What the Hell am I going to post today? I will say work has been a beating and I have not thought about it. Too, too much going on, and none of it goes anywhere. Such is the life of a cubicle mushroom.
I know what I’ll post! Remember the early 2000’s? Things were still kind fun and happy, and movies had bright colors and lighting directors. Those were good times. Well, we can’t get back to those good times any time soon, so I might as well resurrect one of my guilty pleasures from that time.
So what makes this movie watchable? It was one of the last film projects of MTV, and it went straight to TV. How is that watchable? Well, it has Carmen Electra in it for new star power, and Adam West in it for classic star power. Yes! Adam West! No matter what role he played, he always sounded like Batman. And that’s OK with me. This movie was riding a crest of similar bright, poppy movies that came out around that time. At this point, I am going to turn it over to Wuchakk, who did a good review of it on IMDB:
Released to TV in 2004, “Monster Island” is a fun, campy adventure with intentionally bad non-special effects that combines elements of movies like 1961’s “Mysterious Island,” “King Kong,” “The Land that Time Forgot” and “Scooby-Doo” (but without the dog); it pokes fun at the stop-motion effects from decades ago and even has a character named after stop-motion guru Ray Harryhausen, played by Adam West.
I’m surprised at the bad reviews, which shows these people didn’t “get it,” because “Monster Island” delivers the goods in practically every department. For one, the adventure story works even though it’s obviously not to be taken too serious; it’s just serious enough. Secondly, the cast is great, which includes an excellent assortment of women — cutie Chelan Simmons, blond dancer Jana Berengel, Carmen Electra, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, etc. And, thirdly, a notable score and soundtrack (including the main song “Jungle Fever” sung by Carmen). Really, everything just clicks for a entertaining, fun adventure movie.
Spoiler Removed
I’m grading this flick according to what it is and what it aspires to achieve: “Monster Island” is a campy TV-movie with intentionally bad F/X and a fun adventure story, which is taken just serious enough. With this in mind, it’s superlative on practically every level and, in my opinion, is more entertaining than “Goonies,” the two “Scooby-Doo” movies, “At the Earth’s Core” (which isn’t saying much, lol) and even “Star Wars” (yes, there are some Star Wars elements). In other words, I’d happily watch “Monster Island” before any of these five movies.
Thank you Wuchakk! There were a lot of people who tried to seriously watch this film and review it on IMDB. My question to such people: What is wrong with you? Relax, turn off your brain and enjoy a light action film with a lot of homages to other films and just a hint of optimism. Nowadays movies just take themselves way too seriously. And they don’t have lighting, or colors. And I get really tired of it. Bring back some optimism!
That’s enough rambling from me. I have to get back to work, and when I finish, I need to get back to writing my discussion of freedoms under different government types which I am going to foist on you all soon.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! If you hate the movie, you can always talk about your garden, or who has the cheapest ammo right now, or discuss watches. I like cool watches.
I will say work has been a beating and I have not thought about it.
Alien euphemisming. Marvin the Martian is very upset.
He’s just a paranoid android.
I saw the title and was excited. Growing-up Friday nights we watched “Creature Feature” with Dr. Sanguinary (out of a station in Omaha). One of my all-time favorites was what I referred to as “the Monster Island movie” where a little Japanese boy calls Godzilla’s son on monster island.
The real movie name was Godzilla’s Revenge.
Creature Feature when I was growing up in the SF Bay Area was hosted by Bob Wilkens. He was the weatherman for the station.
Sounds good!
I won’t be watching it tonight because Giants game.
I noticed there are at least four other movies named “Monster Island”
“Prime Video”
*spit*
I know. I don’t like the idea of football on Thursday nights in the first place.
Aren’t Giants kind of local to you?
Extremely local. I’ve chosen to be a Jets fan since I moved here but I’d watch the Giants if I could.
Shouldn’t it be on one of the broadcast channels in the NYC market?
Huh. You’re right, it’s on channel 5. 😮
I thought the pay-stream games were only on pay-stream.
Skattebo barfing on the field
Things were still kind fun and happy, and movies had bright colors and lighting directors.
A professional Gaffer who is good at gaffing is very important.
What fireworks?
Damn Reddit wanting me to
Download their stupid app.
Web browser works just fine.
I didn’t have that issue on my PC.
Reddit blocks
Me after I scroll down half a page or so.
My guess is it knows I’m looking at it on my phone.
I dunno where that is but I used to see that shit in Brooklyn all the time.
I’m guessing that’s from Diwali. (Just looked up Basawa and my guess was correct: India.)
“(Monster Island) is more entertaining than “Goonies,” the two “Scooby-Doo” movies…”
Flag on the field: Penalty Wuchakk – Unreliable Narrator. Rewatch all three films and think and wonder wtf you’re talking about.
(WhoTF compares Goonies with the fucking Scooby Doo flicks?)
No one sane.
I was gonna throw a flag on “more entertaining than Goonies” myself. I won’t be watching tonight but I find the claim extremely suspect.
Scooby Doo 1 was crap, I’ll give them that. Didn’t care to see 2.
That is one of the reasons why I picked that review.
Pretty sneaky, sis.
Ancient Chinese Secret!
Sorry. I was at a viewing of Critters 4.
How’s things?
Working on Thursday night doth sucketh and bloweth.
Critters 4 viewing. Living the life RJ.
It was a black tie event.
I don’t quite get why those Ole Miss ditzes were making monkey noises the way they were. But they apologized and claimed it was something they did in general and there’s no evidence they ever interacted or even knew who lived in that apartment.
People are very, very fine ruining their lives over it regardless. While claiming virtue. Even though they’re the ones who hear monkey noises and instantly think of black people.
Nothing new I suppose. Have they even released the full video to begin with? Or do we just have a snippet? Or is the media just choosing to air the snippet?
You cannot grow up a white person in America without knowing this is exactly how that would turn out, assuming it played out the way the MSM is claiming. All of us are exquisitely attuned to this stuff. “Something they did in general”. Yeah, not buying it.
Yeah. it seems a little more clear cut than what happened at UPenn a number of years ago. It was night and a group of black girls was noisy on the sidewalk outside a dorm and a white kid yelled down to “stop acting like a herd of water buffalo.” Not as clear cut racist but “everyone” seemed to think so and the race card was played.
It’s like if Italian soccer fans throwing banana peels on the field were to claim it was “something they did in general”.
That one was bullshit.
A strange thing to say but not “racist”.
It assumes they knew that black girls even lived in that apartment to begin with.
I don’t know. I don’t particularly care even if it was racist. This shit is stupid.
I’m terribly, terribly tired of institutions in this country treating racism as the greatest sin imaginable.
Like it trumps no-shit violence in importance to them. Some soccer team in NC had its season cancelled for a reportedly (I can’t find the full video with a quick search, just news reports) racist ‘chant’ on their bus on the way back. Some asshole on the team recorded it and posted it online.
People are calling for them to be expelled which is just asking for a major lawsuit.
Amen.
I don’t know a way out of it. The yoots seem to not give a shit, not notice, or even resist. Which might explain the nonsense at Ole Miss.
Their superiors and the media watchers are mostly of my generation or two above who are the ones I described as still exquisitely attuned and/or leftist twunts who go looking for this shit to punish and shame.
Hilarious development I’m uninformed of and haven’t queried further: Seems the computer’s gonna be moved into the master bedroom, which is becoming Dad’s bedroom. (So I infer.) Another mattress we have is going into the computer room, and Mom’s bought paint samples to check out.
“Why do you need to paint the room?” Dad asked yesterday, kinda poo-pooing the idea of work+money.
“Because I want to. I don’t need a reason,” she retorted. Demonstrating wisdom he rarely displays, he didn’t respond.
They’ve both forever complained about the other’s snoring. (They are both correct.) In the past, I know his he’d accidentally cut her legs during the night with his mangled toe nails. I just moved a bit of furniture to help her scheme. Fascinating, I know.
I vaguely recall noticing my mom and stepfather having moved into separate bedrooms in the double-wide during some college holiday visit.
Can’t blame them. Sleeping with another human next to you – crawling all over you, kicking, mumbling, snoring and more unpleasantries – was never exactly my cup of tea even before the glow wears off.
I just moved back to bed from being on the couch for four months after surgery.
My wife does not approve.
Nice progress!
During the initial stages of my recent medical adventures I was incapable of getting into or out of bed so I slept in my La-Z-Boy for a few months. Which sucked ass because I am a side-sleeper.
Never mind the potty heightener I had to buy for the same reason. Jeez I almost forgot about that. I tossed it a couple years ago – maybe I should have saved it for future me.
Then my wife stacked boxes on my side of the bed. Trying to kill me.
I don’t blame ’em either. I don’t know how serious, but after I left the States, I eventually overheard she had brought up at least the idea of divorce. That certainly led to Dad seeing some folk and getting (correctly) diagnosed with Asperger’s, and to him at least realizing and accepting he’s a bit tetched in certain ways. Particularly Mom, obviously.
We all get along very well. The biggest fear is if Mom goes before Dad does. Cuz… he’d be fucked. If he goes first…? Wow. Mom will explode in freedom.
Oh, I knew they were together, but not this bit: “Prince discovered Carmen Electra (born Tara Leigh Patrick) in March 1991 at a Los Angeles nightclub, guiding her career, giving her a new stage name, and briefly entering a fast-paced romantic relationship with her.”
Were I Prince, with his powers in 1991 (and before, after), I’d love to discover Ms Tara Leigh. (Not sure I trust her ‘judgement,’ also being with Dennis Rodman. But, hey, the Worm could play ball. (So could Prince, yes.) She was certainly driven towards a certain type, wasn’t she?
Money spreads legs.
^^This. (To be fair, he had plenty of talent and state personality.)
Money+Power=Status, universal, social primate currency. It brings many things. Tail, in gravitational proportion.