Comments on: This Week on TCM http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tall Story: Jane Fonda’s Debut » DVDs Worth Watching http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/comment-page-1/#comment-124696 Tall Story: Jane Fonda’s Debut » DVDs Worth Watching Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:23:38 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/#comment-124696 [...] would make an excellent double bill with Where the Boys Are, also featuring 60s college girls, or for a more seasonal twist, pair it up with one of the beach [...]

[...] would make an excellent double bill with Where the Boys Are, also featuring 60s college girls, or for a more seasonal twist, pair it up with one of the beach [...]

]]> By: Spring Breakdown » Comics Worth Reading http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/comment-page-1/#comment-104176 Spring Breakdown » Comics Worth Reading Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:40:42 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/#comment-104176 [...] Colors and Hold On will definitely resonate with the older female audience. It’s a modern Where the Boys Are, only in this one, happiness isn’t about finding a guy; it’s about friendship and being [...]

[...] Colors and Hold On will definitely resonate with the older female audience. It’s a modern Where the Boys Are, only in this one, happiness isn’t about finding a guy; it’s about friendship and being [...]

]]> By: buzz http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/comment-page-1/#comment-88444 buzz Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:27:08 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/#comment-88444 If you like PLAN 9, then I hope you caught Ray Dennis Steckler's RAT FINK A BOO BOO on last Friday's TCM Underground. Steckler is a film maker who enjoys the film making process enough to make lots of movies, but not so much as to feel driven to any sort of competency. RAT FINK A BOO BOO ("A" should have been "AND" but it was misspelled on the titles and Steckler didn't see any compelling reason to fix it) apparently started life as two separate films, one about a rock and roll star, the other about a gang of psychopaths stalking a young woman. Other directors might have been daunted at the idea of shooting a film about a rock star without sound, but Steckler often shoots MOS and dubs in dialog later. This helped him with RAT FINK because as he lost interest and actors in the two uncompleted films, he got the bright idea of suddenly turning the rock star into a costumed superhero, Rat Fink, who then saved the young woman from the psychos. A clever salvage job (and Rat Fink wearing a mask helped disguised the fact it wasn't the rock star actor for most of the film) but still not long enough to pad the movie out to feature length. So in the climactic battle a gorilla escapes from its keeper, grabs the heroine, and Rat Fink and Boo Boo are off to the rescue again. Still not long enough? Steckler and co. in costume crashed a local Christmas parade and through editing and dubbing turned it into a victory parade for Rat Fink. Not a good movie by a long shot, but like PLAN 9 a genuinely entertaining one. If you like PLAN 9, then I hope you caught Ray Dennis Steckler’s RAT FINK A BOO BOO on last Friday’s TCM Underground. Steckler is a film maker who enjoys the film making process enough to make lots of movies, but not so much as to feel driven to any sort of competency. RAT FINK A BOO BOO (“A” should have been “AND” but it was misspelled on the titles and Steckler didn’t see any compelling reason to fix it) apparently started life as two separate films, one about a rock and roll star, the other about a gang of psychopaths stalking a young woman.

Other directors might have been daunted at the idea of shooting a film about a rock star without sound, but Steckler often shoots MOS and dubs in dialog later. This helped him with RAT FINK because as he lost interest and actors in the two uncompleted films, he got the bright idea of suddenly turning the rock star into a costumed superhero, Rat Fink, who then saved the young woman from the psychos.

A clever salvage job (and Rat Fink wearing a mask helped disguised the fact it wasn’t the rock star actor for most of the film) but still not long enough to pad the movie out to feature length. So in the climactic battle a gorilla escapes from its keeper, grabs the heroine, and Rat Fink and Boo Boo are off to the rescue again.

Still not long enough? Steckler and co. in costume crashed a local Christmas parade and through editing and dubbing turned it into a victory parade for Rat Fink.

Not a good movie by a long shot, but like PLAN 9 a genuinely entertaining one.

]]> By: Jim Kosmicki http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/comment-page-1/#comment-88419 Jim Kosmicki Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:39:28 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2008/03/08/this-week-on-tcm-26/#comment-88419 Where the Boys Are is a long-time favorite, and a revelation to people who want to think that pre-pill, everyone was sexually pure. and it's got GREAT actors (well, except for Connie Francis, and she's still better than most singers of the era in terms of her acting). Jim Hutton should have been a mega-star, and Paula Prentiss is fabulous. a fun, interesting movie, especially if people think it's just another Beach Party movie (which is what most people seem to expect if they don't know it at all). Where the Boys Are is a long-time favorite, and a revelation to people who want to think that pre-pill, everyone was sexually pure. and it’s got GREAT actors (well, except for Connie Francis, and she’s still better than most singers of the era in terms of her acting). Jim Hutton should have been a mega-star, and Paula Prentiss is fabulous.

a fun, interesting movie, especially if people think it’s just another Beach Party movie (which is what most people seem to expect if they don’t know it at all).

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