QT FEST - Day 1
For a real review, maybe check out Ain’t It Cool News (I'm lazy, you know it) Snake in the Monkey's Shadow
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
So the best thing about this movie is the crazy similarities to Moonraker. The plot to take over the world is just genius. The villain plans to launch a satellite that will kill the sex drive of every man on the planet, while he of course will be safe in his underground bunker, and therefore he will be the only one that can repopulate the earth. That’s genius. I think it would go somewhere along the lines of “it’s for the good of the world babe.” And for some reason there is this running gag with bananas, got me, maybe a requirement to shoot in Brazil.
Talk about some kung-fu action. This film had an amazing fight seen between a real monkey and snake, where the main character learns, after being defeated by two snake style masters, that monkey beats snake. It makes you wonder how they did it, it looks like the python got a few good strikes on the monkey, but it didn’t die, it killed the snake, it was crazy. Guess there were no animal cruelty laws at that time, which makes for good filmmaking. The idea that the Drunken Master would have such an inept group of students was a little far fetched for me, but I guess he had to pay for his drinking habit and maybe the rich kids were good fighters, but they paid on time.