In a change of pace today, I thought it would be a laugh to take a look at one of the most infamously troubled productions in Hollywood history - the disaster that is The Island of Dr Moreau.
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@TheCriticalDrinker3 жыл бұрын
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@The_Reality_Filter3 жыл бұрын
Nah, Wonder Woman 1984 will make this look like Citizen Kane
@adamofgrayskull77353 жыл бұрын
That's Aries from the Wonder Woman movie
@mrmurdochyessss54063 жыл бұрын
Would like to see you do reviews of "DarkCity," Guy Ritchies' "The Gentlemen" and "Fury Road."
@DaveFu3 жыл бұрын
"But Drinker, you suave Scot social media scholar, why didn't you and your immortal liver mention the Conqueror from 1956 in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan and was filmed on a nuclear test site that gave the cast and crew radiation exposure and cancer, I hear you say" Yes Drinker, I'll go away now!
@Brownie-ms6sv3 жыл бұрын
How about doing a review of Looper? It'd be interesting to see if you think Rian Johnson has made at least one good film.
@Horrormaster133 жыл бұрын
*"If I made a movie about Val Kilmer's life, I wouldn't hire Val Kilmer."* a quote from the director of this trainwreck of a film 😂🤣
@matthew18823 жыл бұрын
Kilmer vs Brando sounds like the WWE match up we need.
@chicostephenson3 жыл бұрын
i can't imagine what it must be like to be in movie hell on the other side of the world, turn on a TV and see your wife announce that she wants a diverse. Talk about a nut shot!!
@nickb39683 жыл бұрын
@Projekt:Kobra The Tombstone performance was great, not winning an Oscar was just Karma coming back to even things up.
@danijelujcic86443 жыл бұрын
@@matthew1882 Celebrity Deathmatch
@jecrpalier3 жыл бұрын
Matt of rejects. Brando wearing an ice bucket says it all. Just how moronic actors are. Role models. Bwahahaha
@maxkennedy80753 жыл бұрын
They set out to make ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’ but the cast and crew ended up making Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies instead.
@ndl68273 жыл бұрын
you forgot Tropic Thunder.
@weston4073 жыл бұрын
coincidentally with the star of the original adaptation of Heart of Darkness
@scottmantooth87853 жыл бұрын
*that's what i got while watching this really strange film...once*
@kylevernon3 жыл бұрын
They both Star Marlon Brando as an overweight bald lunatic.
@theknave44153 жыл бұрын
I think you've just described Hollywood. ;)
@DiscoTimelordASD2 жыл бұрын
The director having a meltdown, shredding everything and running off into the jungle is freaking insane!!! I love how he returned in disguise just for a scene where he gets to destroy the set🤣
@DRichards705 Жыл бұрын
Him sneaking into the party to tell off Kilmer is pretty hilarious too.
@magpiefrogfrom2556 Жыл бұрын
Some say that it wasn't a disguise and that the guy devolved into a creature whilst alone in the jungle. Some say that he can be seen caged at a zoo in Bucharest to this very day. 🐺🐺🐺
@michaelemory552 Жыл бұрын
I’m thinking of the director as the flakey photojournalist (Dennis Hopper) in ‘Apocalypse Now’ who is last see dodging a book thrown by Kurtz (Brando) yelling, “you mutt!”. Some movie parallels here, a mash up in the works?
@PACstove11 ай бұрын
@@michaelemory552 LOL bril
@SubliminalLocks5 ай бұрын
Was the tiny little man by chance inspiration for mini me for Austin Powers’s Dr. evil??
@vibeslide Жыл бұрын
Brando being fascinated by a dwarf, repeating police chatter and wearing an ice bucket on his head is beyond everything.
@shadowflame86475 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@chrissawyer14843 жыл бұрын
They need to make a movie about the making of this movie.
@BeczaBot3 жыл бұрын
I think there is one, I just read above in the comments about a movie called ‘Lost Soul’ about this movie’s director.
@ndl68273 жыл бұрын
They did actually....Tropic Thunder...who would have known that the "making of" movie was actually leagues better than the movie itself!
@archstanton90733 жыл бұрын
They did. It's called "Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau".
@Faustelune3 жыл бұрын
It is called Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. Fantastic documentary chronicling the entire disastrous project; as well as highlighting just how much crap the studio was giving Stanley that made him end up leaving Hollywood all together. Though at least he returned with the pretty good Color Out of Space. Oh yeah, he did manage to sneak back on set as a dog man extra for a few shots.
@YT1300MF3 жыл бұрын
Seleendria this is fantastic, it’s on prime too. Immediately put it on my watch list.
@dandew10723 жыл бұрын
Damn, the making of this movie sounds way more epic than the actual movie
@Lucky_Chase2 жыл бұрын
There should be a movie about making this movie.
@CurtisAlfeld2 жыл бұрын
There's a documentary called "Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau" which is definitely worth checking out. After watching it I feel like if things had gone differently (mainly keeping the budget at $8 million, instead of some dickhead studio executive saying "let's cast Marlon Brando in the movie and increase the budget to $40 million") we could have gotten one of the all time sci-fi horror greats, right up there with Alien, the Terminator, the Thing, and Predator. Fuck, the human/animal hybrids were supposed to have a drug and alcohol fueled orgy (in the movie, not real life, which is a very weird thing to think about) and one of them was going to bite Val Kilmer's dick off.
@UglyJaguar2 жыл бұрын
Ikr😂😂😂
@unidentifiedguy82532 жыл бұрын
@@Lucky_Chase I was thinking the same. Tommy Wiseau can direct.
@chatteyj2 жыл бұрын
@@CurtisAlfeld Great I will check that out I've always liked this movie because you can tell it had good intentions and I thought the acting was all round good with a solid story even if it was bizarre in places, although i haven't seen it for awhile (like years) so my opinion could change.
@trevorpom11 ай бұрын
Val Kilmer being chucked off the set the minute he was finished has still got me laughing.🤣🤣🤣
@redpillfreedom66928 ай бұрын
Or that one guy sneaking back onto set just to tell Kilmer how much of a prick he is.
@trevorpom8 ай бұрын
Lol. That too. I wonder how many other people had revenge planned, and foiled, as his feet were levitated out the door?@@redpillfreedom6692
@scottbarbour97453 ай бұрын
How can one be thrown off set by security yet still be invited to the wrap party. Sounds like the Drinker has his facts mixed up
@thepoleontheroad5 ай бұрын
Imagine being James Woods hearing about the movie's continuously cataclysmic production back in the States and being so effin' relieved and thankful to have dodged a bullet of these proportions.
@ClassicPass_3 жыл бұрын
So, it's basically real-life Tropic Thunder.
@waxclone74903 жыл бұрын
🧐
@siddharthakvr51543 жыл бұрын
That's a good film
@danielhamilton74293 жыл бұрын
×10
@THEfamouspolka3 жыл бұрын
With Marlin Brando's own mini me
@joniahdemarco33713 жыл бұрын
Never go full Brando!
@MerkinMuffly3 жыл бұрын
I remember as a 6 year old crying because my brother wouldn't take me to see this film (1977) because he wanted to see some movie called Star Wars.
@CoinBox1703 жыл бұрын
Say what? This movie came out in 1996
@MerkinMuffly3 жыл бұрын
@@CoinBox170There was a 1977 version which also had Marlon Brando that was almost as bad.
@CoinBox1703 жыл бұрын
@@MerkinMuffly Oh I didn't know that. Good on your brother for leading you down the right path
@benanderson37913 жыл бұрын
@@MerkinMuffly What was that film called?
@themysteriouscatperson94833 жыл бұрын
@@benanderson3791 It was called the same thing, the island of doctor Moreau
@moniehookemomolu2845 Жыл бұрын
Fairuza Balk's 2,500 km drive in a rented limousine from the remote Cairns area to Sydney airport deserves to be a movie of its own.
@lukebrown3658 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact there is a early South Park character that is entirely based on and inspired by this movie. It’s the doctor who makes weird animals, I haven’t seen him in a LONG time. The show came out in 1997 and he was a staple in the show for the first 4 seasons.
@vilefly8 ай бұрын
Gentlemen.....I give you.....the 5 assed monkey.
@caronstout3548 ай бұрын
It's Dr. Mephisto...
@jayleehoward19393 жыл бұрын
I love how the director was so determined to make this movie then when he got fired he tried to ruin the movie as much as he could
@bernebelmont18573 жыл бұрын
Its like Phantom of the Opera
@kreese-yi2nb3 жыл бұрын
And then it took him 25 years to make another movie...
@billshire26813 жыл бұрын
Not his fault. He had no power as a newbie director. Brando blocked Roman Polansky to direct, which would've made incredible but would prob have seen getting fired early....
@gcrockerbam3 жыл бұрын
But he really didn’t. After Richard Stanley was fired, he stayed in the area of filming but the most he was involved was getting into a costume & being in the background of a few shots. If anyone tanked it, it was Brando or Kilmer. They used their star power to make insane changes to the film & made life miserable for everyone on set. There’s a whole documentary about it & it’s fascinating.
@TheGamerPhan3 жыл бұрын
@@kreese-yi2nb a great movie though
@MichaelJ0233 жыл бұрын
Today I found out where the idea of Dr Evil and Mini-Me came from.
@GravityRestored3 жыл бұрын
Not really. If you’ve seen Dr. No and multiple James Bond movies it makes sense. Tho Dr. Mephisto from South Park came from this shite movie.
@NovaPtl3 жыл бұрын
@@GravityRestored yes really, first austin movie filmed in 96 lmao
@justinleonard61833 жыл бұрын
@@GravityRestored attaching asses like a middle finger to god
@Insanepie3 жыл бұрын
@@NovaPtl no dude. Austin powers was inspired by James Bond
@anikmonette21402 жыл бұрын
@@Insanepie There's multiple references to other movies and various medias from this era, like Jerry Springer of all things...
@thefantasyreview8709 Жыл бұрын
Brando generally had lines fed to him for his later films, he also had them fed to him via an earpiece in Apocalypse now. Even before that, both Robert Duval and Richard Harris have said he had his lines written for him on big bits of cardboard so he could read them, as he hadn't memorised them.
@witteafval Жыл бұрын
He did that in Superman as well, with his lines strategically placed on signs around the sets where the cameras wouldn't see them. When he put baby Superman in the spaceship and gave his farewell speech, his lines were on the baby's diaper.
@harukrentz435 Жыл бұрын
Man was trully a legend
@guy528210 ай бұрын
@@witteafval 🤣🤣🤣
@salmanedy8 ай бұрын
You know you're fucked when RICHARD FUCKING HARRIS of all people is the sane one in that instance.
@nathantrujillo4715 күн бұрын
@@witteafvalno way
@jimmylittle93933 ай бұрын
The idea of Fairuza trying to flee and being caught at the last minute is both hilarious and tragic
@thomasbaron53673 жыл бұрын
The bit about the hidden microphone picking up police transmissions and Brando repeating them as his lines killed me LOL 😂😂😂
@Lucky_Chase2 жыл бұрын
😂
@davids7362 жыл бұрын
Apparently he shouts out "there's been a robbery at Woolworths!".....fucking priceless!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@jakublulek32612 жыл бұрын
He was pretty much director of his own scenes at this point.
@IamFrozenUnderpants2 жыл бұрын
Even better was Will (Drinker) cracking up. Unlike other times, you could tell it wasn't scripted.
@mrlightwriter2 жыл бұрын
@@IamFrozenUnderpants Definitely! :D
@zacharylewis28023 жыл бұрын
Brando shows up for the first day of filming, and he acted like the Brando of old. He lost some weight, he actually learned his lines, and was helping the other members of the cast transition from stage acting to film. He was actually invested in Richard Stanley’s vision for the project because he saw similarities between Dr. Moreau and his character Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. Unfortunately, his daughter committed suicide that night. A devastated Brando had to go back home. While he was gone, the script was heavily rewritten and part of the cast had been replaced. Worst of all, his character (the titular doctor) has been rewritten from a legitimate villain who knows what he’s doing is evil to an inept and sympathetic eccentric who doesn’t really know what’s happening on his own island. This caused Brando to sink into a deep depression he never really recovered from. When he came back, he was a mess. He had ballooned to almost 500 lbs., he refused to learn his new lines, and was combative with the new director. Somehow, he wasn’t the biggest pain in the ass on set.
@deesnutz420693 жыл бұрын
@@jsat5609 uhhh that isn't even a clip from the island of dr moreau
@jsat56093 жыл бұрын
@@deesnutz42069 No, It's Brando about 40 years before Moreau. 40 years will age anyone. But my point is Brando let himself go in the most extreme fashion I've ever seen to go from looking like this to what he looked like in his final years. Compare Brando to one of his contemporaries, like Paul Newman. Newman aged but still looked like Paul Newman. Brando aged, and he didn't even look like a human being.
@Hugatree13 жыл бұрын
Zachary Lewis I honestly think Brando is such a sad tragic story. Even well into his 50’s he was a gorgeous specimen of a man and his talent as an actor is unsurpassed. On the Waterfront is one of my favorite movies of all time. I think Brando was the original rebel without a cause never happy or comfortable in his own skin maybe that’s what made him such a great actor but not a very nice human being. His daughter’s suicide and son killing the boyfriend and going to jail was just too much for him. This movie aside which is actually pretty comical Brando left us with some incredible performances and I will always love him
@zacharylewis28023 жыл бұрын
HP Lovecraft On many occasions dating back to after Last Tango in Paris, Brando said he hated acting on film but couldn’t go back to the Broadway stage because they couldn’t afford him and his voice was too weak to carry to the back of the theatre (the primary reason he made the switch to acting on film). According to him, the last time he enjoyed his work was when he did Julius Caesar in 1953. No wonder he became a wreck.
@erics.czernecki73333 жыл бұрын
There's apparently a story that, as only Brando could do, he insisted, because of not learning the new lines, that they be fed to him using a special radio receiver. However, that radio would also pick up stuff like police transmissions, meaning he'd suddenly interrupt a line and say stuff like "There's been a robbery at Woolworths." If it was from ANYONE ELSE but him, I wouldn't believe it for a second, but he's the same guy that showed up for his last voice recording dressed as a little girl.
@sniffywhiffy24522 жыл бұрын
I could never understand why I loved this movie despite it being obviously terrible. Now it all makes sense. A wretched bunch of creatures, desperate to escape, yet held in thrall to the whimsical schemes of eccentric egomaniacs… …and i thought it was just good method acting 🍻
@therebel433210 ай бұрын
I still think it was intentional what went on. The movie is filled with weird and psycho characters bordering on insanity. In a jungle on a weird island.. I still think they got right into character by doing what they did,, back then they took it all in their stride,, the actors put themselves into the minds of these characters,, method acting was very much a thing back then,, back then theyd research the real world, theyd observe real people and learn to understand it before putting themselves into the character they were playing. Nowadays actors have come straight from a school camp. Brie Larson acts like Brie Larson for example,, she has one way of acting and shes unwilling and possibly incapable of learning how to play different characters.
@ItsMeMissV3698 ай бұрын
While they experiment on island subjects😞 So familiar
@AdamAdamHDL Жыл бұрын
I saw this film as a child, never knew what it was called, could never find it anywhere afterwards, when describing it to people no one knew what I was talking about... I gave up and thought maybe i was confusing the memories with that of a bad fever dream or something... Well now I know what it is! Someone else's bad fever dream.
@jschools13923 жыл бұрын
The thought of an actress with a million dollar contract being led back on set by security after she tried to escape and probably in tears due to how messed up this all was is a hilarious and depressing image.
@GarnetBurke3 жыл бұрын
LMAO!!
@nopejoeandangie3 жыл бұрын
The way she told the story later was that her agent explained to her that she would be blackballed by every studio if she left that contract.
@NGRevenant3 жыл бұрын
Fairuza Balk is the only reason I sat through this entire movie
@robertmaybeth34343 жыл бұрын
Well, Fairuza Balk makes some nice eye candy so there's that
@Lucky_Chase2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. That is hell for an actress
@robertmaybeth34343 жыл бұрын
"According to David Thewlis, Marlon Brando described making the film as like trying to complete a crossword puzzle while falling down an elevator shaft." ~IMDB
@TheRoomforImprovement3 жыл бұрын
Presumably while everyone was wearing an ice bucket on their heads.
@seanchukwuezi30792 жыл бұрын
Well his daughter died in pre production so he had an excuse .
@thekiller79942 жыл бұрын
@@seanchukwuezi3079 but that still doesn’t excuse his behavior
@seanchukwuezi30792 жыл бұрын
True
@MrAcydMouth2 жыл бұрын
This movie is an actual gem. Sad how all that went on, but it gave it 'character'. before watching this, i thought the psychedelic, irrational, and disorganized aspect of the movie was intentional...it worked for me.
@buckjones49019 ай бұрын
Sounds like something you watch at 1am half asleep and with a beer buzz and think it was one of the coolest movies ever lol.
@Wolffur7 ай бұрын
Honestly, I thought that it was intentional too. Intended to represent the breakdown into madness.
@jarredcarlson24797 ай бұрын
I’ve watched it a couple times (for the first time) and I really enjoyed it.
@msscott227 ай бұрын
That's what I thought too. I laughed so hard during the film. The juxtaposition of serious philosophical questions and comedy made it something of a surrealist experience. It's a great time.
@Antnee6596 ай бұрын
Its actually one of my favorite films to watch on hallucinogens. Its very strange and i had the sense that they knew exactly what they were doing and thought this shit was deep af!
@joshpointoh5 ай бұрын
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Crown Gotham theater in Manhattan. We had 1 screen, 2 balconies, big, old time theater. We ran this movie for a week or two, and it was probably the slowest movie we ever played. Daytime showings would have 1 or 2 people, tops. Night showings had 5 or 6. Quite a few times it played to an empty theater. That was the easiest workweek of my life lol.
@charlesgilbert20542 жыл бұрын
They caught her at the airport and forced her back on set. This is so unbelievable and absolutely hilarious.
@shaned7158 Жыл бұрын
Imagine being on the run and all they wanted was you to finish the scene. 😅
@marty20909 ай бұрын
Hilarious? Really?
@johnjohan79078 ай бұрын
we should cry sorry @@marty2090
@Charliehund1008 ай бұрын
Right? Like, who is “they”? And if it’s the cops, how is that remotely legal? Breaking your contract is strictly a civil matter…
@KorriTimigan8 ай бұрын
@marty2090 Absolutely. Believe it or not, but some people are actually smart enough to be able to separate a person from a situation. Laughing at a bafflingly incompetent circumstance is not the same as laughing at the woman herself.
@dag75193 жыл бұрын
I wish you mentioned how Brando told Kilmer "Your problem is that you confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent"
@TheTeodorsoldierabvb3 жыл бұрын
@@robertgiles9124 Brando will always be remembered as one of the greatest actors in history, though, while Kilmer... well.
@TheTeodorsoldierabvb3 жыл бұрын
@@robertgiles9124 Depends on who you ask. I presonally would prefer anything to a family.
@TheTeodorsoldierabvb3 жыл бұрын
@HORSE馬 I'm pretty sure I don't want a family. I don't like people and I want some peace and quiet when I'm home, not a whole other set of people to maneuver around, all yapping and teasing and moaning and needing shit from me. About morality, there are certain boundries that I wouldn't cross, like most other people. But they don't include a family.
@pianoandguitarlover27733 жыл бұрын
@@TheTeodorsoldierabvb Val Kilmer has cancer now so....
@TheTeodorsoldierabvb3 жыл бұрын
@@pianoandguitarlover2773 I didn't know at all. I'd never wish him or anyone such a thing.
@icarus-wings8 ай бұрын
The number of people who don’t appreciate that the Island of Doctor Moreau was a movie built exactly how Doctor Moreau built his creatures is staggering.
@LeoJay8 ай бұрын
They should make a horror movie about an actress trying to escape a hellish movie production but she kept getting caught and forced to act again.
@Darrylizer13 жыл бұрын
I finally understood the scientist character in South Park after watching Brando's Moreau.
@DerAykac3 жыл бұрын
Way to good to just be a parody xD
@MrPisster3 жыл бұрын
I think I also figured out where they got Austin Power's Mini-Me too!
@oneandonlysound34533 жыл бұрын
@@MrPisster Absolutely, them seeing "what if god was one of us" with the piano literally is that.
@Corrderio3 жыл бұрын
It makes the NAMBLA joke all the more funnier too.
@fiftyonefilm3 жыл бұрын
Watch “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” and you’ll understand the mayor of Imaginationland.
@dmartig12 жыл бұрын
By this point Brando had a decade of openly sabotaging every movie he was in. He got paid no matter what and hated acting, yet everyone still wanted to work with him and were shocked when he did the same thing for the 100th time.
@jm78045 ай бұрын
That pretty much sums it up nicely. After Apocalypse Now the only decent film he made was the Freshman.
@hahajones5 ай бұрын
He was good in The Score with DeNiro and Norton.
@joshuanorthey20262 ай бұрын
I had heard he was also a pill in that.
@lukasnummer1 Жыл бұрын
H.G. Well's novel is one of my favorites; I've always wanted Andy Serkis to get his hands on the material, especially for the motion capture.
@RedJeepGladiator Жыл бұрын
i’ve watched this video 4 times and each time i start smiling at the beginning and evolves into out loud laughter by the end … every time … never change man
@Happinessobadiah Жыл бұрын
Contact me for your reward 🎉 🥳
@scarface11383 жыл бұрын
There's a Scottish technical term that describes this movie. Shite.
@scipioninja3 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful culture.
@fresherturtle11543 жыл бұрын
An amazing language we have
@charmandyorton0063 жыл бұрын
And I think I can smell it.
@jillreyerma75923 жыл бұрын
@@charmandyorton006 Yep, I can definitely smell shite.
@Dash-lx4ng3 жыл бұрын
Definitely shite
@jeru_jj11613 жыл бұрын
Imagine me being about 10 years old, being drawn to cinema, because my dad thought it will be something like Dr. Dollitle, because "animals and stuff". Sweet childhood
@jfayiii3 жыл бұрын
If it makes you feel better, my first movie my parents took me to in the theater was “The Amityville Horror”. I was 7 years old.
@xunk163 жыл бұрын
Seen Event Horizon at 8. It changed my life. This movie also, but not so profoundly.
@michigandon3 жыл бұрын
Sounds a lot like the stories I've heard of people who took their kids to see Valley Of The Dolls, because they thought it'd be like Babes in Toyland!
@erikswanson57533 жыл бұрын
Actually there was a remake of Dr. Dolittle around this time. Not the one starring Rex Harrison, but the one with Robert Downey Jr., for some strange reason. The movie bombed. Some things are best left alone.
@jeru_jj11613 жыл бұрын
@@erikswanson5753 I knew about Eddie Murphy, but this, wow.
@frankcolumbo44812 жыл бұрын
There is an old saying in Hollywood - "movies refuse to get made." How true that is.
@trublgrl2 жыл бұрын
I haven't read the book, but in the 1970's version of this film, starring Michael York and Burt Lancaster, the premise was that Moreau had found a way to advance the evolution of a being, taking them from an animalist form, to a more human type of animal with the ability to walk upright, the ability to reason, and potentially the potential to understand morality, something that only exists in the mind of man and God. (It was not about hybridizing man and animal, Moreau never harmed a person, his own morality was an important idea in the picture.) While it shows a sort of simplistic understanding of Darwinism, (It was written in 1896, mind you,) it deals with some amazing themes. Well worth a watch, and with the right team, this could still be made into an amazing film.
@pysq82 жыл бұрын
It also shows some Biblical themes, where the fallen angels were procreating with animals and mankind.
@thefantasyreview8709 Жыл бұрын
That's called "uplift" - the scientific concept of evolving animals into human levels of development.
@Simbabbad10 ай бұрын
The actual theme of the book is criticizing colonization. The wild animals symbolize colonized people, and Moreau is the colonizer who wants to "train" them to become "correct" human beings, with body modifications and a mix of punishment and rewards to behave "correctly". The narrator is horrified at what he did to them, because they can't really truly revert back to what they once were. In the book, Moreau actually surgically modifies them without using any anaesthetics, so the narrator hears animals yelling all day, and the yelling slowly becomes more and more human. In the end, the narrator can't live again with humans, because he always suspects people could be Moreau's creatures. He ends up living in the remote countryside with his wife. War of the Worlds is also a critique of colonization.
@musashimiyamoto5866 ай бұрын
Make no mistake. H. G. Wells was a visionary and way ahead of the times he was living in. The message for me was that after having witnessed the events on the island the protagonist returning home and sensing himself surrounded by nothing but animals. Same thing with "War of the Worlds" the brilliance of which was a bit distorted by the "new" movie with Cruise. As far as I remember the ending was very different, too. Yes, the fact that these monstrous robots/aliens were wiped out by a simple bacteria was amazing, but what sticks in my mind is the arrival of the protagonist in a pretty much destroyed London, the human race being faced with dusting itself off, re-evaluating its role in the universe and, well, beginning anew.
@DimT6704 ай бұрын
@@Simbabbadthen that's not much of a critique of colonisation, it's basically saying that colonised ppl are animals and can never be anything else Sure it's criticising the methods on display here, and exposing the hypocrisy of the doctor, as he who upholds the law breaks the same law he uses to opress the animal people and gets his comeuppance, but then the animal hybrids neither had a society the titular white man destroyed nor did they form a new one they just go on a killing spree I'm not saying themes of colonialism aren't present but I wouldn't call it a direct critique, it's more so an anti vivisection thing and manifesting the bizzare racist degeneration fears of Europeans at the time
@aidangreen70063 жыл бұрын
“Then he promptly lost his mind, suffered a complete mental breakdown, and vanished into the Australian jungle... uhh, okay.”
@AndreNitroX3 жыл бұрын
And he disguised himself as one of the beast men. It’s a miracle he didn’t kill somebody
@mb20003 жыл бұрын
“...Today, still wanted by the government he survives as an Australian hermit. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him....maybe you can hire Richard Stanley.”
@TheOneManWhoBeatYou3 жыл бұрын
As one does
@zimriel3 жыл бұрын
@@AndreNitroX It's northern Australia. Who's to say he didn't.
@ronb20083 жыл бұрын
Lmao that was my favorite part
@zenarchy15442 жыл бұрын
Brando insisting of having the midget in most scenes was the inspiration for Mini Me. The double piano scene was his idea, too. Brilliant.
@AnthonyFlack2 жыл бұрын
It was inspired. Best thing in the film, and the ice bucket on the head was great too. It's too bad Val Kilmer.
@bluelaser1012 Жыл бұрын
The midget was also the inspiration for the little monkey guy who follows dr mephisto around in south park
@robertbobbypelletreaujr21737 ай бұрын
It was actually quite beautiful.
@Radio_Jingles_552 жыл бұрын
Glad I found your channel. Your insights are brilliant. Now I have got to track down this cinematic train wreck and experience it for myself.
@chrisa1944 Жыл бұрын
It's actually a entertaining movie.
@LeoJay8 ай бұрын
The making of this movie sounds like a true hell on earth, they should make a movie about this.
@Davesobscurevideos3 жыл бұрын
Ive spent the past 20 years of my life asking myself, “Did Marlin Brando really wear a bucket full of ice as a hat in that movie?”
@Hugatree13 жыл бұрын
@David Hance the answer to that question is yes he did, and on certain occasions a pineapple from the buffet line!
@Lucky_Chase3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@whiskeybuilder63353 жыл бұрын
I desperately want, no, I desperately need one of those hats. How many beer do you think it'd hold. It's abosolute genius!!
@FigmentSALabel3 жыл бұрын
A marlin is a fish.
@Keyser___Soze3 жыл бұрын
Marlon🐟Brando
@ivorbiggun7102 жыл бұрын
Poor David Thewlis caught in the middle of this shit storm. His line from the film, 'Have you ever considered you might be completely insane', couldn't be more apt.
@osmanyousif7849 Жыл бұрын
Probably was improvised….
@arcotroll8530 Жыл бұрын
His experience and his character's experience really mirrorred each other!
@margarethmichelina5146 Жыл бұрын
Can't blame the guy to no to watch the movie until now. Imagine you stuck behind the drama of 2 actors with biggest egos and also in the middle of Island and the director even left.
@katietaylor8314 Жыл бұрын
I've seen the movie and he looks and sounds SO embarrassed, and who can blame him?
@Graves-81_698 ай бұрын
I loved this episode so much I got several of my friends to watch it and they loved it as well. I haven’t seen it since it was posted 3 years ago. Ah the nostalgia
@moniehookemomolu28454 ай бұрын
This is the best Critical Drinker commentary in my books. You had my undivided attention for 12 straight minutes. Your delivery is very entertaining.
@petergunn361421 күн бұрын
i had to pause it a few times because I was laughing so hard i couldn't breathe!
@GambitsEnd2 жыл бұрын
First time I've clicked on a video titled "The Most Disastrous Movie Ever Made" and I left not feeling like it was clickbait. The fact the movie even got finished is an actual miracle the Church should officially recognize.
@KonpeitoKoil2 жыл бұрын
Which saint would that canonize?
@Danny.TheDog2 жыл бұрын
@@KonpeitoKoil the saint of Hollywood, Keanu Reeves
@zoomerjack54352 жыл бұрын
I don’t know. Only good things can happen from miracles.
@michaeldillon202 жыл бұрын
@@Danny.TheDog hahhahahahhahahhahaa this got me
@danielsweet858 Жыл бұрын
Val Killer told a story about Brando devouring an entire turkey in one sitting then breaking the bones to suck the marrow! 😳🤢🤣 You can't make this stuff up.
@Meitti3 жыл бұрын
You can tell the movie veers off heavily from the original book when you see actors in makeup, because the whole twist of the original was that the animals walking with two legs were not in fact hybrids, but just animals that were surgically modified to walk on two legs and have enough brainpower to follow instructions and attempt to say few words on command. And the really cruel part was Dr. Moreau insisting on operating them without anesthesia so the pure shock from the torture would make them more docile and obedient.
@ArasKristoffDBUEN2 жыл бұрын
I would say Spoilers. But the trainwreck of a Film, makes me have zero care for the Book. Ashame really.
@harpiyon2 жыл бұрын
Gosh, that sounds terrible. Maybe someone makes a new movie closer to the book, if it's well made it would probably be a success in the body horror genre.
@Fitchy-ke3wz Жыл бұрын
@@harpiyon oh no. That won't make money. Everyone will remember this masterpiece of trash
@onepoeticromancer Жыл бұрын
Sounds like M Night Shamalongadingdong and Dr Fauci made a movie. Holy phux.
That is by far the best Brie Larson roast I have ever witnessed.
@FrostlordTheWizard3 ай бұрын
This is by far your best review. I come back to this again and again. Thank you, Drinker!
@AnnusMirabilus3 жыл бұрын
They said Brando locked himself in his trailer and literally ate several *whole* pizzas daily while they made this film. You could see in "Apocalypse Now" that he was morbidly obese even during the late '70s. It's absolutely amazing that he even lived to age 80.
@19grand3 жыл бұрын
I think he lay in bed with the little dude perched on his stomach singing to him.
@CaptainUnusual3 жыл бұрын
He wasn't quite obese in the 70s, just kind of chunky.
@AnnusMirabilus3 жыл бұрын
@@CaptainUnusual "showed up on location in the Philippines weighing in at over 300 pounds" I'm 6'5". 300 pounds is morbidly obese even for me. Brando was 5'9". Coppola used shadows to remarkable effect.
@immikeurnot3 жыл бұрын
During Apocalypse Now, he was already refusing to learn his lines or even look at the script.
@RJRC_1053 жыл бұрын
It gets worse. The infamous scene in Last Tango in Paris with the butter? He pretty much sprang that on Maria Schneider without anyone else knowing and the director threw it in.
@khosrowzare83013 жыл бұрын
The funniest thing is, if they have had some dude just film the entire production drama and stitch it together as a documentary, they would have made back the production budget plus extra.
@DamnedSilly3 жыл бұрын
Actually, the film turned a profit. It's a terrible film, but not a 'flop' bringing in $10 million more than it cost.
@p.bamygdala21393 жыл бұрын
They did. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
@tsuyu0326963 жыл бұрын
Or if they mix mash both the film and production drama. It could've been the Blair Witch Project at that time.
@TheMetalAllfather3 жыл бұрын
That's called Tropic Thunder.
@LeonBosset3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Caddyshack based on the making of this film, with names, storyline and locations changed to protect against lawsuits?
@bobmcbigberry33622 жыл бұрын
That is the saddest origin of a drug fueled jungle orgy I've ever heard
@PunmasterSTP Жыл бұрын
This is insane. How could any part of humanity conspire to make something like this happen!?
@elder-woodsilverstein771622 күн бұрын
Hollywood.
@PunmasterSTP22 күн бұрын
@@elder-woodsilverstein7716 Yeah, you're right...
@cyberdystopia60293 жыл бұрын
So what are you saying, is Rian Johnson yet to reach the pinnacle of subverting expectations?
@IM-xs3uv3 жыл бұрын
Please, God, no. No!
@The-kr9rb3 жыл бұрын
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@Raitar1003 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Only god has him beat
@esyphillis1013 жыл бұрын
Don’t give him any ideas.
@khosrowzare83013 жыл бұрын
Rian Johnson on his own isn't that horrible. As long as he sticks to making original, artistic movies, the damage he does is minimum. The worst he can do is make a super intellectual movie that puts normal people to sleep faster than the most potent drugs. The problem started by with giving him power WAY beyond his means by putting him in charge of something as big as Star Wars.
@Lindberg19843 жыл бұрын
"He also came up with the genius idea for his character to have an ice bucket on his head. Because it was hot and he was morbidly obese!" LMAO
@xunk163 жыл бұрын
Still sounds like a cool idea though... if no one is seeing you... which was the character's standpoint.
@StephenGillie Жыл бұрын
Rewriting a script on the fly would make it very hard to read, unless you had an extra large house fly.
@GnubymeugnoT4 ай бұрын
I have a feeling this film was one of the sources of inspiration in “Tropic Thunder”. The behind the scenes stories of this film is unbelievable!
@chasehedges67754 ай бұрын
TRUE! Absolutely baffling film and production
@BrianRosenbergMusican3 жыл бұрын
06:04 "Shedding the documents" Disappearing to the jungle" & "sneaking into the wrap party to tell off Val Kilmer" is one of the greatest movie stories I have heard. Complete Boss Move achievement unlocked!!!
@southy983 жыл бұрын
Solid Snake would be proud.
@YouDice3 жыл бұрын
SherlockSteeleye wrap party
@judsongaiden98783 жыл бұрын
Of course, we'd expect no less from the dude who wrote and directed Hardware and also directed 'Color Out of Space'.
@BrianRosenbergMusican3 жыл бұрын
@@YouDice Thank you fixed!
@mar10ssj13 жыл бұрын
He no doubtlessly partook in all the midnight orgies that were happening in full monster makeup.
@TheWatchernator3 жыл бұрын
We sat down this weekend and watched Avengers Endgame. When Captain Marvel came in, I decided to remain silent and my girlfriend curiously asked "so, she can fly through ships?" Then later she commented "who is that, why was she there, I don't like that one". And I just thought about the Drinker.
@jonarbuckle7783 жыл бұрын
You could cut Captain Marvel completely out of Endgame with a few rewrites and reshoots, and it would have no impact on the film. She literally did nothing of value or interest, they just had her show up for some reason because she is the "StRoNgEsT aVeNgEr", destroy a few things and then vanish again. This is what shoehorning a character into a film looks like.
@mccor0023 жыл бұрын
Your girlfriend sounds like a good judge of character
@Diree3 жыл бұрын
@@jonarbuckle778 To be fair: They wanted to give her a much bigger role, but the fan backlash allegedly prompted them not to. And I think that decision was made before they realized that CapM was still a box office success (mostly, because people watched it to "prepare" for Endgame). Fuck Captain Marvel ... or at least this iteration of her.
@TheOneManWhoBeatYou3 жыл бұрын
@@jonarbuckle778 Don't forget she also set up Marvel's "Look how much we love female characters!" moment
@toddc39883 жыл бұрын
Your girlfriend is a keeper.
@letslego99149 ай бұрын
I watched this movie as a kid, loved it at the time because I dig anything sci-fi/horror. It makes so much sense now that while I enjoyed the film I always felt there was something not quite right about it.
@nathanaelmcmahan872 Жыл бұрын
I actually loved this film as a kid. I was sheltered. Then I learned what Michael Bay syndrome is. It's like authentic French Champagne to kids and tater salads, but MD 20/20 to the refined drinker.
@coyotefever1058 ай бұрын
I know what you mean
@johnstahlman97673 жыл бұрын
This movie paraphrased David Thewlis: Why are you turning animals into people Brando: It's so damn hot out here
@harpseal92343 жыл бұрын
That right lmao
@darknessviking3 жыл бұрын
yeah right
@RosieJonesRules3 жыл бұрын
lmaoo
@blueshit1993 жыл бұрын
in todays times the answer would simply be "it's so damn hot"
@TheKrensada3 жыл бұрын
The sad thing is that the story actually deserves a good movie adaptation.
@teth-adam3 жыл бұрын
that's why I evaded this movie like the plague. It looked disastrous from afar.
@cactoidpinata3 жыл бұрын
Isn't The Island of Lost Souls 1932 considered a good movie adaptation? I remember thinking it was pretty good.
@TheKrensada3 жыл бұрын
@@cactoidpinata I'm not a movie buff. Didn't even know it existed.
@cactoidpinata3 жыл бұрын
@@TheKrensada No worries. You should check it out if you don't mind B&W movies. I think it's quite good!
@michaelthompson70983 жыл бұрын
There is one from the 1970s starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York. It's a good film.
@scubasteves32148 ай бұрын
Probably still better than 80% of Hollywood films now
@Based-_-11 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. It is art. You are a genius.
@silaslanglang73763 жыл бұрын
One good thing that came out of this movie: South Park character, Maphesto.
@carybeweary72093 жыл бұрын
Yes! And his little buddy Kevin!
@Tronathon2423 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes! I never put the two together.
@devinschuhs7983 жыл бұрын
You don't say? Seriously
@opinionatedlookinboy55553 жыл бұрын
Not to mention Dr. Evil and Mini-me. lol "Mini-me....what don't we do? We don't eat our kitty." 😆
@DocDewrill3 жыл бұрын
@@Tronathon242 samle here, finaly Kevins existence makes sense. was bothering me for years that i never got a reason for his existence in south Park.
@bully36282 жыл бұрын
In the movie Tropic Thunder, the director of the film within the film, Damien Cockburn (played by Steve Coogan) who was in over his head and couldn’t control his actors, was based on Richard Stanley’s experience directing this movie.
@Barrobroadcastmaster Жыл бұрын
Except instead of disappearing and then coming back as an extra, he stepped on a landmine and exploded.
@sarahouillette13579 ай бұрын
@@Barrobroadcastmaster That feels like a metaphor...
@Barrobroadcastmaster9 ай бұрын
@@sarahouillette1357 It actually happened in Tropic Thunder.
@FallOnThese8 ай бұрын
@Barrobroadcastmaster hahaha. I totally forgot about that. Tropic Thunder is an absolute classic.
@oogaboogalou45218 ай бұрын
It's just corn syrup, guys. Blood flavored corn syrup
@DustnEchoes8 ай бұрын
Hey Drinker, I must say, your thumbnails on practically all your uploads are such great choices, I love this particular upload of yours for numerous reasons and idk if I could find it each time without your decision and work done on the thumbnail. I just wanted to say something about that bit if work of yours. The video itself is excellent of course but this comment is along enuf, so thanks for your content once again and pls keep it comin!
@American-BadAss7327 ай бұрын
This movie was on pay-per-view when we had the hotbox 'free ppv' and I watched it at least 100 times...damn i miss the 90s
@misanthropicservitorofmars21163 жыл бұрын
Sam Neil saw beyond the void and it destroyed his psyche. He’s legit one of my favorite actors.
@reneelasswell37343 жыл бұрын
I've had a crush on Sam Neill since The Final Conflict.
@archstanton90733 жыл бұрын
@T O That clip is from In The Mouth of Madness. The last good John Carpenter movie (IMO). Seek it out. It's a rare movie that gets Lovecraftian horror right.
@spacebum3 жыл бұрын
I was an extra on Peaky Blinders with Sam Neill. He was a dick. He wouldn’t talk to anyone, he kept wandering off and they’d send a runner to find him. I don’t know if he just didn’t want to be there or if he’s just a miserable dick.
@luchomscyfy3 жыл бұрын
Mouth of the Madness was excellent. But Sam Neill was terrific in Event Horizon. The part he accept they are going to hell.....Brilliant.
@aneffortlesssmile3 жыл бұрын
@@spacebum That's awesome! Never mind Sam Neil, but being on Peaky Blinders. Who are you specifically, if you can say?
@BioYuGi3 жыл бұрын
It's distressing how Marlon Brando looks more like someone wearing hideous old person makeup than an actual human who's old.
@melissam5972 жыл бұрын
It’s a damn tragedy considering how good-looking he was in his prime 😩😭
@HandleGF2 жыл бұрын
This was a very underrated comedy that sailed over most heads.
@ecnalremlig1644 Жыл бұрын
I DID work on Moreau under Stan Winston and what occurred in pre, production and post was the circus no mere mortal could ever dream or fathom.
@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.3 жыл бұрын
"Just imagine ... six months stuck in the middle of the Australian jungle with a bunch of people who hate each other, and are actively working to prevent the project from getting finished." Haaaaave you seen the Australian army?
@underthepale3 жыл бұрын
No, and neither has Australia!
@rods64053 жыл бұрын
@@underthepale Thats right they spend all their time in court sorting sexual harassment charges.
@scottkirby50163 жыл бұрын
This may explain the emu fiasco...
@Snoop_Dugg3 жыл бұрын
@@scottkirby5016 emu fiasco?
@manubour3 жыл бұрын
@@Snoop_Dugg the infamous emu war. 3 men with machine guns vs a horde of emus that were savaging crops back then the emus basically won given the cost of the operation and the little returns edit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eInTpmmql6t2qas for those interested in learning about the emu war trainwreck
@zetaconvex19873 жыл бұрын
"More toxic than a Reddit political thread." Now that's toxic!
@KingRumar3 жыл бұрын
All politics are toxic regardless of sides/wings. If you need a reminder on that, you're part of the problem.
@ImaginaryCyborg3 жыл бұрын
That's pretty much why I left Reddit. Trying to have a reasoned argument there is only gonna end up in you being called a Nazi, a bigot or the worst of all, privileged. And all this in a completely unrelated thread.
@matosz233 жыл бұрын
@Empowered Vagina ... Get. Out.
@mgshock3 жыл бұрын
Jesus..
@freezegopher70543 жыл бұрын
@Empowered Vagina LOL , good one.
@Soyuz25782 жыл бұрын
I love the fact Brando became obsessed with the world's smallest man hahaha
@Hauerization2 жыл бұрын
This one always had a soft spot in my heart. Not beacuse it so good, but beacuse of the actual madness of it.
@TonyP_Yes-its-Me3 жыл бұрын
I desperately want to see a film of this. With Val Kilmer as Marlon Brando.
@ryanw20323 жыл бұрын
Good news: they made a documentary about the filming. It's called Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
@jackalope23023 жыл бұрын
Only if Kilmer does his Brando accent the whole time
@num1Jaysta2 жыл бұрын
Should JTT play Kilmer?
@tonybippitykaye2 жыл бұрын
That would be hilarious. Unfortunately Kilmer has had his voice horribly injured due to his throat cancer, so we may never see that
@dolphinsrr2 жыл бұрын
Huh?
@BigBrotherMateyka3 жыл бұрын
Despite the calamities, the pettiness, the incompetence, and the absolute ego manifest in this production, it still wasn't enough to destroy David Thewlis's acting career. What a legend.
@mrcliff37093 жыл бұрын
I know I didn't even know he was in this movie
@whyuhatan3 жыл бұрын
@@mrcliff3709 I think he would prefer that we all didn't know that
@mrcliff37093 жыл бұрын
@@whyuhatan that I can agree with
@terrylandess60723 жыл бұрын
So in the Harry Potter movie, that wasn't a moon, it was Marlon Brando?
@sandman78263 жыл бұрын
David Thewlis as ranting sardonic deadbeat philosopher in 'Naked' - brilliant performance; set up the rest of his career.
@TheRaven_200 Жыл бұрын
I’m only halfway through the video, and everything about this production story sounds like something from a dark comedy. 😂
@petergmred2005 Жыл бұрын
This is one of your best mate. Laughing so hard throughout. Good on ya👍
@edwardgleeson83863 жыл бұрын
Director John Frankenheimer referring to the famous Will Rogers quote, "I never met a man I didn't like," had this to say: "Will Rogers never met Val Kilmer."
@jstone2473 жыл бұрын
I think during this shoot, Kilmer had a posse of female bodyguards in tow. Did he think he would be asassinated in Australia? His driver said he was the rudest celebrity client he had ever encountered.
@wjzav19713 жыл бұрын
To be fair, his wife was divorcing him and he just wanted out and sort that out and the studio wouldn't let him. I can imagine that this would bring out the worst in anyone. I mean, sorry but why didn't they just let him go?
@matehavlik45593 жыл бұрын
When I was an exchange student my host dad told about when he was the manager of the BMW-Range Rover dealership in Santa Fe he kept bringing his car back with the most random complaints, and he threw a fit every time when they told him there was nothing wrong with it, and he was a generally rude asshole who just loved conflict.
@606danco3 жыл бұрын
WJ ZAV Why the sorry shit aint your fault
@alexanderpabon29333 жыл бұрын
9:22: The possible inspiration for Austin Powers, where mini-me and Dr. Evil are playing on the piano together.
@mr.battle203 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Mini-Me gag in Austin Powers is a direct reference/parody to this movie.
@alexanderpabon29333 жыл бұрын
@@mr.battle20 Thank you, Mr. Battle! I never got a chance to look it up, myself. Knowing that it is a direct reference makes it even funnier! 😂 Also, cool Punisher logo!
@josepeito3 жыл бұрын
You were first...
@atomicdancer3 жыл бұрын
Marlon Brando to his little pal playing the piano: "You complete me."
@fejimush5 күн бұрын
The comedic value of this episode is absolutely epic! Love it!
@deerecoyote2040 Жыл бұрын
Hold on- wait a second! I read a choose-your-own-adventure book version of this story in 5th grade! I had no clue what a book like it was, and had to Google it when I got home because I was confused that the events didn't line up when I read them lol.
@meahoohenehene3 жыл бұрын
If nobody here has seen it already, i HIGHLY recommend watching the documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau. The stories about the production of this movie are insane and only touched on here.
@briangriffith45743 жыл бұрын
Came here to say this. Highly entertaining documentary
@polz83 жыл бұрын
The people who funded this production: "Nah, it'll be fine."
@roncur3 жыл бұрын
😂
@kreese-yi2nb3 жыл бұрын
Honestly, if it wasn't a Warner Bros. affiliate, I think New Line Cinema would crash down in flames after this movie.
@JohnDoe-yf9wk3 жыл бұрын
@@kreese-yi2nb I'm trying to remember when water world came out because I think it's existence is the only reason people don't remember island of dr. Moreau more than they do. You know what they say the only thing people remember more than a small disaster is a huge one.
@kreese-yi2nb3 жыл бұрын
@@JohnDoe-yf9wk Yes. Waterworld arrived a year prior, in 1995, and was also hailed a huge failure even during production. It also costed much more money than The Island I believe. But still... I liked that movie, one of the very few of Costner's. It was over the top, but ultimately kind of coherent and Dennis Hopper seemed to have a time of his life on screen. The Island though... The very act of watching it was a misery for me. I remained mostly unaware of behind the curtain drama at that time but boy... It showed on screen. The only positive thing I took away from it was a soundtrack I won from a local radio station. One of the first original CDs in my collection, I own it to this day.
@JohnDoe-yf9wk3 жыл бұрын
@@kreese-yi2nb Yeah I figured. Waterworld went way over budget (an almost laughable by today's standards 200 million which I believe is how much men in Black international cost / lost.) That was the only real reason people remember that movie (that and having Dennis Hopper and being helmed by the then ever-popular Kevin Costner) The sland of Dr. Moreau seriously only really garnered attention because it was such an absolute mess and the fact that it brought the constantly reclusive and weird and eccentric Marlon Brando out of hiding for long enough to film. as far as real disasters I think I've heard that as much crap as water world gets it actually wasn't as bad as most people think and it actually was able to make most of its money back. Whereas people were literally broken and damaged by island of Dr. Monroe. I mean I do think it took Val kilmer's career and pretty much smashed it to pieces once people knew what kind of a total asshat he was.
@Tsuneo625 Жыл бұрын
So this is why this was my most hated movie of all time. When I saw this in high school, I had the misfortune of being in a third wheel situation. The couple I went with were also a disaster of similar proportions.
@El-ahrairah-lc3tg7 ай бұрын
Knowing the backstory has instantly shot this up into favorite movie category for me
@Undeadstein3 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact : Marlon Brando Character was the basis for the South Park mad scientist in those early episodes.
@Papa-eb1lt3 жыл бұрын
Undeadstein nambla
@sarissophori3 жыл бұрын
Oooh, *now* that north American Marlon Brando look alike joke makes sense.
@Thatdudefabian3 жыл бұрын
Ahh yes. Dr. Alphonse Mephesto.
@keenkingjames3 жыл бұрын
Also inspired mini me
@dqreps3 жыл бұрын
@@keenkingjames it certainly inspires MY Mini-Me 😉😉😵
@MrFragalax3 жыл бұрын
Just imagine how crazy it would have been if James Woods had stayed on.
@nelsonx5326 Жыл бұрын
This movie, this actual version, is free in KZbin. I watched it last night and I thought it was damn good. It's got some weird stuff in it, whacked out stuff, but that helped keep it surprising and interesting. And it had some good laughs.
@khanartist79875 ай бұрын
I've been working on set as a lighting tech and Best Boy for the last 15 yrs. Worked on some pretty stressful shoots. Thank you for the background info! I probably would have been drinking and boning my way into a coma every night they called wrap as well. But I can say this. That crew certainly came away with a HELL of a lot of stories to tell!
@RIlianP3 жыл бұрын
"Alcohol and drug induced orgies to pass the time" Imagine being conceived during the shooting of this film. "It was the worst experience of my life, and the fact that you popped out later to remind me of it did not help either." - angry crew parent.
@dinolover3 жыл бұрын
I'd be mad as shit
@BulletTooth5043 жыл бұрын
Made worse if the orgies took place while actors were still in their beast people makeup.
@kathrynck3 жыл бұрын
@@BulletTooth504 oh you know they were.
@dinolover3 жыл бұрын
@@BulletTooth504 bruh you know they did, hell I would. If I'm not getting shit else on this island then I may as well tap some ass while dressed as a wolf human hybrid.
@suze8163 жыл бұрын
OR.. they might have told their kid, "You were the ONLY good thing that came from it".. (The disaster of a movie wasn't the kid's fault)
@jv84623 жыл бұрын
Who would have thought that when Brando said "the horror, the horror" in Apocalypse Now, he was actually retelling the experience of everyone that had worked with him
@SimoExMachina23 жыл бұрын
Just got that film and saw it about a week ago. It fulfilled my holy trinity of Vietnam War films: Platoon by Oliver Stone, Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick and Apocalypse: Now by Francis Ford Coppola.
@JohnDoe-zw8vx3 жыл бұрын
All the more reason why I'm surprised at why he was held in such high esteem.
@Rob_-dv6ei3 жыл бұрын
John Doe it’s his talent. His acting was the very best, but I suppose it got to his head - just look at Kanye West and Elon Musk for other examples of narcissists that are titans of their industry.
@19grand3 жыл бұрын
Ahh, but what an actor.
@floramcgregor1315 күн бұрын
I have to admit that whenever I'm feeling blue, I can put on this video and laugh through the whole thing. I saw this movie in the theater as a teenager and we laughed through that whole thing too. Nice one, Drinker!
@DaNinja60 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Drinker! You've made me want to finish watching that horrible mess of a movie just for the laugh at what went on behind the scenes. Just caught it the other day.
@Ensign_Cthulhu3 жыл бұрын
So in other words, Brando had a direct connection to two of the most disastrous production processes in motion picture history. Yet one of them will always be remembered as a contender for the title of greatest war film ever, while the other... well...
@wjzav19713 жыл бұрын
Brando was pretty much a nightmare in Apocalpyse Now too. He would walk of set believing that's what his character would do and was an overweight playing a supposedly skinny man, which is why they kept him in shadows. His screentime wasn't that long either.
@furioussherman72653 жыл бұрын
He also made The Godfather a bitch to work on as well. Thankfully, Francis Ford Coppola was able to put his foot down and get Brando to actually cooperate.
@CurtisAlfeld2 жыл бұрын
There's a lot of weird connections to these two movies. HG Wells and Joseph Conrad (author of Apocalypse Now's source material, Heart of Darkness) were friends until Heart of Darkness was released, in which Wells claimed that elements of the story were copied from the Island of Dr. Moreau. The character of Kurtz is based on Sir Henry Morton Stanley, who is the great-grandfather of this film's original director, Richard Stanley. And, of course, Marlon Brando being a fat sack of shit in both movie adaptations.
@dazitmane89052 жыл бұрын
@@furioussherman7265 Brando was better in Godfather. He threatened to leave the movie if Pacino and Coppola were fired.
@BigBadJerryRogers5 ай бұрын
The Kurtz character of apocalypse now shouldn't have been a skinny guy he should have been imposing. He's supposed to be a great soldier.
@weirdshibainu3 жыл бұрын
Imagine being the studio exec that approved this project and having to provide updates to senior management.
@jsat56093 жыл бұрын
No problem; how do you think he got to be a studio exec?
@healthcareforallfiftyseven37733 жыл бұрын
@@jsat5609 super easy, barely an inconvenience
@davefuller84 Жыл бұрын
The true story and behind the scenes of this train wreck is a glorious heap of melodramatic bile and it’s awesome. This makes Alien 3 look like a well oiled production. This would be an off theatre district acid induced interpretation of Cats with those creature effects.