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Fun with cognitive dissonace


With a delightful interview as part of the DVD package, one is struck by how much genuine devotion our Firesign Friends bring to the job of re-editing Republic Serials and mashing them to create the perfect monsters from space taking over the earth by stopping rock and roll. The jokes have Firesign-worthy dimensionality and are worth watching over and over as you catch new meanings over time. Cheap jokes, at times, but not in the aim of being cheap. This was the land they lived in, this was the work down the street and over in the state park. Enjoy the bad guy of many faces, the slinky but rarely significant females, and Lightning BUG himself, the jabberjawed disc jockey from a recent nightmare. File it next to "Rock and Roll High School," and join the J-Men. Be nostalgic for a past created just for you.

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Yeah, that's the one thing I think goes unnoticed about this film.

Someone with a great love of these old serials worked on this. Knew every little moment by heart and exactly how it would all go together to make this plot...

That the same actor (the faithful "Square Nuts") would be there to be the Bug's toady no matter what disquise he was wearing. Even the Pirate costume.

(and I love having that "Clair and Lance" bit with the water at the end of the tunnel to show people when I argue how bad a film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is)

Could appreciate that - when you look at the Captain Marvel serial in hindsight - that he was a vicious killer who just treated everyone as guilty at first sight and all deserved the death penalty no matter what.

Not to mention the subtile jabs at the FCC (or as it's called here "the Federal Culture Control") and other institutions.

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