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Diabolik (1968)
Cinema's least likeable character.
What a lousy movie. I knew the second the "artsy" credits started that I was in for a real stinker, but I never imagined how much I would hate this movie. I don't konw what they were trying for, but Diabolik is easily the least likeable protagonist I've ever seen in a movie. He blows Mae West's "Sextette" character (though Sextette was easily a more painful movie) out of the water in sheer annoyingness and unlikeability. I spent the entire movie wondering why we were supposed to cheer for/like Diabolik? He has no redeeming qualities at all, nor is he inherently likeable enough to be a good anti-hero. In fact he really didn't have any characteristics besides greedy, annoying, cocky, and a lover of unitards. The ending where he blinks at the stupid annoying woman out from under his shell of gold p**sed me off to. At least if you think about it logically he'll suffer a fate worse then death, left to slowly starve to death in his shell. Hmmm... actually I think the end of the movie just became a lot more likeable...
Maybe I'm being a tad harsh, I really shouldn't ahve expected anything good from a French-Italian co-production from the 60's. Actually I can't think of any good Italian movies from the 60's that weren't directed by Sergio Leonne.
I gave this movie a resounding 1, but it will always hold a place in my heart as the last MST3K episode.
The Hellcats (1968)
Where's the plot????
I watched this travesty of a movie on MST3K and I can tell you, even Joel and the robots can't save this mess of a movie. The movie starts with a little blurt of a plot about an undercover police officer who gets killed. The killed officer's brother and wife decide to infiltrate a biker gang to find who killed the officer. This all takes about 15 minutes to set up. The next hour will be filled by terrible "motorcycle riding" scenes (definate filler) a pointless booze, drug, orgy type thing, a stupid booze, drug, orgy picnic, a motorcycle race (where you don't get to see the race, just the spectators), a fight scene that may well have been choreagraphed by a retarded todler and finally a teensy bit of resolution for the "plot". The only thing I could think about during this movie is how much I wanted some of the copious amounts of booze they were inhaling, it would have made the movie hurt less.
It's worth watching if you feel like getting very drunk and laughing, but for just straight watching it's no Space Mutiny or Gamera.