Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: LEGEND OF THE DINOSAURS
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2014
- I review the Japanese monster movie "Legend of the Dinosaurs" (1977), AKA "Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds", the only dinosaur movie to feature a funky disco soundtrack! (Originally aired July 13th, 2013)
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I think I can explain the soundtrack a little. In the 1970's, movie studios were getting taken over by other corporations, like soft drinks makers and the like, who didn't understand movies, but did understand bussiness and so started handing down mandates to the film makers, to do things a certain way. Disco was huge at the time and much, much cheaper to produce a disco soundtrack, as opposed to the traditional orchestral soundtrack. Beleive me when I say, Star Wars came very close to having a disco soundtrack slapped on it by STudio Mandate and as funny as it may sound, Darth Vader wouldn't be nearly as intimidating with an Isaak Hayes Blacksploitation theme tune.
Wow, so discovery star Wars that was all over the radio was actually accurate? Neat.
Now i actually want to see the hallway scene with Isaac hayes music.
@@crimsondynamo615 "Who's the Badass Sith Lord, who's a death-machine to all the Rebs?"
*"VADER!!!*
"Dayum Riiiiiight..."
Damm that's crazy
Yikes! All I can say to that is: "thank god for John Williams!" :=)
In retrospect, Godzilla burning Tokyo to the theme song, disco inferno, best thing ever.
My guess for more inappropriate music for iconic kaiju scenes:
King Kong's first appearance in the 1933 classic: "King Kong" (you might know it from one of the BEN Drowned videos)
King Kong fighting the T-rex (1933) or the V-rex (2005): The DK Rap
Gamera flying in Gamera vs. Guiron: "I Believe I Can Fly"
The Trespasser kaiju coming from the portal in Pacific Rim: "Fuck da Police"
Rodan flying in Moscow in Destroy All Monsters!: "Moskau"
Ultraman vs. Alien Baltan: John Cena's theme
The megalodon attacking people in The Meg: "Baby Shark"
I myself would like a remixed ,special edition with disco inferno music
More inappropriate kaiju music:
King Ghidorah's awakening in KotM: "Ice Ice Baby"
Hedorah in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster: "Crawling" by Linkin Park
George, Lizzie, and Ralph fighting in Rampage: "Sweet Dreams are Made of This"
Mechagodzilla in Ready Player One: Transformers theme song
Super Mechagodzilla Transformation: “Go Green Ranger Go” from Power Rangers
Especially with Japanese children crying.
"It's like watching a kite with epilepsy fight a garden hose!" Lol.
Or a drunken pigeon fighting a ball python
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 if this is rebooted it will be like an giant flying giraffe stork fighting an giant stiff necked biological torpedo
"The Giant Claw vs the Loch Ness Horror"
I'm still laughing over "Clint Far-Eastwood"
Paper airplane vs paper sord
"And if a two-headed calf appears, there will be a plague of hornets, and the harvest will be sub-standard."
locusts
@dansmith1661 Nah, that's if there's a two headed goat 😆
So, New Vegas?
Replacing the ost from that scene from Gojira with "Disco Inferno" was one of the best things I've ever seen on youtube.
It's funny but it makes sense
One of my favorite riffs
Burn baby Burn
I understand his point about music setting the tone but your right, Disco Inferno made Gojira suddenly a hundred times more awesome.
It was awesome 😅
legend of the discosaurs
"She's fallen into the last 20 minutes of the American Godzilla"
We're going to have to be more specific when we talk about the "American Godzilla" now...
It could be Muto eggs, who knows
@@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917they look more like Godzilla eggs, so probably the first one
@@loschrodproductions4519*Zilla eggs
@@VideoSmarts1 ****GODZILLA eggs
Yeap, it looks like we all know which American Godzilla film he is talking about
Playing funky '70s disco music would've improved Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, it also has more or less the same writing quality.
At least the Dinosaurs looked better in that then the ones in this garbage heap do (they aren't even actual dinosaurs) despite the former being mostly CGI with occasional animatronics and practical effects
Clint Far-Eastwood is still one of my favorite jokes of yours. Gets. Me. Every. Time.
I had to listen to it twice to make sure I heard him say what I thought I heard him say. LOL
Whats even more hilarious is that Cowboy Movies and Samurai Movies took from each other and at time streight up ripped each other off.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 Cowboys are just Samurai with guns.
@@thegnarledpirate9198 if you want to be a bit meta Samurai and Cowboy movies also took from Medieval and Shakespear Movies so uh yeah
Love the Copyright Infringement Gang
They obviously spent most of their budget on the funky soundtrack Brandon.
Not to mention all the drugs for the cast and crew, it was the 70s.
They spent on cropdusters filled with cocaine , one at 9:AM, noon, and 4:37pm,everyday of the shoot
Most? I'm pretty sure they spent all the money on cocaine pot and the funk, then just bribed everyone to do the rest with the drugs and jams.
14:37 Actually, that's a _rhamphorynchus;_ but considering how sketchy the science in this movie is, we're lucky it wasn't a photo of a pigeon.
A rhamphorynchus?? Wait..........that's what the Mahars in "At the Earth's Core" were, too. 2 movies in 1? A new concept in cinema!
Rhamphorhyncus were the size of seagulls, so making sense would be too much to ask from this movie
calm down Dr. Grant
@@Tareltonlives plus they are designed to eat mostly fish, as there bill with the protrusions were meant for gripping slippery prey...but apparently this one would rather attack pleiseasaur
@@medinamojo Ironically, most Pleiosaurs had VERY similar teeth. But this one thinks people are fish...for some reason. And can go on land....for some reason. And have an supernaturally strong neck.....for some reason
On top of everything else wrong with this flick, the title is also a lie as there are no dinosaurs, since neither pleisiosaurs nor pterodactyls were actually dinosaurs.
agreed, why lie about the animals in the movie. Its like showing a spinosaurus on the movie poster and it ends up being a crocodile in the actual movie.
Not to mention an actual monster bird would STILL be a dinosaur
yup
mst3KGf a common cultural misconception
Sorry: *pterosaurs
Actually, that "pterodactyl" is a rhamphorhynchus. Gives the movie a whole new dimension, don't it?
Joe Jupiter they sure got the size of it right, huh?
After 100 million years, it grew to that size.
Since I don't know what that is, no, no it doesn't.
gesundheit
"good news u survived a earthquake bad news u awoke at lake placid" XD
15:47 and a Brandon meme was born
Hey man, Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend is a classic
Your seriously one of the funniest and charming guys on the internet.whenever I'm sick or sad I watch one of these and I'm fine.thanks for all your awesome videos.
Jay Corbett it’s Ali A tananananatanana
He's awesome, much better than Nostalgia Critic!
@@institutokleos That's not saying much.
No disrespect to Brandon (He's awesome) but almost anyone would be better than NC. Not being an insensitive, self-absorbed douche should be a fairly low bar.
Clint FarEastwood! LMFAO!!!
+Tim Hutchinson yeah. that cracks me up too!
😂🤣😂🤣
@J. C. Good timing! 😄
"Toei's most expensive movie" - isn't that like "the sideshow's tallest dwarf"?
What the funk?
Lol nice
I like how this is called Legend of the Dinosaur and there's not a single dinosaur in it. Just a Plesiosaur and Pterosaur.
It's a common misconception.
@natgal They're reptiles who aren't closely related to dinosaurs.
@@GoGojiraGo Pterosaurs are closely related to dinosaurs, even if they are not true dinosaurs they are a sister clade.
Well 'Legend of the Aerial and Marine Preshistoric Reptiles' doesn't have the the same ring to it so that could be forgiven.
I mean Jurassic park also had mostly cretaceous dinosaurs 🤷
@@thedeadcannotdie ironically they did eventually make Camp Cretaceous lol . Which does have an okay sounds from the double c . But idk Cretaceous park vs Jurassic park . It could be because of it being around so long but Cretaceous park just doesn't sound as intimidating, if that makes sense.
Another interesting parallel between this movie and Jaws is that Steven Spielberg had to shoot around and/or hide his film's special effects because they largely didn't work. Clearly this movie should have taken the same route.
The funkiest dinosaur movie you'll ever see.
With the Toei crashing wave opening, I was waiting for either a Kamen Rider or a Sentai team to run by.
or the Dragonball Z opening to start.
ShadowWolfRising Dragon Ball Z don't exist in this period, aslo the DBZ Opening is really great.
or battle royale or an old sonny chiba film.
MrSafior
DRAGON DRAGON!
ROCK THE DRAGONBALL Z!
Toei made a lot of good yakuza films back in the 60's and 70's. shame those aren't more well known outside of Japan.
They never showed this where I was as a kid. I still haven't seen it.
Somehow, I'm kinda glad.
Wow. that's bad.
That's why Godzilla's humming Disco Inferno to himself while destroying Tokyo... he's trying to burn all copies of this movie from ever happening...
It’s a movie so bad, you have to actually experience it yourself to fully comprehend. Being told how bad it is will never allow you to fully appreciate how bad it is.
From what I can gather, the soundtrack was by Masao Yagi , a jazz pianist. Really good musician if you ask me. It does feel like he wrote the music *before* the film was in production but it's only a hunch.
Aw yeah, baby, we're taking you to the Dr. Funktastic's Island of the Groovin' Legend of Outta Sight Dinosaurs Jack.
this is as if barney screwed the loch ness monster and this is what came out.
I call the plesiosaur from this movie "The Crack Ness Monster"
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 seems legit, it looks like it would creep out of the water just to ask for 3.50
5:44 "Lets say we get the music from a scene like this, and replace it with this" "Burn baby burn" I lost it at that moment
The funny thing is neither monsters are dinosaurs.
This review is old but it's classic. It's funny: as someone who has been obsessed with dinosaurs for over 25 years, I never heard of this one either
God I love the funky soundtrack. It's a travesty that the Funkadactyls never had the pterosaur theme for their entrance. The album ad and the Godzilla/Burn Baby Burn and Jaws/Funkytown mashups were amazing
Maybe the money went into the big volcano scene? I mean I think they did a great job of giving the feeling of the whole area getting torn up or burned down in the blink of an eye.
For a movie called "Legend of the Dinosaurs" there are no dinosaurs in it. ^^
Ancient Daikaiju I bet it's called the legend of dinosaurs as the expectation of dinosaurs are a legend
I'm just waiting for some 6 year old to say that they were reptiles at the time of the dinosaurs, there for, it's a dinosaur
I was exactly the same when I was a kid 'Dinosaur Mad' and still am at 37 got all the movies coz I had to have them especially those that I only caught a glimpse of years ago due to not knowing they were on TV at the time then never saw again and didn't catch the movie title or somefing ! 😡😡😡
The cinematography is very competent for a creature feature of the time. Some very nice shots here and there.
All it needed was less cartoon like dinosaurs
this is the type of music you'd expect to play with the Japanese version of Shaft.....Shaft in Tokyo...I'd watch that....be the closest thing to 1970s version of Blade...staring Jim Kelly
That Discozilla edit was actually pretty amazing Huehehehehehehe
1:08 wow.. that' pretty brutal for a kid's dinosaur movie.
4:34 so when _are_ we getting a REX DARTH: DISCO ESKIMO SPY movie?
10:08 goddam, the dubbing is so.... fantastic. I completely believe those voices would be coming from those people.
13:08 leave it to the Japanese to actually create that album.
6:09 "Oh I'm soury." Man you really are Canadian
"Clint Far-Eastwood"
LMAO!
Fun Fact:
According to John LeMay's book:
*"JAWS UNMADE: The Lost Sequels,*
*Prequels, Remakes, and Rip-Offs",*
there's an alternate, re-edited version
of this crazy film in Italy under the title
of *"Magnitude 10 Earthquake"* that
replaced the original funky score with
the music from *"THE DEEP"* by
legendary composer John Barry, best
known for doing the music for eleven
of the James Bond films & *"KONG '76".*
its true, for a movie that has dinosaurs in the title, there are no dinos in the film...
I know this comment is 4 years old, but this is why I didn't like KotM 2019. Too much focus on the Humans and not enough focus on the monsters.
Is it just me or is the camra quality in this film absolutely fucking insanely good
Yeah the colors and atmosphere are amazing and there are lots of good shots
To answer the question can you guess this is a dinosaur movie by the soundtrack
unless this is a dinosaurian rip-off of zootopia then no
Budget$2.8 million
Box Office$19 million
How!?!?!
When I was a kid, I also had a large obsession with dinosaurs. I think mine was bigger than yours, because not only have I seen almost every movie with dinosaurs in it that I could find, I've also collected little figurines, coloring books, and by the age of 6 already learned names like Diplodocus, Ceratosaurus, Ornithomimus, and Styracosaurus to name a few.
Aj Q same here
Aj Q same here but I have loved dinos since I was 2 and my love 2 will just grow and grow.
Is this the same movie MST3K did with the "Finish the job, man. ... Open the tank." line?
+Sketchy Yeah. I kinda wish they did this in a later season, when they had hit their stride
1977年の日本映画界が、迷走していたのが良くわかる作品。
レヴュー面白かったです。
This movie was trying so, so hard to be "artsy" (inappropriately). Actually kinda liked some of the music, though.
This one actually seems svengoolie worthy
Plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs, and pterosaurs aren't birds. God dammit.
This my friend, is false advertising!
+guilmon182 Now containing 100% less dinosaurs!
A bird would be an actual dinosaur!
Tareltonlives a descendent. Not an actual dinosaur.
They're dinosaurs; as much as whales are mammals. Birds fit neatly into theropod dinosaurs. It's called Phylogeny
I watched almost all of your reviews and this was one of the best actually!
I always come back to this episode for that bit where Godzilla destroys Tokyo to Disco Inferno
It's funny. I'll get pissed off about something and I'm like... I need some Brandon sarcasm.... And I end up here. Helps my mood every time. Lol
OK let's talk about science because this movie doesn't know what the fuck that is.
1. Plesiosaur and Pterosaur ARE NOT DINOSAURS!
2. While the fact about if Plesiosaur could go on land or not was something paleontologist were unsure at the time, we were pretty sure they didn't go far from the water or hunt for food on land.
3. That head seems a little too big for a Plesiosaur.
4. Pterosaur would not attack a Plesiosaur unless it had a death wish because Pterosaur are quite frail.
Also lets not forget that the Pterosaur in this film is a Rhamphorhynchus, and Rhamphorhynchus, was only the size of a crow.
tf2godz this movie was made in 1977, they didn't know shit about realistic dinosaurs, also plesiosaurs were never debated to go on land, it was actually a small pliosaur. and, of course it's too big, but It needs to be oversized. otherwise nothing would go down like it did. plesiosaurs wouldn't be big enough to do any real damage, the over sized ramphoryncus wouldnt attack the plesiosaur or the humans. it can't have it's Shit together or else it would be a snore
If a Llesiosaur fought a Rhamphorhynchus it would be the little pterosaur flapping around aimless while the Plesiosaur flops around awkwardly on the surface. They're fish eaters!
tf2godz 5. Made in the 70s. People at the time, especially those in the entertainment industry, didn't really know or give a shit about dinosaurs at that time.
5.if a dinosaur appear we would have magnatude 5 earthquake
The music in this film pushed me into smooth jazz.....I wish I was joking.... I have it in my actual playlist and its ****ing amazing.....
This film is actually popular in Eastern Europe. It was one of the only kaiju films shown in the Soviet Union before the ‘90s.
Loved this one, although it was a LOT bloodier than most Japanese monster fare of the day.
This episode has pointed out that Brandon's Soul Train classics knowledge is rather impressive.
love the WEEN you put on it, fits perfectly
The budget went into soundtrack, Mr. Brandon! You should be thanking them for gave us those funky music!
Who does the art for the thumbnails titles?
Have you reviewed reptilicus?
I love how far east wood hyped the crowd up in English only to sing in Japanese and most dubbs form that time actually dubbed the song into English or made a whole new song
"Cowboy" cultrye and country-western music are surprisingly popular in Japan
Culture*
I just recently found your channel and have been watching your reviews for the past few days now. For some reason, this video has me wanting you do review "The Bay". I think it's all the Jaws references. Keep up the good work. 👍
Seriously, my denim pants and work shoes turned into bell-bottoms and solid-gold platform 'gators when those horns blast on the theme song there. I went from crossing the assembly floor to get batteries to pimp-walkin' up 7th street with a big purple hat and a diamond-tipped cane. Boss is gonna be pissed I was listening to Brandon's show at work again.. eh, worth it~
Surprisingly gory. Finally someone uploaded the whole thing. 🤗
Is the guide Hitoshi Matsumoto? As in Downtown Matsumoto? I mean, at the time he would be like 14 years old, but that looks just like him. And no, it's not an "all Japanese look alike" gag, it's a splitting image of a 35-year-old Matsumoto, down to the placement of that one crooked tooth!
AND PLESIOSAURS COULDN'T WALK ON LAND!!!
How do you know?
Shoulders and chests could not mechanically support their weight out of the water. They're just not the right shape
@@Tareltonlives didn’t they come ashore to lay their eggs much like sea turtles today?
@@RogueT-Rex8468 That's what we thought for decades, but mechanical studies have been made of the muscles attached to the flippers, and the flippers aren't attached in the right way to support the animal on land
@@Tareltonlives Sorry, but I've seen pictures - Pictures! - in books - *BOOKS* goddammit! - which clearly show them crawling around on rocky shorelines, taking the bus into town and dining at a fancy restaurant.
So, what has your "modern science" got to say about that, eh?
*nothing*
That's what I thought.
so Saturday night fever dinosaurs
very true
As soon as i saw the country singer, i thought about Japanese Cowboy. You fucked me up when you started playing that shit. Most excellent
Has this on vhs as a kid and used to watch it frequently. Classic.
Scene where Brandon plays Godzilla with 70s music:
my brain
Funkzilla
I didn't know how much I needed Godzilla's Disco Inferno. Thanks.
As always, high praise to you and your genius artistic partner Enshohma.
1:43
Looks a lot like the transformers prime font
I saw this movie as a kid, on the USA Saturday Nightmares program. Nostalgia.
+Ela Mongrella OMG. So did I!!! I couldn't remember the name of that program until U mention it. I used to love this movie, although the girl getting eaten by the pleasiosaur kinda freaked me out.
Brandon: "Honestly, I don't know what to say about this music anymore."
I do; "Cocaine is a helluva drug."
This comic made me laugh like hell
If this was the highest budgeted movie in the studio's history (to that point), how cheaply made were all the previous films?
Probably cost just one more several thousand yen over the others. Which is not much since the zeros are mostly meaningless. lol
My great aunt (RIP) bought me this movie on VHS when I was little because she knew I liked dinosaurs, not knowing what it actually was. It's lived in my subconscious as a hazy memory ever since, until this video finally made it click!
You should do "ADVENTURES IN DINOSAUR CITY"
Warning: _Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds_ may not actually have dinosaurs or monster birds.
I like dinosaurs when I was 7 years old
The only way for there to be any kind of tremor from a Dinosaur, is if it was a Seismosaurus or "Seismic Lizard"
Admittedly the monsters are fairly weak looking. But it was pribably a big leap to attempt monsters without a man inside them. Overall the production values look higher than the typical Japanese film of the period.
10:47
It's crazy how well that actually synchs up.
One of my favorite reviews
me watching the movie: how the f did a plesiosaur AN AQUATIC DINOSAUR walk on land???
To quote a future Brandon video "Wait a second. Plesiosaur? 1977? Ah, shit I think I know what he found."
Which episode
Damn there's a listing in imdb for Brandon and his show that's awesome
5:44 "I Love the Nightlife" is a better example/analogy.
Toei
A sin is added
I'm willing to give any movie a chance when it has funky music.
You LOVED dinosaurs, as in not anymore?? I'm 30 years old and I STILL love dinosaurs!!
I remember when Japanese Country music was the big new thing
I think this movie would be way more fun if it fully embraced its absolutely insanity
I love your show Brandon. Funny stuff. Got a question. What is that funky groove you play at the end of your reviews?
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@@syndixel9857 I've gone through most of his reviews to find this - thank you!
(5:42) If I was to put Best Day Ever music in apocalyptic movies.
Clint Far-Eastwood is one of the best low-key jokes I've heard. Thanks for the laugh, Brandon.