Bad Movie Beatdown (w/

[@FilmBrain]

This review was originally posted in June 2011, and is the third and last crossover filmed during Suburban Knights. This re-cut version, uploaded in time for Arnie's 70th birthday, is 1m 42s shorter than the original, which largely comes from shortening film clips. Enjoy!

[@wstine79]

Film Brain you guys looked so young back then.

[@philjr5714]

Film Brain how did I miss this one!!! Thanks for posting in FB! Love your work and you guys had great chemistry.

[@erainmartinez8175]

Okay that's funny 6:12😁

[@LaineMann]

HOLY CRAP ARNOLD IS 77!?

[@dechha1981]

The Ancient Greeks weren't completely unfamiliar with the concept of paying for transportation. There's a ferry man in Acropolis who works for Hercules's uncle.

[@Kaefer1973]

The ferry man of Hades on the river Styx would be another one.

[@Kaefer1973]

@magnewhateverfirefoxdoesnocopypasterightnowinyoutube Zeus brother wasn't the problem for recognition but Acropolis, I was not aware that the Acropolis was build on the Hades region of the river Styx.

[@phreakazoith2237]

Don't pay the ferryman...

[@erainmartinez8175]

yes he is 8:26

[@graemesmith6721]

However, Hercules was a demigod and arrogant as hell. He absolutely WOULD consider it a privilege for a lowly mortal like that cab driver to transport him.

[@T5ComixCartoonz]

At least Arnold's playing Hercules closer to how he was in the actual myths as Hercules from Greek Myth was undeniably a major A-hole.

[@erainmartinez8175]

what a shame this was his movie he done before Arnold

[@erainmartinez8175]

I agree 3:53

[@erainmartinez8175]

how cheap are these bastards with the same sound effect? 5:36

[@johnpotts8308]

As were most of the gods. They were basically teenagers with superpowers.

[@graemesmith6721]

I agree, they actually get that right. Hercules was a demigod and he absolutely WOULD consider it a privilege for a lowly mortal like that cab driver to transport him.

[@nomingyu4026]

I'd also nitpick about the mixing of Greek and Roman god names...

[@AlbertCalis]

Don't forget also Biblical names like Samson.

[@drakkenmensch]

@@AlbertCalis And the crowning touch, FLYING JEWISH ZEUS.

[@nitromagilou597]

I would love to see more Film Brain crossovers... This was hilarious.

[@clearspira]

I miss this era of Channel Awesome :-(

[@Broco1L]

You two are a great team, thank you for taking your time to present such a fun and engaging video.

[@radiofiendify]

Arnold was probably thinking this when he was wrestling that bear - 'where the hell is Nicholas Cage when you need him!?'

[@GiantPots]

I have this on DVD! Haha, I sometimes bring it out at parties because my version allows one to hear Arnold's un-dubbed voice.

[@putzthewondersloth]

Damn! they can't even get the mythological characters straight! Hercules, Zeus, Nemesis: Greek gods. Juno, Mercury: Roman gods.

[@grayscribe2125]

Nope, Hercules is Greek and one of the things the romans didn't adapt (as far as I know).

[@brodiecrain13]

Gray Scribe no Hercules is the Roman equivalent. Heracles is the original Greek version.

[@TheBattlesword]

putzthewondersloth and they used the name Samson, who was from the bible and not Greek or Roman

[@WikiSorcerer]

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Wrestles with a man in a bear suit. Lou Ferrigno: Wrestled an _actual_ bear. Why is Arnold the more famous one?

[@MegaFriendlyCreeper]

Ferrigno wasn't in The Terminator.

[@polk-e-dot8177]

MegaFriendlyCreeper yet

[@qu4dq0r3]

might also be point that Arnie has the more unique accent though, or atleast better meme material ... put that cookie down, get to tha chopper etc :D

[@SpeedyEric1]

And we never see Arnold throw a bear into space.

[@johnnysparkle]

It would be interesting if arnold was fighting Nicolas cage in a bear suit from wicker man

[@trinidadbotello9906]

Hercules in New York would've be good, if Mel Brooks made the movie.

[@T5ComixCartoonz]

Well, of course 'cause he's Mel Brooks! XD

[@phreakazoith2237]

Good point. Turn it into a musical! Singing bears would be awesome! Maybe Arnold Strong can do remake?

[@LinksBetweenDrinks]

It's great to see the adorable Allison and proto-psycho Mathew do a crossover. But it'd be even more fun to see their more developed styles in a crossover as well.

[@FilmBrain]

I did do some more modern crossovers on Who's Your Caddy and Bulletproof: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5ape4h7aM6niKc kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpLbY2iwiNKFj5Y

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

You should do crossovers again with Lupa... :D You guys are awesome together.

[@TheEmeraldWeirdo]

Word of warning: Never watch this video during a thunderstorm. The background noise in the shots of Lupa and Film Brain kept making me think the tornado sirens were going off.

[@snobbychick5302]

The bear broke out to steal "picanic" baskets!

[@FullmetalNinja25]

This is one of my favorite TGWTG crossovers from the days when you guys did yearly specials. :)

[@Magmaster13]

This is probably one of the best crossovers Allison and Matthew have ever done thanks for the reupload.

[@chravenschronicles7387]

THANK YOU SO MUCH LUPA AND FILM BRAIN!!!

[@sharonpereira4501]

Great choice with you two reviewing together. Hilarious review.

[@KageMaxwell]

I remember seeing this movie as a kid. Almost wet myself from laughing so hard at that bear costume. 😂

[@SpeedyEric1]

Remake this movie forty years later, and replace Hercules & Zeus with Thor & Odin, and replace the shitty script with a GOOD one, and you have Marvel's Thor.

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

That's 💯% TRUE AND HILARIOUS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ProBreakers]

Classic BMB, miss these.....

[@BloodrealmX]

"... and Sampson." Aww, cmon, movie, why stop there? Let's call in Cu Chulainn and Sigurd. Maybe give Susanoo a call, too, and I hear a couple of Vishnu's incarnations might have some free time.

[@corndoggatorade9036]

I think we all know the biggest problem with this movie... Mercury was a Roman god, Hermes was the Greek equivalent.

[@Valdagast]

Also Pluto instead of Hades. Juno instead of Hera. In fact, this should probably have been Jupiter rather than Zeus. After all, Hercules is the Roman version of the name.

[@FaeQueenCory]

They said Neptune instead of Poseidon... so... everything is everything I guess.

[@phreakazoith2237]

Roman, Greek...for Kratos they are all mince meat.

[@Kaefer1973]

@Phreak Azoith Poor Greco-Roman gods, every few decades some popculture rowdy slaughters them all.

[@phreakazoith2237]

Kaefer1973 indeed. and even if the artistic result is sometimes of a rather dubious quality it tells us the Greco Roman gods are still a part of our cultural memory even when depicted in a crude cartoonish way.

[@Lady_Yuna]

8:18 "Created by Alan Smithee" 😄

[@trinidadbotello9906]

I'm surprised, Hercules in New York wasn't a movie in MST3K.

[@MaryC861]

This is definitely one of those films I could see being on MST3k. If it hasn't been on there already.

[@MadameSomnambule]

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Top Cat in a movie? Well, there ya go! :p

[@otakon17]

10:29 why didn't they just use a gorilla costume? HELL it would have been more believable.

[@brianfuller5868]

Lupa and Matthew did good crossovers and this movie is a classic So Bad it's Good.

[@LoverofLiszt]

14:47 - Juno is Jupiters wife (roman mythology). This were supposed to be Hera. 15:06 - Pluto is from roman mythology. This were supposed to be Hades. 9:20 - You obviously couldn't´t be more right. This is even worse than the inaccuracies in Fantasia.

[@nomduclavier]

"You've made him look pregnant" FORESHADOWING

[@yukiskyzero1313]

A fun crossover and i really enjoy this one. :D

[@Arthus850]

Not only did they forget Sampson was from the bible and not Greek mythology, but they forgot that he’s supposed to have long hair since if his hair is ever cut he’d lose his strength.

[@socklock1957]

Not to mention the fact that they spelled his name wrong; there’s no p in SAMSON.

[@AlbertCalis]

The old lady who spotted Hercules flying outside the plane... Pretzie in drags?

[@gracekim1998]

The fact that Arnold was 60 here is IMPRESSIVE 😶

[@scottylewis8124]

Now he's in his mid 70s

[@04279]

Fun fact: The German Show "SchleFaZ - The worst movies of all times", sort of the German version of Mystery Science Theater 3000, hosted by Oliver Kalkofe, the German voice of Tom Servo on the movie, and comedy writer Peter Rütten, tried to get this movie on their show. Unfortunately Schwarzenegger himself wants to avoid to show this movie on TV.

[@scottylewis8124]

A movie that Arnie is personally Ashamed of.

[@04279]

@@scottylewis8124 Indeed.

[@Tareltonlives]

So Zeus is the only Greek character with a Greek name

[@Tareltonlives]

Atlas.....the guy who is NOT on speaking terms with Zeus and Sampson...from a completely different story. What, did Theseus and Jason skip their minds?

[@NitpickCritic]

Great review and criticisms !

[@Shiirow]

"I need a man, a strong man, a man with bulging muscles and a thick accent." Yet somehow you still chose Phelous.

[@wstine79]

Shiirow Phelous has a sort of accent.

[@Magmaster13]

Some sort of weird Canadian Accent

[@Shiirow]

canadians dont have accents, they have speech impediments.

[@wstine79]

OtakuboyT but can Phelous wrestle a bear?

[@davidcolby167]

Phelous did get kind of ripped in the past few years...

[@andrewoliver7095]

I love how kind Lupa is to bad movies. I'm the same way lol

[@kramermariav]

And I thought Arnold's more modern acting was bad

[@ab-gail]

18:25 Must be the crossover episode!

[@JamiJR]

Oh man, I remember watching this on network TV as a kid and being mad as all get out because "That's not what Hercules is like in the stories!" I wouldn't be that angry about a portrayal of Hercules again until Disney's crappy version.

[@dvass7253]

At least that version is fun, had some of the best animation Disney has ever put out, great action scenes, a fantastic female lead in Meg (who, as far as I'm concerned, is the real hero of the story) and James Woods absolutely killing it as Hades. It takes about a million liberties with the source material, but it's far from being the worst Hercules movie out there. That dishonor belongs to The Legend of Hercules, starring Kellan Lutz.

[@JamiJR]

I didn't find the Disney version fun. I found it such an incomprehensible mess - and Hades IS NOT EVIL! Also Hades CHOSE to be the god of the underworld, so why would he be all bitter and angry? It's what he wanted! Hera was NOT Hercules' mother! Hercules goes insane and kills Megara and their children! Only thing that makes me angrier is Hunchback. Phoebus is a BAD guy too! He just wants to bang Esmeralda and marries another woman for her money. And Esmeralda and Quasimodo both DIE!

[@bored_person]

+Jami JoAnne Russell Adaptations don't have to be exactly like their source material. Making changes is not a bad thing as long as they work in the context of the adaptation.

[@grayscribe2125]

Considering that Atlas is usually busy holding up earth and Hercules took over for him for a short time, show me any adaption that portrays Hercules right. He also wasn't a demigod. He was as mortal as everyone else. The lion skin he 'aquired' from the Nemedean Lion could only be cut by the lion's claws, made him nearly invincible. Hercules only became a god after his death and that's just for staters what they always get wrong. And no, adaptions that change stuff is not always a bad thing. However, in Hercules case, it's been done so often, that few people even know the original anymore.

[@goran77ish]

BTW HErcules have "K" in some languages. Liek mine. I don't know how it is in German language. Your complain stays but this might be the reaon why he made that mistake.

[@Barbayat79]

In German it's spelled Herkules ... not sure how you even pronounce the name without speaking the c as a k though - like Marcus where no matter how it's written it's always pronounced with a k (and it's most commonly spelled with one here, too)

[@dylantennant6594]

Somewhere in some parallel universe, this movie has even worse sequels and spin offs. I can see them now: Thor in San Francisco Horus In Houston Rama in Chicago Cu Chulain in Boston.

[@Fuiotter]

In German the name Herkules does have a K in it.

[@randalgraves6979]

Well Germans love David Haselhoff.

[@DarkSlayer977]

Herc sure gets into a lot of fights 😂

[@BJ64Th3M0v13f4n]

Is Obscurus Lupa still making videos nowadays? Where is she?

[@FilmBrain]

She has her own channel, called Movie Nights. I've appeared on a few episodes. kzbin.info/door/iR_TugQyPc7cerQgiYCjtw

[@fredrikcarlstedt393]

Get away to the chopper, Herkules !

[@heidifedor]

Arnold Strong and Arnold Strang isn’t that confusing?

[@Nestalgba92023]

Arnold Stang*

[@thegayghost872]

It really annoys me that they keep switching between Greek and Roman names for the gods

[@kduhtdkzrt]

Americans teaching an Austrian how to pronounce the name Herkules, hilarious. Herr. Que. Lees.

[@RunyaEithelNar]

American and British ;)

[@otaking3582]

Austria certainly isn't Greece or Rome, either

[@stefanforrer2573]

aaaah, created by good old alan smithee....

[@Hotcodservedwarmly]

What did the ending even mean...? I'm so confused

[@scottylewis8124]

Maybe Zeus wants to blend in with the populace?

[@nomduclavier]

0:12 I now see how she ended up with Phelous

[@heidifedor]

I saw this with the dub.

[@robogreek3157]

What the fuck was Dead Lift...that was HILARIOUS!!!

[@scottylewis8124]

It was an episode of an old series called the streets of San Francisco.

[@gracekim1998]

‘What is this? A crossover episode?!’😆 gosh😅 I think the writer’s confused Greek myths with the bible 😅 I didn’t think a crossover like that would happen 2018

[@vashstarwind36]

High 5 y'all!

[@SerenityM16]

Why is it that everyone has their Roman names except Zeus?

[@astamanista9447]

6:27 Demigods are genderfluid. I don't know that.

[@Awesome_Pichu]

Why is Arnold beating up Nicholas Cage?

[@thing1thing2themediamaniac43]

I actually ❤️ this movie I know Hercules in New York is bad. But there really are good performances underneath all the 💩 My all time favorite part the fight with the bear in NY Central Park It's just to bad Hercules didn't cross paths with The Troll in Central Park. Than Hercules could've just squashed The Troll in Central Park and that GODAWFUL movie never would exist. Can we get Doc Brown to get The DeLorean or AntMan to get The Quantum Realm there's still time.

[@M.A.S.K._Crusader]

TODD!!!!!! 21:19

[@avaranabraham8507]

That’s top cat

[@RichardWatt]

Film Brain: this accent isn't British, it's Ukrainian (paraphrased) Me (in 2022): umm...

[@c.o.n.collectingofnostalgi889]

lol chicken vindaloo 🤣🤣🤣

[@JonathanLedbetter]

Ugh, if you're going to use Hercules and Mercury in your movie, have the common decency to use Jupiter instead of Zeus.

[@phreakazoith2237]

My madder may have been a mordal

[@cultofthorn]

Luna presents was far superior than her new show

[@tyronemrasak2576]

did the writer of the film not know the difference between Roman and Greek Gods Juno Roman it should be Haira, Mercury again Roman it should be Apollo and finally Pluto Roman it should be Haties

[@jackmonaghan8477]

I think the fight of the bear might as well have had this music over it given how it's staged - kzbin.info/www/bejne/g52XqHSkq8uAaq8

[@frankallen3634]

No we didn't speak like that in the 60's. At least I didn't...ok maybe once, leave me alone you're mean

[@trinidadbotello9906]

The best Hercules movie, is the one with Troy McClure.

[@nomduclavier]

'Sped'. Ffs.

[@RichardWatt]

Bear scene? Oh shit, I hope no one ever told Suzanne Nagy about this movie - she'd have tried to get it pulled.

[@jasondouglas152]

Obscuris poopa

[@TheBattlesword]

Hey, at least his father didn’t try to strike him down with a car. What is it with Hercules movies and it being so easy to make jokes referencing God’s Not Dead?

[@goran77ish]

God, I h8 that intro song. So annoying.

[@robogreek3157]

DONT USE cartoons in your thumbnails its misleading.....a heads up....I thought it was a cartoon so I didn't watch, who knows how many others think the same, Had I known what it was it would of been the first I watched! Arnolds first!

[@FilmBrain]

It wasn't my intention to mislead - the title card is the original one used in 2011 when this review was first made. I normally don't have drawn title cards, but there was few materials to use for a card.

[@robogreek3157]

@@FilmBrain its all good...just something I was thinking but I NEVER saw this movie only heard about it Predator was my all time favorite movie. So its kind of cool to see how bad Arnold was in the beginning. Awesome video

[@VeganJustToAnnoyYou]

oh and it has animal abuse!

[@grayscribe2125]

So? Animal abuse was in the original stories as well. For example, Hercules beat or strangled the Nemedean Lion to death because nothing could cut the lion's skin except his own claws. Hercules skinned the lion and wore the fur coat as armor. He was unbelievably strong, not invulnearable.