Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-17 (Friday) Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 13:36:37 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 84 Message-ID: References: <135397734.737753085.283063.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <765625084.737821366.817193.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 22:36:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="266b6ebd80d83b122a3c887253a7aa53"; logging-data="3744184"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/xjOTVMxzrhcrrWpOPk/Cy" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dlc4wSq6++qIjXXdDtOe940VXiM= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <765625084.737821366.817193.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 4504 On 5/19/2024 10:18 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 5/18/2024 12:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>> Ian J. Ball wrote: >>>> Yesterday was a day for chores, work, and rest. So I didn't get through >>>> much TV: >>>> >>>> >>>> What did you watch? >>> >>> Hey, thanks for asking! >>> >>> BLUE BLOODS season 14 season finale >>> Covered elsewhere. >>> >>> >>> OPERATION BIKINI >>> An incredibly awful World War II submarine adventure, movie with Frankie >>> Avalon singing up a storm. At least he gets hit in the head for it like he >>> did voyage to the bottom of the sea. >>> >> >> This can't possibly be a real movie! LOL > > It amazed me as well, but it is. > > https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057387/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk > > Most of the reviews give a score of one or two and yet somehow the > aggregate is almost 4. I call shenanigans. > > >> >> >>> It’s almost all stock footage except for some people that mostly can’t act >>> running around in cardboard sets that are supposed to be the inside of a >>> submarine. >>> >>> They go on a black-and-white mission to deliver some commandos to blow up >>> something. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. The middle half of the >>> movie is the commandos on an island that just happens to have friendly >>> natives that don’t speak English and beautiful native girls that don’t >>> speak English. The evil Japs are coming by a patrol boat. Since they never >>> get out of the patrol boat, I don’t know why you couldn’t just hide behind >>> a tree. Anyway our heroes get the native girls to get naked (after tab >>> hunter avails himself of one of their charms) and lure in the patrol boat >>> so they can ambush and kill the japs and the Japs retaliate by machine >>> gunning the naked girls to death. The lead island native girl is played by >>> a big breasted Hungarian. >>> >>> Anyway, along the way, Frankie has multiple song inserts using color >>> footage for the background, but super imposing the people in >>> black-and-white in the foreground. >>> >>> The credits looked to be stock footage or leftover footage from some of the >>> beach party movies while William Shatner (!) Narrates how 10 years after >>> this movie we started dropping hydrogen bombs until there was no bikini at >>> all >>> >>> >>> >>> DOCTOR WHOM BOOM >>> >>> So they decided to do an episode they could knock out in an afternoon with >>> the doctor standing on a landline. None of it made sense. The landmine is >>> going to destroy half the planet and he’s trying to get the companion to >>> back away a couple inches so she won’t get hurt. >> >> At the time he hadn't yet figured out the bomb was tied to his DNA and >> would blow up half the planet. > > He was still telling them to run after he figured that out. > > Now here’s a question. Why didn’t he tell them to go hide in the damn > tardis? She has a key after all. > Maybe he/she/it/they made the mistake of assuming that he/she/it/they had the intelligence to understand that "Run Away!" in that situation _meant_ "Get in the Tardis!"? -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.