
There you go, anything else.

1260
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:34.599
I had just had an issue a little bit with

1261
01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:37.760
our hero's motivation. It seems like through the first half

1262
01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:39.760
of the movie, after well at least a quarter of

1263
01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:43.960
the way through. Whenever Dar meets Kirie, the gorgeous Tanya Roberts,

1264
01:05:44.119 --> 01:05:47.719
seems like his only, like singular goal is to find her.

1265
01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:52.000
A little lustful. Understandable on a certain level, but you know,

1266
01:05:52.039 --> 01:05:54.280
when he returns the little girl to Aruk and to

1267
01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:56.960
her parents there in the city, it's like, that's a

1268
01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:59.840
heroic moment, and they're like, yeah, but we're still under

1269
01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:02.679
the control of the John Horden, the evil priest may Ax,

1270
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:05.320
And he's like, yeah, that's that's I know, that's that's

1271
01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:07.239
tough for you, But I need to go find Kiri.

1272
01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:10.440
Do you not care about these villagers? So I was

1273
01:06:10.519 --> 01:06:14.159
just a little bit questioning Dar's motivations at first. He

1274
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:17.559
wasn't being altruistic or very heroic in his He's just

1275
01:06:17.639 --> 01:06:19.360
he just wanted to get with Kirie. It seemed like,

1276
01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:23.679
I don't blame them. Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean,

1277
01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:25.920
and I have no problem with that. I understand. Yes,

1278
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:28.599
all right, that's it for bad complaints.

1279
01:06:28.719 --> 01:06:32.679
Okay, let's move on to Hey, it's that actor, all right,

1280
01:06:32.840 --> 01:06:35.480
So this segment we spotlight a character actor you have

1281
01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:38.079
seen in many other films, an actor making their big

1282
01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:41.599
screen debut or an actor that makes an uncredited cameo.

1283
01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:44.960
Let's say it's that actor. Who do we choose this week?

1284
01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:49.360
Well, this week we've chosen someone who, at least from

1285
01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:52.960
my perspective, would be the obvious choice. It's got to

1286
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:57.679
be Billy Jane, who plays the role of young Dar

1287
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.480
in the beginning of this film. And yes, of course

1288
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:02.880
he is very young, but I recognize that face right away,

1289
01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:05.920
that jaw, that smile, and we'll get into it. Billy

1290
01:07:06.119 --> 01:07:09.880
is an actor and director, and his career does go

1291
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:12.679
back to the late seventies, but here's his eighties where

1292
01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:16.400
he's taken on the stage name of Billy Jacoby. Billy

1293
01:07:16.480 --> 01:07:19.280
Jane is actually Billy Jacoby here in the early eighties,

1294
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:22.239
and he does some episodic TV in nineteen eighty shows

1295
01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:25.679
like Lou Grant Galactica nineteen eighty Trapper John MD, you

1296
01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:27.800
remember that one. He does some TV movies and series

1297
01:07:27.840 --> 01:07:30.119
such as twenty six episodes as The Bad News Bears

1298
01:07:30.440 --> 01:07:32.559
that was actually from seventy nine through eighty does a

1299
01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:35.360
bunch of TV movies and series, then Beastmaster of course

1300
01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:37.679
in eighty two. He's in Kujo. In nineteen eighty three,

1301
01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:40.000
does eleven episodes of a show called It's Not Easy

1302
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:43.519
from eighty two to eighty three more TV episodes. Finally,

1303
01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:47.400
he has his most iconic and memorable role as Buddy

1304
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:50.760
in Just One of the Guys in nineteen eighty five,

1305
01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:53.280
which we did cover. Of course. He is the younger

1306
01:07:53.320 --> 01:07:57.159
brother to the character Terry played by Joyce Heiser, and

1307
01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:01.039
he is awesome. Continues to do eight of episodic TV

1308
01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:03.320
for the rest of the eighties. He changes his name

1309
01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:05.840
to what I'm assuming is his birth name, Billy Jane.

1310
01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:09.039
In the early nineties, he did seventy three episodes of

1311
01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:12.599
Parker Lewis Can't Lose, playing the character Mikey Randall, and

1312
01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:14.840
continued to do mainly TV all the way up to present.

1313
01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:17.520
His last credit was in twenty twenty three. He was

1314
01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:20.640
in a short film called Run Baby Rome as in

1315
01:08:20.680 --> 01:08:23.359
the City of Rome Little Trivia. According to his mother,

1316
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:26.119
Billy and his siblings took the name Jacoby because they

1317
01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:31.199
felt Jane was too feminine. There you go, So Jane

1318
01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:34.520
slash Jacoby is our Hayitsta actor this week.

1319
01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:37.520
It's so funny how many times I've seen this movie

1320
01:08:37.560 --> 01:08:40.600
and never made that connection until this time.

1321
01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:41.560
Oh really. Yeah.

1322
01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:43.359
As soon as I saw him right away, I was like,

1323
01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:46.600
oh my god, just one of the guys. But now

1324
01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:49.960
I didn't even know before and to watching it for

1325
01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:52.560
this podcast, I never put that together, but this time

1326
01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:55.920
super obvious. Okay, now it's time to move on to

1327
01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:59.920
facts and trivia. What do we have for facts and trivia?

1328
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:01.840
We touched on it a little bit, or at least

1329
01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:04.159
you did, Bill in the very beginning here, but I'll

1330
01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:06.319
say it again. Beast Master began with a screenplay in

1331
01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:09.840
the early eighties written by Paul Pepperman and Don Coscarelli director.

1332
01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:12.800
The two writers based their film on Andre Norton's nineteen

1333
01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:15.920
fifty nine novel The Beast Master. The writers changed the

1334
01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:18.880
story dramatically, as the original novel had the hero named

1335
01:09:19.239 --> 01:09:23.239
Hosting Storm, who was a veteran soldier of Navajo descent

1336
01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:27.920
in a futuristic science fiction setting. Norton was unhappy with

1337
01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.520
the liberties taken with the film's script and asked for

1338
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:32.920
her name to be removed from the credits.

1339
01:09:33.159 --> 01:09:36.319
Yes, and the author was the pen name of Alice Horton.

1340
01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:40.000
Just FYI, because I said in the beginning the book

1341
01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:43.800
was based on Alice Horton, So that was Alice's pen name. Ah,

1342
01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:46.359
thanks for clarifying there. So I thought this was cool.

1343
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:50.079
Love those old eighties special effects. So we have that

1344
01:09:50.119 --> 01:09:53.560
first shot of coming upon the village of a rook

1345
01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:57.239
and looking at it, I'm like, wait, is that a model?

1346
01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:00.800
So it is a model, and they use four perspective.

1347
01:10:01.239 --> 01:10:04.359
So what happens in the shot is so it looks

1348
01:10:04.439 --> 01:10:07.880
like Dars off in the distance looking down upon the village,

1349
01:10:07.920 --> 01:10:11.600
and the village is far off in the distance. Well,

1350
01:10:11.800 --> 01:10:15.359
when they shoot it, the model is closer to the

1351
01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:19.920
camera and Mark Singer as Dar is actually off in

1352
01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:23.000
the distance staring at nothing. So the model is actually

1353
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:25.319
closer to the camera than Dar is. But as an

1354
01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:28.319
audience member, when you're watching it, it looks like Dars

1355
01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:31.840
looking off into the distance at the village when it's

1356
01:10:31.960 --> 01:10:34.000
the opposite. Love that kind of stuff.

1357
01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:38.239
That's cool. I love hearing that. Director Coscarelli was frustrated

1358
01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:40.479
while making the film, during which he feuded with the

1359
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:44.279
film's executive producer, predominantly over the film's editing and casting.

1360
01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:48.159
Coscarelli originally wanted Demi Moore for the role of Kiri,

1361
01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:50.840
but the executive producer over wrote his choice and had

1362
01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:54.119
Tanya Roberts cast. Good call in my opinion. I'm just

1363
01:10:54.159 --> 01:10:59.800
saying the role of Mayex was originally written for Klaus Kinski. Yes,

1364
01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:02.239
agree with that one, but he was not cast over

1365
01:11:02.279 --> 01:11:03.520
a salary dispute.

1366
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:07.239
Yeah. So the scene after Emar is destroyed and we

1367
01:11:07.319 --> 01:11:10.560
have Dar laying out the bodies, and then we have

1368
01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:12.760
a couple of close ups of him picking up a sword,

1369
01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:16.760
covering the scar with the glove and holding the Kappa.

1370
01:11:17.159 --> 01:11:20.279
That was not Mark Singer's hands in any of those shots.

1371
01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:24.159
That was actually producer Paul Peppermint, who came in because

1372
01:11:24.199 --> 01:11:26.560
they had sent Mark home for the day and forgot

1373
01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:29.239
to do the pickup shots, so Paul stepped in to

1374
01:11:29.439 --> 01:11:30.560
film those shots for us.

1375
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:35.319
Thanks Paul, nice job, nice nice handwork. Got to give

1376
01:11:35.319 --> 01:11:37.880
credit where credits due. I appreciate that. Well. I think

1377
01:11:37.880 --> 01:11:40.920
it's only appropriate that I mentioned this next piece of trivia,

1378
01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:44.439
because then you'll be like, Jason, what's wrong with you?

1379
01:11:44.479 --> 01:11:46.920
How did you not watch this movie when you were

1380
01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:49.239
a kid? How could you? How is it even possible? Yes,

1381
01:11:49.439 --> 01:11:52.840
so it is clear or obvious that this film, after

1382
01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:56.720
being in the theaters, subsequently received significant local TV and

1383
01:11:56.800 --> 01:11:59.920
cable airplay, notably on HBO, TBS, and T and T.

1384
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:03.880
The film was shown so often on HBO that comedian

1385
01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:08.159
Dennis Miller joked that HBO stood for Hey Beast Masters

1386
01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:11.920
on it certainly was. It was also shown so often

1387
01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:15.199
on TBS that it popularly gained a similar joke that

1388
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:20.960
TBS stood for the Beastmaster Station. True. In nineteen ninety three,

1389
01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:24.199
year programming director for TNT claimed that it was second

1390
01:12:24.239 --> 01:12:26.600
only to Gone with the Wind as the most popular

1391
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:29.279
movie to air on the network and attributed its success

1392
01:12:29.399 --> 01:12:33.000
to its mythological appeal, while a programming director for Cinemax

1393
01:12:33.079 --> 01:12:35.359
stated that you can come into any part of it

1394
01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:38.199
and not feel you've missed much. So, yeah, it was

1395
01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:39.079
on all the time.

1396
01:12:39.319 --> 01:12:44.159
So The film originally started shooting with anamorphic lenses, but

1397
01:12:44.319 --> 01:12:48.800
the French distributors who were funding the film assisted on

1398
01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:53.079
spherical lenses because they anticipated showing the movie on TV,

1399
01:12:53.560 --> 01:12:58.439
which they certainly did, and felt that the anamorphic footage

1400
01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:02.760
would be considerably in the standard definition of four x three,

1401
01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:08.079
So the Young dar encounter with the Bear was later

1402
01:13:08.319 --> 01:13:11.199
cropped to match the one point eighty five to one

1403
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:15.119
aspect ratio on spherical footage. So if you do want

1404
01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:18.039
that scene, it does seem a little bit off. That's

1405
01:13:18.039 --> 01:13:20.960
because the scene was actually shot with different cameras compared

1406
01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:22.800
to the rest of the movie, So if you really

1407
01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:25.760
pay close attention to it, it seems a little bit

1408
01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:29.760
more stretched. But that's why. So that was different cameras,

1409
01:13:30.199 --> 01:13:32.880
and I always thought there was something a little weird

1410
01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:36.359
about that scene until I read about that, and now

1411
01:13:36.399 --> 01:13:37.840
it makes perfect sense.

1412
01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:42.000
Got it. Speaking of our Hey, it's that actor Billy Jane.

1413
01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:45.720
On Mark Singer's first day of filming Billy Jane at

1414
01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:48.239
the time, Billy Jacoby. He was filming the scene where

1415
01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:51.960
young dar first learns that he could control animals, and

1416
01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:54.079
the bear in the sequence happened to be a Russian bear.

1417
01:13:54.239 --> 01:13:56.399
It was the only bear working in Hollywood at the time.

1418
01:13:56.439 --> 01:13:58.840
As soon as he came out, the bear broke loose

1419
01:13:59.279 --> 01:14:02.159
and attacked his handler, sending the rest of the crew

1420
01:14:02.199 --> 01:14:05.039
fleeing into nearby vehicles for safety. As soon as the

1421
01:14:05.079 --> 01:14:07.840
bear was recaptured and the handler was carried off for

1422
01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:11.720
medical attention, the crew turned and told Mark that they

1423
01:14:11.720 --> 01:14:13.319
were ready to film his scene.

1424
01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:15.840
Hey got to keep moving on schedule and got to

1425
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:16.600
keep on that budget.

1426
01:14:16.640 --> 01:14:17.399
I was money, folks.

1427
01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:21.600
Yeah, I think I heard Mark Singer's first scene was

1428
01:14:21.640 --> 01:14:25.640
the quicksand stuff. So you may have noticed this movie

1429
01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:29.640
doesn't carry a disclaimer about no animals being harmed in

1430
01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:33.680
the making of it. That's because the tiger that played

1431
01:14:33.680 --> 01:14:37.079
the panther died after licking the black paint it was

1432
01:14:37.119 --> 01:14:40.960
covered with, which you do see it doing throughout most.

1433
01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:46.159
Of the movie. Wow, that sucks exactly. I did not

1434
01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:49.279
read that. I read all the bits about it being

1435
01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:51.800
painted black and that it would lick the paint and

1436
01:14:51.840 --> 01:14:55.039
you can see the paint was fading across his face.

1437
01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:57.239
You could see it because it was a striped tiger,

1438
01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:01.680
But I didn't know he died. That sucks. Wow. Can't

1439
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:05.760
put that disclaimer on them, No bueno. Well, two years

1440
01:15:05.800 --> 01:15:09.199
later after this film came out, Tanya Roberts woodstar as

1441
01:15:09.439 --> 01:15:13.399
Shina in Shina nineteen eighty four and which her character

1442
01:15:13.479 --> 01:15:14.800
can communicate with animals.

1443
01:15:15.279 --> 01:15:19.039
Coincidence, another amazing film with Tanya roberts That's all I'm

1444
01:15:19.039 --> 01:15:19.520
gonna say.

1445
01:15:21.439 --> 01:15:24.520
Maybe we should cover that on this podcast. I think

1446
01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:27.079
we will. All right, Well, that's it.

1447
01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:29.840
For me for facts and trivia, all right, Jason, I

1448
01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:32.840
got one last one, go for it. I know it's

1449
01:15:32.880 --> 01:15:36.520
one of your favorites. Alternate titles, Alternate titles of the

1450
01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:39.239
Beast Master, So here we go. Let me know which

1451
01:15:39.239 --> 01:15:41.680
one you like the most. So in Brazil it was

1452
01:15:41.760 --> 01:15:46.720
known as the Warrior Prince in Finland, the Invincible Avenger

1453
01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:53.000
in France, dar the Invincible in Greece, Barbaric Fighter in Hungary,

1454
01:15:53.359 --> 01:15:58.439
Lord of the wilds Italy, Khan Warrior Prince Portugal, the

1455
01:15:58.520 --> 01:16:05.720
Sacred Warrior, Invincible Warrior Japan, Miracle Master, Seven Great Adventures,

1456
01:16:06.479 --> 01:16:10.239
and then Germany beast Master, the Liberator. Any of those

1457
01:16:10.279 --> 01:16:10.760
stand out.

1458
01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:15.680
I like the simplicity of Barbaric Fighter, it's just so basic,

1459
01:16:16.119 --> 01:16:18.399
So I'm gonna go with that one. Also, Miracle Master.

1460
01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:20.600
What was that one? That's like the Japanese one, it's

1461
01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:21.279
the longer.

1462
01:16:21.079 --> 01:16:24.159
Yes, seven Great Adventures.

1463
01:16:23.479 --> 01:16:25.600
Right, you got to put that on there, right, So

1464
01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:29.159
that's a fun one. And just the fact that Invincible

1465
01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:31.479
was used in so many titles, that's interesting.

1466
01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:34.560
What's wrong with Beast Master. I don't get that.

1467
01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:37.640
Just like why not like call out the actual his

1468
01:16:37.720 --> 01:16:40.039
connection to the animals, that's the whole of course, his

1469
01:16:40.119 --> 01:16:42.279
whole thing right, keep it simple.

1470
01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:45.399
Moving on to box office, so, The Beast Master was

1471
01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:49.399
released on August twentieth, nineteen eighty two, and oney thirteen theaters.

1472
01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:52.720
An estimated budget of nine million dollars, it would gross

1473
01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:56.159
ten point eight million domestically. The movie would debut number

1474
01:16:56.159 --> 01:16:58.680
four at the box office, behind a little movie called

1475
01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:02.159
et than Front of the Thirteenth Part three, which we've covered,

1476
01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:04.760
and An Officer and a Gentleman. It would only stay

1477
01:17:04.760 --> 01:17:07.119
in the top ten for another two weeks. The beast

1478
01:17:07.119 --> 01:17:10.840
Master would be the sixtieth highest grossing movie released in

1479
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:15.279
nineteen eighty two, between Amneyville, Horror II, The Possession, and

1480
01:17:15.399 --> 01:17:19.279
Silent Rage. Moving onto reviews. When growing up in the eighties,

1481
01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:21.880
we would watch Steak previews of Genie Cisco and Roger

1482
01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:26.000
Eber to hear their reviews and watch clips of upcoming movies. Unfortunately,

1483
01:17:26.039 --> 01:17:29.039
they did not cover The Beast Master on their show. However,

1484
01:17:29.359 --> 01:17:31.720
gene Cisco gave it two stars out of four and

1485
01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:34.119
wrote that it isn't as bad as much as it

1486
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:37.520
is over long. After one of the film's major bad

1487
01:17:37.600 --> 01:17:40.800
guys has been bumped off, the film goes on for

1488
01:17:40.840 --> 01:17:44.720
another twenty minutes. In this sort of brainless adventure film.

1489
01:17:44.880 --> 01:17:48.479
One climax is enough, okay, kind of what we were saying.

1490
01:17:48.720 --> 01:17:51.359
Laern Moulton also gave it two out of four stars

1491
01:17:51.439 --> 01:17:55.239
in his twenty fifteen movie guide. Rotten Tomatoes gives it

1492
01:17:55.399 --> 01:17:58.640
a Tomatometer score of fifty percent, with a popcorn Meter

1493
01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:01.680
score of fifty four percent. It also has an IMDb

1494
01:18:01.840 --> 01:18:05.239
rating of six point two. It's kind of surprised by

1495
01:18:05.279 --> 01:18:08.000
the popcorn Meter score. I thought that would be higher.

1496
01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:11.840
Yeah, for sure, at me too, definitely, I if I

1497
01:18:11.880 --> 01:18:15.560
may add, of course, another review that I absolutely love

1498
01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:21.319
this is a review from Variety. Variety wrote, when The

1499
01:18:21.359 --> 01:18:24.600
Beast Master begins, it is very hard to tell what

1500
01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:27.239
it is all about. An hour later, it is very

1501
01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:30.279
hard to care what it is all about. Another hour later,

1502
01:18:30.359 --> 01:18:32.600
it is very hard to remember what is all about.

1503
01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:35.159
That's it.

1504
01:18:35.199 --> 01:18:37.439
Maybe agree with the first part, Yeah, like what is

1505
01:18:37.479 --> 01:18:38.159
this movie about?

1506
01:18:38.199 --> 01:18:42.600
For sure? I cared about Dar and Kirie Tall all right.

1507
01:18:42.640 --> 01:18:45.399
Time to move on to additional thoughts and questions. What

1508
01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:48.479
are some additional thoughts and questions we have about The

1509
01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:49.079
Beast Master?

1510
01:18:49.399 --> 01:18:51.239
Bill Bant, Did you ever see any of the sequels?

1511
01:18:51.479 --> 01:18:54.720
Yes, I have seen both two and three. They're not

1512
01:18:54.920 --> 01:18:58.640
very memorable at all. The second one I hate because

1513
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:01.920
it's a time jump into Los Angeles at the present

1514
01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:05.039
day and it's just awful. And they replaced Tinder Roberts

1515
01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:08.399
read Harry warr which isn't too bad. She's another very

1516
01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:09.119
cute redhead.

1517
01:19:09.239 --> 01:19:14.399
Oh boy, I was a big fan of hers. I

1518
01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:18.239
wanted her to be in everything. She's Here's wild to

1519
01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:22.359
carry warr Man. She has a small supporting role in

1520
01:19:22.399 --> 01:19:24.479
the film and a conda. So the only reason why

1521
01:19:24.520 --> 01:19:26.680
I go back to watch that movie, which is Wild.

1522
01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:29.000
I'm just a big fan of hers. That's funny, Gotcha.

1523
01:19:29.239 --> 01:19:31.960
If I was to watch the third one, it would

1524
01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:34.079
probably be like watching it for the first time. I

1525
01:19:34.119 --> 01:19:37.000
don't remember anything about that one, but I think that

1526
01:19:37.159 --> 01:19:40.079
was a TV movie or a straight to video, gotcha. Okay,

1527
01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:43.600
so I just pretend the second and third one don't exist,

1528
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:46.279
and I've never bothered with the show.

1529
01:19:46.439 --> 01:19:50.039
There you go. Yeah, Well, I've seen all of the sequels.

1530
01:19:50.319 --> 01:19:52.279
I'm just kidding. Can you wouldn't that be hilarious if

1531
01:19:52.319 --> 01:19:55.000
I'd seen I've never seen the original, which was shown

1532
01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:56.039
the most would.

1533
01:19:55.760 --> 01:19:58.960
Be kind of odd, all right, Jason? If you were

1534
01:19:59.079 --> 01:20:02.800
the beast Master. What animal would you want to have

1535
01:20:03.039 --> 01:20:04.199
as your companion?

1536
01:20:04.520 --> 01:20:04.720
Oh?

1537
01:20:04.840 --> 01:20:05.479
Great question.

1538
01:20:05.600 --> 01:20:08.760
Who's going with you on your adventure? What types of

1539
01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:09.439
animals are you.

1540
01:20:09.399 --> 01:20:12.319
Going to use? I think the easy answer for me

1541
01:20:12.399 --> 01:20:13.159
would be a wolf.

1542
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:14.840
Oh that's a good one. Yeah.

1543
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:18.000
A big fan of the wolves. I think they're amazing creatures.

1544
01:20:18.359 --> 01:20:23.439
They're very impressive and very dangerous. But did I ever

1545
01:20:23.479 --> 01:20:25.600
tell you that I actually went to a wolf sanctuary.

1546
01:20:25.600 --> 01:20:28.600
I've been to two wolf sanctuaries in fact, and you're

1547
01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:32.720
able to get very close to these wolves. Yeah, very cool.

1548
01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:35.079
I happened the first time I went. I had taken

1549
01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:38.000
a girlfriend on Valentine's Day because I knew she was

1550
01:20:38.039 --> 01:20:40.720
in love with wolves. So I found a sanctuary out

1551
01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:42.800
in the desert and we went into this caged thing

1552
01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:46.039
and we fed the wolf, and it was very tame.

1553
01:20:46.439 --> 01:20:48.880
I don't believe it was one hundred percent wolf, but

1554
01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:50.920
this thing was giant. And I happened to be wearing

1555
01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:54.079
a particular type of colone that it was attracted to.

1556
01:20:54.439 --> 01:21:00.159
And this wolf rubbed its head and its jaw all

1557
01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:03.560
over my neck and was totally in love with me.

1558
01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:07.159
It was amazing and intimidating as hell, but amazing. And

1559
01:21:07.199 --> 01:21:09.319
I have a great photo where you can see him

1560
01:21:09.399 --> 01:21:11.800
doing this because he just was he was putting his

1561
01:21:11.920 --> 01:21:14.920
scent on me and you can see his jaw as

1562
01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:17.239
wide open while he's doing it because he was in

1563
01:21:17.359 --> 01:21:20.399
the kind of infatuated with me in that moment, just

1564
01:21:20.479 --> 01:21:23.640
rubbing his face on me. It was awesome and very impressive.

1565
01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:26.640
But that's a total tangent. So yeah, I'll go with wolf.

1566
01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:29.600
I can't think of what would you choose, Bill Bant.

1567
01:21:29.680 --> 01:21:33.119
I think I would either go elephant or gorilla.

1568
01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:36.600
Oh god, yeah, well, I mean gorilla is a great call.

1569
01:21:36.720 --> 01:21:40.159
Like elephant that would do some damage if you needed

1570
01:21:40.199 --> 01:21:42.359
some help in a battle, that's for sure. But a

1571
01:21:42.399 --> 01:21:45.399
gorilla that would be cool. That would be really cool

1572
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:48.319
thinking about your connection to the animal, to be able

1573
01:21:48.399 --> 01:21:50.079
to see through their eyes and to be able to

1574
01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:53.800
communicate with them too and be buds. Gorillas are cool. Yeah.

1575
01:21:53.880 --> 01:21:57.760
I don't think I could beat the eagle. Maybe an

1576
01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:00.720
owl just because of its status, but I mean.

1577
01:22:02.199 --> 01:22:03.239
Flying, I don't think so.

1578
01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:03.760
Yeah.

1579
01:22:03.880 --> 01:22:07.000
Being able to see like through an eagle's eyes too

1580
01:22:07.000 --> 01:22:10.319
and get that bird's eye view if you will, great stuff.

1581
01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:12.680
That's a great question. I think it's some other animals.

1582
01:22:13.199 --> 01:22:16.079
So this was kind of a question complaint I think

1583
01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:18.960
we touched on earlier. Did we want the Juhn Horde

1584
01:22:19.239 --> 01:22:21.720
chieftain to have been more of a character? Should he

1585
01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:22.840
have been more of a character?

1586
01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:25.880
Yeah? I think so. He reminded me of Lord Humongous

1587
01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:28.279
from The Road Warrior, and we just see him. He

1588
01:22:28.359 --> 01:22:32.359
never speaks, which is kind of a bummer, right completely,

1589
01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:34.560
you'd be great. They both talk the same way. And

1590
01:22:34.600 --> 01:22:37.439
only because he has like the antler thing on the

1591
01:22:37.479 --> 01:22:40.680
side of his helmet do we even really know he's

1592
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:44.479
in charge? But yeah, I just wish there was something

1593
01:22:44.560 --> 01:22:47.319
more that stood out about him. I need it more

1594
01:22:47.399 --> 01:22:50.119
from him. But what because I don't want to disrupt

1595
01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:52.920
the flow of the movie. Is it good that he's

1596
01:22:53.000 --> 01:22:56.119
the silent type? But then I feel like they should

1597
01:22:56.119 --> 01:22:59.920
have defeated the Jungs first and then gone after may Ax.

1598
01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:03.920
All good questions and thoughts. I think maybe he didn't

1599
01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:06.319
necessarily need to speak or have a great deal of lines,

1600
01:23:06.319 --> 01:23:09.119
because Lord Humongous is great and Road Warrior, you know,

1601
01:23:09.159 --> 01:23:12.600
he's not like particularly verbal in that film. I mean,

1602
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:15.720
he had some great moments, but but we just needed

1603
01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:17.199
to see him a little bit he just needed to

1604
01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:18.640
be more established, that's all.

1605
01:23:18.840 --> 01:23:21.319
Yeah, I'm just not one dreder. Sure how I would

1606
01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:21.600
do it.

1607
01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:25.000
Yeah, and along these same lines, I'll just continue, then,

1608
01:23:25.199 --> 01:23:29.479
is that you did we need more of Tanya Roberts

1609
01:23:29.479 --> 01:23:31.399
in this film? And I'm not just saying that because

1610
01:23:31.479 --> 01:23:34.359
she's an attractive woman, but her character. Do we need

1611
01:23:34.560 --> 01:23:37.079
more of this trove warrior or slave girl in the

1612
01:23:37.159 --> 01:23:38.920
because she's barely in the first hour.

1613
01:23:39.159 --> 01:23:41.920
I guess I think I would have liked to see

1614
01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:46.159
more of her trove warrior abilities, maybe if we knew

1615
01:23:46.359 --> 01:23:49.119
earlier that she was a warrior that became a slave

1616
01:23:49.680 --> 01:23:51.880
or in the temple trying to rescue the king. And

1617
01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:54.520
then she goes off and changes from a skimpy slave

1618
01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:57.760
girl outfit to a skimpy trove warrior outfit.

1619
01:23:59.640 --> 01:24:02.279
All right, Yeah, now that I say it out loud,

1620
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:04.039
I don't know if we really needed more of her

1621
01:24:04.079 --> 01:24:07.239
character necessarily. Does it add or detract from film? Maybe?

1622
01:24:07.279 --> 01:24:09.520
I don't know, But this will be my last thought

1623
01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:13.600
regarding Kiri is that And this is actually I think

1624
01:24:13.640 --> 01:24:16.800
a compliment because to get back to a little trivia,

1625
01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:20.199
they actually did shoot or were attempting to shoot a

1626
01:24:20.319 --> 01:24:23.800
sex scene between Dar and Kirie, and the question would

1627
01:24:23.840 --> 01:24:26.960
be would have that been necessary for the film? Would

1628
01:24:27.000 --> 01:24:29.760
that have added anything? And I think it's good that

1629
01:24:29.800 --> 01:24:32.239
they didn't. I mean, as a young boy, you know,

1630
01:24:32.640 --> 01:24:34.720
you want to see more of a beautiful woman whatever

1631
01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:37.560
in a film and things these scenarios, but I don't

1632
01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:39.840
think it would have added to the movie. So I'm

1633
01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:42.760
glad that the sex scene is not in the film.

1634
01:24:42.920 --> 01:24:44.920
And I think in the trivia to I don't think

1635
01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:47.520
they it was too cold or something happened where they

1636
01:24:47.520 --> 01:24:50.560
had difficulty filming the scene regardless. So it's funny because

1637
01:24:50.560 --> 01:24:53.880
you have two hot actors in this film and it's there.

1638
01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:57.720
You know, they're very dars obviously, very lustful toward her

1639
01:24:57.840 --> 01:25:00.000
and things like that, but they never hook up. Really,

1640
01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:02.399
they make out a couple times, but you're expecting this

1641
01:25:02.479 --> 01:25:05.079
full on scene and it never happens. So I'm glad

1642
01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:06.359
they didn't didn't do it.

1643
01:25:06.399 --> 01:25:08.960
Actually, well, it's interesting that you mentioned that because on

1644
01:25:09.079 --> 01:25:13.560
the DVD I have, there's a hidden menu, so basically

1645
01:25:13.600 --> 01:25:16.560
you have to scroll on the ring oh with the

1646
01:25:16.640 --> 01:25:19.560
green eye, so it's off the menu and when you

1647
01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:21.520
hit it, it's behind the scenes footage.

1648
01:25:21.560 --> 01:25:21.760
Oh.

1649
01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:24.439
Cool, except most of the behind the scene footage is

1650
01:25:24.720 --> 01:25:28.279
naked shots of China Roberts, and one of the shots

1651
01:25:28.520 --> 01:25:32.199
of her is coming on to Mark Singer and dropping

1652
01:25:32.199 --> 01:25:35.079
her robes, so I guess they're about to have their

1653
01:25:35.279 --> 01:25:38.960
sex scene. So they did shoot something, and I wonder

1654
01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:42.439
if Tinyer Roberts knew that was on the DVD. It's

1655
01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:45.600
basically all shots of her being naked. I'm surprised I

1656
01:25:45.640 --> 01:25:46.239
got away with that.

1657
01:25:46.279 --> 01:25:50.399
I got to give it a no, it exists, okay.

1658
01:25:50.399 --> 01:25:51.920
And I also got to give a shout out to

1659
01:25:52.359 --> 01:25:55.640
Josh Morad who played Tall. I thought he was pretty

1660
01:25:55.640 --> 01:25:58.159
good as a kid actor. I don't think he really

1661
01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:00.640
did anything else, but I thought he was good in this.

1662
01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:01.479
He worked.

1663
01:26:01.680 --> 01:26:04.079
Good call, good call. All right, let's move on to

1664
01:26:04.159 --> 01:26:06.199
a rating. So on a scale of one, two five,

1665
01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:08.960
death Guards, what would you give the Beast Master.

1666
01:26:09.680 --> 01:26:12.800
I give it a really strong three and a half

1667
01:26:13.039 --> 01:26:16.880
death Guards Bill Band Again, I think this is a

1668
01:26:17.159 --> 01:26:20.880
great B movie. It's more of a B plus, almost

1669
01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:27.960
ANUS movie. It is just loaded with everything, really playing

1670
01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:31.880
to my sensibilities I mentioned earlier, just the different genres,

1671
01:26:31.960 --> 01:26:33.920
the different mix of genres, but it is kind of

1672
01:26:33.960 --> 01:26:37.039
that wish fulfillment for a boy where you're just like, oh,

1673
01:26:37.159 --> 01:26:39.479
how cool would it be to hang out with these

1674
01:26:39.520 --> 01:26:42.640
animals and be able to have that type of camaraderie

1675
01:26:42.640 --> 01:26:45.560
and connection, and then to you to be able to

1676
01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:50.279
work together in order to overcome obstacles and beat the

1677
01:26:50.319 --> 01:26:52.640
bad guys and all that stuff. I mean, it's super

1678
01:26:52.680 --> 01:26:56.159
fun from an adventure aspect. The movie looks great. It's

1679
01:26:56.239 --> 01:27:01.079
shot really well, really fun action, beautiful people. So the

1680
01:27:01.119 --> 01:27:04.920
acting was serviceable. It was fine. It didn't distract me

1681
01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:08.520
too much, and good to see you know, rip torn

1682
01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:12.960
chewing it up as you mentioned. So I went into

1683
01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:17.239
this not knowing anything and came out really happy that

1684
01:27:17.600 --> 01:27:20.199
I've seen it, and I would be happy to revisit

1685
01:27:20.239 --> 01:27:24.039
it again down the line. I was really surprised, and

1686
01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:28.239
it's just fun. It's entertaining. You don't have to think

1687
01:27:28.279 --> 01:27:31.079
about it too hard. Shout out to the Birdman creatures.

1688
01:27:31.079 --> 01:27:34.640
Those were cool. That's it. I had fun, man, I

1689
01:27:34.680 --> 01:27:36.439
had a lot of fun. It's good.

1690
01:27:36.640 --> 01:27:38.720
Yeah, it's weird. It's a bad movie. That's good.

1691
01:27:38.840 --> 01:27:39.560
Yeah, I know.

1692
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:41.680
I still find it very entertaining. As I said from

1693
01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:44.279
the get go, younger me would give this five stars,

1694
01:27:44.279 --> 01:27:46.239
but almost you. It's three and a half. I think

1695
01:27:46.239 --> 01:27:48.880
it still holds up. I think there's a lot of

1696
01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:53.079
cool elements in it. The hero's journey does follow that,

1697
01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:56.520
and it's cool to see all those elements of the

1698
01:27:56.520 --> 01:27:59.279
hero's journey in this movie. There's a ton of creatures

1699
01:27:59.319 --> 01:28:03.119
and characters meet throughout the film and trying to keep

1700
01:28:03.159 --> 01:28:05.479
all that straight of who goes where and what goes

1701
01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:07.319
with what. I think, for the most part, you can

1702
01:28:07.399 --> 01:28:10.199
keep with it. I really do like the soundtrack for this.

1703
01:28:10.640 --> 01:28:14.720
I thought that was pretty memorable and I might need

1704
01:28:14.760 --> 01:28:17.279
to get this one in my collection. I think it's

1705
01:28:17.279 --> 01:28:17.760
pretty good.

1706
01:28:17.920 --> 01:28:20.119
There you go. Yeah, I should have mentioned that as well.

1707
01:28:20.279 --> 01:28:23.039
And Mark Singer between this and V Yeah, he was

1708
01:28:23.439 --> 01:28:25.880
an eighty's icon for me, especially in the early eighties.

1709
01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:29.159
He doesn't seem to get mentioned much, but I enjoyed

1710
01:28:29.239 --> 01:28:30.920
him in this. So if you're one of the few

1711
01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:33.880
people that have not seen this movie no longer, Jason,

1712
01:28:33.880 --> 01:28:36.039
I would give it a shot. Just remember it's nineteen

1713
01:28:36.079 --> 01:28:38.560
eighty two, right, It's not going to hold up with

1714
01:28:38.640 --> 01:28:40.880
today's standards, but I think there's a lot of good

1715
01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:42.640
elements to it. It's fun.

1716
01:28:42.840 --> 01:28:45.600
Yeah, you're right, it is dated, but you make a

1717
01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:48.640
good point. This movie has its place, like a really

1718
01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:51.319
solid place in the eighties because it was played so

1719
01:28:51.399 --> 01:28:54.560
much on television. And yes, credit to Mark Singer. I

1720
01:28:54.600 --> 01:28:57.640
mean he's a known entity for us that grew up

1721
01:28:57.720 --> 01:29:01.520
during that decade. Right you hear his name, it's immediately

1722
01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:05.600
identifiable and associated with the Beast Master. You just know it.

1723
01:29:05.760 --> 01:29:07.640
Like I said, I didn't even watch the movie in

1724
01:29:07.640 --> 01:29:10.000
the eighties, and I knew who Mark Singer was because

1725
01:29:10.039 --> 01:29:13.760
of that movie. He's in fantastic shape, he looks fantastic

1726
01:29:14.079 --> 01:29:17.399
and he's good in the movie. So credit to him,

1727
01:29:17.520 --> 01:29:17.720
you know.

1728
01:29:17.960 --> 01:29:20.279
Okay, So that about wraps it up for this week's episode.

1729
01:29:20.359 --> 01:29:23.159
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01:29:23.159 --> 01:29:26.199
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1735
01:29:37.720 --> 01:29:40.760
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1736
01:29:41.000 --> 01:29:44.600
decade ever, the nineteen eighties. Until then, stay cool and

1737
01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:45.439
have an excellent day.

1738
01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:49.159
Everyone face the Animal on his own terms. You will

1739
01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:52.960
find you are not so very strong. Thanks for staying

1740
01:29:53.039 --> 01:29:53.479
up with us.

1741
01:29:53.960 --> 01:30:17.199
Goodnight world

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S.