tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post8982691352284514569..comments2024-03-05T17:26:44.559-08:00Comments on Roman's Movie Reviews and Musings: Hercules Unchained (1959) – MST3K ReviewRoman J. Martelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-74051660366185349122017-12-30T09:39:56.769-08:002017-12-30T09:39:56.769-08:00If that would be the case that would make a whole ...If that would be the case that would make a whole lot more sense. Sadly the acting doesn't really support that case. Its not like everyone rolls their eyes when this "Anteaus" walks out and say something like "Oh man, not another one". <br /><br />But I like the effort you took to get there. :)Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-56706212737997256152017-12-27T10:40:55.957-08:002017-12-27T10:40:55.957-08:00Regarding the whole Anteaus issue, here's an a...Regarding the whole Anteaus issue, here's an alternate way to look at it. Initially, Herc and Co. assume it's just some random dickweed claiming to be Anteaus. This way, Ulysses' reaction could be read as a, "Holy shamoly, he really is Anteaus!" rather than just him being inattentive. Sitting Ducknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-68992150033978433342013-04-29T08:46:24.263-07:002013-04-29T08:46:24.263-07:00Yeah of all the 60s Herc flicks, the two with Reev...Yeah of all the 60s Herc flicks, the two with Reeves seem to have the best production values and are closest to the mythology. A few of the other flicks are just as fun, but more for their low budget hilarity and extremely silly plots. MST3K helps with those a lot, but they can be fun on bad movie night on your own.<br /><br />Love that story from Ferrigno. I'd never heard that before. Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-67757373597387969832013-04-28T13:24:12.578-07:002013-04-28T13:24:12.578-07:00I first saw this at a drive-in from the back seat ...I first saw this at a drive-in from the back seat of a 1957 Pontiac. While I remember some scenes from that occasion (including the fight with Antaeus), I'd be lying if I said I remembered the general plot from then. (If the screen had been built lower any to the ground I'd have seen little more than the back of the front seat.) However, as you say, it was on TV a lot in the decades following, and I have seen it since. It was goofy and much-copied -- but there is something to be said for being the model others copy. (In the 60s, a slew of these movies -- though originally filmed separately as movies, not for TV -- were slightly edited and then shown as a weekly TV show "Sons of Hercules"; they all are remarkably similar.)<br /><br />Lou Ferrigno had the best Herc story I heard from an actor who played the part. One scene called for him to break the ropes binding him. Normally, for such shots, the ropes are pre-cut so they break easily. He struggled and struggled, and finally asked that they be cut a bit more. It turned out they hadn't been cut at all: the prop men assumed he really could just snap them.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.com