Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: LATITUDE ZERO (REUPLOAD)
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Review of the Japanese/American sci-fi movie "Latitude Zero" (1969), starring Joseph Cotten and Cesar Romero. (Originally aired July 16th, 2012)
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The best example of US/Japanese collaboration in a live-action film is undoubtedly, "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
It one oscars for special effects. Great acting on both sides. You are undoubtedly correct.
Cesar Romero, and guys in bat costumes. No escape from Batman.
The flying lion from me land of misfit toys in " Rudolph the red nosed reindeer".1964.
The moment when you had a shitty day, but then you find old review from Brandon that you haven't seen before. 👌
The intersection of zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude falls 611 km south of Ghana and 1,078 km west of Gabon. This location is in the tropical waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, in an area called the Gulf of Guinea. The equator is Latitude zero.
Let's call it point L0L0.
When I saw the title, and every time they said "Latitude Zero," all I could think was, "You mean the equator?"
@@CasualNotice Nice tropical climate there. :D
Personally I entirely support Latitude Zero's utopia of scientists and trampoline chicks.
I might apply to do an MSc now...
Japanese Wakanda.
So this is where the creator's of the Man Show got the concept of girls on trampolines. Good work!!
Seconded. 👍
Joseph Cotten wrote in his autobiography that he and his wife Patricia Medina only made the movie so they could visit Japan. He also said that the movie lived up (or down) to its title.
that's actually a trope; it's called "Vacation, dear boy"
@@DDlambchop43 No, it is NOT a trope, despite what some stupid website insists.
You said "You really have to like cheese to enjoy this movie." Just as a scene with giant rats is shown. I thought that was kinda funny. Great job on this review! 😄
I'd always heard of "Latitude Zero" as an old radio program. Now I've discovered that this movie was based off of it. The series actually WAS about Captain Mckenzie in an underwater super-science Utopia battling a villain named Malic and his rocket ship. The good guys' enemies included giant crabs, gryphons, magic rings that shrink people, and killer trees. It was created by Ted Elton Sherdeman back in 1941 and was apparently very popular.
Actually, the guy playing the 'French' scientist IS an actual Frenchman, albeit one of Japanese descent.
So, is that like David Carradine, playing a Chinese monk?
True, and he spoke fluent French as well. Half Japanese and half European, so this isn't too far off.
@@RetroRooNE001 His name is Masumi Okada (born Otto Sevaldsen), and he had quite the diverse filmography, ranging from "Shogun" (1980), to producing the first two "Battle Royale" movies.
Masumi Okada was an eminent and popular Tokyo-based professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, emcee, host-presenter and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg.
Really?Huh...The more you know
I laughed so hard at that get hot girls to dress like cartoon characters line, it's so true it's amazing.
Say hi to you neko waifu desu.
Joseph Cotton always said he didn't feel like himself if he wasn't working. Sounds like most of us who just want a career we can look back on with fond memories. You ought to review '"Death Ship" 1980 with George Kennedy and Richard Crenna. You know they just did that for the paycheck. It also stars fellow Canadian, Nick Mancuso.
Man, between this and The Green Slime, who would have guessed Richard Jaeckel would go on to be nominated for an Oscar for Sometimes A Great Notion?
Jaeckel was never bad in anything he did.
True, I can't remember ever seeing him turn in a bad performance, no matter how bad the movie was. And The Green Slime is a bad, bad, bad movie. But it is also highly entertaining, one of those "so bad it's good" movies. Brandon should review it.
His two costars in Grizzly posed for Playgirl. I suppose his speedo scene in this flick about evens them all out.
the polar bear in SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS is more convincing than the lion in this movie...
Someone should call Takashi Miike about doing a remake of this. Looks right up his alley!
Romero's performance in this movie can only be described as Pre-Joker Joker.
Actually, he did this AFTER he was on Batman.
He did this AFTER his career as leading man was long over and WELL BEFORE he was outed...
+AvengerII, him and Joseph Cotten would make an interesting couple!
Wish Ishiro Honda had enough to afford Julie Newmar, who was probably busy or something =,/
Not pretty joker. It came out after
Dude a Doctor Who AND a Prisoner reference? We are now friends. L0L
Woah, Brandon knows Japanese!? Get on this guy's level!
So that's what Caesar Romero looks like without the Joker makeup.
Caesar refused to shave his moustache off for the role of the Joker, so the makeup department just pasted white pancake makeup over it prior to filming each scene.
@@KageNoTora74 To think it would all eventually go fu circle for DC when they had to use CGI to hide Henry Cavil's Mustache from the Wedon cut of JL because he was also being doing filming for the most recent MI film at the time and they wouldn't let him shave it off at all.
Wow, you've not aged a day in the 5 years since!
He's a vampire.
Eye cream before bed, works wonders lol
@@leviroch
"Please keep in mind you do need to have a very high tolerance for cheese, though."
- Brandon Tenold
That's what i notice alot
He's from Canada the cold weather acts as a natural preservative.
Latitude Zero is not bound by your petty notions of fashion! :D
So glad you uploaded this! I've never seen this review!
When I saw the winged lion I was expecting a King Moonracer joke from Rudolph’s land of misfit toys
Wow a secret review from the past! And a trippy 60s Japanese scifi at that. Nice review, loved the Joseph Cotton and Batman gags. I'd love to see movies like this on the show.
So there city is basically Rapture from Bioshock
Or wakonda whit white people...
Or Eureka... Or Utopia...
I got an "The Institute" vibe (from Fallout 4).
When you said it has as much in common with atragon as troll 2 has with fucking atragon I giggled my ass off. You got me good.
I second King Kong Escapes it's the first Japanese Kaiju movie I got my kids to watch all the way through. not just when the Kaiju show up.
7:24 just like "The Man Show", ah, brings back memories :)
Had I first seen "Latitude Zero" as a kid, as I have most of the movies I love, instead of as an adult in his forties (many moons ago), I would have liked this flick better than I did upon my first viewing.
I am curious as to why Director Ishiro Honda choose to have the Japanese actors do their own English when he could have simply filmed their dialogue in Japanese while filming the American actors speaking their lines in English, then let the dubbing department at Toho (and later at Titan or whoever) take over, as was done with his earlier films like "King Kong Escapes" and "Frankenstein Conquers the World".
I still think that it's a fun movie, especially Cesar (Butch) Romero doing his Vincent Price imitation, and Eiji Tsuburaya's SPFX (the ol' boy still had it, even when he was becoming ill) but it could have been handled better.
Fun Fact: Joseph Cotton got a stomach virus during the filming of LZ, thought to be honest, I think that it was more his costume designer that made him sick than whatever he caught...
interesting bit of trivia the Griffin was actually a costume and Nakajima was in it that's right Godzilla himself played the Griffin
He played the Griffon, a bat person and a giant rat.
+Tyrant Gregcag (Kaiju71) i did not konw that
Teruo Aragaki, who played Rodan in "Destroy All Monsters" and Gamera in the first three sequels was one of the giant rats as well.
+KeepingAngelaBaker That's something I certainly did not know.
'Giant Rat'!?! I thought the politically correct term was Rat Of Unusual Size... or 'ROUS'.
12:59 so this is what it’d be like if the Man-Bats had appeared in the Adam west show
Would've been interesting to see though.
Intresting Triva: Toho resused one of the Bat-Man suits for an episode of their show Go Greenman. (Which also featured appearances from a couple of the more obscure Toho monsters also.)
Dude, just when I think I've seen all your videos, I find another one I missed somehow. I love it.
I'm SO glad this is up again!
Dude, I love your reviews. They're hilarious! Please announce if ever you're in Houston
Nautilus and a little Doctor Moreau with the serial numbers filed off. Incredible.
"What's that coming at us? Oh no, it's a contrived plot device!"
Can't believe you didnt make Ralph Furley reference from that guy's outfit 😂😂😂
is that the guy from the B-52’s? That who I was thinking of.
the Griffin looks like the king of the island of misfit toys! claymation "Rudolph the red nose reindeer". 😁
The lion reminds me of the Monty Python sketch “Scott of the Antarctic,” in which Michael Palin’s character fights a “lion,” and the blood goes PSHHHHHH in slow motion.
Couldn't have asked for a better place for the commercial.
The subs look cool, though, and that ocean eruption at the beginning actually looked awesome.
1:42 well, we do have people of Asian decent in France... but I doubt they'd be called Gilles Maçon. And if they were, they probably wouldn't have a heavy Japanese accent.
I will give them credit for the name Gilles Maçon. Sounds convincingly French without being stereotypical.
According to the opening credits, it's "Jules Maison" or maybe "Jules Masson." One of those two.
Oh well, still works. I mean, it's not something like Pierre Dupont or whatever.
My favorite Toho movies will always be the first 7 kaiju movies they made
Varan: what about me?
The first seven kaiju movies
Varan: aww
I thought your Classic Batman references were hilarious. Also, didn't Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer have a winged lion on the Island of Misfit Toys?
That's right I thought that lion was familiar. He is the king of misfit toys. Lol
The scariest thing about that lion was that it's teeth were three inches back from the front of its mouth, as if they had designed a manticore but decided to get rid of the front row of teeth for...reasons(?)
Yeah, King Moonracer! Now we have it's origin. LOL
It wasn't until the brain transplant scene that I realized that I had seen this when I was a kid at 8 or 9. I always remembered that scene but couldn't remember the movie it was in. I remember being absolutely horrified at that scene and laughing uproariously at the fight scene afterwards as the hero kicked one of the bat creatures in the ass. I never realized that it was the joker that was the bad guy in the movie.
The “gryphon” that is also in this movie makes a brief appearance in the history of Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters! :D I am referring to that half-lion and half-eagle creature that appears! :)
The winged lion looks like the puppet from the old “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadeobe” tv series but if it was made by the children.
2:24 I like the refrenes to voyage to the bottom of the sea
Ray Harryhausen did a griffin in "THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD", a few years after this. I can just picturing him doing that and thinking, "Now, THIS is how you DO it!"
I've been curious about this one for a long time! Thanks for the review....that was surreal
Wow, once victorious McKenzie just straight stops pretending, and dresses like #6 took over the Village and moved it underwater!
This has to be one of Brandons best reviews, for me anyway !
Could you do "saynora jupiter"? I've never gotten to see that one...
4:13 I love how they went to the effort of using the UK spelling for "harbour," yet didn't bother spelling Stornoway correctly, nor specifying that it's in the *Outer* Hebrides. I suppose it would've been too much to mention the Isle of Lewis, too?
Holy crap, the Charles Nelson Reilly laugh got me cackling!! I'd give anything for him to have been in a horror flick like this
Your footage from "The Prisoner" reminds me of a cartoon a friend of mine drew years ago: Edward Scissorhands, the only person to ever walk out of the village. (The giant balloons were yipping in fear as they fled him.)
God, that was funny! The only thing missing was you saying, "kerchief," in that funny Canadian accent of yours.
It's Lifeguard Old Man from Baywatch!
"I'm SO OLD!"
David Hassleholve?
Brandon, keep up with the bad puns and "Dad-Jokes", they are funny as hell!!
The monsters in the film are
Griffon
Condor(mentioned)
Giant rats
Bat men (name reference)
Great review as always Brandon. How about "The killing at outpost Zeta"?, or "The Legend of Boggy Creek" for a change of pace? He always travels the creeks... :)
@Brandon Tenold : The Green Slime. It is time.
I come to bury Ceasar, not to praise him. Excellent pun!
Saw it when i was 10 years old....
Love the nostalgia.
I did not age well.
So glad for that advertising bar at the opening segment. First for everything.
FWIW N 0 W 176 is in the Pacific SE of Baker Island.
I can never think of Captain Kangaroo the same again! 14:41
Nice to see this review and Gunhed back on youtube.
Your acting is so Wooden. Even Brandon does a prove of it! (4:42 to 4:55)
You gotta do Solar Crisis and Virus!
I like the mutant creatures in this movie. Especially the lion condor hybrid.
I have a very bad case of flu, so it hurts laughing. I have been hurting very bad troughout the video, damn you!!!
@15:35 longitude 176 W, latitude 0 is near Baker Island in the Pacific. 176 E is north of Tabukiniberu in Kiribati, still in the Pacific.
Super snarky Jack O'Neil... I finally get it. Canadiasnark. It gets me every time. Scratching that Kids in the Hall itch.
Fun fact: The Griffon (the winged lion) once met KISS, along with the Tyrannosaurus rex from The Last Dinosaur.
Damn McKenzie's ability to think in 3D. It's not like that has been done before... or after. XD
You need to do "Battle Beyond the Stars"...Vic Morrow and Phillip Casanoff (Dean Munsch's ex husband from "Scream Queens") along with another women are the three gai-jin in this space fantasy. (And I've named my Shogunyan 'Hanzo' after the prince in the movie and perhaps the beetle samurai in "Kubo and the Two Strings"...)
Although Toho has given us the anime versions of "Pokemon" and "Yo-Kai Watch"...and a partly live-action film for the latter. And they run a damn fine theater division. :)
You're such a weirdling; can't stop laughing derisively....
Great job!
03:39. If she's a doctor, I'd like to be her patient. Pretty please, with a cherry on top! ;P
Hey, there's the Ambassador to Planet X.
So you have the Joker as the villain, bat-men, cool gadgets, the Dr from Dr Phibes? Sign me up!
0:58
Therapist: japanese brandon tenold isn't real,he can't hurt you
Japanese brandon tenold:
Oh man I remember seeing this on TV a long time back
2:34 Keep your chin up! "Ow, my chin!"
So when Brandon first uploaded this did he start getting a bunch of requests for that Japanese/Canadian co-produced live action Gundam movie?
Batshit crazy does not even come close to describing this movie. This is insanity 10°10
Gurrrrl that swanky getup. ...I don't even have to set my gaydar on "Squint"
Joseph Cotton would later star in a another underwater sci fi adventure, City Beneath the Sea.
I fucking love "Virus" 1980, save for the feel-good ending.
Never seen this review. It was really good :) I love the music you use for the ending and opening credits here though :)
You need to do The Great Wall(2016) which is a Sino-US coproduction.
"Latitude Zero" was made five years after the Rankin-Bass "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Do you suppose the winged lion was inspired by Moonracer, king of the Island of Misfit Toys?
14:08 I dunno about Japan, that feels more Thunderbirds. A secret island with a scientific genius who wants to help mankind and builds super-vehicles?
this is just live action Deep combined with 20000 leagues under the sea
11:11 I was so f*cking hoping you were going to make a rite repulsa joke for that one! BWAHAHAHAHA!
How did they manage to get these well known US actors in a Japanese SciFi film?
the captain gives off a really Three Companies Mr Farley vibe to him+
Saw this as a preteen at a matinee when it was released. Only thing I remember is the blond. Romero must have had a hard time paying the rent to take this role.
that’s the only trick I remembered as well!
That new Bioshock movie looks strange, where are the little mutants and murder-drill diver suits?
This looks like my kind of movie
Dang, this was an early one. Nice work as always
You mentioned that this movie was anounced as "Atragon 2" in some markets. Here in Germany the first Atragon movie was called "U 2000 - seadive of fear" while LatitudeZero was marketed as "U 4000 - panic beneath the ocean". While those two movies actually not relate to the other they have a common theme. For me, having watched it in cinema matinee in the seventies "Atragon" was the better movie because it featured a cool submarine which is shown frequently plus real seamonsters. and the story of the asian "Atlantis", the kingdom of "Mu" had the right adventurous touch. Filmed in 1963 it was definetely a cash in to secret agent movies of the time. You haven't reviewd it, as I suppose. So give it a try. It might be one of the best non-Godzilla Toho films with not-so-ridiculous monster effects. (side fact: I was so enthusiastic then that I bought a toy of the golden seamonster when it was available in Germany).