Borrowing Blockbusters: The Best, Worst and Weirdest Indiana Jones Knock Offs

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From Indian Jones to Shankara clones... we going for a ride.
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00:00 Intro
01:03 Part One: Traders in the Lost Ark
17:03 Indy's Origins and Tropes
21:47 Part Two: Resemble of Doom
30:35 Splintering
38:05 Part Three: The Last Charade
47:55 Rebirth

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@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the amazing comments. They warm the cockles even more than The Spear of Destiny. Housekeeping: I don't usually do TV shows, but there are always exceptions; obvious omissions tend to be down to a movie not having much to talk about or show (which isn't necesarily the same as me not liking it); and I don't know why I can't get onboard Cannon's King Solomon mine train, it's my kind of thing in every way. (Still less of an ordeal than Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.)

@MrJohndoakes 3 ай бұрын

At 51:50 you didn't comment that the sentient knife that stabs the Hindu mystic's hand in "Anji" is in fact a ripoff of the Phurba from "The Shadow" (1994). A Phurba is a ceremonial Buddhist dagger, so this might also be some sort religious commentary on the side. Both "The Shadow" and "The Phantom" (1996) would make great examples of the proto-Batman if you ever did a "Borrowing Blockbusters" on Batman, because both characters predate the Dark Knight by either by nine years (The Shadow) or three (The Phantom).

@johnyporter6341 3 ай бұрын

I reckon a Bad Movie Bible set of Top Trumps Cards; points for the little Oscar and of course, the little Tommy, would be a great idea for next Christmas 👍🏻

@leelandpalmer76 3 ай бұрын

Please do more - your content is fantastic.

@Scatscar1985 3 ай бұрын

Of course Tom Selleck was going to play Indiana Jones, but "Magnum, P.I." got in the way - hence "High Road to China".

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

@@johnyporter6341 I've actually looked into this. Sadly it's not cheap.

@vinesauce 3 ай бұрын

One of the most underrated channels on KZfaq

@dylan8736 3 ай бұрын

Fancy seeing you here!

@lukecwolf 3 ай бұрын

Always happy to see shoutouts from the bigger channels!

@blondesummer7980 3 ай бұрын

OMG it's Vincenzo Vinesauzo, the director of classic cult B movies such as "SPEEN 2: SPEEN HARDER" and "Capussi Please!"

@sixbetheset 3 ай бұрын

hello binty

@gimmedat5541 3 ай бұрын

Yes binty!

@tomalexander4327 4 ай бұрын

Romancing the Stone is classic 90s ITV Saturday/Sunday afternoon entertainment.

@CountryBwoy 3 ай бұрын

Man! It seems like I watched it so many times at my grandparent's house, on cable! It seemed to always be on. LOL

@FingerBreakerWu 3 ай бұрын

I remember when Michael Douglas riding the mudslide and landing right between Kathleen Turner’s legs was considered salacious.

@dantecervantes4162 2 ай бұрын

Saw it in Theatres, it wasso much fun!!! great movie!!

@gregmark1688 2 ай бұрын

I remember when it came out, in a lot of ways I liked it better than Indy. I was especially impressed by the two leads, both of whom went on to show they were among the best actors of their generation.

@Experternas Ай бұрын

It was a great movie. I was 10, perfect target audience. looking at it now it still would cater to 10 year olds.

@tyrannozilla 4 ай бұрын

When the world of rip-offs and mockbusters needed him most, he returned. Welcome back, you handsome borrowing bastard.

@kyleolson8977 4 ай бұрын

I don't think he's ever "gone", it's that he has to watch 100 bad films between videos.

@tyrannozilla 4 ай бұрын

@@kyleolson8977 Good point.

@gantz22ify 4 ай бұрын

Technically the Germans in King Solomon’s Mines are from WWI.

@salvagemonster3612 3 ай бұрын

This just another delusional zoomer who is repeating another zoomer.

@chadwik4000 4 ай бұрын

That Child Juicer really needs some safety / warning stickers. There's potential there for someone to really get hurt. For instance if they were wearing a tie and it got caught or a ponytail. The blood is a slipping hazard, also.

@belindabountyblumenthal 3 ай бұрын

When I was a kid my family would go to Chuck-E-Cheese a lot. There was this big shredder that you'd feed all the arcade tickets you won into and it'd give you a slip of paper to get a prize. I had a lot of terrifying near misses with that machine

@toxicchipmunk134 3 ай бұрын

Indeed

@CoralCopperHead 2 ай бұрын

@@belindabountyblumenthal Infinitely scarier than the animatronics, for sure.

@gregmark1688 2 ай бұрын

It definitely needs some OSHA-approved yellow warning stripes on the floor around it, too! Probably an emergency stop switch, maybe even an interlock switch to prevent the operator getting one hand caught inside. Yeah, definitely needs work.

@belindabountyblumenthal Ай бұрын

@@gregmark1688 You get a job from the temp agency and they send you to work at the child juicing plant twelve hours on the night shift

@Quirderph 3 ай бұрын

The Ducktales movie is interestingly recursive, since the Scrooge McDuck comics are believed to have been one of the inspirations behind Indiana Jones.

@user-ow2yr4nu4z 3 ай бұрын

I loved that damn cartoon, not talking about the new stuff but the much older Ducktales and new video games were AWESOME!

@KingofCrusher 2 ай бұрын

Ducktales movie rules. Anyone who says otherwise sucks.

@kjetilfrugard8395 Ай бұрын

Even the poster is made by Drew Struzan, who made poster for several of the Indy movies.

@davidswanson5669 12 сағат бұрын

Yeah I was about to throw punches when this movie was listed as being derivative. The rolling boulder gag is from the 1954 Scrooge McDuck comic, and it’s not “believed to have been one of the inspirations” Lucas and Spielberg are on record saying that they loved those comics growing up, and that it was directly influential. Anyone should look at just how “Indiana Jonesey” the old comics are and you’ll understand where all the adventure really came from.

@Quirderph 9 сағат бұрын

@@davidswanson5669 I phrased it like that because I don't know if Spielberg and Lucas have *technically* acknowledged it as an Indiana Jones inspiration, though I know that they've praised the comic. (And yes, the similarities are pretty obvious.)

@neilold7291 3 ай бұрын

That communication by telephone with a diver at the bottom of the ocean is possibly the greatest terrible thing I have ever seen

@Football__Junkie 3 ай бұрын

We had Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold on VHS when I was growing up. I always remembered thinking to myself “Why is James Earl Jones in this?”

@Cyryvy 3 ай бұрын

"But by the time the wife jumps out of Jango's coffin to machine gun the villain, I'd made peace with my ignorance." Things I'd never thought I'd hear, but I'm glad I did.

@Pdotta1 3 ай бұрын

These are “drop everything” videos. There’s no plans today until this is done. ❤

@hangonsnoop 3 ай бұрын

Your writing and comic timing make this the best "bad movie" channel.

@jasonbadura7721 Ай бұрын

I bet the algorithm doesn't promote these videos because of copyright strikes or potential of strikes. Because this is hilarious and supremely edited, like top notch AAA editing.

@murciadoxial8056 4 ай бұрын

I am so ashamed that the 'and you'll still be bald' line got a chuckle out of me

@tyrannozilla 3 ай бұрын

Only the great Chuck Norris can make wonders with that line.

@murciadoxial8056 3 ай бұрын

@@tyrannozilla more like that line is so good no one could fuck it up

@tyrannozilla 3 ай бұрын

@@murciadoxial8056 Especially, the Chuck.

@CelestialWoodway 3 ай бұрын

Kind of strange comment since his best friend Louis Gosset Jr. Is also bald. 😂

@KasumiRINA 3 ай бұрын

@@CelestialWoodway it's just a variation of "tomorrow I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly" punchline, it isn't about any specific thing but someone in a bad situation (often of their choice) gets ripped for it and answers by being petty about something the one who mocked them cannot change.

@randallminchew6780 3 ай бұрын

In 1999 there was Relic Hunter with Tia Carrere.

@devedsmith 3 ай бұрын

I find it hard to believe that "Tales of the Gold Monkey" (1982, Universal) with Stephen Collins wasn't included in this. As a 13 year old I loved the show but I guess it didn't last long.

@ahhamartin 3 ай бұрын

FIRST thing I thought of, even though the producer actually pitched the idea before Raiders was made. Just this evening I was surveying a wooded lot and commented "my dog needs an eyepatch to be here..."

@jacksprat9226 3 ай бұрын

And Bring Them Back Alive.

@ravensmythe1 3 ай бұрын

Tales of the Gold Monkey was an amazing show and it took years for me remember the name! Props for giving it a shout out!

@rubadub79 3 ай бұрын

I'd like to throw in Relic Hunter, 'cause Tia Carrere looked good in a tank top.

@mccallosone4903 3 ай бұрын

beat me to it, was gonna say the same

@johnyporter6341 4 ай бұрын

My Mrs bought me your Bad Movie Bible for Christmas (good woman). Ever since, I've been advising my mates to check out your channel so they can share in my love for terrible, terrible movies. Bravo Sir.

@TheBadMovieBible 4 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

@fletchkeilman2205 3 ай бұрын

Also.... Requisite In Pace, Louis Gossett Jr. Firewalker Iron Eagle series The Principal ......the list goes on. What an amazing actor

@kNoWnUnKnOwNnOtkNoWn 3 ай бұрын

R.i.p

@inisipisTV 3 ай бұрын

Don't forget "An officer and a gentleman" where he won an Oscar for best supporting actor.

@gspendlove 3 ай бұрын

Enemy Mine, Jaws 3D.

@SpaceCattttt 2 ай бұрын

It's "Requiescat". You wrote that it's "necessary" for Louis to rest in peace...

@TT-md7mm 4 ай бұрын

This just made my day! I spent yesterday sick and injured, watched all the videos from the Borrowing Blockbusters playlist during that time. Today I'm feeling better, getting to head out to work and I see this. My man, you NEVER miss! 💯🙏🏾

@andia6865 4 ай бұрын

Get well!

@CatMandiano 4 ай бұрын

He’s pretty good

@onkcuf 4 ай бұрын

I hope you feel better soon. 🤒

@TT-md7mm 3 ай бұрын

@@onkcuf @andia6865 Thank you! Just got home so I'm about to watch the hell out of this! 😁

@SuitandTiegamer 4 ай бұрын

As most people have expressed in comments on this video and others, thanks for your effort on these precious pieces of entertainment

@georgewhiteandtotalbratani7914 3 ай бұрын

The thing with brownface/yellowface in these films, I recently learnt that although that I always knew that these films used brownface/yellowface, that the gongman at the start of Temple was a very good friend of my grandfather. MY grandfather was a farmer who got into animal wrangling at Ardmore Studios, and worked on a ton of movies from Spy who Came in from the Cold, Excalibur, Zardoz, the Fu Manchus, Hammer's the Viking Queen, the Commitments, My Left Foot, etc. And he basically befriended all the stuntmen who'd work at Ardmore, and our house became a b and b for stuntmen, and one of the lads who stayed was the gongman, Bill Reed, who was actually a big Irishman.And having watched Temple more than any other film possibly, the idea that I was watching it in my house, not realising that guy had stayed a few yards away on the other side of our garden was astonishing.

@kentaylor5842 3 ай бұрын

How, just how did you put all this together. I can't imagine how difficult this was to research, write and cut together all the footage. Incredible amount of work and time put into this no one can possibly begin to understand not even me. Underrated channel and video.

@davidridley1307 4 ай бұрын

YES! Time for Alan Quartermaine and the Raiders of the Public Domain

@kyleolson8977 4 ай бұрын

It's worth mentioning with "High Road to China" that Selleck was cast as Indiana Jones, but Magnum PI was picked up by CBS and he couldn't. We don't need it to imagine what Selleck would have been like as Jones. Selleck has always played Selleck. (Also there's the test footage available). It's such a common fact I wonder how many people who would care don't know it.

@fnord4960 3 ай бұрын

Magnum P.I. had an Indiana Jones episode actually. It was in season 8, episode 10, called "The Legend of The Lost Art". Tom Selleck even dressed up as Indiana Jones in it.

@fnord4960 3 ай бұрын

@@seancomrie4714 Alright.

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

I think everyone knows the Selleck casting backstory at this point, but I mention it near the end when talking about the Magnum episode based on Raiders.

@owenturley6214 3 ай бұрын

@@TheBadMovieBible I remember watching that episode on TV as a kid and thinking "What the hell is going on here? Are they allowed to do this?"

@kyleolson8977 3 ай бұрын

@@TheBadMovieBible I suspect if we look at your stats, your audience knows. I'm not sure if people under 25 would know because I'm surprised at what they don't know that an old guy like me thinks is normal.

@BookofLetters 3 ай бұрын

I got the movie Vibes on a whim and the chemistry between Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper is so perfect and great I thought "They must be friends IRL" ...looked it up.... no they hated each other and he tried to get her fired. A testament to their acting that they're still the most charming on-screen couple of the 80s.

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

I didn't know that! Damn they're good together though.

@BookofLetters 3 ай бұрын

@@TheBadMovieBiblefor everyone reading this - do go watch Vibes, then tell yourself that they started dating on set and were together for years. This the only noble lie I support

@lawrence142002 3 ай бұрын

I enjoyed that movie and yeah, I was stunned at how good their chemistry was given that they hated each other... Still, they both had the impossible task of not being upstaged by Columbo.

@brainchild1296 3 ай бұрын

I am a tiny bit surprised that there was no mention of 1987's Crystal Triangle, a rare anime version of an Indy knockoff. It's about a college professor who gets roped into searching for the titular artifact while fighting off the CIA, the Soviets, an ancient race of demons, and the immortal Queen Himiko. It ultimately leads him to a secret spaceship under a Japanese mountain where God (who is a giant space worm) will grant its holder the knowledge and power of the missing 11th commandment. Needless to say, it is A Lot. It is admittedly quite obscure, having only received a single English-subtitled laserdisc release in the early 1990s in the west (although uploads are freely available on KZfaq). It was no more popular in Japan than it was in the US, and the director's career was saved only by the fact that he was also the creator of the popular Dream Hunter Rem OVAs.

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

Definitely not one made by Italians.

@Scatscar1985 3 ай бұрын

Didn't Melody Anderson stop acting after "Firewalker"? Says it all.

@Scatscar1985 3 ай бұрын

Self-awareness and irony are intensely overrated in movies.

@Scatscar1985 3 ай бұрын

Jalal Merhi related to the Merhi in Pepin Merhi Entertainment?

@Scatscar1985 3 ай бұрын

"DuckTales: The Movie "!

@Zice033 4 ай бұрын

I was literally just finishing up the Vanity Projects video again when I look in my recommended videos and not only is it a fresh Ripoffs video, but one about a series I am 110% Ride or Die for. Ooooh, this is gonna be good!

@scockery 3 ай бұрын

From what I recall, Tennessee Buck was mix of soft core and indigenous horror film. Imagine the shock of parents who thought it just a cheesy Indy knock-off. I never considered VIBES an Indiana Jones knock-off. Maybe it's the lack of an alpha male protagonist and all the 80's new age psychic stuff. "King Solomon's Mines" was around the WW1 era. No Not-Zees.

@bmitw100 3 ай бұрын

You're meant to look at Mrs. Stone, not listen to her.😶‍🌫️

@Shorty_Lickens 3 ай бұрын

Romancing the Stone is not an Indiana Jones knock off. The script was written long before Raiders of the Lost Ark. It did not get made into a movie until after the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Same with the Allan Quatermain movies.

@ripleyjlawman.3162 3 ай бұрын

Hmm, it’s almost as if renewed interest in the genre might have influenced the decision to make RTS, same with the 85-86 Quartermain movies.

@KasumiRINA 3 ай бұрын

@@ripleyjlawman.3162 and I am sure direction and sets wouldn't be the same if not Indy's influence.

@connorbrennan4233 3 ай бұрын

Welcome back, my man. Felt so long since the last one of these Borrowing Blockbusters videos.

@mopspear 3 ай бұрын

I'm really happy to see another one of these. I wasn't aware there were so many knockoffs of Indiana Jones. I have one criticism though. You don't need to point out various offensive things. We either know and care or we know and don't care that these things are in old movies. If you were going to point it out, I wish you would point out that it's dumb and not focus on how bad and wrong the movie makers were.

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

I understand that. But it's impossible to handle certain issues in a way that's right for everyone. There will be people getting a sincere kick out of the sexist and racist clips, and there will be people who think I shouldn't show them at all. At the end of the day I'm showing them because they're so insensitive they can be funny, and I think that needs context.

@KasumiRINA 3 ай бұрын

@@TheBadMovieBible plus it's kind of important for the genre: archaeology is EXTREMELY political. Indy isn't punching Nazis because they're stock villains, he's crossing paths with them because they were really keen on trying to find lost artifacts to prove their superiority and justify... Well, everything. You can try ignoring politics in comedies or horror, but globe-trotting action adventure starts with national passports and ends in disputes over heritage, the political context cannot be ignored.

@PetersonZF 2 ай бұрын

@@TheBadMovieBibleI am absolutely one of those people who can laugh at outdated ideas in old movies. Keep doing what you're doing man!

@Calculon3000 3 ай бұрын

Another great selection. Thanks for all the hard work, always a good day when there's a new one. And one of the few channels I'm excited to watch a 45+ minute video. Longer the better! :D

@madxico 4 ай бұрын

Man your channel is public service. I had seen bits on some of those movies, but I could never find their titles. Thanks a ton

@MultiBrownsauce 4 ай бұрын

yes Rob!! ive been watching back through your old videos over the last week or so. i cant wait to watch this!

@FingerBreakerWu 3 ай бұрын

Allan Quartermain and the City of Gold was atrocious. Looped the same song every two minutes, totally wasted James Earl Jones, every prop weapon looked like it was made out of licorice. And then there’s the guy doing a Justin Trudeau cosplay.

@gergofodor8382 3 ай бұрын

Amd how on earth did he melt the gold with an AXE?? 🤣

@ssoory6343 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video and thanks for including Chiranjeevi's two movies. The earlier ripoff 'Hero' is more of a spoof of both hollywood and bollywood movies that were popular in India, but Anji is a whole different beast. Besides few ripoff scenes from Indi movies -- the tale of 'Aatma Lingam' aka Sankara Stone is actually a mythical legend in India. The director and producer of Anji were the pioneers of early digital effects in Indian cinema. They originally slated Anji to include over 1000 blue-screen shots and even outsourced the entire visual effects to an American company, which had done all of it, but went bankrupt and closed down its offices, just 2 months before Anji's announced released. The producer of the movie knew about the shut down only when he came to the US and found their offices locked. They somehow managed to get another company and jetpacked the visual effects production in the next 2 months. Even though the story is fine, the bloated effects, shoddy reshoots didn't work and the movie bombed badly.

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

I hadn't seen much of Chiranjeevi before this but I loved him. Thanks for sharing, that's really interesting. To be fair the effects are no worse than in many Hollywood movies of the era

@ssoory6343 3 ай бұрын

@@TheBadMovieBible In comparison, Anji is still better than bollywood's Naksha which has meterosexual men doing cringe comedy and look clean af all the time in the middle of a rain forest

@KasumiRINA 3 ай бұрын

Ah, that explains everything.... It's deliberately being ridiculous. You can't always tell with Bollywood, but yeah the clips here had clear parody vibes, like I can picture Leslie Nielsen running from same boulder for multiple takes shown in a row.

@MarcWeertsMusic 4 ай бұрын

Well, this is an unexpected treat! 😊 Another brilliant and hilariously deadpan documentary! I can’t imagine how much work these are, thank you!

@biltrex 3 ай бұрын

I have no idea how your channel doesn't have so many more subscribers. You're putting out some of the best researched, most entertaining and most interesting documentaries in the film sphere!

@williammitchell5201 3 ай бұрын

"Indiana Jones for the profoundly undemanding" is one of the funniest series of words I've heard in my life.

@salem730 3 ай бұрын

Only 62k subs!! That’s ludicrous, this channels fantastic.

@heinzvoll7798 3 ай бұрын

These videos are incredibly well made and this entire channel is criminally underrated. IMHO its content dwarfs many much more popular movie critic channels.

@zacgorenc 3 ай бұрын

So freaking glad we get a new video! Amazing work as always!

@michaelhayward2166 4 ай бұрын

yes! always a treat when a new BMB video drops

@tentringer4065 4 ай бұрын

Excellent stuff as usual. My favourite Indy knock-off is still the Terry's chocolate orange ad, though.

@Janika-xj2bv Ай бұрын

This channel is so good it deserves a knock-off channel, discussing bad movies in a genuine bad way, making them look good in the process.

@Sam-uz3ov 3 ай бұрын

Ducktales was based on carl barks' comics which Lucas and Spielberg where bigs fans of and drew inspiration from

@nyctalus9827 3 ай бұрын

Fine video, but you might have mentioned that in creating Indy, George Lucas was also influenced by the 1950s Uncle Scrooge comics that partly inspired DuckTales.

@ericdraven4626 4 ай бұрын

I'd LOVE for you to do one on Rambo.

@PeculiarNotions 4 ай бұрын

Another excellent video. Thank you for doing the hard work of rounding up all these knock offs.

@pacoval4577 3 ай бұрын

a new BMB video always sparks joy!

@dad_jokes_4ever226 3 ай бұрын

" Fighting in Trees " would be a great name for a nineties indie band ......

@johnjames-glover4630 3 ай бұрын

I love everything you post, and always go back for a re-watch or three.

@VenusHeadTrap2 3 ай бұрын

44:24 Your segment on DuckTales made me so happy 🐥⚱️👑

@apexapey 3 ай бұрын

I just love this channel. Another one to infinetly rewatch.

@BoyNamedSue4 3 ай бұрын

The Ducktales movies is kinda full circle moment, as the original Uncle Scrooge comics were one of the biggest influences on Lucas and Spielberg when developing the first movie.

@Melesmelda 3 ай бұрын

I watched it on Patreon last week, and you bet I'm going to watch it again tonight. Amazing work as always!

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@dantecervantes4162 2 ай бұрын

Your Commentaries are absolutely BRILLIANT.....The amount of coverage and research is commendable. Being able to cover the corruption of cinema, the inability of international markets to evolve, and Sharon Stone is remarkable!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

@sovaliska 3 ай бұрын

Awesome work, as always! Charlton Heston also had that exact pre-Indy look of the fedora and leather jacket in The Greatest Show On Earth which came out two years before The Secret of the Incas. According to The Fabelmans, The Greatest Show On Earth inspired Spielberg to start making movies.

@kylerswamp1075 3 ай бұрын

Sir! Your brilliant, poetic,, and alliterative introductions and their captivating delivery!!...written like the refrains of old. Legendary lexical skills my man!

@markandrewpaul4233 4 ай бұрын

It's been a while Rob. Thanks for dropping another awesome video👌👌👌

@OverKill515 3 ай бұрын

I just love your channel, man. Thank you!

@TheJereld 3 ай бұрын

I love this latest vid dude! My personal favorite is Temple of Doom. People say it sucks the most but your explanation of him being "More straight forward action hero" made me love the movie more. There was movie released last year in theaters that was trying to be like an Indiana Jones movie, it was called The Dial of Destiny.

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

Temple of Doom might be my favourite too.

@KasumiRINA 3 ай бұрын

I think people hate the pacing... Middle really drags on and is kind of a weird mix of drama (starving village), comedy (that dinner) and horror (snake pit)... It has a really good finale but you have to GET THERE. Also when people say it's dark, they don't just mean the subject matter... It's like Nolan or DC, their movies are physically hard to watch because of sound and light being so low.

@PetersonZF 2 ай бұрын

I actually rate them Last Crusade, Temple, Raiders. Which feels like sacrilege, but I just watched the first two more as a kid. Last Crusade was both my first cinema trip and my first VHS, so it'll always be special to me.

@barry-allenthe-flash8396 3 ай бұрын

I can never watch these 'Borrowing Blockbusters' videos without instantly wanting to look up half the movies mentioned, lol. I've got the 'Videos'/'Movies and TV' Store fired up on my Xbox right now (on my other monitor) and have discovered that, for some reason, Armor/Armour of God _IS on there_ mislabeled and mis-described as Operation Condor. Very baffling! But yeah, now I have a whole bunch of stuff to look into thanks to this very, very entertaining and enlightening video. Wonderful work, as always BMB!

@nealsterling8151 2 ай бұрын

31:03 that "guy" is the legendary Peter Falk.

@silverwheel 4 ай бұрын

"We begin in Italy" Called it!

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

It's basically a catchphrase now.

@12345....... 3 ай бұрын

I love the "I didn't edit this" indicator

@Eriugena8 3 ай бұрын

you just pulled McGyver:Atlantis from a deep dark corridor of my psyche. To the light! from tomb to light.

@olivervarah696 3 ай бұрын

Was looking for someone else to scratch my Red Letter Media itch, and i’m glad I found you! You put a lot of effort into your vids

@MonkTorius 3 ай бұрын

This is the first time I've heard of or saw any videos from your channel on youtube. But it's quite excellent. As a side note, though, when you present you remind me of one of my favorite characters from Red Dwarf, Holly, portrayed by Norman Lovett, and I Love it.

@danielhenry177 4 ай бұрын

"High Road to China" with Selleck was a blast! Highly recommended

@georgewhiteandtotalbratani7914 4 ай бұрын

I'd also add Fritz Lang's the Indian Tomb/Tiger of Eschnapur for Temple of Doom influences.

@Alexalicious 3 ай бұрын

I always love these! It is absolutely incredible how many knockoffs of every blockbuster there are, and even more incredible how lovable so many of them are!

@ObsidianOx-GM 3 ай бұрын

5:42 You know you've seen too many B movie reviews when you start thinking that Brandon Tenold is about to make a cameo from just the background music.

@Wuvlycuddles 3 ай бұрын

thought the same thing

@DasAttorney 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for making these videos - you dig up some real gems which I would be otherwise ignorant of : )

@cakeexmachina8224 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for mentioning "Vibes", I would always see the thumbnail when browsing for movies but never would have guess what kind of movie it was. I ended up watching it because of this and it was pretty good!

@interestedparty7523 11 күн бұрын

Excellent work. A lot of effort went into this.

@kingfield99 4 ай бұрын

I have a soft spot for 'High Road To China', it feels like it could be in the same universe at Raiders but the characters have their own charm.

@FilmCram 4 ай бұрын

Got here from Oliver's channel and I can't help but love Rob's way with words!

@YouTube-tied 3 ай бұрын

I'm a fairly recent subscriber but I've been bingeing and catching up on content of late. Then I realized that I've owned The Bad Movie Bible for several years now. I'm not a book guy at all and that's one of maybe a half-dozen books that I've bought in 20 years at least. Great stuff, great channel!

@tadeusticeghostal 3 ай бұрын

This made my day. Thank you! I needed this 😊

@PrinsessePeach Күн бұрын

I really enjoy your videos, found you today, and now I have watched all of your videos like this one, and I hope there are more to come.

@Jackalblade9 3 ай бұрын

This video was just what I needed today. Thank you, sir.

@swanofnutella4734 3 ай бұрын

Duck Tales is not a 'knock off' of Indiana. Duck Tales is, in spirit, the animated version of Carl Barks original Donald Duck comics, which were an inspiration TO George Lucas FOR Indiana.

@carlgibson285 4 ай бұрын

I really needed this today. Thank you.

@madjack18 3 ай бұрын

"Crocodile Jones", the son of "Indiana Dundee" 😂

@jcollins1305 3 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure watching and listening to your videos!

@MFGizmo 4 ай бұрын

I've been in a Indiana Jones mood for the past couple of days, seeing this video pop up is truly a blessing 👏🏻🙌🏻

@qwijoma1873 4 ай бұрын

Another great video! I watched Treasure of the Four Crowns when young and it took me decades to figure out title to watch again!

@ItsFreakinHarding. 3 ай бұрын

I also saw that movie when I was a kid when it came out and I've been looking for it to watch it again. Can you tell me where you found the movie to watch it? I can't find it online anywhere.

@AceOfSevens 3 ай бұрын

Dora and the Lost City of Gold is worth a mention as well. It mixes up the formula by making the adventurer an indigenous person & being simultaneously a parody & straight example of kidificiation.

@rosemarypec158 4 ай бұрын

I can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos thanks

@DanTheMan2150AD 3 ай бұрын

Rob, you are a continuing bright spark in my movie watching life. Consistently brilliant content and glorious recommendations, thank you sir. But I must ask, any other Silver Lining videos on the horizon?

@TheBadMovieBible 3 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly. I'd like to do more Silver Linings but I think you and I might be the only ones!