Cinemas least subtle villains? Raul Julia's "M. Bison" springs to mind. "Why do they still call me a warlord? And mad? All I want to do is to create the perfect genetic soldier! Not for power, not for evil, but for good. Carlos Blanka will be the first of many - they shall march out of my laboratory and sweep away every adversary, every creed, every nation, until the very planet is in the loving grip of the Pax Bisonica. And then peace will reign, and the world, and all humanity, shall bow to me in humble gratitude..." R.I.P. Raul Julia.
The main reason he made that was because his kids were fans of the game. I guess that's why he looked like he had so much fun making it. :) @@countgeekula9143
I think another contender for "Least Subtle Villain" would be the original Terminator. There was nothing subtle about the way he took out that Police station.
For me the baddest of all bad guys was Ricardo Montalban's Vincent Ludwig in The Naked Gun. He even had a good reason as he showed in this dialogue with Jane (Priscilla Presley): Jane : How could you do something so vicious? Vincent Ludwig : It was easy my dear. You forget, I spent two years as a building contractor.
I recognized the lead but I thought it was someone else because it turned out to be "Space Mutiny" and I immediately realized who it was... because I thought the same thing when I saw that movie. In Space Mutiny, he's the "Are there any other of you that wish to confuse freedom with treason?" guy. That's not his name, that's just his job.
For least subtle villain I will vote for the Baron Harkonnen from David Lynch's *Dune.* He ate the scenery so much he had to use anti-gravity to move around.
It's a cop-out answer, but my selection for Least Subtle Villain is Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers franchise. There's wearing it on your sleeve, and there's inscribing it on your birth certificate.
I was expecting the "And I'll bring my bloodhounds" bit but given how jumbled and crazy this movie is, perhaps it's best that was saved for something even worse.
Well, if you're doing bad karate movies from the 1970s/80s, might as well cover "Death Promise", if you haven't already, in which the main hero wears a shirt which looks like my grandmother's curtains from 1964 and fails to learn anything from his grand master teacher but then becomes a martial arts expert from his teacher's teacher, whom his teacher sent him to, and he needs to come back and fight his teacher... and it's just a mess.
Not to mention he and his friends did not actually accomplish their goal, as the real estate deal had already gone through. And now the Yakuza are after them. Which two things are never acknowledged.
World ending stakes indeed... As for card-carrying villains, I remember as a kid I was perplexed how in the Mighty Max series some ancient king was tricked into trusting the Skullmaster: a demon-looking guy called the Skullmaster looked like such an amicable and trustworthy fellow...
I can see why a Nazi loyalist would want revenge for the 1936 Olympics karate loss, famously the only bad thing that ever happened to the third Reich. ... He's not even trying to get revenge on one of the Allied powers, for Pete's sake. What a truly bizarre plot point.
Satana (played by the intimidating Tura Satana) in 1969's ASTRO ZOMBIES; as subtle as a kick to the giggles. I must also mention Richard Lynch as Rostov in 1985's INVASION USA.
Well I never. I had never heard of this till sunday last, when I stumbled across it on Amazon Prime and gave it a go. This was the rifftrax version which is what makes it bearable. What struck me about the inside of the castle was that the foliage makes it look like they're in the middle of Europe. A bit of a way from south african desert. And Steve just isn't leading man material. He has the build of the guy who gets sand kicked in his face in the Charles Atlas ads. His driving at the end when he crashes the car three times and yet still manages to catch up with the villain in the process is a bit risible to put it mildly. At least Chico made it bearable. The score sounded like an impromptu jamming session.
Why does that look like Joey 'Europe' Tempest on the poster.... All together, Na na nah nahhh... ' Saying that, it's Sean Connery circa the Rock as the villain.
People!, I selectively picked this movie out on VHS in a low budget video rental store that was common for the time. I forget what my point was............Uh, oh yeah!, I rented "kill and Kill Again", also. I really did. Nobody cares, not even me.
Another thing this film has in common with Karate Kid is the same reason I have up on Cobra Kai: the behaviors of the characters are wildly out of proportion to the stakes.
This used to play on the pay channels back in the 80s, along with James Ryan's other karate themed movie with the word "kill" in the title, "Kill and Kill Again". To be honest, I prefer that one as it's goofier and more fun.
And yet, the dedicated N. has a loyal Little Person assistant. So clearly he's willing to overlook certain genetic impurities. Would have been hilarious if the N. turned out to be the good guy. Like that one movie, "L.I.E." where they made the Child Predator into the good guy. Also, Steve committing horrific animal-cruelty. Are we sure _he's_ the good guy? I'm not sure.
I've seen both this and the sequel, yet the only thing I can remember from this one was the car to sail conversion and the bizarre ending that climaxes with a first person suicide. =P
Karate/Martial Arts films never have believable sensible plots. My friends and I want to make one that does but can't decide which classic novel to base it on. Right now it's a choice between Long Days Journey Into Night and Little Women.
Ummm, yes, the story IS an excuse for the fight scenes!! I actually saw this movie at the cinema when it played here at the states and loved it!! Hopefully you guys could do the follow up, "Kill and Kill Again"
oof, kung fu cheese. I'm not a fan of un-subtle villians, tbh. I like a baddie that doesn't scream like they're deaf and doesn't act like they're struggling for an Oscar.
I hope you do a video about the sequel Kill and Kill Again. Because according to the trailer, it's the one movie that will annihilate every concept you have about the limits of od human strength, conditioning, and endurance.
I suggest reviewing a 1953 stinker called "The Maze", directed by William Cameron Menzies who had earlier worked on some classic films. It stars Richard Carlson who was later in some excellent 1950s scifi films. It concerns an aristocratic Scottish family who have an embarrassing secret - their son is a mutant who looks like a giant toad! He hops about the castle doing all sorts of nasty stuff. The "costume" of Mr Toad is laughably bad. Perhaps your science advisor could let us know how human DNA could get so muddled that a kid gets born looking like a toad!
It's too bad that James Ryan never got a chance to team-up with Chuck Norris in a film. That would have been fun. There are so many villainous organizations in various television shows and anime. However, if I could specifically pick a villainous group from cinema, that would be COBRA from the G.I. Joe movies. From Cobra Commander to Destro to The Baroness, the symbol of COBRA and their colors of black and red just scream "terrorist organization out to rule the world".
Another completely unsubtle villain might be Commander Kalgon from _Space Mutiny_ , which just so happens to also have James Ryan in it. There is not a scene that goes by in that movie where Kalgon is not grimacing intensely, smugly chuckling, or just looking mean and untrustworthy.
You have to review, Kill and Kill again. Same actor equally as bad, but I watched every time it was on cable. In my defense, this was the early days of cable.
I still say Ash in Alien might as well have it written across his forehead. Nothing subtle about him or what he's doing in medical. And - in view of Promethius and Alien Covenant where the Nostormo"s trip wasn't just a fishing exposition - why not send a whole crew of androids to get an egg or two?
While James Ryan only had basic Japanese Karate training for this, he was a gymnast and an ice skater so he looked like he knew what he was doing. Except for Chico, the Nazi guy, and Miyagi, all the martial artists shown were experts The karate fights were staged by Stan Schmit one of the highest-ranked non-Japanese karate man at the time. Except for the gymnastics by Ryan, all karate movies were real and could be lethal if used for real.
Is this a good movie? No. But I love it. I first saw it as a kid and thought it was great. I still enjoy watching it every few years as an adult. I had the VHS release. I don't think it got a legitimate DVD release in the US, but it finally came out on Blu-ray a while back.
To be honest, plot is pretty much the least important thing to a kung fu movie. This is coming from a 30+ year fan of the genre. I like to apply John Carmack's quote about video games and story (which I don't necessarily agree with when it comes to video games) to kung fu movies, "It's like a plot in a p0rno. It's expected, but not very important"
Is this movie similar to another one, as in the lead guy and the amphitheater set? Or maybe it has another title? Please help, been through so many Mill Creek sets my brains are melting.
Dr. Doom. I mean, it's right in the man's last name for f's sake. Do you really think someone with the name "Victor von Doom" is going to be the protagonist?!
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"Who are cinema's least subtle villains?"
*Insert any James Bond baddie here*
My choice is Elliott Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies.
Cinemas least subtle villains? Raul Julia's "M. Bison" springs to mind. "Why do they still call me a warlord? And mad? All I want to do is to create the perfect genetic soldier! Not for power, not for evil, but for good. Carlos Blanka will be the first of many - they shall march out of my laboratory and sweep away every adversary, every creed, every nation, until the very planet is in the loving grip of the Pax Bisonica. And then peace will reign, and the world, and all humanity, shall bow to me in humble gratitude..." R.I.P. Raul Julia.
And that's just Tuesday
@@wulozhero6684agreed😊
Terrible movie but God bless him even being so very ill at the time the late great Raul Julia made it worth watching. RIP.
The main reason he made that was because his kids were fans of the game. I guess that's why he looked like he had so much fun making it. :) @@countgeekula9143
It may be a terrible movie, but that "Quick! Change the channel!" moment makes me laugh every time. :) @@countgeekula9143
1:28 Fun fact: karate has only once been an olympic event, Tokyo 2020.
Yeah, we discovered this belatedly. Makes the film even more baffling.
They should have made it the 1940 All-Axis Karate Championship, and have both teams make fun of the Italians.
Good to know.
@@suedenim Would have made a more interesting plot line.
I think another contender for "Least Subtle Villain" would be the original Terminator. There was nothing subtle about the way he took out that Police station.
For me the baddest of all bad guys was Ricardo Montalban's Vincent Ludwig in The Naked Gun.
He even had a good reason as he showed in this dialogue with Jane (Priscilla Presley):
Jane : How could you do something so vicious?
Vincent Ludwig : It was easy my dear. You forget, I spent two years as a building contractor.
That's hilarious
Truly a monster.
Saw this in the cinema at age 7. I thought it was terrible then. Please, if you haven't already, review the sequel, Kill and Kill Again.
There's a sequel?😂😝
Both have received the RiffTrax treatment.
I recognized the lead but I thought it was someone else because it turned out to be "Space Mutiny" and I immediately realized who it was... because I thought the same thing when I saw that movie. In Space Mutiny, he's the "Are there any other of you that wish to confuse freedom with treason?" guy. That's not his name, that's just his job.
I'm still scratching my head as to why they cast a kickboxer to play a man with a bad leg
Haha I recognized him immediately as well.
Steve would later receive a leg injury, lead a space mutiny, and fight bulk slam-chest.😊
Where he would not tolerate people who confused freedom with treason.
This makes me think of the Downton Abbey sketch from SNL, in which they ask 'Have the stakes ever been this low? Yeah, I guess they have.'
The most famous 'I think that might be the bad guy' is probably Darth Vader.
Chico is the real star of this movie!
And the real hero of the story.
Story??? @@DarkCornersReviews
and according to IMDB this is his only movie (at least only credited one) @@DarkCornersReviews
The midget played Dans boss in night court
"I'm so small but so persistent" - I love this line!
If movie villains like Lord Voldemort and Dr. Robotnik have taught me anything, it's that sometimes overacting is underrated
Very true.
The least subtle villain is Emperor Palpatine. He's evil because he is. And the ham who plays him doesn't help either.
For least subtle villain I will vote for the Baron Harkonnen from David Lynch's *Dune.* He ate the scenery so much he had to use anti-gravity to move around.
I always thought Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings could have been a tini little bit more subtle in his evil scheming.
0:25 Captain Birdseye has gone rogue?!
He didn't mention this on his CV when he applied top sell fishfingers.
Can't wait for you to do the sequel Kill and Kill Again .
We'll see how this one does.
I missed your live premier of Witchfinder but rest assured that I watched it. Cheers.
0:05 it’s 70’s Peter Dinklage
It's a cop-out answer, but my selection for Least Subtle Villain is Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers franchise. There's wearing it on your sleeve, and there's inscribing it on your birth certificate.
But that isn’t his real name. It’s Dougie Powers
You just could have gone with Donald Pleasence's Blofeld on which Dr. Evil is based on.
He was a parody of those villains, so of course he was as obvious as a pulp fiction character.
Unsubtle villains: Have you examined "Devil Girl From Mars"?
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I'm glad Chico got work later on Game of Thrones.
I guess they liked Enter the Dragon so much they tried to copy it?
There was a craze for martial arts films in the 1970s, and Western studios tried to cash in. Their results varied.
Too funny, a German in the African desert with oriental martial arts experts. God I loved these corn ball movies when I was akid..
I was expecting the "And I'll bring my bloodhounds" bit but given how jumbled and crazy this movie is, perhaps it's best that was saved for something even worse.
I remember watching this movie on HBO in the early 80s.
Quoting from "Doctor Strangelove" are we?
Well, if you're doing bad karate movies from the 1970s/80s, might as well cover "Death Promise", if you haven't already, in which the main hero wears a shirt which looks like my grandmother's curtains from 1964 and fails to learn anything from his grand master teacher but then becomes a martial arts expert from his teacher's teacher, whom his teacher sent him to, and he needs to come back and fight his teacher... and it's just a mess.
Not to mention he and his friends did not actually accomplish their goal, as the real estate deal had already gone through. And now the Yakuza are after them.
Which two things are never acknowledged.
@@julietfischer5056 Very true.
literally the plot of kill bill
Who lets us know they are the Villain from the start? That would none other then The Joker.
1:33 is that the Sinful Dwarfs brother behind the Nazi 😆
If he was at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 I assume he wasn't a big fan of Jesse Owens either.
Weird thing is karate was not an Olympic sport... Even at the time this film was made.
@@DarkCornersReviews Typo in the title, Graham 😉
@@Gappasaurus Damn it, how did you know it was me
@@DarkCornersReviews 50/50 chance 😄
World ending stakes indeed...
As for card-carrying villains, I remember as a kid I was perplexed how in the Mighty Max series some ancient king was tricked into trusting the Skullmaster: a demon-looking guy called the Skullmaster looked like such an amicable and trustworthy fellow...
I can see why a Nazi loyalist would want revenge for the 1936 Olympics karate loss, famously the only bad thing that ever happened to the third Reich.
... He's not even trying to get revenge on one of the Allied powers, for Pete's sake. What a truly bizarre plot point.
Maybe if Karate had been an Olympic Sport back then you could understand it.
Least subtle villains? Do Boris and Natasha count?
Satana (played by the intimidating Tura Satana) in 1969's ASTRO ZOMBIES; as subtle as a kick to the giggles. I must also mention Richard Lynch as Rostov in 1985's INVASION USA.
Well I never. I had never heard of this till sunday last, when I stumbled across it on Amazon Prime and gave it a go. This was the rifftrax version which is what makes it bearable.
What struck me about the inside of the castle was that the foliage makes it look like they're in the middle of Europe. A bit of a way from south african desert.
And Steve just isn't leading man material. He has the build of the guy who gets sand kicked in his face in the Charles Atlas ads. His driving at the end when he crashes the car three times and yet still manages to catch up with the villain in the process is a bit risible to put it mildly.
At least Chico made it bearable. The score sounded like an impromptu jamming session.
Became available on Prime just after we shot our version, which is kind of irritating.
This seems like the juggernaut of a movie that inspired Steven Seagal to go into "acting".
Nice little link to the SF T-Shirt: Rudloff was M. Bison before M. Bison. 😅
Why does that look like Joey 'Europe' Tempest on the poster....
All together, Na na nah nahhh... '
Saying that, it's Sean Connery circa the Rock as the villain.
Yet somehow I feel this Flic was an inspiration for 'The Octagon'!
People!, I selectively picked this movie out on VHS in a low budget video rental store that was common for the time. I forget what my point was............Uh, oh yeah!, I rented "kill and Kill Again", also. I really did. Nobody cares, not even me.
Another thing this film has in common with Karate Kid is the same reason I have up on Cobra Kai: the behaviors of the characters are wildly out of proportion to the stakes.
This used to play on the pay channels back in the 80s, along with James Ryan's other karate themed movie with the word "kill" in the title, "Kill and Kill Again". To be honest, I prefer that one as it's goofier and more fun.
The entire premise of adults fighting without legal consequence is glaring..in any fight movie.
You don't get much less subtle than Jack Palance's Voltan in Hawk the Slayer
And yet, the dedicated N. has a loyal Little Person assistant. So clearly he's willing to overlook certain genetic impurities. Would have been hilarious if the N. turned out to be the good guy. Like that one movie, "L.I.E." where they made the Child Predator into the good guy. Also, Steve committing horrific animal-cruelty. Are we sure _he's_ the good guy? I'm not sure.
Kill and Kill again is "better" movie. It also has cinema history's first "bullet time" -effect.
At least his name wasn’t Mike Hunt.
Some POW and CHOP would have been great
I've seen both this and the sequel, yet the only thing I can remember from this one was the car to sail conversion and the bizarre ending that climaxes with a first person suicide. =P
Karate/Martial Arts films never have believable sensible plots. My friends and I want to make one that does but can't decide which classic novel to base it on. Right now it's a choice between Long Days Journey Into Night and Little Women.
Pfft. Base it on "Middlemarch".
The Night Slasher from Cobra is a Fun "Over the Top" Bad Guy.
Steve appears to be David Cassidy playing Bruce Lee.
Ummm, yes, the story IS an excuse for the fight scenes!! I actually saw this movie at the cinema when it played here at the states and loved it!! Hopefully you guys could do the follow up, "Kill and Kill Again"
I remember seeing this when I was a kid 😂😂
Just as good as I remember it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do a commentary on the sequel to this movie called Kill And Kill Again.
We'll see how this one goes. We have a bad track record with martial arts films.
@@DarkCornersReviews Kill And Kill Again had the first use of bullet time in a movie.
oof, kung fu cheese. I'm not a fan of un-subtle villians, tbh. I like a baddie that doesn't scream like they're deaf and doesn't act like they're struggling for an Oscar.
I'm convinced that Von Rudlov is played by Jose Mourinho
I saw this one in the theater. Yes, it was bad with an oddball ending. When I learned of the sequel I was surprised anyone would attempt such a thing.
I hope you do a video about the sequel Kill and Kill Again. Because according to the trailer, it's the one movie that will annihilate every concept you have about the limits of od human strength, conditioning, and endurance.
And potatoes.
So many people are now asking for this one.
Kill of be Killed ... minor spelling error hehe
We seem to be doing this a lot recently!
The dubbing is stellar.
At least the Japanese guy was played by an Asian man.
"Are we the baddies?"
Please consider reviewing Jaguar Lives.
Honestly one of the strangest Enter the Dragon rip-offs
I suggest reviewing a 1953 stinker called "The Maze", directed by William Cameron Menzies who had earlier worked on some classic films. It stars Richard Carlson who was later in some excellent 1950s scifi films.
It concerns an aristocratic Scottish family who have an embarrassing secret - their son is a mutant who looks like a giant toad! He hops about the castle doing all sorts of nasty stuff. The "costume" of Mr Toad is laughably bad.
Perhaps your science advisor could let us know how human DNA could get so muddled that a kid gets born looking like a toad!
Who doesn't take their shirt off to fight a wolf? I know I did.
"James Ryan introduces his abs". 😂
It's too bad that James Ryan never got a chance to team-up with Chuck Norris in a film. That would have been fun.
There are so many villainous organizations in various television shows and anime. However, if I could specifically pick a villainous group from cinema, that would be COBRA from the G.I. Joe movies. From Cobra Commander to Destro to The Baroness, the symbol of COBRA and their colors of black and red just scream "terrorist organization out to rule the world".
Another completely unsubtle villain might be Commander Kalgon from _Space Mutiny_ , which just so happens to also have James Ryan in it. There is not a scene that goes by in that movie where Kalgon is not grimacing intensely, smugly chuckling, or just looking mean and untrustworthy.
The actor knew exactly what sort of movie he was in, and played his role accordingly.
@@julietfischer5056 How could he not? He was in _Barbarella_
Great video😊
Any villain played by Mr. Subtlety himself, Steven Berkoff. Or Batman villains.
You have to review, Kill and Kill again. Same actor equally as bad, but I watched every time it was on cable. In my defense, this was the early days of cable.
Anyone else keep thinking ‘is that Peter Dinklage?’
I still say Ash in Alien might as well have it written across his forehead. Nothing subtle about him or what he's doing in medical.
And - in view of Promethius and Alien Covenant where the Nostormo"s trip wasn't just a fishing exposition - why not send a whole crew of androids to get an egg or two?
I got this and other early seventies Kung Fu films in my collection, everyone is entitled to their opinions.
Least subtle? Any mad scientist ever played by either Bela Lugosi or George Zucco.
While James Ryan only had basic Japanese Karate training for this, he was a gymnast and an ice skater so he looked like he knew what he was doing. Except for Chico, the Nazi guy, and Miyagi, all the martial artists shown were experts The karate fights were staged by Stan Schmit one of the highest-ranked non-Japanese karate man at the time. Except for the gymnastics by Ryan, all karate movies were real and could be lethal if used for real.
oh look, it's Peter Dinklage Sr.
Mok from _Rock & Rule_ was pretty transparently evil
Kill or Kill Again, the sequel, is my favorite. Is it on your list?
We're waiting to see how this one does!
Karate Nazis? Does that make them . . . Karazis?
Is this a good movie? No. But I love it. I first saw it as a kid and thought it was great. I still enjoy watching it every few years as an adult. I had the VHS release. I don't think it got a legitimate DVD release in the US, but it finally came out on Blu-ray a while back.
In this movie, Chiko is on a roll.
(Australian pun)
To be honest, plot is pretty much the least important thing to a kung fu movie. This is coming from a 30+ year fan of the genre. I like to apply John Carmack's quote about video games and story (which I don't necessarily agree with when it comes to video games) to kung fu movies, "It's like a plot in a p0rno. It's expected, but not very important"
He wants to be the kung fuehrer :D
Is this movie similar to another one, as in the lead guy and the amphitheater set? Or maybe it has another title? Please help, been through so many Mill Creek sets my brains are melting.
It's also known as Karate Killer. There's a sequel as well called Kill and Kill Again
Chico was the man
You definitely have to get rid of the shirt wen your out fighting wolves
Dr. Doom.
I mean, it's right in the man's last name for f's sake. Do you really think someone with the name "Victor von Doom" is going to be the protagonist?!
Wait....the small person's name is....Chico? As in, Spanish for small? Ok...this is now a 70s movie, lol😅😅😅😅
I loved this movie’s sequel more.
Any villains that have alligators or crocodiles as pets are unsubtle.
Steve should have been in Mortal Kombat not that Omni-Man guy
Funny rant 😂😂
if by bad, you mean the greatest, then yes ))
lol Love this one!!!!
Cant you review Jaws of the dragon,its an awful good movie 😁 with a lots of fighting 👊