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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-17 (Friday)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 13:36:37 -0700
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On 5/19/2024 10:18 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 5/18/2024 12:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> 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!"?

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.