When I watched cartoons as a kid, and people would go underwater and walk around, breathing normally, I would bad-mouth the show. …and, science-fiction or not, they have people dancing around in the air like they’re on the ground.
…and I will pay a million dollars in cash to anyone that can show me a movie from India without a ten minute song/dance number.
I love the way that Bollywood films use dance scenes the way that American films use dramatic tension – their audiences would be bored to tears without it. But juxtapose that with American cultural icons and you have kitsch gold. The cheesy 70’s special effects don’t help either.
But for exported-superhero-WTFery my money is on Japanese Spider-Man. That’s only the intro but it does show Spider-Man’s most important power: calling his giant robot on his spider-wristwatch. If you can track down a full episode I highly recommend it; sadly it’s been pulled from YouTube.
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When I watched cartoons as a kid, and people would go underwater and walk around, breathing normally, I would bad-mouth the show. …and, science-fiction or not, they have people dancing around in the air like they’re on the ground.
…and I will pay a million dollars in cash to anyone that can show me a movie from India without a ten minute song/dance number.
I love the way that Bollywood films use dance scenes the way that American films use dramatic tension – their audiences would be bored to tears without it. But juxtapose that with American cultural icons and you have kitsch gold. The cheesy 70’s special effects don’t help either.
But for exported-superhero-WTFery my money is on Japanese Spider-Man. That’s only the intro but it does show Spider-Man’s most important power: calling his giant robot on his spider-wristwatch. If you can track down a full episode I highly recommend it; sadly it’s been pulled from YouTube.
Furnace, I know of a few…can you cut that check by Friday? Not all Indian cinema is Bollywood…