Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- It's the final part of the Canuxsploitation-A-Thon with "The Shape Of Things To Come" (1979), where Jack Palance tries to take over the moon with an army of robots!
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15:38 theres actually a very good reason for this. The director lured Jack Palance into the set with pieces of moose jerky and then locked him in the room while he was distracted, and wouldnt let him leave until hed recorded a few scenes
You should do Weird West-a-thon. Billy the Kid vs Dracula, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter... There's so much riffing potential in films that combine scifi and western themes. I'd especially like to see you review Beast of Hollow Mountain, it's sort of a prototype of The Valley of Gwangi, even having some input from Willis O'Brien.
Excellent input Scott. Truly. 🤘
I'd like to see some of that on here.
Don't forget "Curse of the Undead", though that one was actually pretty decent for a '50s flick.
5:08 it's a good thing I'm not a millionaire or I'd pay Brandon $5000 to do an entire review in that voice
"A Helmet that robs Jack Palance of even more of his dignity"
Tenold is a fucking poet.
Whys does that comment make me think Brandon is unaware of Hawk The Slayer?
Regardless of how BAD the movie is, Jack will ALWAYS be the BEST actor in it.
I love when they let a piece of decorated Styrofoam hit Jack Palance on the head.
It was a LOT funnier when that huge styrofoam BOULDER hit that horse right in the head in Jess Franco's "DRACULA", and the horse didn't seem to notice. (And they left the shot in the film!)
This channel is criminally under subbed. Thanks for letting me know about all these crazy old films, Brandon!👌😆👍👌😆👍👌😆👍
The Shape Of Things To Come, also titled, The Funny Things We Made Jack Palance Do.
Yea
I think Jack Palance filmed his most of his scenes in his den. That room looks like one
Jack Palance must have been low on cash or drunk.
I'm gonna take a guess that the only reason they didn't film any of this at Expo 67 is because Battlestar Galactica was filming there that day.
Canda also gifted us with The Final Sacrifice! Rowsdower, Zap Rowsdower...
Things to Come was also made in Britain and released in 1936. it IS based on the HG Wells novel and it is GREAT!
I have just found your channel it's great. I live in the UK and in our summer holidays me and my friends rented half of you movies you have reviewed and watched them.
This movie I can remember going the cinema to watch it and also renting it early 80s.
Excellent channel keep up the good work
At least Star Crash has Caroline Munro.
And a way cooler robot who sexually desired the lead heroine...wait a minute? Never mind. :(
Tits can make any movie better. More tits = Better movie. Ask Russ Meyer.
The blonde on this one seemed to have a decent booty and legs
random guy, thats Anne-Marie Martin, she played Doreau on the comedy series Sledge Hammer!, was married to Michael Crichton and wrote Twister.. She is a babe, watch her in Sledge Hammer!, total babe in that.
..You never saw Carol Lynley when she was younger? Wow! (BTW, she just passed away on Sept. 3rd - heart attack).
Yay! A Heavy Metal reference!
@July 24 Pictures
What's you number 1?If you can recommend something interesting I'll be obliged.Ta
@July 24 Pictures
Thanks,will check it out.
11:43 is the best part of this video cuz I love how he does small skits to match up with the movie 😆😆😆
I honestly want to see him take a crack at "Dune" now.
Fulgrim2 in 2020
I’m onboard with that
Robot has Robot from " Lost in space " arms.
Jack Palance Don's the helmet of silence.
@@johnbockelie3899 He should've kept it on for the final scene, it might have prevented a minor concussion.
look on the bright side Canada did gave us some awesome voice over actors
The 1936 British version "Things to Come" is a classic.
" Han, when do we get to the Death Star?".
" In a while kid, now sit back and wait!!".
Jack Palance, Clubbed over the head is the climax of the film.
Now available on CZcams.
Dude I just spat my beer out as you imitated a Canuck stereotype......lol
Epcot? NOPE , more likely Ontario Place Cinesphere! INFO "Cinesphere is the world's first permanent IMAX movie theatre. Built in 1971, its design is of a triodetic-domed structure, akin to a geodesic dome, similar to that of the later Spaceship Earth, the icon of Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park."
Or maybe Montreal's Biosphere.
+Blackevil915 No, it's Ontario place. The connecting walkways and everything are unmistakable.
They got all their weapons from a Frank Frazetta painting! (quote) OMG, I LOVE your references!
5:09 I had to pause I was laughing so hard.
YES GOD! That Dune reference was iconic! It gave me things i didn't know I needed !
I'm gonna miss punk rock "Oh Canada."
I just watched Cellar Dweller in a VHS horror movie night. It seems a perfect fit for your style.
I remember seeing this movie as a kid in a cinema (we couldn't get in to see the Bond movie we were trying to see).
The Palance scene where he's hit on the head was burned into my brain, and as bad as the movie was to that point, it then became the worse movie I'd ever seen.
Thanks for the review.
Well, that was quite a journey into the debts of Canadian cinema. And it was so worth it! Thank you so much, Brandon!
So, what's next? Back to American cult films, or is it time for another country to "prove their worth"?
Turkey, Italy, France... or maybe you should revisit Russia again? Would you like to see "Viy"(1967), one of Hideo Kojima's favourite cult films?
The computers look more like Commodore Pets than Vic-20s. I think Honeywell must have negotiated to have a product placement for their line of terminals in this movie as they're everywhere.
I also find it amusing the best weapons the resistance on Delta 3 could come up with was a bunch of poles and stuff.
With the kind of materials and technology that's probably laying around you'd figure someone could make some improvised firearms, flame throwers, or some IEDs.
There's blue skies, and clouds.....and the sea. ON THE MOON!
Interesting trivia - "Kim" was played by Anne-Marie Martin (Toronto born), Who co-starred in the TV series "Sledgehammer", and was formally married to Michael Crichton (Yes, THAT Michael Crichton!)
I KNEW she looked familiar! Doreau! Loved Sledge Hammer, got the series on DVD.
That I-beam bonking Jack Palance in the head at the end of this turd is one of the funniest thing I’ve seen on film. I don’t know what that says about me as a human being but… YES, IT IS WORTH IT… for just that .25 seconds of pure cinematic gold.
There's a new sun rising up angry in the sky.
There's a new voice crying, but not afraid to die.
Let the old world make believe, it's blind and deaf and dumb.
But nothing can change the shape of things to come.
Watching again.. the "Star Streak" looks like some Imperial ship builders at Kuat Drive yards decided to build an Enterprise replica out of spare parts
@The Once and Future King well, if I remember correctly, the "saucer" bit does have a cut pie/pizza like appearance,made from triangular sections.... Besides, I said "spare" parts, could be made from a star destroyer's septic tank, fitting for the quality of the movie
@The Once and Future King nah ..they do fantastic at ramming other ships, ESPECIALLY other Imperial ships
You could say this movie doesn't have the budget to show a space battle, until you realize that freaking Starcrash had a space battle!
Wow.... This movie was funny as fuck. I busted out laughing when I saw the fake falling prop bounced off the dudes head. LOL.....!!!
11:15 so that’s where solo got the idea from
Speaking of Jack Palance, could you review the Gor series?
3:07 It's not a VIC-20, but nice to see they still use Honeywell computers in the "tomorrow after tomorrow".
Don't worry Brandon Canada did Friday the Thirteenth the Series so it's not all bad.
As well as the original Black Christmas, Barbadook, and A Christmas Story.
Tin-Hopper Scott Pilgrim is also in Canada, and we got a fun game out of it.
Jack Palance, getting hit on the head was the highlight of the movie, also unfortunate to borrow the radiation hat from the James Bond movie Doctor No👍
This has got to be one of your best reviews... lotta effort put into it. Good job.
15:28 - Another black belt from the Shatner-Fu dojo.
11:44 Noooooooo....belayyyyyy that phaserrrrrr orderrrrrrr
Ironically, Barry Morse left Space 1999 after season 1 because he felt the poor science was making the show unrealistic...
Poor science existed in season 1. A moon breaks free of the Earth's gravity? And then somehow travels to another star system in no time at all? The premise was bullshit, scientifically.
Barry Morse "left" because Friedberger didn't want him. Friedberger offered Morse a substantial pay cut to get Morse to "leave" voluntarily, but Morse accepted it.... Forcing Friedberger to dump Morse outright.
P.S. Myself, and most of us down here love your show and all things Canada. Love from OR-Y-GUN (Oregon, though NOT Portland, mercifully)
Are we not men?
We are DEVO
The story of a man and his robots versus a machine and it's humans.
05:30
HOLY CRAP !
VINCENT & HIS FRIEND
HAD 1 HELL OF A WEEKEND
I know you joked about the robots being rejects from 'Doctor Who', but they do look a little like a disco version of the robots in the classic story 'The Dominators'.
Dokka Chapman aha! The dwarves in spray painted cardboard with the ridiculous gun arms. . . The way they swing out was the special effects equivalent of bashing your head against a brick wall. . . That was after hartnell wasnt it? Early troughton
@@leviroch 3rd season Troughton! (His 3rd)
Hahahaha... the screen effect from the Original Series Star Trek episide, "Arena", whenever they're talking to the Metrons - 11:31
I saw this movie on cable when I was 12-13 or so. Being a huge fan of robots, I kind of liked it, even though I realized that it wasn't very good. Anne-Marie Martin in her form-fitting uniform didn't hurt either. :)
Useless trivia: The front of the Starstreak spaceship model is made from a Star Trek K7 Space Station model kit by AMT.
My favourite movie I regret to have rewatched as an adult.
Produced by Harry Alan TOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS!
Oh the humanity! Wells never had it THIS bad! And this remark is coming from a guy whose introduction to the father of modern science fiction was - of all things - a BOY'S LIFE comic strip version of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS at age 10! Man, Wells film producers Alexander Korda and George Pal are SO sorely missed. And as much as Wells disapproved of Korda's finished 1936 film of THINGS TO COME (which Wells himself adapted from his own novel as screenwriter), he would have hated this even more had he lived to see the late 70's. Oh and as far as Canada's film scene goes, David Cronenberg remains THE greatest Canadian filmmaker of all time... well, in my opinion, anyway. Love the rock n' roll rendition of Canada's national anthem, by the way!
Just caught this, and loved it! I'm making the connection here and posing the image of Jack P getting head-bopped WITH the helmet on. (Hey, turns out that helmet may not be so stupid after all.)
can't wait to see this on MST3K
Nicki was played by Carol Lynely,, perhaps bedt known as Noni from The Poseidon Adventure (1972).🚢 Great movie! Hopefully it will get the Brandon treatment someday! 🤞
3:08 That's actually a Honeywell Terminal BTRM 121C 001, not trying to hurt the joke but it's clearly labeled and I got curious. Points for getting the time period right though. Wow never heard so many "oots" & "hooses" before, always thought that was an exaggeration. 5:44 hey look it's Nicholas Campbell.
This channel is better than Net Flix and you know it but refuse to admit it.
Kim’s 70’s hair was totally hot.
Jason Caball is Dominic Da Vinci XP
you need to do frankenhooker
Oh, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review Zardoz! I saw it recently, and I had NO idea what it was about!
Nice Heavy Metal reference there.
Omus be like, “You…are my Number One Guy!”
2:03 on repeat forever!
Not gonna lie, I unashamedly, unabashedly, and unapologetically *_love_* this movie! As a kid, following my first watch of _'Star Wars'_ I wanted to soak up every bit of *#SciFi* I could find, so my parents introduced me this movie & _'Starcrash'_ back-to-back!
I _instantly _*_fell in love_* with both (with _'Starcrash'_ ending up just ahead of _'The Shape of Things to Come'_ in my Top 3 favourite *#SciFi* B-movies, despite the latter having a guest appearance from the blonde kids from the original _'The Village of the Damned'_ movie which, btw, I also love)!
🥰❤️
Who did that rock version of "O Canada"? That's pretty cool.
No mention of the fact that Nicholas Campbell plays the protagonist?
Nice, Anne Marie Martin, was married to Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. Was also on the show Sledge Hammer in the 90's.
This was a great episode. The most I've laughed in a while.
this, Queen Kong, and A*P*E are hilarious. so much more to discover too!
If you pull up the shot at 3:52, you can see the bed sheets they used as a backdrop for the tower of doom. LOL
I mean, the super computer seeming to side with the bad makes sense if super science bad guy was the designer or had "hacked" it... Kinda doubt that was in the plot though...
3:30 If that was referring to HEAVY METAL, please review that one!
I remember being really frightened by the robots in this movie when I was a very young kid.
To me, this feels like a prequel to "Space Mutiny."
The Locnar!! Everybody run!!
Do Godzilla vs Space Godzilla!
SSJGSamuel that's my favorite
It's one of my least favorites. The only one I hated more was Godzilla's Revenge.
Those robots in this movie remind me of redheaded stepchild rejects of Lost in space robot look at the arms some what close to the same
Anne Marie Martin co-wrote the script for Twister(1996).
I see you saw the episode of MST3000 Space Pods or Pod People or whatever with "trumpy" the alien pod thing.
So what Patreon number will it take to have you do an entire review, doesn't matter what movie, in your Ottowa voice from 5:08??
I can just see the people walking out of the theater asking for their money back a few minutes into this awful movie.
I am always surprised when good actors agree to these ridiculous roles. I guess it is hard to say no to a paycheck. BTW, Palance does some very fine acting in a 1956 Playhouse 90 (live TV) production of "Requiem for a Heavyweight" which I watched several years ago on CZcams. I don't think it is on YT any longer, but it may be available on some other platform. It is worth checking out.
13:00 "Are, YOU, BIG, ENOUGH?!"
11:37 starts a great buildup to one of the best quips ever at 11:44 🤯😅🤣😂
I thought all Canadian Sci/Fi movies starred John Colicos?!! I thought it was a National Law or something!
Was a huge fan of the Korda Classic from the 30's... so I tried this one years ago. (BIG mistake!) Pity too... Cause Jack Palance was Cool Squared!
sorry Jack, shall we go again
Nah,print it
I hope your channel keeps growing man you're awesome
15:32 To quote Syndley Whiplash “That’s not fair we only have guns they have rocks!”
The movie that makes you wish you were watching Space Mutiny instead
So the text scroll uses "it's" when "its" would be correct. Guess it really *was* prescient!
I'm with the blond lady at 10:00 - I wasn't feeling anything in this movie either. Turns out, it was killing brain cells.
Ah, so the machine makes you have to pee...that explains the Yellow Alert.
If you ever see Jack Palance's name on a cast list you know it won't end up as any Utopia . . .
17:36 And Blu-Ray!! The Blu just came out from Blue Underground; in fact, my pre-order arrived only a couple of days ago, an upgrade to their DVD. I MAKE POOR CHOICES
...Also, if you think THIS is cheap and boring and robs the dignity of a well-loved actor, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine named END OF THE WORLD (1977) with Christopher Lee.
If you want another Munro, see 'The Day the Earth caught Fire' with Janet Munro and Leo McKern. It is a good movie, no special effects but good acting. I highly recommend 'World Without End' With Rod Taylor and Hugh Marlowe and very pretty girls - prettier than those in today's movies, long legs, tall, short skirts,large hair do's and long legs etc but no nudity - made in the mid 1950's but set in the 25th century. One other made in 1960 'Beyond the Time Barrier' and set 64 years in the future - 2024. No special effects but pretty girls - or girl - and no memorable actors but a good Saturday Popcorn movie. One other is 'The Crawling Eye' or also known as 'The Trollenberg Terror' with Forrest Tucker - F Troop - and Janet Munro. Cheesy but still fun to watch made in 1958. If you haven't seen either of these, give them a try. Thank you for the great reviews of the movies - though like you said some of these movies were better off not being made or seen.
Came here to check out your review before MST3K takes on this movie in the Gizmoplex
H G Wells’s The Shape of Things was ground breaking as an early perhaps the first Future History. It is my favorite of all his books - and yes - I have read the majority of his books. This movie was on late night TV when I was in high school. I stayed up for it… a bad decision. Things to Come is truer to the book, screen play by Wells, himself. However: the prints that survive are edits that left out the most interesting part of the film. There were Video copies of the longer version… Maybe someone will clean that up. The book, however, is too complex for even a mini series.
Review Caveman 1981
Artoo Detoo or the Black Hole robots. That robot looks like the one from Lost in Space.