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Watching Any Good Serials?
Topic Started: Apr 12 2006, 09:28 AM (88,296 Views)
panzer the great & terrible
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Oh, absolutely. The Wizard rocks. All evildoers with wrinkled robes rock.
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Batman and Robin, like Radar Men from the Moon and The Lost Planet and Panther Girl of the Congo and probably a few others are all serials that are NOTHIN' but fun, the chapterplay equivalent of Robot Monster or Eegah! or Invasion of the Saucer-Men. I guess "so bad they're good" maybe, or "psychotronic" serials. All I know is, they're non-stop fun, and many "better" serials aren't nearly as enjoyable over the course of 3 months.
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I totally agree, and I'd include Mysterious Island.
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panzer the great & terrible
Apr 20 2010, 07:25 AM
Oh, absolutely. The Wizard rocks. All evildoers with wrinkled robes rock.
It may have been wrinkled, BUT it sure looked cool to me. Besieds, Leonard Penn was built much more like a super-hero than Robert Lowery!!
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panzer the great & terrible
Apr 9 2010, 08:05 AM
Bat, I saw nearly all of Batman and Robin in the theater as a little kid, and loved it. When I revisited it 15 years ago there were actually scenes I remembered. I suppose by rational standards it's not so good, but I still enjoy it more than any other serial, in spite of your ill-fitting cowl, that silly repeating sequence of Bill Fawcett in the chair and the even sillier revelation of the bad guy. This is one of the very few cases when I love a movie out of sheer nostalgia, and it helps me understand how people can blow the horn for lousy movies they saw as a kid: case in point, mort and Son of the Guardsman, the most amateurish serial I've ever seen.
You are right on - When the TV show came out the local theatre was showing the entire serial - I remember skipping school for the day with my buddies to see it. I still like to drag out the DVD every once and a while.
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Apr 20 2010, 12:27 PM
I still like to drag out the BATMAN & ROBIN DVD every once and a while.

For sure, Don. Both Batman serials are highly enjoyable and rewatchable.

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I've been plowing through "The Indians are Coming" for our upcoming Sunday chat over at The Serial Family. After finally finishing the serial today I agree with I think Black Tiger that this serial would have played better as a silent. Overall not to bad.
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I wish I was finished this one, Barcroft. Halfway through for the chat, but the bad sound does make it a bit of a chore to watch. Otherwise, not a bad serial.
Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman...then always be Batman!
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Batman's address:-

1910 Hill Road,
Los Angeles,
California.

That's where he lives 'high on a hill over Gotham City' in Batman (1943) and that's where Washington wrote to him - he's helping in the war-effort.

Hope they're discreet! :blink:
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California? Gotham City? I think you have Coastal Delusional Syndrome :'(
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Apr 27 2010, 03:04 AM
California? Gotham City? I think you have Coastal Delusional Syndrome :'(
:D That and MPD!
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Okey, I gotta ask. What's MPD? And don't say the Metropolis Police Dept. located in Butte Montana.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Apr 28 2010, 03:04 AM
Okey, I gotta ask. What's MPD?

Map Placement Disorder

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Just started Red Ryder; unfortunately may take a while to get back to it. Yes, it's the bad guys grabbing up land to sell to the railroads -- again. I imagine the railroad's agents riding into a town, going to the office behind the saloon where they were told to meet the local big shot, and finding the bodies of an oily guy in a suit and a bunch of generic henchmen. The agents are told the lands have just been "restored to their rightful owners" by a lone vigilante, which seems to have happened in every dang town all the way to the Golden Spike.

Anyway, the villains in Red Ryder kill a rancher (expected) . . . AND his teenaged son (not expected -- I had him pegged as the hero's spare sidekick) . . . AND the heroine's father (granted, honest sheriffs do have a short life expectancy in these things) . . . AND the HERO's father (Okay, we get it already! They're BAD guys!). Seeking closure, Red plugs two colorful henchmen while Little Beaver (cue Beavis and Butthead) seems to pick off the bartender with an arrow. And all this happens in Chapter One.

I anticipate a scene of Red Ryder whupping the kingpin: "THIS is for my FATHER! . . . THIS is for HER father! . . . THIS is for the KID'S father! . . . THIS is for the kid's BROTHER! . . . And THIS is for the remaining speaking part characters you killed off after that!"

The saloon, by the way, has "No Minors" painted on the doors. Was that an issue in the Wild West?
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Apr 29 2010, 12:20 AM
The saloon, by the way, has "No Minors" painted on the doors. Was that an issue in the Wild West?
They couldn't spell "miners" correctly. Those shaft dwellers are just plain trouble!
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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