Friends-Only Episode 49: Spitting in a wishing well / blown to hell
Added 2020-10-17 19:28:08 +0000 UTC
Friends! It's been a while. And then a while. We are very sorry, but we are also: back! With us we bring one of our favorite shared artifacts, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films.
It's a big-mouthed, clear-eyed take on a story that probably only could have happened in Los Angeles in the 1980s, and it's a hell of a lot of fun. If you ever loved a movie as a kid that you saw again as an adult and realized "Wow, that looks ... cheap.", this documentary may be for you.
Couple follow-ups:
- Oral history of the Masters of the Universe movie: https://www.slashfilm.com/masters-of-the-universe-oral-history/
- Incredible documentary about a failed film version of the Island of Doctor Moreau: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3966544/
- Writeup of the Lost Soul documentary: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-island-of-dr-moreau/making-of-marlon-brando-richard-stanley/
- Writeup of Electric Boogaloo: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/electric-boogaloo-cannon-films-documentary/golan-and-globus/
Comments
Oh, and yes yes yes to an episode on The Apple. I spent much of my '80s and '90s telling people that this thing that had never heard of was in fact THEE worst movie of all time. I sold them on it with just two words: "disco totalitarianism."
Michael Daddino
2020-10-19 13:12:57 +0000 UTCAh, so happy to have you back. And yes: do an episode on The Apple!
Richard Horsman
2020-10-19 00:50:04 +0000 UTC
