Rip Torn

Um, so I will actually go a little higher.

I want to give it a four, uh, four stars out of five, um, because rip torn is in it.

I wanted to give it five just for him being, um, because I'm so used to seeing him as the coach and dodge ball.

Like that's the sort of immortal.

And then when you think of future movies that this may have been an inspiration for, thinking some of the more not necessarily Private Ryan, which the opening sequence I think has definitely had... uh echoes in private ryan but like um i was thinking of like the bridge too far or even the movie midway where they really just sort of go through the actual history of it and then portray it that way this was much more like you said it was an unnamed island in the pacific they don't really try to play with history much here i think that really speaks to what they were trying to do with the human interest aspect of the

story but

yeah four out of five i think especially for the time period i think ahead of a time like nancy said it was much grittier than i had expected it to be especially for the time period as well um you know rip torn uh cusses a bunch which i don't think was common for film back then uh but they tried to portray a level of realism that i definitely appreciated and i think the way that they were doing the flashback stuff and the interiority like a lot of voiceover work uh was going on here so i think they took some big swings they just didn't they didn't necessarily connect for me for to give it anything higher than a four all

right vic thanks so i'm gonna tune in probably side closer than answering this one 3.5 except actually i like the intro a lot i love obviously you look at my background i have a lot of combat art but i have a special place and appreciation for the more shock combat art.

It's like, oh, fuck.

I love Rip Torn and Larry Sanders.

Which is what

Madonna did, basically.

Yeah,

well, that was real life and less funny.

No, Rip Torn and Larry Sanders show when the network executives come in and want to downsize it, which we're seeing right now in real life, right? Yeah.

But there was a woman executive.

Dive, duck, duck.

Is this like turning into a dodgeball episode right now? Who's your favorite character in that movie, by the way? Rip Torn is mine.

I love the fact that he was crushed by 3,000 pounds of iron.

I can't say it.

But Steve the Pirate's my guy in dodgeball.

Oh, that's a good one too.

The other guy who was the guy with the goggles, the glasses, I saw him on a podcast and he was talking about how Rip Torn wasn't plain drunk.

He liked his drinks.

And certainly this film was typical of the low-budget, independent, frequently bizarre movies featured on Elvira's show.

It was the product of director Milton Moses Ginsburg, whose previous film Coming Apart was an X-rated mockumentary about a psychiatrist played by Rip Torn who secretly films himself having sex with women in a rented apartment.

It became something of a cult success in no small part due to the soundtrack by Jefferson Airplane.

Unfortunately, due to rights issues, the video releases don't feature any of the music from the theatrical version.