Ator 2: The Blade Master: Bad Movie Review

[@DarkCornersReviews]

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[@barrietite495]

Enjoying working through these. Quiz 21 q 4, the answer given is Donald Sutherland, I think you mean Donald Pleasance 🤔

[@Rubixcat-64]

Have you ever watched Day of the Animals from 1977?

[@barrietite495]

quiz 41 q8 Patricia Quinn's name typoed as Patrina, q10 Malcom instead of Malcolm

[@franzferdinand2]

How much Keeffe? Miles O'Keeffe.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

is that the American cousin of Kilometers O’Keefe?

[@DonaldRilea]

@@bostonrailfan2427 Yes.

[@cedricmaclobster2324]

He had so much energy, on set they called him Miles O'Covfefe.

[@maplebob23]

I was a young man when I first heard that joke.

[@franzferdinand2]

@@maplebob23 Oh, I'm fairly sure that I made the exact same joke back on the first review, too. It's a compulsion.

[@GlenHallstrom]

One of the best episodes of MST3K.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

Thanks....but I've seen this on MST3K so many times, I can almost quote it per line..."make me a helmet that strikes fear....yes! A DUCK!!" 😅

[@a.champagne6238]

15K subs away from 100K. Let's make it happen!

[@edwardburek1717]

Ah, The Blade Master - or, as I call it, the one where we wonder how much O'Keefe we can handle. Turns out it was miles. Apparently, the Dark Corners Science Advisers also wondered how Ator managed to do some arc welding on some aluminium frames while stretching old deer skins, as did Tom Servo. As to why he was flying over Mad King Ludwig's castle, all I can say is "Broadsword calling Danny Boy..."

[@MorristheMinor]

And there was a badly disguised helicopter in that. Apart from that and Clint killing more Nazi soldiers than Operation Overlord, it's a fun movie.😁😁

[@garyfoss4394]

"We must speak... this slowly... to pad... the... run... ... ... time."

[@tskmaster3837]

"Thong, the fish is ready." Cut to Thong madly clubbing fish. Best stinger of all time.

[@bingerz237]

3:20 Message for you, sir.

[@DarkCornersReviews]

Great reference

[@skylx0812]

_"Who is this gentle stranger with pecs like melons and knees of fringe?"_

[@garyhoutz1540]

It's the Speedy delivery guy and boy does he have a package

[@BigSlimyBlob]

The "Barbarian Scientist" archetype is not super common, but it exists. Rahan was pretty much all about this.

[@travisrygg3317]

Knowledge had to perservere.

[@brianlindstrand934]

"It's not just Ator that's flying, it's the human spirit."

[@danheidel]

Ahhh, this brings back great memories. Back in junior high, my friends and I would rent this movie repeatedly to make fun of it. A full decade later, while flipping channels, I came across the blademaster playing and decided to give it a nostalgia watch. Imagine my bafflement when some guy and two robots started making fun of it. My introduction to the existence of MST3K was going in completely blind to them making fun of the same movie I had grown up making fun of. They even used many of the same jokes we had used years earlier. I maintain that this is one of the best so bad its funny movies out there.

[@brianlindstrand934]

"CAVE DWELLERS," as the MST3K episode was known, was the very first episode I ever saw!

[@sparroni]

​@@brianlindstrand934Same! I was hooked immediately!

[@andrewparsons2391]

At least Yor, HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE, had the decency to kill a giant bat, somehow give it instant rigor mortis and use THAT as a hang glider, not just pull out an obviously modern one out of nowhere. Though, that is not *technically* a fantasy film.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

well, he is The Man.

[@txlyons2937]

@@TheRealNormanBates Ator might be the fighting eagle, but he never had a 80s power theme written in his honor.

[@eliotmccann2589]

Huzzah for the Science Mage and his intrepid apprentice!

[@IanFerguson]

I'm pretty sure the Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones is the best anachronism.

[@thribs]

Ha! That’s long gone now

[@JamesMC04]

There is a compass in the 1961 film "Atlantis - Lost Continent", which is set thousands of years ago. It also has a submarine, a death ray for turning people into skeletons, and an an arena for fights to the death.

[@ericjanssen394]

1:20 - It’s hinted at the end that the MacGuffin was nuclear power-Or, as MST3K put it: “It is everything…and nothing.” “Er, could you be a little more vague, please?”

[@DarkCornersReviews]

More than hinted. The weird end scene wondering if man will ever be ready for nuclear power.

[@dddglobe36]

Zor looks like Manos the Hands of Fate! Where’s Torgo? 😂 2:42

[@julietfischer5056]

The Master from _Manos: The Hands of Fate,_ but with longer hair.

[@dddglobe36]

@@julietfischer5056 Yes of course! The Master! I’d best refresh my memory on mst3k or RiffTrax. lol

[@leppeppel]

Fantasy movie anachronisms? It's a weird thing to get hung up on, but I hate Ori's slingshot in Jackson's Hobbit trilogy. Slingshots of that type weren't possible before Charles Goodyear's invention of vulcanized rubber... in 1839. For contrast, the first modern hang glider was built in 1853, but Da Vinci was designing gliders in the late 15th century. Also, this may be the first Bad Review for which I saw the film *before* the review.

[@KarlBunker]

Yes, but do hang gliders date back to when the world was populated by wild, cruel and ignorant men? 🤔

[@KarlBunker]

Yes, but do hang gliders date back to when the world was populated by wild, cruel and ignorant men? 🤔

[@leesherman5192]

The book had tomatoes until Tolkien revised it.

[@delaneymcdermed2399]

The dark corners intro music might actually be the most comforting sound in the world, the only channel on youtube I return to consistently

[@a.champagne6238]

The YeahMad cast exodus has made this the only one for me.

[@AmityvilleFan]

"How will he get over the walls?" - By science! - "Of Course!"

[@composerdave68]

I never realized drummer Carmine Appice had an acting career too.

[@GatorGirl]

I just had to mention that Mila has always reminded me of Pamela Sue Martin. And when Ator and friends get captured by the villagers and tied to stakes, I so wanted them to break out singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

"It won't be an easy journey "... well at least she's bringing her dinner plate with her, on her chest for easy access when grub's up

[@stevenriley2525]

Better late than never. My Monday is saved by a bad movie review! 😎

[@billmurray7473]

Give me THE BEASTMASTER Any time. Rest In Power ✝️ Tanya Roberts.

[@peterschadenberg9045]

I just love the "meat is back on the menu boys" line from The Two Towers.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

your science advisors having a LARP day is about as stereotypical for scientists as you can get 🤣 unless that’s your niece’s ascension ceremony from junior to senior science advisor that you popped in on? 😎

[@ritawing1064]

One of the places cheap films often slip up is tack on the horses: anachronistic bridles, stirrups before they were invented etc.

[@user-rc3cm1zv4j]

" but I've learned to live with the disappointment " Ouch 😅

[@mephosto]

7:20 YORS WORLD HE'S THE MAN!

[@1kylecurry]

The "Ator" movies are best watched on MST3K / Rifftrax.

[@beepster991]

I'm HUGE!!!!

[@DaleRibbons]

"Tong! The fish is ready!"

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Quite true.

[@beepster991]

"Oh No! A mime!". "Did he mention he's huge?"

[@davibrelazdealbuquerque5766]

Funny enough, 'Ator' is Portuguese for 'Actor'

[@SleepingGiant77]

That is funny, because you won't find a single actual actor in this movie

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

4:20 Ah those Pinter Pauses put to great use in Ator 2.

[@paultapner2769]

It does reveal what happen to his sister/wife. But where did the bear go?

[@rubberneckinc.8937]

The guy you said was the bad guy in the last film, isn't that the guy who saved Ator & brought him to his sister-wife's family?

[@DarkCornersReviews]

Yeah but he had his own agenda and turns on Ator

[@AquamentusLives]

“Mostly old!” -Sold!

[@DierkHaasis]

I think nobody ever accused Joe D'Amato of competence in film making. Not even obliquely. Regardless of genre.

[@docthemetalfreak]

so we get a 4 part Ator franchise but yet only 1 movie in the Yor The Hunter From The Future franchise. darn shame.

[@raulcruz716]

So Ator can fashion a modern day hangglider but doesn't know how to ride a horse.

[@JohnSmith-x8s5g]

Doesn't even have Laura Gemser to save it.❤

[@davidlionheart2438]

It has Miles O'Keefe nearly naked. That's all any film needs.

[@JohnSmith-x8s5g]

@@davidlionheart2438 Oil up those pecs.

[@reignfire85]

If only Ator's films matched the quality of the cover art.

[@julietfischer5056]

A lot of these cheaply-made movies do not match the awesome poster art.

[@reignfire85]

@@julietfischer5056 -- I mean, at least we get cool cover art. A bunch of these films' posters were done by Boris Vallejo and his work is so good I could stare at it all day.

[@JWRogersPS]

And to think... When I was young, my friends and I paid good money to go see movies like this in the theater.

[@jrightly]

the wrestling ring from Deathstalker 2 is anachronistic, but that's a gag in a comedy movie so I don't know if that counts

[@robotrix]

The actor who played Zor also played Caligula in a movie where the "Untold Story" involves an Egyptian woman who wants revenge against him but then falls in love with the sadistic sister f***er instead.

[@spectreagent00]

How much Kieffe is in this movie?

[@williamcrowe2576]

Miles.

[@cinemafanatic2010]

A shining example of hiring actors who don't know how to ad lib.

[@general1362]

Another wonderful Bad Movies Review that makes my day. ❤

[@mikesands4681]

One of my favorite bad movies

[@itowmyhome797]

Thank you

[@galvanaut7119]

Da'ad? Daa'ad!

[@diebesgrab]

Sorry, I don’t think I can venture to the comments section till Ator decides I’m ready.

[@seano4977]

...or a hairdryer, could be anything. That honestly made me laugh out loud. 😄

[@jasonpratt5126]

"But how can Ator get past its high walls?" "Hang gliding! A lot of hang-gliding! Hang-gliding up to your ass!"

[@rogervandusen8361]

Looks right up there with Fulci's "Conquest."

[@bloodrunsclear]

Your dad and your sister (?) are my favorite breakout characters for this series!

[@DarkCornersReviews]

Niece. Thanks!

[@skylx0812]

At 3:19 _"She's in LOVE..."_

[@katmartindale8049]

So you can only manage one Atar movie a year? I don't blame you.

[@glenmcculla6843]

Ah, the Ator films. Like someone looked at some Frank Frazetta paintings, got high on butane, and wrote down the subsequent dreams. It was when we saw Ator soaring over Ludwig II's Bavarian castle that I knew we were up the swanny. That's a crap joke, but I'm strangely proud of it.

[@christopherwall2121]

My favorite anachronism? Probably Gimli's sudden knowledge of humanoid anatomy in _The Return of the King_

[@watchwaddle]

So in 2026 we see Ator 4 a.k.a. Troll 3 ? That is the second Troll 3 ?

[@RavenHouseMystery]

So, Ator went to all that trouble to rescue his beloved stepsister Sunya from the Spider Cult, only to have her die less than a year later. Tragedy or moral intervention?

[@julietfischer5056]

We don't know how much time supposedly passed between the first and second movies. They would have been much better off giving the big guy a new name and origin. And more of a plot for the return trip to develop Mila's character and make her more than eye-candy.

[@RavenHouseMystery]

@@julietfischer5056 My mistake. I misheard when Robin said, "It has been one year since we reviewed the first Ator". You're right, the film does not give a specific period of time.

[@TerryAraguz]

When you are “on” you can be quite witty! Hilarious video!

[@williamcrowe2576]

What really makes me facepalm is when Acronys stopped Ator from killing Zor saying that he needs to be put on trial for his evil deeds, something which (to my knowledge of Sword & Sorcery) shouldn't even exist.

[@julietfischer5056]

It's pulled out of nowhere. Where was this organization in the days of the Spider Kingdom? Yes, you can have such a thing, but it must be properly introduced and fit into the world as depicted.

[@williamcrowe2576]

@@julietfischer5056 Exactly. Makes me wonder if Ator hang glided into the castle just to be lectured on morals and ethics.

[@Splendiferous42]

01:43 it could even be a boat!

[@leechmiller1072]

At 7:06 this thing was in the Evil Horde Fright Zone playset.

[@julietfischer5056]

Get rid of Ator, and keep the battle of wits between Akronas and Zor. That would be truly different. Done right, it would be a lot of fun to watch.

[@ptupper72]

Inexplicably titled "Cave Dwellers" when MST3K did it.

[@varyar77]

And including opening credits that were scenes from another movie entirely!

[@julietfischer5056]

Film Ventures liked to do that to films they acquired, plus replacing the original credit sequences with scenes from a different film.

[@steealconwyrick1999]

The movie that was too cheap to hire villains. The movie with a plot so complicated that Tolkien couldn’t follow it. The movie with anachronistic hang gliding. The movie with Miles upon Miles O’Keeffe. *CAVE DWELLERS.*

[@random007nadir]

This, I think, is my favourite terrible movie. Everything about it is unintentionally funny. If I were to try and explain the "so bad it's good" concept to someone, it would be with this disaster. The stilted acting, the baffling story choices, the wildly misjudged pretension, the Ed Wood unselfconsciously awful production values... glorious.

[@alexschneid3385]

Mst3k fans know this as cave dwellers

[@Crash765]

I was just getting ready to post that. Early on in this video, I caught myself saying, "I'm all out of blue stuff."

[@frankb821]

They should have tapped Connery for a cameo as the Green Knight in this one...

[@delcarsdungeon]

In regards to WTF anachronisms All I will say, is Yor's world, he's the man.

[@markditoro8836]

How can you say it's never good when the backstory starts with the creation of earth? That's how Creature from the Black Lagoon began. (Yeah, and the Silmarillion, oh well.)

[@JamesMC04]

OTOH, almost every Land Before Time film begins in space. There are 14 of them.

[@leesherman5192]

How about that helicopter in "Donkey Skin"?

[@rsacchi100]

You outdid yourself with this review. LOL for much of it. Soon after hang gliders became popular, movie makers got the idea of primitive beings being able to make hang gliders. A hang glider requires a substantial knowledge of aerodynamics to build and fly. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "Van Helsing" have some things that could at least match hang gliders in the anachronism department.

[@Nosregni]

“It won’t be an easy journey.” Actually it’s super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@jfjoubertquebec]

1:43 🤣🤣

[@ashleys9397]

Why does that girl have a pie tin stuck on her chest? It looks...odd.

[@paultapner2769]

It looks like the hubcap of shame, from the comics Knights of the Dinner table. A comic about several groups of roleplayers. One of them, the Black Hands, have to wear said hubcup if they do something really stupid that hurts the party. This item is the spitting image of what she's wearing here

[@noahbody9747]

Thank you Ron Popeil. Does the quiz book also slices and dices potatoes into julienne fries?

[@billmurray7473]

Julianne Fries? She was My childhood sweetheart .

[@teedup8995]

​@@billmurray7473😅

[@DanDoty-i5n]

Sorry guys, I'm willing to forgive Miles just about anything because he did a really good Dracula in WAXWORK. Looks like I'll have get your new book when i have the money. I'm sure there will be a volume 2 to follow.

[@dawwe8869]

Eyy

[@buzzawuzza3743]

The real problem with the film my friends and I are planning is that is has no McGuffin to drive the plot. A guy I know owns a broken down 1962 Buick Skylark that would do the job but he wants $500 in exchange for letting us set it on fire. This other guy will let us burn his 1993 Ford Festiva for $325. Not sure which car suits the mood of the plot better.

[@wildman2012]

I'll give you a hundred bucks to burn my old Ford Pinto...

[@scottnapier943]

😅

[@lakrids-pibe]

The McGuffin is everything and nothing. It's meaningless. ... Suddenly i'm reminded of Lost

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

I love Biba! It was a really cool store...oh, wait, you said Greba....he's not cool. Cirque du Samurai! Good one! The real reason for this movie was the physique of the hero. Most probably, more was spent on his personal trainer, special diet and personal gym than was spent on anything else. We see more of his cleavage than we do the young women.

[@NefariousKoel]

Joe Demato's bad guy in this must be drawing on some of his old Italian inspiration because the baddie looks just like an exaggerated ancient Celtic warlord ready to raid Rome. Some cultural concerns just don't die, I guess.

[@damonburke941]

First

[@darrenclements6028]

Cult classic of all time

[@louismendoza-y9l]

Maybe this movie doesn't take place in our past, but our future. No, they do say it's in the past.

[@DarkCornersReviews]

The end of the film reveals the maguffin is the secret to creating the nuclear bomb.

[@TheMadAfrican1]

Even by the mightily low standards of the first film, this is awful. Truly awful.

[@dbsommers1]

It was dumb, but fun.

[@dannystaton5386]

😂

[@godmaentertainment4375]

Fighting Egal is much better, but it's still beneath Deathstalker

[@JamesMC04]

Why does Akronas look like a Scouser ?

[@thrashpondopons8348]

Here's a Question for ya Quiz Kid... How many times do they say the word 'Zombie' in 'Night of the Living Dead'???

[@DarkCornersReviews]

None

[@thrashpondopons8348]

@@DarkCornersReviews & it's the DCR gang for the WIN!

[@julietfischer5056]

All the Ator movies work better as standalone films. They ignore pre-established lore, pull new ideas and concepts out of nowhere, and are obvious attempts to capitalize on Conan.

[@jturnbow71]

A Punch and Judy reference? You're much older than you look 😅

[@peterbailey6930]

Flavor Flav is not liking this at all.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

7:19 Oh come on. Once again, Ator shows us that he's nothing compared to the glory of Yor!! Yor, who had a similar problem, at the very least did the BADASS thing, and shot a giant bat from the sky with a bow and arrow, and them he used the bat's body as a hang glider!! TOTAL BADASS!!! And he did it ALL with that kicking Queen Wannabe song playing, "YOR'S WORLD HE'S THE MAN!!!". Ator, on the other hand clearly went to Sports Authority or something like that and had this gentle sailboat on a calm sea music playing. Lame ass. Ator... is a lame ass. Yor could kick his butt seven days to Sunday and his theme music would make it count! Oh... and Yor doesn't obsess with sleeping with his sister like Ator does too. If Ator and Yor ever met in battle, it would probably end with Yor giving Ator an atomic wedgie and locking him in a locker. "This is YOR'S WORLD!!! HE'S THE MAN!!!"

[@paultapner2769]

I concur