BOO-YAA! This week we continue our tradition of putting out overproduced, corporate-sponsored, internet radio and drop our pants for this weeks features, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans.
I have to say that this is probably one of my favorite Eps of CB mainly because its the first time I am totally familiar with both movies that you discuss. Like DZ, I too have a huge love for Greek mythology and read it all the time as a kid. My favorite movie growing up was Clash of the Titans. We had it on VHS recorded from HBO back in the 80s. There was a week that I was sick as a kid and watched that movie about 15 times. I do have to say “Up yours” to DZ. Boobo was no Jar Jar! I do appreciate that you reclassify him as R2-D2 later in the show, but you have some serious making up to do!
Anyways, excellent review of both movies, I love it. Bravo fellas. Friggin’ Bravo!
PS: Are you guys going to perhaps review movies like Conan or Krull? You could even watch Red Sonja if you feel like torturing yourselves. Or Beastmaster would be a good one along those lines. Like you DZ, the ferrets were my favorite characters. I’m still saddened by what happens at the end of the movie. Wait, I think I have something in my eye….sniff
PPS: HAPPY BIRTHDAYS F13. Did I miss it?? We are total June B-day buddies. WOOT!
A really cool episode on Ray’s best films there, I have to admit what you said about Jason and the Argonauts was true about it being a tad dull in parts but I still have a lot of love for this film that I kind of look past all that.. I’ve been watching this movie since I was very little and every year since. The same has to be said for other films like the 7th voyage of Sinbad which has a real long time without any monster action.
Its also very cool you mentioned beastmaster too, I remember that from my youth but it almost fell off the face of the planet, only found it to download the other week and now I’m looking for it on dvd. You’re right about those winged dudes that ate people, I smurfin loved those guys!! Another fantasy film I watched recently was Conquest, Lucio Fulci’s film, that was ok but didn’t stand up against clash of the titans or beastmaster, was still cool to watch though with all its wolf type monsters.
Also Nigel Green who played Hercules in jason and the argonauts won me over with the line about the women!
‘if I meet a girl with a firm leg, full bosom and a warm heart, let no man try and stop me!’
Great show guys, loved your take on both films, I would have stated the same. I called this in, but a big thing with me is sharing some the greats with my kids. Movies like Jason and the Argonauts are a very hard sell, due to the long pauses between action. Clash of the Titians however, always gets their attention.
I do have to say “Up yours” to DZ. Boobo was no Jar Jar! I do appreciate that you reclassify him as R2-D2 later in the show, but you have some serious making up to do!
Bubo tore up Calibos’s swamp lair to free Pegasus, WTF?!
Bubo distracted the Kraken, WTF?!
Maybe I need to re-classify. Since Clash came long before Poo-poo Menace then the better phrasing is, “Bubo is the original Jar Jar. Everything Jar Jar did he learned from a mechanical owl, only with 1/10th the charm and with a voice 1 million times worse.” With the exception of Zeus rejuvenating Perseus toward the end the heroic acts are taken away from the lead. Even Zeus’s interference is minor because Perseus still had to get the job done, he was just granted a second wind. Buboo is a mechanical diva in trying to steal the spotlight by being cute and capable of distracting the skyscraper sized Kraken despite being barely the size of a head.
Ferrets are the coolest pets ever. I had 3 when I was a kid and I miss them more than any other pet I’ve had. I trained Katie, our first ferret, to sit on my shoulder when I walked around. Freddie, our second ferret, was blind and kind of dumb, a lovable dumb, but he had bladder control issues so I never taught him to stay on my shoulder.
Beastmaster is an awesome movie from childhood. Back in the 80’s fantasy certainly had a different flavor. There’s always a kid appeal to fantasy and yet the stuff coming out back then had things you don’t associate with films appropriate for kids. Beastmaster had nudity, multiple suicides, people being melted, men on horseback set on fire, a man mauled by a bear, a man having his brain melted, and a heroic ferret sacrificing himself to save the day from evil Rip Torn. A ferret way braver than Rikki-Tikki-Tavi!
Dragon Slayer is another movie that a lot of kids have seen and is really marketed toward them. Which is odd because it has nudity, an old man maliciously stabbed in the heart, a hacked up princess complete with baby dragon eating her severed foot, and multiple incinerations. I love Dragon Slayer!
Dragon Slayer is another movie that a lot of kids have seen and is really marketed toward them. Which is odd because it has nudity, an old man maliciously stabbed in the heart, a hacked up princess complete with baby dragon eating her severed foot, and multiple incinerations. I love Dragon Slayer!
haha dude you love trying to sell these 80s kids films to the youth of today, ‘check out beastmaster kids its got all the good stuff you kids should be watching, smurfin your star wars episode ones and your harry potters, they have no rape!.. ’
Dragon Slayer is another movie that a lot of kids have seen and is really marketed toward them. Which is odd because it has nudity, an old man maliciously stabbed in the heart, a hacked up princess complete with baby dragon eating her severed foot, and multiple incinerations. I love Dragon Slayer!
haha dude you love trying to sell these 80s kids films to the youth of today, ‘check out beastmaster kids its got all the good stuff you kids should be watching, smurfin your star wars episode ones and your harry potters, they have no rape!.. ’
LOL!
I think the “adult elements” is why I took to it so much. That and the Girl in hiding thing was cool too.
