I don't know if anyone wrote about it already, but I think that the robot parents were cast primarily for their ability to receive bees on them. Any acting skills would have been a bonus.
I can see that. Even with the bees getting their stingers clipped (at least according to IMDBee) it'd still take a lotta nerve to get covered in bees and stay still. Especially in a movie, where reshoots are pretty common.
Also, I love that Helena closes the door on her bee hallucination at 16:16. I didn't know you could stop an imaginary bee with a physical door. Good to know.
The saddest part about this movie is that its actually pretty accurate with how dumb people are when they panic. People panicking caused most of the death and disaster in this movie, and in real life that's pretty much the way it really goes.
@@varanid9It’s amazing to me that you’re questioning a 2 year old comment on a really old video. It’s even weirder that I’m questioning your comment from a month ago on a really old video. This is a parade of wasted breathe.
My dad was a special effects supervisor on this show and they did use real bees for the human interactions and what they did was that they had to unsting all the bees and they did this for hundreds of bees
A large amount of bee stings, in a short periods of time, can give people hallucinations. It’s a weird reaction from the Bee Venom. It seems weird in the movie, because we only associate bee stings with death or pain, not other reactions.
Don't think we'll have one of those.....actually there is an announcement that is more likely to bee....and it is MUCH more terrifying and that is the extinction of the bee.
@@bbattersby2345 I know im 4 years to late, but I just gotta ask. Dont Tornados usually have stones in them? I mean, they gotta whip up all sorts of things when they go over the land. Is Stonando something else, like a movie with a lot of stones in them? Like a Sharknado, just ... stones?
That was the first thing I thought of when he said everything explodes. Add the bee hallucinations and The Swarm is basically a Michael Bay/David Lynch production.
U know u look back this movie had a list actors / actresses in movie at time Fred macmurray Henry Fonda Lee remick Michael caine and more couldn't help the movie that well
Jesus Christ that really is Olivia De Havilland in there. She was in Gone With the Wind. And Captain Blood. Maybe she had some really pressing gambling debts that year...
That's what Hollywood actors and actresses (hey, EASY, that's what they were called back then, get off my back) did back then, have a multi-decade career of box office magic, then wash up onto shitty Made-for-TV quality movies. That or die of cancer from being in movies with John Wayne and Rita Hayworth.
I was thinking the same thing, she, Fred McMurray, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, etc. these were big hitters during the golden age of Hollywood, sad to see what they were reduced to towards end of their careers. Kinda like Joan Crawford in TROG, but Henry Fonda did redeem himself with ON GOLDEN POND.
As the blob grew closer, the crowd listened intently. "It's a low buzzing sound!" A man exclaimed. "Wait... no it's voices! I think it's saying something!" As the dark mass descended upon the terrorized crowd 1 billion voices could be heard all faintly asking "Ya like jazz?"
I remember watching this when I was a kid, and for a minute I thought it was a dream. I was asking so many people for the Movie name, with the only part that I remember being “a kid with a lollipop dead to bees”
Another good one, although you have no idea what a nightmare inducing movie it was when I was a 7 year old kid. I loved it so much and was convinced it was the best movie ever - back in 1978;))))
I saw this movie on cable TV when I was in the 4th grade in the 70s. It scared the 💩 out of me at the time, just the images of being covered in bees. I only remember the picnic and school scenes. So many big name actors were in this movie, including the side characters: Katherine Ross, Olivia de Havilland & Patty Duke were the ones that stood out to me. Of course I was too young to know who they were at the time.
That 'magnificent acting' was only done by double Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, one of the best actresses of all time; who starred in Gone With The Wind, and who worked in classics with Errol Flynn; who was born in 1916 and IS STILL ALIVE! Her sister was also a great Oscar winning actress too in Joan Fontaine, and they infamously detested each other. This must be the worst film with the best cast; I thought The Exorcist II would take it, but this has Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Fred MacMurray, Olivia de Havilland, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens (best name ever), Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, and to top it off, the legendary Henry Fonda! Sheesh!!! :O
I know! This awful movie has such a talented cast. When he said 'Who the hell is this woman?' I wanted to scream 'THAT'S OSCAR WINNER PATTY DUKE!' But of course, when you spend most of your time watching 'bad movies', you've probably never seen The Miracle Worker.
The subplot involving Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson courting Olivia de Havilland is indeed well made enough to be a short film by it's own considering that segment was somewhat amusing and it had some of the best dialogue and performances though it's not saying much we are talking about "The Swarm" after all
I withdrew from cocaine and opioids numerous times and never once sweated that profusely. That child is clearly addicted to cough syrup. He's Robi-tripping the entire film.
13:15 "And then, when they reach the bottom, they _all_ explode?" Hey, if random things bursting into flames works for "The Simpsons," it ought to work for "The Swarm."
Malefizia That’s right. 50-75 stings is enough for a healthy 25yr old, with absolutely no previous allergy to bees, to have an allergic reaction and possibly die. Bee venom has horrible reactions inside the human body. With the weirdest reactions being crazy hallucinations; and setting your immune system into overdrive, where it starts attacking your own cells.
Wikipedia is HIGHLY unreliable... But you are in fact right on this one... The Screenplay was written more or less from the Novel... There was a script but not much of one, as the filming deadline was so tight that it was impossible to write and rewrite new drafts... Hence most of the script was more or less ripped straight from the book, Its a little inaccurate of Wikipedia to say there was NO SCRIPT... Its just it was written in a little under a day and there was not time to do any extra work!
@@justincoleman3805 "... if it’s correct why mention that Wikipedia is unreliable?" Would you want someone thinking that a broken clock was reliable just because it happened to show the right time?
@@MARRO1190 If you look at a broken clock that has the right time, then you won't know that it's broken. Obviously. You might even tell other people to look at the clock if they want to know what time it is. So they'll wind up poorly informed, and when they find out that the clock is broken, they won't trust you any longer, in case you f*ck up again and give them bad advice. Wikipedia is garbage, dawg. Believe it.
You should do a review of Cat In The Hat starring Mike Myers. Seriously this movie was nominated for a few Razzies and it just plain sucks. It is really hard to watch Mike Myers act the way he does, like a complete unfunny buffoon. Am I the only one who feels Dr. Seuss books just shouldn't be adapted into full length movies, regardless of whether they're animated or live action?
I remember watching the movie as a kid, and throughout the entire thing I was uncomfortable and terrified. It physically gave me nightmares. As for the animated ones, I really don't mind them.
Profound words to live by. From a most unlikely source. "I always assume the enemy is of equal to superior intelligence."- Richard Widmark's character in The Swarm. Thereby adequately preparing and strategizing. To avoid the element of surprise!
my favourite Michael Cain quote is from when he was asked why he would do such a bad movie (jaws the revenge) and he told them "I never saw the film, but I saw the house it built me"
Dark Corners' review ( czcams.com/video/A7Lyt-jDZmE/video.html ) has an entire hilarious CUT of characters referring to the bees as "Africans," including General Slater threatening to "hunt down and destroy (them) wherever they are." Jesus. Fun fact: Screenwriter Stirling Silliphant won an Oscar for In the Heat of the Night.
I actually saw this when I was 5 and it traumatized me. I was freakishly afraid of bees and the world ending by bee swarms for years. thanks. Now I see how dumb it is. I am less afraid of the future 😆😆😆
it sounds like im just few years older than but yeah this bad movie really did perpetuate the whole killer bee phenomenon of the 70’s seriously any time we were outside playing or whatever and there were bees around we’d all be like ooh watch out dont run away or the swarm will come after you i swear there were even adults back then that partially bought into the hysteria. now im just a kind of an old fat dad that would love to go back and be that kid of the 70’s again.😏👍🏼
This movie was very much of its time. Irwin Allen had the 1, 2 punch of The Posideon Avdenture and The Towering Inferno and then the three strikes and out of this movie followed by Beyond the Posiedon Adventure .and When Time Ran Out. Meanwhile the Airport movies were getting more hysterical and comedic at this time making the genre ripe for parody in Airplane!
The shitiest movie with the biggest all star cast i can think of. I was like 13-14 yrs old when this came out and saw it. My dad took me to see it on one of his rare weekend visits. He passed out during the film out of drunken boredom . Seen it again about 20 years later and i had forgot just how shitty the movie was. I can not imagine them tacking on 40 MINUTES to this cluster fuck of a film. That is just plain torture. The film cast is just chalked full of Oscar , Golden Globe nominees and winners. How they got them to appear in this train wreck of a film is proof that everyone spent all their money in the 70s on coke and divorce lawyers.
The film that literally drove you to drink! LOL! Poor Mark, you shouldn't let it bug you so much. Get it... "bug"? Bwahahahahahahahahaaa!!! Um... anyway... Great review! Yayy!!!
I like how the backround animation is visible on the green part of the scarf of the chicken on the left of Mark's Shirt (many "of", such wow) when he moves a certain way. This happens on other videos, too.
😂😂😂Aww man. This is still my favorite video of Mark's. Love the deadpan humor. His newest vids don't have that same dry delivery. But I love him just the same 😊
Having sat through the theatrical cut, I salute your bravery diving into this uninitiated, and providing your great take on it! ... it was one of the last gasps of the Disaster Movie fad that started with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno (both produced by Irwin Allen, who actually directed this thing) and attempting to pull in the "killer bee" scare that was constantly being brought up on the news at the time. That's why there's SO MANY "stars" and posters feature little boxes with all the famous people in the film (hey, you probably like one or two of these guys, don't you??) and plots that go nowhere. It's based on a novel that has very little to do with the plot, and because it was a big studio film, the indy film companies raced to put other killer bee movies to compete (The Bees, with John Saxon, is particularly hilarious, and The Savage Bees was a goofy TV movie where they trapped the bees in the Astrodome). Perhaps knowing how ridiculous the whole thing was, composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote the bee attack music in the key of B.
Hi, Mark, i'm from Brazil and i love your work, dude! All your reviews are hilarious! Congratulations. You should do a review for one of the worst movie i've seen this year: Left Behind with Nicolas Cage. It's a pile of crap and i would love to see you talking about this kkkkkk
Wow, your kitchen layout is identical to the scene in Pulp Fiction when Bruce "Butch" Willis pops that tart into his toaster. I half expected Vincent to burst out that door in the back.
There was a 'made for TV' movie about killer bees in the mid 90s that was pretty atrocious too. It was right around when killer bees were threatening to migrate to the US!
Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, then...this monstrosity. I don't think the epic big-budget star-studded disaster movie genre ever recovered
The actor who played the major was named Richard Widmark, a big name star at the time; and the little old lady was Olivia de Haviland, she starred opposite Erol Flynn and is screen icon, and yet the only actor you were able to name was Michael Caine? Kids.
I used to think it was decent for an old movie, however, it was many years ago and since as a kid you don't look for cinematic flaws and shortcomings, I enjoyed it. I never noticed then how reasonless the explosions were 😂 I wouldn't watch it again tho, the movie got old bad.
Ha Antman reference. Come to think of it this movie would bee evern more hilarious if they made a George Lucas-style special edition with inserting Michael Douglas's Antman and dubbing the swarm as there's a marvel villain called swarm who's a Nazi ghost possessing a swarm of killer bees.
whitestrokes At this time, all the actors and even studio heads thought that Irwin Allen, the director, was invincible after The Towering Inferno and The Poseiden Adventure...I am sure they were "stung" with shame and a big loss of $$ after this movie.
jokerswildio Irwin Allen did not finish the decade as well as he started: The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (also with Michael Caine), and When Time Ran Out (Paul Newman and an angry volcano)
They filmed the train sequence (loading passengers not the crash) by my house. It was big news for my little neighborhood. This was probably the last of the Irwin Allen-oid disaster movies: they lasted like 3 hours each, and featured 90000 stars from yesteryears. Usually led by Henry Fonda and/or Shelly WInters. Heap big nostalgia push, I guess. But I remember "Earthquake" and all the "Airport" movies, and "The Poseidon Adventure" and more that escape my memory just now. It never occurred to me at the time that people would be watching 40 years later and wondering just what the heck was up with everybody fawning over Olivia deHaviland. It made perfect sense to me, especially as that was around the same year "Gone With The Wind" was being shown on TV the first time. Everybody loved Melanie Wilkes.
9 guys with flamethrowers vs a billion bees really fits with that meme of absurd fights, like a billion lions vs the sun.
So I guess this is what they call a B movie.
Cue the Seinfeld theme
Anime Tomboy Enthusiast cue the Nicholas Cage - NOT THE BEES
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Wow
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I don't know if anyone wrote about it already, but I think that the robot parents were cast primarily for their ability to receive bees on them. Any acting skills would have been a bonus.
I can see that. Even with the bees getting their stingers clipped (at least according to IMDBee) it'd still take a lotta nerve to get covered in bees and stay still. Especially in a movie, where reshoots are pretty common.
Well, it's a circus skill, like swallowing swords, I guess.
Also, IMDBee. Haha! I actually chuckled with this one :D
Glad to see that pun pay off haha
That totally makes a lot of sense I didn't think about that!
Not Lee remick it was Lee grant one of the other cast members Richard widmark Katharine Ross Ben Johnson couldn't save this at box office
That is the cutest giant bee hallucination I've ever seen, and this is one of the weirdest sentences I've ever written.
Damn lol
I remember seeing this on TV when I was about 5 or 6. That giant bee over the kid in the hospital bed freaked me out!
I know it’s a been a while since your comment. How many giant see hallucinations have you seen?
MY ASS farts of methane and sulphur will KILL ALL the bees
@@Godzillafan1980 😂
Also, I love that Helena closes the door on her bee hallucination at 16:16. I didn't know you could stop an imaginary bee with a physical door. Good to know.
Anjela Allen Right? She's all [opens door] [sees giant bee] "....Nope." [closes door again]
Lol I know right! I guess that's the proper behaviour for giant bee sightings.
Actually, that only works when accompanied with a hideously bad acting scream. :-)
@@small_ed Right?! I thought she was about crack up in front of the camera.
@@00Anjie solid objects always stop a non solid object ( halucinations, etc.) , didn't you know?
I love the scene at the end. Michael so calmly delivers his closing remarks set to the background of a huge roiling inferno!! Comedy gold!
The saddest part about this movie is that its actually pretty accurate with how dumb people are when they panic. People panicking caused most of the death and disaster in this movie, and in real life that's pretty much the way it really goes.
Really? When?
@@varanid9It’s amazing to me that you’re questioning a 2 year old comment on a really old video. It’s even weirder that I’m questioning your comment from a month ago on a really old video. This is a parade of wasted breathe.
Nah, even the audiences of the 1970s found this preposterous.
@@Clay3613 You say that like audiences of the 1970s are dumber than we were, which I would say the opposite is more likely true.
@@Grandmaster_Dragonborn people smoked in their teens and used leaded petrol in the 70s, people were dumb af back then
My dad was a special effects supervisor on this show and they did use real bees for the human interactions and what they did was that they had to unsting all the bees and they did this for hundreds of bees
Bullshit. Bees die as soon as they sting someone. It literally tears their insides out as soon as the barbs get snagged underneath the skin.
Bee murderers….
No bees can survive losing their stingers, how do you sleep at night
My dad is an orderly at the mental hospital you escaped from.
What is Michael Caine's profession in this film? Scientist/bee behaviour expert/child psychologist/sunflower seed merchant/local spokesman?
Woody Hutton everything
He is supposed to be an Entomologist, I say supposed to be as the film NEVER addresses it!
No, he says he's an entomologist several times.
not to mention the well-combed englishman
Actor.
A large amount of bee stings, in a short periods of time, can give people hallucinations. It’s a weird reaction from the Bee Venom. It seems weird in the movie, because we only associate bee stings with death or pain, not other reactions.
"Everything explodes, the ambulance explodes, store explodes, the chairs explodes. idk why on that part of his review; I die of laughter. 😂😂😂
i'm waiting for Beedemic to be announced
Don't think we'll have one of those.....actually there is an announcement that is more likely to bee....and it is MUCH more terrifying and that is the extinction of the bee.
They have a movie called stonado which is a tornado with stones in it
Bees On a Plane
@@bbattersby2345 I know im 4 years to late, but I just gotta ask. Dont Tornados usually have stones in them? I mean, they gotta whip up all sorts of things when they go over the land. Is Stonando something else, like a movie with a lot of stones in them? Like a Sharknado, just ... stones?
Shhhhh. Sci-Fy might hear you!
Everything explodes? Must bee a Michael Bay movie.
Ah ha...I see what you did there...
That was the first thing I thought of when he said everything explodes. Add the bee hallucinations and The Swarm is basically a Michael Bay/David Lynch production.
Michael bee
Did you mean, Michael Bee?
U know u look back this movie had a list actors / actresses in movie at time Fred macmurray Henry Fonda Lee remick Michael caine and more couldn't help the movie that well
I've been binge watching these for days. This dude is hysterical!
Jesus Christ that really is Olivia De Havilland in there. She was in Gone With the Wind. And Captain Blood.
Maybe she had some really pressing gambling debts that year...
LaMaisondeCasaHouse She was also in Airport: The Concord which also had Christopher Lee, Jimmy Stewart!
LaMaisondeCasaHouse it’s not like they were beating her door down with new roles
That's what Hollywood actors and actresses (hey, EASY, that's what they were called back then, get off my back) did back then, have a multi-decade career of box office magic, then wash up onto shitty Made-for-TV quality movies. That or die of cancer from being in movies with John Wayne and Rita Hayworth.
So sad .She was an Oscar winner .This movie kind of tarnished it when it came out but thankfully hardly anyone remembers Swarm
I was thinking the same thing, she, Fred McMurray, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, etc. these were big hitters during the golden age of Hollywood, sad to see what they were reduced to towards end of their careers. Kinda like Joan Crawford in TROG, but Henry Fonda did redeem himself with ON GOLDEN POND.
As the blob grew closer, the crowd listened intently. "It's a low buzzing sound!" A man exclaimed. "Wait... no it's voices! I think it's saying something!"
As the dark mass descended upon the terrorized crowd 1 billion voices could be heard all faintly asking "Ya like jazz?"
Yes to this
Michael Bay's favorite movie as a kid.
I remember watching this when I was a kid, and for a minute I thought it was a dream. I was asking so many people for the
Movie name, with the only part that I remember being “a kid with a lollipop dead to bees”
The funniest thing about this movie? It was nominated for an ACADEMY AWARD! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!
Which category?
...probably best actor (guy who said "I am hungry" got nominated)
Best Costume Design, apparently.
Justin Kane
best racist ethnical portrayal for "the africans"?
best movie that can cause heart attacks from boredom
yer shitting me......XD Damn Daniel....must have been a bad year
Another good one, although you have no idea what a nightmare inducing movie it was when I was a 7 year old kid. I loved it so much and was convinced it was the best movie ever - back in 1978;))))
The Swarm was one of those movies you would catch on cable during the day in the 80s when sick from school lol
I saw this movie on cable TV when I was in the 4th grade in the 70s. It scared the 💩 out of me at the time, just the images of being covered in bees. I only remember the picnic and school scenes. So many big name actors were in this movie, including the side characters: Katherine Ross, Olivia de Havilland & Patty Duke were the ones that stood out to me. Of course I was too young to know who they were at the time.
That 'magnificent acting' was only done by double Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland, one of the best actresses of all time; who starred in Gone With The Wind, and who worked in classics with Errol Flynn; who was born in 1916 and IS STILL ALIVE! Her sister was also a great Oscar winning actress too in Joan Fontaine, and they infamously detested each other.
This must be the worst film with the best cast; I thought The Exorcist II would take it, but this has Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Fred MacMurray, Olivia de Havilland, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens (best name ever), Jose Ferrer, Richard Chamberlain, and to top it off, the legendary Henry Fonda! Sheesh!!! :O
you missed Lee Grant who was only 3 years removed from winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
I know! This awful movie has such a talented cast. When he said 'Who the hell is this woman?' I wanted to scream 'THAT'S OSCAR WINNER PATTY DUKE!' But of course, when you spend most of your time watching 'bad movies', you've probably never seen The Miracle Worker.
How did it get burned? HOW DID IT GET BURNED HOW DID IT GET BURNED?!
I DONT KNOW
What, no “Bee” pun?
The dumbest comments get the most likes, as always.
The subplot involving Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson courting Olivia de Havilland is indeed well made enough to be a short film by it's own considering that segment was somewhat amusing and it had some of the best dialogue and performances though it's not saying much we are talking about "The Swarm" after all
I kept wondering if Fred MacMurray's 3 sons would show up.
"...Why is this boy always sweating?" and "Is this a movie or a circus?" had me dying!
The explanation at the end where they're burning the bees inside the building, setting people on fire. I was in tears laughing.
I withdrew from cocaine and opioids numerous times and never once sweated that profusely. That child is clearly addicted to cough syrup. He's Robi-tripping the entire film.
I can't help but laugh at the drinking parts and your comment on the "date" scene. 😁
13:15
"And then, when they reach the bottom, they _all_ explode?"
Hey, if random things bursting into flames works for "The Simpsons," it ought to work for "The Swarm."
"How bad is the swarm"
Me: IT'S REALLY BAD!
The Africans. ....hilarious! Did he just say "collecting Africans?!" LMAO
That's the 70s for you
At 4:22....with this huge swarm of bees....i think it wouldnt ve really mattered if someone was allergic....this many stings would ve killed a horse!
Malefizia That’s right. 50-75 stings is enough for a healthy 25yr old, with absolutely no previous allergy to bees, to have an allergic reaction and possibly die.
Bee venom has horrible reactions inside the human body. With the weirdest reactions being crazy hallucinations; and setting your immune system into overdrive, where it starts attacking your own cells.
Love how after Mark takes his first shot he walks back to the studio and keeps talking with his laid- back voice...lol
THEY STUNG HIM! THEY'RE GONNA STING ME! OH MY GAWWWWWWWWWWWWD!
Not the Bees!! They're in my eyes!!!
4:52: That's B/C grade movie legend Cameron Mitchell!
Your summary of the scene is comedy gold, LOL
I laughed entirely too hard when you called him "sweaty kid" 😂
Haha hey Mark, there is NO SCRIPT. They just adapted scenes from the novel onset. I swear. Look at the wikipedia page. Jezus...
Wikipedia is HIGHLY unreliable... But you are in fact right on this one... The Screenplay was written more or less from the Novel... There was a script but not much of one, as the filming deadline was so tight that it was impossible to write and rewrite new drafts...
Hence most of the script was more or less ripped straight from the book, Its a little inaccurate of Wikipedia to say there was NO SCRIPT... Its just it was written in a little under a day and there was not time to do any extra work!
Warren, if it’s correct why mention that Wikipedia is unreliable?
@@justincoleman3805 "... if it’s correct why mention that Wikipedia is unreliable?"
Would you want someone thinking that a broken clock was reliable just because it happened to show the right time?
@@MiloDC i wouldn't care if they thought that... a clock should be completely broken for it to be unreliable. thats a bad example man haha
@@MARRO1190 If you look at a broken clock that has the right time, then you won't know that it's broken. Obviously.
You might even tell other people to look at the clock if they want to know what time it is. So they'll wind up poorly informed, and when they find out that the clock is broken, they won't trust you any longer, in case you f*ck up again and give them bad advice.
Wikipedia is garbage, dawg. Believe it.
That moment when u realise this is the same guy in dkr, dark knight and batman begins
Who was Alfred
+Bryce Hawkins The moment you realized that, everyone else already knew...
I didn't
Then the chairs explode LMAO i was dying laughing
Irwin Allen the master of disaster. I still watch the movie The Towering inferno.
I like these long reviews. Keep it up!
I love this channel. Every video is freaking hilarious. I don't know how it's possible that it doesn't have more subscribers. That's bullshit!
You should do a review of Cat In The Hat starring Mike Myers. Seriously this movie was nominated for a few Razzies and it just plain sucks. It is really hard to watch Mike Myers act the way he does, like a complete unfunny buffoon. Am I the only one who feels Dr. Seuss books just shouldn't be adapted into full length movies, regardless of whether they're animated or live action?
After that movie, his widow actually said that there are to be no more live adaptions of his books
I remember watching the movie as a kid, and throughout the entire thing I was uncomfortable and terrified. It physically gave me nightmares. As for the animated ones, I really don't mind them.
hey now, the grinch live action movie was great
OH YEAH!!!
Time for Illumination to make some quick cash by coasting on the Seuss brand
Profound words to live by. From a most unlikely source. "I always assume the enemy is of equal to superior intelligence."- Richard Widmark's character in The Swarm. Thereby adequately preparing and strategizing. To avoid the element of surprise!
its crazy that the train was filled with all that explosive electricity
my favourite Michael Cain quote is from when he was asked why he would do such a bad movie (jaws the revenge) and he told them "I never saw the film, but I saw the house it built me"
16:16 Now, THAT is acting. Give her all the Oscars.
The part where he goes "I am hungry" and you said did you marry a robot? I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thank you.
“We have collected live Africans.” Lol Oh god....they had to have known how that sounded.
Dark Corners' review ( czcams.com/video/A7Lyt-jDZmE/video.html ) has an entire hilarious CUT of characters referring to the bees as "Africans," including General Slater threatening to "hunt down and destroy (them) wherever they are." Jesus. Fun fact: Screenwriter Stirling Silliphant won an Oscar for In the Heat of the Night.
"You couldn't pay me to watch this movie!" OH, WAIT! Yes you can! =)
I actually saw this when I was 5 and it traumatized me. I was freakishly afraid of bees and the world ending by bee swarms for years. thanks. Now I see how dumb it is. I am less afraid of the future 😆😆😆
it sounds like im just few years older than but yeah this bad movie really did perpetuate the whole killer bee phenomenon of the 70’s
seriously any time we were outside playing or whatever and there were bees around we’d all be like
ooh watch out dont run away or the swarm will come after you
i swear there were even adults back then that partially bought into the hysteria.
now im just a kind of an old fat dad that would love to go back and be that kid of the 70’s again.😏👍🏼
You should still be afraid of the future
Y’know, I think this might be the source of the Michael Cane flashback footage from that scene in Austin Powers
I love your work, man. I'm over here on the couch with tears pouring from my eyes from laughing so hard. Keep up the videos please!!!!!
that movie scared me, especially when he saw the bee in front of him. i am allergic to bees so any bee movie I tends to have issues with lol
The not-cowboy old man in love is FRED MAC MURRAY, the star of the greatest film noir ever "DOUBLE INDEMNITY"
This movie was very much of its time. Irwin Allen had the 1, 2 punch of The Posideon Avdenture and The Towering Inferno and then the three strikes and out of this movie followed by Beyond the Posiedon Adventure .and When Time Ran Out. Meanwhile the Airport movies were getting more hysterical and comedic at this time making the genre ripe for parody in Airplane!
_mysterious man takes off hat and wipes sweat from the rim_
*"I'm the bee wrangler"*
The shitiest movie with the biggest all star cast i can think of. I was like 13-14 yrs old when this came out and saw it. My dad took me to see it on one of his rare weekend visits. He passed out during the film out of drunken boredom . Seen it again about 20 years later and i had forgot just how shitty the movie was.
I can not imagine them tacking on 40 MINUTES to this cluster fuck of a film. That is just plain torture.
The film cast is just chalked full of Oscar , Golden Globe nominees and winners. How they got them to appear in this train wreck of a film is proof that everyone spent all their money in the 70s on coke and divorce lawyers.
The film that literally drove you to drink! LOL! Poor Mark, you shouldn't let it bug you so much. Get it... "bug"? Bwahahahahahahahahaaa!!! Um... anyway... Great review! Yayy!!!
I like how the backround animation is visible on the green part of the scarf of the chicken on the left of Mark's Shirt (many "of", such wow) when he moves a certain way. This happens on other videos, too.
😂😂😂Aww man. This is still my favorite video of Mark's. Love the deadpan humor. His newest vids don't have that same dry delivery. But I love him just the same 😊
BEAD'S?!
Or are you saying BEE'S?
I actually thought about including that clip but I've used it so many times before lol
Gobs not on board
i just wish i could have a couple of beers on a sunny saturday morning with you brah:D. i hope you'll become a legend one day
How has Michael Cane survived so many bad movies? This, Jaws 4, Beyond the Poseidon's Adventure... You must know of others.
Ok, I just laughed my ass off with the vodka parts! Keep at it Mark and may you have a great x-mass and new year's eve!
1:48 I thought shit Will Farell !!
16:21 is my new ringtone.
The part where you said that everything explodes, including the chairs, made me burst in laughter. XD
Having sat through the theatrical cut, I salute your bravery diving into this uninitiated, and providing your great take on it!
... it was one of the last gasps of the Disaster Movie fad that started with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno (both produced by Irwin Allen, who actually directed this thing) and attempting to pull in the "killer bee" scare that was constantly being brought up on the news at the time. That's why there's SO MANY "stars" and posters feature little boxes with all the famous people in the film (hey, you probably like one or two of these guys, don't you??) and plots that go nowhere. It's based on a novel that has very little to do with the plot, and because it was a big studio film, the indy film companies raced to put other killer bee movies to compete (The Bees, with John Saxon, is particularly hilarious, and The Savage Bees was a goofy TV movie where they trapped the bees in the Astrodome). Perhaps knowing how ridiculous the whole thing was, composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote the bee attack music in the key of B.
Hi, Mark, i'm from Brazil and i love your work, dude! All your reviews are hilarious! Congratulations.
You should do a review for one of the worst movie i've seen this year: Left Behind with Nicolas Cage. It's a pile of crap and i would love to see you talking about this kkkkkk
Thanks, I'm actually planning on reviewing that very soon
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Yeahh! It's gonna be awesome!! Can't wait...
FanboyFlicks Could you do Dune, Fear and Desire, Plan 9 from Outer Space, or any one of Wikipedia's worst movies?
Greetings and kind regards to you sir from Brazil from Scooby in near Chicago! 😄💖
😂😂Can i have a min, I'll be right back. Lmao
Hilarious. The scene with the flame throwers inside the building is just hilarious.
9:31 I can totally see why those 3 men wanted to marry that woman. What passion
Christ dude, my sides actually hurt after watching this. I don't think that's happened since I was a kid!
+Amelia Bee Amelia Beeeee aaaah!
+Verhoeven1980 THIS MOVIE SPEAKS TO ME, YO
Love a good 20 minute video!
On a side note, I got birdemic on DVD and it was brilliantly awful
I just find you really funny that I never miss the jokes at the end of every video. If only you uploaded more though.
Wow, your kitchen layout is identical to the scene in Pulp Fiction when Bruce "Butch" Willis pops that tart into his toaster. I half expected Vincent to burst out that door in the back.
I saw this movie at the cinema. Even as a kid I thought it was crap. Saying nothing new here, just expressing.
Perfect, man. You made my day. Your disgust at these bad movies is hilarious and entertaining. Love the whiskey shot scenes.
That's Smirnoff vodka..
There was a 'made for TV' movie about killer bees in the mid 90s that was pretty atrocious too. It was right around when killer bees were threatening to migrate to the US!
I laughed so much watching this! Thank you!!
Holy shit, that's Olivia De Havilland! She must've been hard up once that Gone With The Wind money ran out.
Awesome dude, just.. awesome. I feel like there aren't enough bad movies in the world for you to review.
I do appreciate the frustrated shots you take throughout your videos
Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, then...this monstrosity. I don't think the epic big-budget star-studded disaster movie genre ever recovered
Airport di well at the theaters.
The actor who played the major was named Richard Widmark, a big name star at the time; and the little old lady was Olivia de Haviland, she starred opposite Erol Flynn and is screen icon, and yet the only actor you were able to name was Michael Caine?
Kids.
+Derek Bates Olivia De Havilland and Richard Widmark must need rent money :)
Kianda Oshun
who knows why they signed on for this shit.
Derek Bates lol
+Derek Bates Henry Fonda was the doctor in the wheelchair and Slim Pickens was an angry country bumpkin.
Derek Bates Unfortunately she was never an actress :-(
Ha! It's just all bee videos in the suggestions. :)
Great video Mark! Keep up the solid work.
I like how when the kid drove into town, he actually drove into the town and smashed a bit of it.
I actually liked this movie. It's silly, but completely watchable.
I used to think it was decent for an old movie, however, it was many years ago and since as a kid you don't look for cinematic flaws and shortcomings, I enjoyed it. I never noticed then how reasonless the explosions were 😂 I wouldn't watch it again tho, the movie got old bad.
It's long as hell.
16:50 I THOUGHT THAT WAS A WATER TRUCK
Ha Antman reference. Come to think of it this movie would bee evern more hilarious if they made a George Lucas-style special edition with inserting Michael Douglas's Antman and dubbing the swarm as there's a marvel villain called swarm who's a Nazi ghost possessing a swarm of killer bees.
"We've located some bees out in England"
"Launch a full scale attack"
When he crashes through the window…the letters AH are left! It’s like a Batman sound effect!
My cocaine.
The only point to those subplot scenes is having Olivia de Havilland in the movie. lol
How did they talk so many famous actors into doing this crappy movie tho? Even Richard Chamberlain. omfg
whitestrokes At this time, all the actors and even studio heads thought that Irwin Allen, the director, was invincible after The Towering Inferno and The Poseiden Adventure...I am sure they were "stung" with shame and a big loss of $$ after this movie.
jokerswildio Irwin Allen did not finish the decade as well as he started: The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (also with Michael Caine), and When Time Ran Out (Paul Newman and an angry volcano)
They filmed the train sequence (loading passengers not the crash) by my house. It was big news for my little neighborhood.
This was probably the last of the Irwin Allen-oid disaster movies: they lasted like 3 hours each, and featured 90000 stars from yesteryears. Usually led by Henry Fonda and/or Shelly WInters. Heap big nostalgia push, I guess. But I remember "Earthquake" and all the "Airport" movies, and "The Poseidon Adventure" and more that escape my memory just now. It never occurred to me at the time that people would be watching 40 years later and wondering just what the heck was up with everybody fawning over Olivia deHaviland. It made perfect sense to me, especially as that was around the same year "Gone With The Wind" was being shown on TV the first time. Everybody loved Melanie Wilkes.
Awesome video Mark hope u do more reviews soon keep up the good work!!