Bad Movie Review: Treasure of the Four Crowns
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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Summary: The film follows J.T. Striker, a Soldier of Fortune (Tony Anthony), who has been hired to assemble a group of professional thieves to retrieve the gems which are hidden inside two of the remaining four Mystical Crowns. Striker braves a mysterious magical cave in which skeletons and spears appear and jump out at him. He discovers a scroll in one of the crowns in the cave, which tells him that the fourth crown had disappeared long ago. He denies that the gems are magical or even valuable. He succumbs to the belief eventually and sets off to find the last two crowns, which are being held inside a heavily guarded compound, that is the home of a cult led by the evil Brother Jonas.
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Written and presented by Robin Bailes @robinbailes
Directed and Edited by Graham Trelfer
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"The 3d was amazing! I felt like I could reach out and touch the string."
The film may be bad, but the score by Morricone is marvellous. May he Rest in Peace.
Was as surprised to see his credit as I was to see John Barry's in "Star Crash".
Not after this piece slug came out; most likely spinning in his grave at warp speed.
@@gregghill2059 Same.
@@danddoty3981 As Robin observed, it's probably not the film he'd want to be remembered by.
Yes. I had to order the soundtrack LP from Europe since there was no North American release. Worth the expense for a Morricone score.
Having worked on a Cannon film back in '85, I will say this about the company: Golan and Globus were men with a determined mission. They brought a slew of Israeli filmmakers over to the US and gave them jobs on their films. Celebrated directors in their home country would wind up working as "prop masters" and so forth. The crew would do much of the real work, however, with these designations being mostly titular. Many went on to continue to work in the industry here in the US as producers and other more prestigious, or at least better-paying, roles.
They never overlooked a chance to promote an idea pitch, no matter how insane. Variety magazine in the 80s had ads which heralded dozens of unmade ideas, often around familiar fairy-tale concepts with once-A-list actors. They must have gotten bulk ad rates! And they leveraged any opportunity they could find (I suspect that the film I worked on was either the result of, or enabled their distribution of, the Academy Award-winning film The Assault).
Smart businessmen overall, but with a very low threshold for quality.
I still remember the Variety ad announcing "Charles Bronson is...THE GOLEM"!
Besides The Assault they also distributed Runaway Train which got some critical praise. But as for full Cannon productions they were hacks. One of the highest budget films they ever made was Cobra which was distributed by Warner Bros. For the most part their films were on the level of Missing in Action and Invasion USA and those silly Ninja movies. They were hacks and they had a system down where they knew how to keep production costs low to maximize profits. They knew the audience for their films. So lowbrow were their films that audiences would chiclel when they saw A Cannon Film or A Golan Globus Production roll across the screen. I know I did. But I still kept going to their films. It was all good fun. I'll tell you this, Delta Force was almost cathartic. I saw it in Westwood at the Mann Festival. When Chuck beat the crap out of the head terrorists a the end the audience almost stood up and cheered. We loved it.
@@angusorvid8840 Yes, we DID love Delta Force...
I've always found Cannon to be a particularly interesting company. I used to work in a video shop in the early-mid 1990s and noticed nearly all their movies went straight to video, although maybe in the US they had some theatrical releases. I know in the UK they had a chain of cinemas but they rarely showed Cannon produced films unless it was a prestige film like 'Appointment with Death' . an 'expensive' production like Superman IV or a film that they had only bought the distribution rights for like 'Highlander'. They also supposedly had a reputation for not paying bills by doing things absconding from hotels in the middle of the night and getting actors to perform their own stunts to avoid hiring a stuntperson or a double. Did you experience any of that ?
My condolences, lol.
- JK, I have a love for Cannon; I recognize that it's perverse, but _I just can't stop!_
*Barfly* ('87) is a really GOOD Cannon flick! ruclips.net/video/nYF3q1KCZnM/видео.html
„…and incinerated the Cultists…“
As someone who played through _Blood_ several times, I approve of this.
So strange how childhood memories get distorted. I remembered this as being one of those super-cool maze-of-traps films like Cube. I thought it was awesome. Seeing this, I recognize nothing of what I'd built it up to be in my 'memory'.
Good point. Some things you remember get clouded over. Cannot stand up to the test of time.
@@zerpblerd5966 Incorrect.
I seen this movie in the theater when I was 9 years old and the 3D was Awesome! I love this movie ... I can't say enough good stuff 😎
Omg, same here. Finally found this movie after all these years! Lolz
Fun fact, back in the day of early laser disc releases, the laser disc of this was often used by high end stereo stores because apparently the audio channel mix was fantastic for surrounding speaker set ups. We had about 4 different high end electronic stores and every single one would put the laser disc on, cue up a particular scene (the bat scene I think or one of the fight scenes) and play it for customers. I have to admit it sounded really good. It's not a good movie. I also thought the hero often looks like Burt Young from Rocky.
Barot8 😎
My dad used to do that with the Podrace with his home theater setup.
@@christopherwall2121 Nice!
Laerdisc or CED format?
Thank you! I saw part of this, once, eons ago on cable in the 80s when I was but a youngling.
Occasionly over the years my subconscious would spit a piece of it out and I would often wonder where this particular hallucination came from.
Now I have a name for it and the healing can now begin.
I have been trying to find the title of this film for decades. I saw it as a kid on TV, but every time I attempted to describe it, it devolved into “Surely you are confusing three different movies.” THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
SAME
The last ten minutes are pretty hilarious...unfortunately, there's a whole movie before that which isn't.
Will four minutes and thirty-two seconds do? ruclips.net/video/PyOovqowURs/видео.html
I love that the Wikipedia entry for this lists its reception as simply " The film was a box office disappointment."
I imagine the people in the theaters were pretty disappointed too...what few of them there were.
Saw this one at the theatre in all its 3D glory😎
This is probably a “never gonna happen” sort of comment, but I’d love to see a deep dive video into El Santo. He starred or co-starred in at least 52 movies between 1958 and 1982! The guy’s a legend in Mexico.
Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Stewardesses. John Candy
80s movies and 80s cartoons really were not that far apart.
Tony Anthony, as European Western fans know, played the lead character in "The Stranger" series of Italian Westerns in the late '60's and early '70's, and was one of the main characters in 1971's "Blindman", which starred Ringo Starr and was a Western about a blind gun-fighter.
Was he a better actor in his native language?
Ah yes, that non-acting career from Ringo Starr that we were all promised but never happened.
Art Garfunkel enters the chat.
@@davidhanson4909 Anthony's American, so he was speaking in his native tongue, and no.
I highly recommend 'Electric Boogaloo - The Wild Untold Story Of Cannon Films'
I saw both of those breakdance movies in the movie theater. They were good as I remember!
What are Turbo and Ozone doing now, probably still saving neighborhood community centers!
I'm guessing Stryker only accepted the assignment after he failed to win the Mickey Gilley lookalike contest .
...THATS who I was thinking of!
I was about to Make a Mickey Gilley comment; I'm glad someone realized this too and beat me too it =) It's almost like Charles Bronson VS Robert Bronzi , Look'em up , LOL !!
I remember seeing this when I was small. Did not know what it was called. Thank you for this review.
I don't have a great internet connection, so this video came to me in 480p. And I could _still_ see the strings in the "floating" effects.
I remember watching this on cable back in the day and God forgive me I think I liked it
The bird at the start looks like the giant claw!!!
When this came out, I was 6 (years old, not feet tall) and yet I still remember how I reached out for the opening credits because they were right in front of my face. It was was my first 3-D experience and, to this day, I still enjoy the gimmick. I'm disappointed when a 3-D movie is merely presenting "depth." Screw that! I want things coming off the screen at me. CONSTANTLY!
YES! I wonder why that is? It came out when I was in 8th grade, though I had no access to a theater so I've never seen it, I had never seen a 3-d movie and really wanted to check it out (for that reason alone). I was thinking of getting the 3-d blu ray for the gimmick alone (my friend told me back in the day it was terrible, so I didn't miss much)
I actually saw this in the movies when I was kid! I remember everyone laughing their asses off!
OMG.
I remember seeing this film back in 83. it was my friend's 13th birthday party and we saw this in a double feature with lone Wolf McQuade (best Chuck Norris film ever.)
I remember the 3D being kind of interesting. Watching the film today I could see where it would be pretty cheesy but back when I was 13 I thought it was pretty cool..
Oh my god, the tambourine is coming right for us.
You've got to love cannon, but using Morricone is like putting wings on a reliant robin.
As an 80's kid... I took full advantage of the decade's 3D Renaissance! One thing that ALWAYS bothered me about them was the needlessly excessive scenes of things popping from the screen to get full use of the gimmick! 'Friday The 13th V3' had a guy with a Yo-Yo for Pete's Sake!
@1:40 The "key" looks more like a spoon that's had its handle shortened!
This film has been in my Top 3 BEST Bad Movies of All Time List.... I NEVER laughed So hard as a kid, having skipped school that day, watching it on HBO in the 80's. It was "Totally Awesome" !!! EDIT: No It IS My Favorite Of All Time # 1 . If you've never seen it, you really should before you die.
This movie is amazing! J.T. Striker is cinema's second greatest hero!
Cannon was the ultimate provider of 80's schlock. You could easily dedicate an entire video series to their movies (my personal top 3: 1) Invasion USA 2) Cobra 3) Masters of The Universe).
I saw this in the theaters as a kid and I remember commenting to my friend how bad everything was, including the 3D. I also think there were only 3 crowns featured in the four crown movie.
Just seconds in--- that's us 🤣🤣🤣 but wow, Morricone. Other than that, there are no words
Every now and then back in the 80's Cannon managed to produce good or interesting films, (Maria's Lovers, Runaway Train, The Company of Wolves, Love Streams, Powaqqatsi, Barfly, Lifeforce), usually when Golan met an interesting director and signed them up for a film or two, but so much of their work was truly hilarious. Back in the 80's Cannon used to take out about 40 pages of ads for upcoming films, of which usually a fourth were ever made. Not surprising to see Morricone here, so many bad films were graced with scores they did not deserve.
Powaquqtsi was amazing and Schrader's Barfly hit a homerun for the fantastic acting lessons we got from Mickey Rourke (pre TDS) and Faye Dunaway.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I saw this film when I was a kid and could not remember the title. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle.
holy crap I remember the magic key. I must have seen this movie as a kid but only remember weirdess, confusion and a magic key.
Another gem.
"I need a clown, it's my kid's birthday."
Okay, that had me rolling.
Being a child of the 80s I admit I actually enjoy this piece of nostalgic cheese despite the fact the filmmaker never checked the gate!❤
I guess you just had to be there to appreciate it!
The official followup to Comin' At Ya! Fairly excruciating and padded, but with a really fun Topkapi like break in in the last reels. Makes a fun double bill with Armour Of God.
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3. 1 was a classic, a true piece of film art, 2 had a lot more comedy, but it was still a good movie. 3 went super serious and it suck ass to the tenth power.
Saw this in the theatre as an 11 year old for a friend's birthday party. I never forgot it. Part of the early 80s 3D renaissance. Jaws 3D, Amityville Horror 3D, Friday the 13th 3D, and who can forget Molly Ringwald in Space Hunter 3D (saw that in the theatre as well).
Love the hidden key that appears to have been lost originally from someone's back door
Not only Morricone, this film features Francisco Rabal (the heart attack guy) one of Spanish most respected actors.
Also the acrobat girl is Ana Obregón, a very famous Spanish socialité who had a brief acting career in the 80's (which peaked when she appeared in one A-Team episode as the vilain's girlfriend).
I saw this when it first came out. All I can remember is the scene where the medallion or whatever it was is floating in mid air. You could see the 4 pieces of wire holding it up in mid air. Tonu Anthony should have stayed with Spaghetti Westerns.
And i thought Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was incompetent
I liked the film in an sometimes-I'm-drunk kinda way, but even thats a bit optimistic.
Some factoids perhaps;
This is Tony Anthony's last screen appearance. He's more famous for his spaghetti westerns that have achieved cult status. His most famous character being "The Stranger". He also wrote this masterpiece.
Ennio Morricone is/was a wonderful film composer with too many titles to mention here. Thanks for mentioning him Jamie.
Actually, this was not a Cannon Films production. It was a cheapo Italian made 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' knock-off that Cannon bought the distribution rights to. In fact 'Raiders' inspired a whole load of films attempting to copy its formula, some quite decent and some lamentable. Cannon had a go at producing a handful themselves (King Solomon's mines in 1985 is tongue in cheek fun but its 1986 sequel 'Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold' is shockingly bad whilst the Chuck Norris/Lou Gossett Jr film 'Firewalker' is just plain tedious).
However I remember as a child going to the cinema to see a movie (I think it may have been Octopussy) and seeing a trailer for this film. A deep booming voice saying it was "...in 3D Wondervision" made it sound so exciting. I never did watch it on its release but I persuaded my dad to rent it from the video shop when it turned up there about a year later and being staggered just how bad it was. Ok, the videotape (Betamax) was a 2D print of the film but poor photography, a terrible script, cheap looking sets and effects and some bad dubbing into English were really obvious. I saw it was on TV on a Freeview channel last year and it has also aged horribly. I stopped watching after about 15 minutes.
You should really have a modern day videodrome slot on bbc2...although the badly shot and dialogued movies would still be better than the crap on TV these days.
Lol. I remember seeing this at the movies...and promptly forgot about it.... until now.
Mark Troddyn ruclips.net/video/PjYaqEFr1q4/видео.html 🤣
Terry Gilliam meets Hieronymus Bosch
Wow. Never heard of this one before, and it may be the shoddiest Cannon film I've ever seen anything of! Makes you wonder why they didn't hire Roger Corman; the overall quality of their output might've improved, and their costs would certainly have been lower.
Corman had already founded New World Pictures by this point, and he may have Concorde as well. Why would he work for Golan-Globus?
@@VonWenk Money?
@@andrewgwilliam4831 Do you mean, LESS money? Doesn't even make sense.
Prometheus
_STILL_ waiting on a Real 3D blu-Ray release. Same thing with FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
6:26 ah... it’s good to see he has his BIM mark.
Hey hey hey
BIM's on the way!!!!
Thanks for getting that stuck in my head 🤣
Erin Baldwin You’re Welcome!
🎶 I am _coming,_
Come and get you! 🎶
(remember _that_ wonderful song?)
But hey... that will also mean thinking about Catherine Mary Stewart! 😉😁
0:44 - Sir Alfred Hitchcock would like to have a word with you...
I would say it's hard to believe Ennio Morricone scored this film, but even the greatest of composers need small side jobs like this (remember that _Robot Monster_ was scored by Elmer Bernstein), and not once did he ever fail to knock it out of the park. Rest in peace, Il Maestro.
I think Bernstein had been blacklisted when he scored Robot Monster.
Jeez. Way back when I was a kid going to our local mom and pop video store in the 80s, the poster for this film was always up. And I legitimately thought it was a poster for a new NES game. 😁
These videos are always entertaining, great find!
Are the 1985 Allan Quatermain movies disqualified from review due to being 'Tongue in Cheek' as you put it? They aren't great, but ARE campy fun, and their vibe reminds me of action-comedy Romancing the Stone just as much as the Indiana Jones films.
Saw it in the theater
At 7:19, that's when the drugs kicked in!
Listened to Morricones Score on its own a while back and, the triumphant, noble Main Theme aside, it’s mostly so tense and suspenseful that one might be mistaken that it was written for a psychological Thriller or something. And in the Movie, it does a LOT of the heavy lifting. And it’s indeed very good. Not one of the Maestros best but still, better than this flick deserved.
The part I remember most is how he spends the whole beginning of the film avoiding all sorts of traps to get to the treasure room, but then when things go to hell, he just jumps out a window. Why didn't he just go in that way and bypass all the traps? Not a very good adventurer if he takes the long, dangerous way rather than just going directly in.
Well, that and the cute girl. :)
1:17 what a hell this a pteranodon , and this is more interesting than all entire movie !!!!
So, the feather set off the alarm and? No one responds? What is the point of the alarm? 🤣
6:25 You know, I don't think I've ever seen an audience looking as unhappy as the ones at that cultist ceremony when they start up with the tambourines.
Then again, I didn't see this film in the theater, and it seems likely that audience might have been even more displeased when the film opens with a mustelid-related 3D deathtrap.
EDIT: On further research, I think I have to agree with the title of this video: ruclips.net/video/PyOovqowURs/видео.html
Cannon made one insanely memorable movie: Lifeforce (1985), with terrific soundtrack music by Henry Mancini. He even said it was his favorite of his movie scores.
Oh, I saw Treasure of the Four Crowns in 3D at the theater. Even the strings were in 3D. Tony Anthony's first two westerns were much better.
I saw Lifeforce on VHS about five years after it was released. From what I recall it had quite an impressive cast, visual effects and production values but a totally bonkers storyline even by Tone Hooper standards. I remember thinking that with a better script it could have been a much better film.
My God, a double feature of this and Samurai Cop could either save civilization or end it…
I desperately want to see this in 3D! I remember having the VHS, and giving up when I saw what the pterosaur on the cover actually looked like.
Here you go: ruclips.net/video/sPUMVhcrtwg/видео.html
It was released on Blu-ray 3D 2 years ago and it looks great… if you can find something to watch it on.
I actually remember when this one came out! It was during the brief 3D craze of the early 1980s. I wanted so desperately to see it at the time, but now I'm kind of glad I didn't!
Also, this movie is SPANISH! It makes me proud of my cultural heritage...
"He leaves it behind. Despite world peace. Despite the fact it makes all this a total waste of time. Despite the terrible consequences."
yeah, i have the same complaint about "Escape From New York". Snake acts like the President deserves it for under-reacting to the fact that people died to save him, and yet by switching the tapes, Snake is making it so those very deaths were now all for nothing.
He looks like Del Boy
Ennio Morricone did the music?!! Ennio Morricone worked for CANNON?!!
Oh, wait, Cannon doesn't pay for anything they can take from a better movie....
Morricone crops up in all sorts of films. I think he must've liked being busy!
Holy moly... I saw the opening when I was kid. I always wondered what this was!!! At some point I think I decided that I must've made it up in a dream or something. Thanks for proving that this mess was real!!!!
This is the real service this channel provides, putting a title to some weird film you saw as kid.
Want some pancakes?
I sure do.
Here ya go.
(Plate of pancakes in 3-D)
You are going to need a fork
(Fork in 3-D)
The film is actually an Italian, Spanish , USA production. That´s why Morricone work in it. Sadly also work the great Francisco Rabal, playing the clown. Actors also have to pay bills.
My mother took me to see this because it was in 3D. I remember that there weren’t 4 crowns and that we were both deeply disappointed. And this is coming from a massive Indiana Jones fan. Honestly, Jaws 3D is still better in every conceivable way!
God no!
@@Schush Admittedly, my warm, fuzzy feelings connected to Jaws3D are mostly because up until recently it was the only Jaws film I had seen on the big screen. And even then I knew it was hokey, with stuff floating out at me. But that was still kinda cool to my 13-year-old self, too. In no way am I saying that it surpasses the 1975 original. You can't. There's no Robert Shaw who makes me wish i was a bowlegged woman swimmer.
@@kellyrogers4492 At least it's an improvement over Jaws Revenge!
I always thought a lot of Halloween sequels would be better if taken less seriously, it’s why I prefer Friday the 13th as a franchise, that kinda knew it was being silly but went with it, whereas Halloween seemed to try to ignore how ludicrous it became and consequently I find some of the later sequels less enjoyable than they probably could have been.
Saw this in the theaters on a double bill with another 3D movie called COMING AT YOU .
Silly , goofy fun times !!! 😄😄😁😁😆😆
I have a sneaky suspicion that I actually saw this in the cinema back then... oh dear.
Just found out about your channel.Real jewel
I seen this movie in the theater when it first came out.... the 3d was phenomenal . I really enjoyed it as a 13 y/o kid...
Canon so much slock. So much 80s Nostalgia but you just can't get past the cheese sometimes.🧀🧀🧀
Mst3k joke we made it doc I mean mac 🤣
But Canon also produced Runaway Train and Lifeforce. It wasn't all bad. I even liked 52 Pickup up through the point where Roy Scheider shows Rainey his books.
*moviedrome
Just bought the Kino Lorber blu ray.
Watched the polarized 3D version.
Gotta say, it might not be oscar worthy, but it was a hell of alota fun!!
I've seen ALOT worse films!
"What other films would be better if they took themselves less seriously?" "Valley of the Dolls," the original (not the 1981 or 1994 remakes) 1967 film based on Jacqueline Susann's unbelievably popular 1966 novel, is unintentionally, as opposed to intentionally, campy. I am just now reading the recent book "Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time" by Stephen Rebello, and I think Rebello would agree with me. Did you know that Harlan Ellison wrote the original screen treatment of the novel? Ellison is not my favorite writer, but that script treatment sounds intriguing. And the studio would have done better to have hired a director born AFTER World War I. The intentionally campy "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (1970) would make for a great double-feature viewing with the original "Valley of the Dolls."
Robert Chamberlain I didn’t know there was a “Dolls” book written recently, now I’ve gotta find it!
@@AC-gb7do Rebello, Stephen. "Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time." New York: Penguin Books, June 2, 2020. ISBN-10: 0143133500; ISBN-13: 978-0143133506. Available in audiobook, Kindle, and paperback versions. The Kindle and paperback versions you can probably get for $12.00 or less (in the USA), and the audiobook is available on Audible.Com. I am almost finished with it, and it's a pretty good read. Rebello does not really capture how different the world was in 1967 versus today, but he does try. (Though young, I was alive then, and I have trouble grasping how different things were.) Rebello also wrote "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," the source of the Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren (Actually the whole cast is wonderful.) starring "Hitchcock" (2012).
Robert Chamberlain I appreciate the info, thanks for the heads up!
I watched Comin' At Ya, the spaghetti 3D western by the same people, on Alamo at Home (in glorious 2D). It's actually surprisingly OK... ish. But after going down an interesting rabbit hole on the history of 3D movies, I learned that the filmmakers completely botched the 3D technology.
The process involved a camera with two lenses. In the very, very frequent shots of arrows and the like Comin' straight at Ya, the missile would strike a plate between and just behind the two lenses. And they'd show the entire flight of the missile. If you think through the logic of that, you realize the lenses aren't likely to produce a great 3D effect for action going on BEHIND them. The upshot apparently was lots of headache inducing double exposures. So these movies may actually play better in two dimensions.
The 3D works great, but it is close to the most uncomfortable 3D out there.
The all-time most uncomfortable 3D is probably the autopsy scene in Jaws 3D.
For me the overall most uncomfortable 3D movie is Creature From The Black Lagoon. Worth the pain, though. It’s spectacular on Blu-ray 3D.
I recall there were only 3 crowns in the Treasure of 4 Crowns
Another great one, Thank you Dark Corner!
I think I saw this. The ending kind was both absurd but enjoyable. Weird.
I need to know where you found a decent-quality copy of this film. Everything I've ever found of it are bad VHS rips, I don't think this film ever got an official DVD release.
Looks like someone could break open those crown VERY easy.
Birds? Ok, there's Gertrude Stein with, "Pigeons on the grass, alas." Followed by Thurber's epic, "Pigeons on the lawn, let's yawn." Still, if you've ever been dive bombed by a bird, you'll respect them more. Happened to me multiple times and, weirdly, around midnight. One reason I wear hats, even at night.
at least Curse of King Tut is an Indy clone with a plot. Mostly.
Every single film by Cannon looks like an unsuccessful Turkish TV pilot from 1973.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. Maybe they were
Have you seen Runaway Train?
@@VonWenk I have not
Most modern films, I feel like too many movies made nowadays take themselves too seriously.
The evil bad guy has a triforce tattoo on his forehead.... alrighty then
"It's just like Raiders" they said...
Yes, I saw it when I came it out in theaters.
I wasn't driving and couldn't get away.
Highly regretable 😒
Night of the comet quote you’re crazy I’m not crazy I don’t give a beep🤣
This is actually the only movie I ever walked out of the theater on.
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