Nobody Cares about TV and Film

[Essence Lumin]

Mon Oncle (My Uncle) - French, 1958

This film is all about making fun of modern architecture and conveniences. It is all silliness from the woman coming by gifting flowers, "They're plastic. They never wilt!", to the group eating dinner that need to move the table because the fish statue with its tail in the pool and its head four feet in the air spouting water has malfunctioned. God forbid they step on the pebbles instead of the tile rocks going down the paths.

Edited to add 1958's vision of a roomba and electric shaver.

 

[Noodles]

Yeah, Mattel Really Is Trying to Make a View-Master Movie

"Seeing will be believing in a theater near you!" - Some Mattel marketing exec (probably).

gizmodo.com

Hasbro: Yeah we had hige success with out most popular toy property then we made Battleship. Didn't go so great.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Hasbro: Yeah we had hige success with out most popular toy property then we made Battleship. Didn't go so great.

No one can groove like the girls with the hooves, not even Robots in Disguise. The recent D&D movie, Honor Among Thieves, was fairly well regarded.

 

[Free]

They had me at 'penguin.'

 

[Essence Lumin]

No More Excuses - Robert Downey Sr, 1968

This is a weird one for sure. None of it makes any sense. In this five minute segment near the beginning we have a soldier in battle in the civil war. He plays dead for 16 hours then runs for it. For unexplained reasons he ends up time travelling to 1968 Manhattan. On his way running for the trees in Central Park(?) he stumbles over a gay couple who just stare at him and he continues to run.

Segue to a speaker trying to convince you to join SINA, The society for indecency to naked animals. Animals should be clothed of course if they are higher than four inches or longer than six. Join our cause.

A reporter then goes to singles bars investigating why people go to them.

Next we meet an inept assassin trying to murder James Garfield.

Back to the vice president of SINA arguing that in the name of propriety and decency, animals want to be clothed.

So there you have five minutes of this 46 minute film. You are unlikely to see it unless you subscribe to the Criterion Channel.