I worked on this movie! I could tell you at least 10 things that you don't know. Rachel was pregnant during the shooting of the movie for one. Do you know why it takes place at night? The script was written for the day. The head of MGM marketing took the movie and made it unwatchable. The real editor fixed the movie afterwards though but there was no time left to find the movie. MGM rushed to finish and then demanded a PG13 rating on a movie that was shot as an R rated movie. It was never going to be a Great movie, but it a lot more potential than we were allowed to do. I was the assistant editor. I also had to work with marketing which was not at all fun. The movie was shot and edited on film except when marketing was cutting on an Avid.
@@kbailey Hey Kerry! Yes it was. We had fun though while we were there. I still remember you wrote this great paper about all the events that took place during pre-production!
If you don't mind, i'd like to ask you something about the troubled editing and re-editing of Tank Girl. I am a fan of the film, and ever since i first saw it, i've been looking into any info about "an hour of deleted footage" which Rachel Talalay was always talking about. Correct me if i'm wrong, but that would mean that movie was originally about 165 minutes long? Damn! Anyway, if you look up the IMDb Trivia for Tank Girl, they do have pretty good list of some deleted scenes which i know were filmed but deleted, just based on stills and clips i've seen of those which showed up over the years. I've seen one very old workprint copy of the film which was sourced from VHS, but it only had few extended scenes, however for some reason the voice of Sub-Girl (Ann Cusack) is strangely dubbed and it sounds much deeper. Apparently at least one more workprint version was in circulation because if you search for deleted scenes from the film, you can find several scenes which were lifted from that copy and uploaded right here on UA-cam, like original opening and ending. Here is the weird thing. Another deleted scene from that workprint which was released shows Tank Girl and Booga in the bed after they had sex and when T-Saint finds them. What i'd like to know is, and of course, if you even know about any of this in first place, was there an actual sex scene filmed and were there any versions of the film, maybe some which were shown at test screenings, with that scene included? Of course, as Minty said in video, Talalay and Lori Petty always said how it was filmed, and Petty even has behind the scenes pictures of the infamous "anatomically correct" Booga.
@@jackcraven2266 I'm not sure about an hour of footage. There were definitely scenes lifted out. Maybe an hour in total of lifted scenes plus a bunch of little pieces. I have a cut form January 1995 that might include some of these scenes. I'll have to take a look at it. The famous sex scene was in the movie for a time. It was one of the scenes lifted out to achieve a PG13 rating. I really remember the sex scene as an "after sex" scene and I don't at all remember a member, I would have taken film clip like I did with the naked women. There was never more than one work print floating around. This movie was cut on film for the most part. The same pieces of film get recut for each change and that gets screened.and videotaped. It's the videotapes that must be floating around. I'll look and see what notes I still have, and one line continuity sheets, whatever. Scripts were hard copies back then, so I no longer have that, but I'll get back to you.
I got to meet Lori Petty. She was very nice. This was also the time she was going through cancer treatment, but still was very uplifting and happy to know I knew her from the movie.
Despite the flaws and I get the comic fans compliant about the changes, but I think the movie is underrated. Lori Petty was perfect for the role and is just pure fun.
I love the scene where she is in the straight jacket at Water and Power, and when Kesly comes in she says, "you know, it's really hard for me to play with myself in this thing ". He's expecting her to be all broken and she is still messing with him 😂
Huh, really surprised that the animated bits weren't intended. To me they fit perfectly with the whole vibe and style. Seemed like a nice carryover from the comics.
I'm surprised you didn't mention one of my favorite bits of movie trivia. When MGM/UA approached Sound Garden about using their cover of Devo's Girl You Want, Sound Garden wanted too much money to license it. So, they went to Devo and asked them to rerecord the song in the style of Sound Garden's cover, which Devo agreed to do for much less than what Sound Garden had asked to license their version.
Hey thanks! I didn't know that. We had already had "Girl You Want" as the opening song and then we heard that Mark Mothersbough was going to re-record the song for us. I don't think we ever had the Sound Garden version in the cutting room.
Nope but he also doesnt always care or really try. See god of war 3 (i think). He showed up recorded his lines refused to do a second take when asked then went and played golf (apparently the entire reson he took the job was to play their golf course)
I worked some days on ''Tank Girl'' in the Grip or Electric departments. The tank was a Stuart M5 WWII surplus light tank, with a goofy turret. I had to ride on the rear deck holding a small lamp so it wouldn't fall off in one shot. The exhaust was hot and unpleasant. That same location, [then - Anaconda/Cypress pit mine at Sahuarita, AZ] was later used for another Post Apocalyptic box office bomb, Kevin Costner's ''The Postman,'' ]1997], We jokingly referred to that project as ''Dirt World.'' But at least Mr Costner's paychecks were good. I recall payroll issues with Tank Girl. The Titan missile silo you refer to belongs to the Pima Air and Space Museum, and is also close to the Sahuarita mine. Paramount was successful in using the silo and Titan missile as Zephram Cochrane's primitive warp drive spacecraft in ''Star Trek: First Contact,'' [1996]. I rigged the Silo, worked some days on Production, and de-rigged the silo. One day when rigging, I was wearing a black T-shirt and woodland camo trousers. The next day, I was told to take my tools and get off the lot. I'd be paid for the day. WTF? Turns out the Russians were still monitoring the missile site via satellite -- and the way I was dressed -- I was mistaken for an Airman, re-rigging the silo for a future strike. Russkies have no sense of humor, no imagination, no appreciation for the cinematic arts, and no understanding of military surplus as civilian wear. All Red Army surplus is sold to 3rd World dictatorships to dress their soldiers.
So you were the culprit that prevented the missile silo being a filming location? Russian satellites must have had very good image resolution, then. As for the tank. One would think a M5 Stuart would be available locally, instead of buying one in Peru and having the shipping costs to get to Arizona.
@@havareriksen1004 Your timeline is all off. ''Tank Girl'' shot in '94. They [the production people] probably did not make a favorable impression on the Air and Space Museum staff, who are kind of straight.They were rejected. They never got near the Silo. The next year Paramount Pictures [with a big budget] asked the Museum Staff to actually even use the Rocket itself, with a plastic/fibergras cockpit module overlay to be filmed as Zephram Cochrane's Warp Speed spacecraft. Money talks so Paramount got the OK. I don't know if the concrete slab disc, that's supposed to be permanently half-on-half-off the silo was moved to fully open -- at the request of the Director of Photography maybe -- or if it never moved. If so that would have freaked a Soviet-era observer. But the image of a technician in army surplus camo trousers, combat boots, black T-shirt going to his truck. A '68 Chevy C/10 in Orange might've looked like an Airman/Missleman going to a military vehicle to a Russian. The USAF stopped using that vintage GM truck decades before, and were using Dodge Crew Cab trucks and in Air Force Blue. An American observer would know that, a Russian might not pick up on the nuances. Only I was asked to leave. The film operation continued. Because I'm in the Union I was back the next week with the production crew when Jonathan Frakes was directing. We heard no more ''Technicians preparing for launch.'' Even though were were creating that exact effect on film. Go figure. As for the Peruvian* sourcing of an M5 tank for a shoot in Tucson, I'm at a loss. I knew of a local guy who owned a drive-thru liquor store in the SW block of Ft Lowell and Stone who was an avid military vehicle collector. He had several Deuce-and-a-Half army trucks, some light tanks, Half tracks, Jeeps, Dodge command cars. Some foreign rigs, too, Unimogs, etc. They were in a fenced in compound adjacent to the store. After buying your package of cold beer, you could not help notice all the Materiel as you turned a left circle around the tiny concrete block structure and rolled back onto Stone Av. He lived to rent his gear to movies. But he got no deal with the Tank Girl outfit. *Maybe there was some ulterior motive to bring a tank [with a lot of small concealable openings] from a place like Peru, where a certain botanical -- then in high esteem by the film community elite -- could also be sourced. Just a thought...
Hey Minty! I loved working on the creature costumes on this film! That was almost 20 YEARS ago! It was my 2nd time doing special effects for a Rachel Talalay film. Very anxious to see your review!
I remember seeing this in the cinema and waited months for it to come out as a comic book fan. Loved in it. It's not rude enough and it is tame but good fun and I really liked the cartoons mixed into the movie. Loved how that was done in natural born killers as well. Also when you talk about the awesome 90s sound track you have to include L7 in your shout outs. ;)
I loved this movie. The quirky humor was so 90s meta. The music was amazing. Lori Petty and Malcolm McDowell absolutely made this movie. And it’s still one of my favorites today.
This is legitimately one of, if not my favourite film ever 😁 so cool to see you cover it. Its a HUGE shame that you didn't include Aussie punk band Beowulf who did one of the biggest songs in the film "2 Cents" , they were also left off the film soundtrack too for some reason :(
I was absolutely obsessed with this movie as a 13 year old at the time, and no I Don't know everything about it but dipped into the comics from here and there. Remember being in lust with jet girl definitely at the time....and guess what I still am as a 40 year old man. Its a underrated movie and it didn't get its respect it deserved at the time. HOLLYWOOD KEEP OFF ...NO REMAKE NEEDED ITS A CULT CLASSIC FILM
I remember seeing this for the first time and thinking "oops they mut have gone overbudget, hence the animated, too quick wrap up ending"...now I'm TICKED that they were no only under budget, but FORCED to cut an ACTUAL ending!! damn you studio for depriving us from a sense of resolution!!
I sometimes rewatch this film just because it's one of my faves, and I used to collect the comics back in the very early 90's. Often when I rewatch, it is to show the film to somebody else who had never seen it before, and too often they ask how does the tank listen to her commands like a pet... That was when I noticed that they left that one tiny detail out of the film. In the intro story issue of the comic, when Water and Power killed her pet water buffalo, she transferred his brain into the tank. That is why the tank acts like her pet. Watching very carefully during the animated sequence of building the tank, I think a shot from that comic issue can be barely seen for just a second, showing her holding the brain, wired into a part to be put into the tank.
Yea,this was a CRAZY, but really fun movie to watch. I tend to like weird movies like this. I NEVER even remembered this movie being released. Just saw it on the shelf at the video store one day back in the 90's And ,like has been stated below, I think Lori Petty was PERFECT casting for Tank Girl. She IS Tank Girl, and I have always planned on calling her that IF I would ever get to meet her ! lol. :) Malcolm McDowell was a really great choice also for his role.. (He plays a GREAT villain !)
I don't remember it being released either, just ran across it on cable TV and loved it. Lori Petty was perfect for the role with her absolutely infectious energy and looks. I've since recorded it on DVR and watch it once a month or so.
Actually the first cut of the movie wouldn't be at all like the comics. The comic book artist was brought in to do animations for the movie to make it more comic book like.
Ohhh no wonder the comics reminded me of GorillaZ! 😮 I remember being psyched for this movie, because #90sTeenager, huge fan of Hole, and Lori Petty’s look was badass and screamed mid-90’s! Who didn’t love dressing up looking gritty back then? But I forgot about it until now? Then again, I WAS fourteen when it came out, so I wasn’t as organized or took note of things like I do today as an adult. 😅 Lori Petty reminds me of a less sophisticated version of Gwen Stefani during the early days of No Doubt before. And I am a huge Naomi Watts fan! I had no idea she was involved in this film! I think I’ll fulfill my missing teenage dream by finally watching it. Thanks, Minty! 😄
Hey Minty, just wanted to say that I really have enjoyed your content. Ive watched nearly every one of your videos. The bits of humor and that fact that you inform of things I didnt previously know about quite a few movies.
Nice one, Minty. (BTW, Benny Hill is well-known in America. The episodes were re-ran on American television during the 1990s. And I grew up watching the show in the 1980s as well.)
Thank you for doing this movie. I love this movie. It's my all time favorite Lori Petty movie EVER. Movie so so underrated and Lori Petty is da bomb. Totally totally thought the cast did an awesome job. Thanks again for doing this underrated movie. Ice T might be in full makeup, but I recognize his voice anywhere.
Ha, I can just hear that iconic 90s Disney trailer voice now! "From Walt Disney Pictures...she's...Tank Girl!" Between seeing the Nostalgia Critic review and noticing a mention of the comic in the first draft of the 'Ginger Snaps' script...fascinating;)
I remember reading in both Geri & Victoria’s Autobiographies about them auditioning for a part in the movie, it was the first time they had met each other before auditioning for the group that later down the line evolved into the Spice Girls! Another fab vid as always Minty!
I love this film so much. Saw it over ten times in the cinema and MANY times more on home media. THANK YOU so much for doing this video and being positive.
I remember seeing this movie sometime during the late 90s. I always wondered what it would have been like if Gwen Stefani (No Doubt lead singer) had played tank girl.
Saw in the theater, contains one of/if not my favorite movie lines of all time. Didn't really see Lori as Tank Girl, but really shines as "Rebecca". Be interesting to see the R version and Sub girl scenes.
Tank Girl has been one of my favorite movies since I first saw it on T.V. when I was a kid. I absolutely loved the insanity of it all and to this day it is my all time favorite wtf movie. Thank you for the great videos! I love seeing your content and I look forward to the next one!
The Titan Missile silo in Tucson, Arizona (technically Green Valley, just south of Tucson) you spoke of was, however, used in Star Trek: First Contact. The actual ICBM missile in the silo was the Phoenix in the movie.
I LOVE this movie! 😍🤩😝😘 Especially the musical number! HAHA Also, I'm surprised the animation had to be added due to production forgetting to film them... they were great and I thought it was part of the GRAND DESIGN to include an homage to the source material comics. 😖
she's just the girl, the girl you want! I LOVE Tank Girl the Movie. Would love to have seen it before the studio got their hands on it (Director's Cut ???) but what we got was the perfect level of quirk to fire my imagination. Lori Petty's performance made it all work. Mad Max for stoners. (with a Kick Ass OST to boot!) Thank Minty, this "10 things you didn't know" was unexpected and VERY welcome!.
When you said Number 8, the video went into a Liberty Mutual commercial making it seem like part of your video. I thought it was humorous. Thanks for another fun video.
Lori Petty also appeared alongside Pauly Shore and David Alan Grier in In The Army Now, around that time. I love Tank Girl when I was a teenager; this many years later, I'd be interested to see a director's cut.
LOL I got your Roland - Grange Hill Reference but Roland was from my generation on Grange Hill and I'm 50 so it probably went over most peoples heads. I found it funny though 🤣
I remember hearing this film was going to be released from teletext (which obviously doesn't exist anymore) as well as a new Batman film that was coming out (Batman Forever) - which was rumoured to have Robin William's playing The Riddler.
OH! You made a Tank Girl video on my birthday! And I missed IT!!! This movie is the reason I even know about and collect the Tank Girl comics. I love this movie!
Truly one of my all time favorite films outside of PCU. I had two older sisters growing up, one of them who was really into "alternative" comics so when they sat me down to watch this I had no idea what I was getting into, and looking back on it I am so glad because even though this is a loose adaptation for me at the time it pushed so many creative boundaries I thought I was maybe at least partly aware of, and totally flipped them around.
I love PCU! That movie has everything. A chubby John Favreau, Jeremy Piven before hair plugs, David Spade being David Spade, and of course the iconic and legendary Jessica Walters.
Here's another fact for you. Both Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) and Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) auditioned for the lead role a year before they were famous.
I loved TankGirl! I was stoked when I saw Lori Petty was in it because I dig her work. Well, I'm sorry it flopped but, I'm glad I contributed to the money they did make. Cult Classic definitely!😘😘💖💖👏👏👏
I only found out about this movie, because my husband and his friends were so excited about it. I'd never even heard of Tank Girl. I have to admit, I love this movie. I actually found a DVD of it and bought it for my husband for Christmas last year. I already had the VHS, but my VCR is no longer connected to the TV.
Minty, . you are the only movie review type channel i follow, . Thrs so many more classic movies for u to review. . wld love to see, . . "The Heavenly Kid" "Romancing The Stone" or "Jewel of the Nile" . . "Solar Babies" . . "RollerBoys" . . "Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man" . "Cant Buy Me Love" the original. . "My Science Project"
I didn't hear anything about this movie when it came out, but my older brother showed it to me shortly after and it instantly became my favorite movie. When I was old enough to get a job, I spent weeks searching for it, and eventually it was the first DVD I ever owned. When I was about 15, I went to a punk concert at a tiny record store. The place had a separate room specifically dedicated to Tank Girl. I was amazed, as I didn't know the movie was based on a comic book. I almost missed the show, because I didn't want to leave the room. Fun fact: The band "Gorillaz" is a collaboration between one of the creators of Tank Girl and one of the members of Blur.
I saw the movie, found out it was based on a comic series and then read all the books. I love em both even if the creators hated the movie. Lori was a _perfect_ Tank Girl. And the soundtrack was epic! Especially because one of my favorite bands (Face to Face) wasn't only on it, but one of my favorite songs by them was used for a bigger action scene in the movie.
I would love for you to take us on a tour of all your movie memorabilia in the background of your videos. I'm always looking around back there. Your channel is very entertaining, highlighting some movies that I completely forgot about.
Arianne Phillips did the costume design. She's also known for styling celebrities like Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, and Courtney Love. Also Costume Design for movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Crow, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Girl Interrupted and the upcoming Joker sequel "Folie a Deux".
I worked on this movie! I could tell you at least 10 things that you don't know. Rachel was pregnant during the shooting of the movie for one. Do you know why it takes place at night? The script was written for the day. The head of MGM marketing took the movie and made it unwatchable. The real editor fixed the movie afterwards though but there was no time left to find the movie. MGM rushed to finish and then demanded a PG13 rating on a movie that was shot as an R rated movie. It was never going to be a Great movie, but it a lot more potential than we were allowed to do. I was the assistant editor. I also had to work with marketing which was not at all fun. The movie was shot and edited on film except when marketing was cutting on an Avid.
I remember the director's cut being much better than the theatrical release cut. I've always missed the full musical number that got cut.
@@kbailey Hey Kerry! Yes it was. We had fun though while we were there. I still remember you wrote this great paper about all the events that took place during pre-production!
@@wheelinthesky4208 wow is that paper online to read please? Thank you.
If you don't mind, i'd like to ask you something about the troubled editing and re-editing of Tank Girl. I am a fan of the film, and ever since i first saw it, i've been looking into any info about "an hour of deleted footage" which Rachel Talalay was always talking about. Correct me if i'm wrong, but that would mean that movie was originally about 165 minutes long? Damn! Anyway, if you look up the IMDb Trivia for Tank Girl, they do have pretty good list of some deleted scenes which i know were filmed but deleted, just based on stills and clips i've seen of those which showed up over the years.
I've seen one very old workprint copy of the film which was sourced from VHS, but it only had few extended scenes, however for some reason the voice of Sub-Girl (Ann Cusack) is strangely dubbed and it sounds much deeper. Apparently at least one more workprint version was in circulation because if you search for deleted scenes from the film, you can find several scenes which were lifted from that copy and uploaded right here on UA-cam, like original opening and ending.
Here is the weird thing. Another deleted scene from that workprint which was released shows Tank Girl and Booga in the bed after they had sex and when T-Saint finds them. What i'd like to know is, and of course, if you even know about any of this in first place, was there an actual sex scene filmed and were there any versions of the film, maybe some which were shown at test screenings, with that scene included? Of course, as Minty said in video, Talalay and Lori Petty always said how it was filmed, and Petty even has behind the scenes pictures of the infamous "anatomically correct" Booga.
@@jackcraven2266 I'm not sure about an hour of footage. There were definitely scenes lifted out. Maybe an hour in total of lifted scenes plus a bunch of little pieces. I have a cut form January 1995 that might include some of these scenes. I'll have to take a look at it. The famous sex scene was in the movie for a time. It was one of the scenes lifted out to achieve a PG13 rating. I really remember the sex scene as an "after sex" scene and I don't at all remember a member, I would have taken film clip like I did with the naked women.
There was never more than one work print floating around. This movie was cut on film for the most part. The same pieces of film get recut for each change and that gets screened.and videotaped. It's the videotapes that must be floating around. I'll look and see what notes I still have, and one line continuity sheets, whatever. Scripts were hard copies back then, so I no longer have that, but I'll get back to you.
I got to meet Lori Petty. She was very nice. This was also the time she was going through cancer treatment, but still was very uplifting and happy to know I knew her from the movie.
I was afraid she died or something. I read this entire comment in past tense. 😂
Glad Lori Petty was cast as Tank Girl.
Despite the flaws and I get the comic fans compliant about the changes, but I think the movie is underrated. Lori Petty was perfect for the role and is just pure fun.
I always thought Gwen Stefani would make a perfect tank girl.
Lori
I kinda wanna see the Rachel cut of Tank Girl now. #releasetherachelcut 😏
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@@MellowFresh she lost her looks, google her. She Used to be hot
I love the scene where she is in the straight jacket at Water and Power, and when Kesly comes in she says, "you know, it's really hard for me to play with myself in this thing ". He's expecting her to be all broken and she is still messing with him 😂
What a name you have there. I could have picked you as a tank girl fan from 1000 miles away. (Which I probably am)
@@jeremybeckett6 Loved the movie for over two decades now 🤩
Huh, really surprised that the animated bits weren't intended. To me they fit perfectly with the whole vibe and style. Seemed like a nice carryover from the comics.
Right ?! Same!
I'm surprised you didn't mention one of my favorite bits of movie trivia. When MGM/UA approached Sound Garden about using their cover of Devo's Girl You Want, Sound Garden wanted too much money to license it. So, they went to Devo and asked them to rerecord the song in the style of Sound Garden's cover, which Devo agreed to do for much less than what Sound Garden had asked to license their version.
*Haha. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that information!*
Hey thanks! I didn't know that. We had already had "Girl You Want" as the opening song and then we heard that Mark Mothersbough was going to re-record the song for us. I don't think we ever had the Sound Garden version in the cutting room.
“Malcom McDowell said yes to the role”. Did Malcom EVER say no to a role. Jesus this guy did Caligula
Nope but he also doesnt always care or really try. See god of war 3 (i think). He showed up recorded his lines refused to do a second take when asked then went and played golf (apparently the entire reson he took the job was to play their golf course)
He was also in Lexx.
He also did Doomsday, which I wish I could scrub from my brain - it was so Godawful
I worked some days on ''Tank Girl'' in the Grip or Electric departments. The tank was a Stuart M5 WWII surplus light tank, with a goofy turret. I had to ride on the rear deck holding a small lamp so it wouldn't fall off in one shot. The exhaust was hot and unpleasant. That same location, [then - Anaconda/Cypress pit mine at Sahuarita, AZ] was later used for another Post Apocalyptic box office bomb, Kevin Costner's ''The Postman,'' ]1997], We jokingly referred to that project as ''Dirt World.'' But at least Mr Costner's paychecks were good. I recall payroll issues with Tank Girl.
The Titan missile silo you refer to belongs to the Pima Air and Space Museum, and is also close to the Sahuarita mine. Paramount was successful in using the silo and Titan missile as Zephram Cochrane's primitive warp drive spacecraft in ''Star Trek: First Contact,'' [1996]. I rigged the Silo, worked some days on Production, and de-rigged the silo. One day when rigging, I was wearing a black T-shirt and woodland camo trousers. The next day, I was told to take my tools and get off the lot. I'd be paid for the day. WTF? Turns out the Russians were still monitoring the missile site via satellite -- and the way I was dressed -- I was mistaken for an Airman, re-rigging the silo for a future strike.
Russkies have no sense of humor, no imagination, no appreciation for the cinematic arts, and no understanding of military surplus as civilian wear. All Red Army surplus is sold to 3rd World dictatorships to dress their soldiers.
So you were the culprit that prevented the missile silo being a filming location? Russian satellites must have had very good image resolution, then. As for the tank. One would think a M5 Stuart would be available locally, instead of buying one in Peru and having the shipping costs to get to Arizona.
@@havareriksen1004 Your timeline is all off. ''Tank Girl'' shot in '94. They [the production people] probably did not make a favorable impression on the Air and Space Museum staff, who are kind of straight.They were rejected. They never got near the Silo.
The next year Paramount Pictures [with a big budget] asked the Museum Staff to actually even use the Rocket itself, with a plastic/fibergras cockpit module overlay to be filmed as Zephram Cochrane's Warp Speed spacecraft. Money talks so Paramount got the OK.
I don't know if the concrete slab disc, that's supposed to be permanently half-on-half-off the silo was moved to fully open -- at the request of the Director of Photography maybe -- or if it never moved. If so that would have freaked a Soviet-era observer.
But the image of a technician in army surplus camo trousers, combat boots, black T-shirt going to his truck. A '68 Chevy C/10 in Orange might've looked like an Airman/Missleman going to a military vehicle to a Russian. The USAF stopped using that vintage GM truck decades before, and were using Dodge Crew Cab trucks and in Air Force Blue. An American observer would know that, a Russian might not pick up on the nuances.
Only I was asked to leave. The film operation continued. Because I'm in the Union I was back the next week with the production crew when Jonathan Frakes was directing. We heard no more ''Technicians preparing for launch.'' Even though were were creating that exact effect on film. Go figure.
As for the Peruvian* sourcing of an M5 tank for a shoot in Tucson, I'm at a loss.
I knew of a local guy who owned a drive-thru liquor store in the SW block of Ft Lowell and Stone who was an avid military vehicle collector. He had several Deuce-and-a-Half army trucks, some light tanks, Half tracks, Jeeps, Dodge command cars. Some foreign rigs, too, Unimogs, etc. They were in a fenced in compound adjacent to the store. After buying your package of cold beer, you could not help notice all the Materiel as you turned a left circle around the tiny concrete block structure and rolled back onto Stone Av. He lived to rent his gear to movies. But he got no deal with the Tank Girl outfit.
*Maybe there was some ulterior motive to bring a tank [with a lot of small concealable openings] from a place like Peru, where a certain botanical -- then in high esteem by the film community elite -- could also be sourced. Just a thought...
This is the movie that introduced me to Portishead.
They will forever be synonymous to me.
Love them both,.. ☝️
Hey Minty! I loved working on the creature costumes on this film! That was almost 20 YEARS ago! It was my 2nd time doing special effects for a Rachel Talalay film. Very anxious to see your review!
That's pretty awesome. It's very cool to see who worked on movies covered on this channel.
Is 20 a typo? It was almost 30 years ago.
Typo, Yes. This was freaking ages ago. 95? Jeez. Freddy’s Dead was released in 92, and we worked on that in ‘91. Good god.
@@roddmatsui3554 I guess From Dusk Til Dawn wasn't too long after Tank Girl?
The mask for ice T was so good. It captured just enough of his actual appearance yet had me checking the credits. Aloha.
I remember seeing this in the cinema and waited months for it to come out as a comic book fan. Loved in it. It's not rude enough and it is tame but good fun and I really liked the cartoons mixed into the movie. Loved how that was done in natural born killers as well. Also when you talk about the awesome 90s sound track you have to include L7 in your shout outs. ;)
I loved this movie. The quirky humor was so 90s meta. The music was amazing. Lori Petty and Malcolm McDowell absolutely made this movie. And it’s still one of my favorites today.
This is legitimately one of, if not my favourite film ever 😁 so cool to see you cover it. Its a HUGE shame that you didn't include Aussie punk band Beowulf who did one of the biggest songs in the film "2 Cents" , they were also left off the film soundtrack too for some reason :(
This movie is so boring and stupid I cannot imagine what you must be like
@@frankie9259 lol wtf? Thats harsh 😂
@@tystone9922 they're trolling, ignore it.
I was absolutely obsessed with this movie as a 13 year old at the time, and no I Don't know everything about it but dipped into the comics from here and there. Remember being in lust with jet girl definitely at the time....and guess what I still am as a 40 year old man. Its a underrated movie and it didn't get its respect it deserved at the time. HOLLYWOOD KEEP OFF ...NO REMAKE NEEDED ITS A CULT CLASSIC FILM
Yes Naomi Watts is very lovely even if she was all nerdy and looking like "Marcy" from the Peanuts
Benny Hill was very well known in the US. His show ran for decades across the country.
True but I dunno if today's audiences are aware of Benny Hill.
@@BeyondDaX everyone still knew of Benny Hill back in 90s when the film was released
@@brainimp Yeah, just not this generation
I remember seeing this for the first time and thinking "oops they mut have gone overbudget, hence the animated, too quick wrap up ending"...now I'm TICKED that they were no only under budget, but FORCED to cut an ACTUAL ending!! damn you studio for depriving us from a sense of resolution!!
I sometimes rewatch this film just because it's one of my faves, and I used to collect the comics back in the very early 90's. Often when I rewatch, it is to show the film to somebody else who had never seen it before, and too often they ask how does the tank listen to her commands like a pet... That was when I noticed that they left that one tiny detail out of the film. In the intro story issue of the comic, when Water and Power killed her pet water buffalo, she transferred his brain into the tank. That is why the tank acts like her pet. Watching very carefully during the animated sequence of building the tank, I think a shot from that comic issue can be barely seen for just a second, showing her holding the brain, wired into a part to be put into the tank.
Yea,this was a CRAZY, but really fun movie to watch. I tend to like weird movies like this. I NEVER even remembered this movie being released. Just saw it on the shelf at the video store one day back in the 90's And ,like has been stated below, I think Lori Petty was PERFECT casting for Tank Girl. She IS Tank Girl, and I have always planned on calling her that IF I would ever get to meet her ! lol. :) Malcolm McDowell was a really great choice also for his role.. (He plays a GREAT villain !)
tank girl spawn and the first blade movie would make a good fun movie night
I don't remember it being released either, just ran across it on cable TV and loved it.
Lori Petty was perfect for the role with her absolutely infectious energy and looks.
I've since recorded it on DVR and watch it once a month or so.
Malcolm McDowell has had many quite different roles, but he always does a great job.
Still one of my favorite comic book movies. This movie and The Crow were two of the best movies soundtracks from the 1990s.
The Crow is definitely the best ever.
What about the mask that was a good superhero 90s film
I think tank girl and mystery man are the most underrated superhero 90s movies
I am old enough to remember when Lori Petty was an absolute cutie.
She still is!
Congratulations on your first birthday 🤣
Malcolm McDowell chewing the scenery always makes for a great watch. This movie was campy as hell, but I think that was the goal.
Man I wish could get a OG cut of the film, closer to the comic.
Actually the first cut of the movie wouldn't be at all like the comics. The comic book artist was brought in to do animations for the movie to make it more comic book like.
There were talks of a reboot to the character with Margot Robbie attached to play her, but nothing has happened as of yet.
that would be great!
This movie was such a trip when I first saw it, and it continues to be one every time. So awesome!
I totally forgot Malcolm McDowell was in this. I met him a few years ago. Nice guy.
Ohhh no wonder the comics reminded me of GorillaZ! 😮
I remember being psyched for this movie, because #90sTeenager, huge fan of Hole, and Lori Petty’s look was badass and screamed mid-90’s! Who didn’t love dressing up looking gritty back then? But I forgot about it until now? Then again, I WAS fourteen when it came out, so I wasn’t as organized or took note of things like I do today as an adult. 😅 Lori Petty reminds me of a less sophisticated version of Gwen Stefani during the early days of No Doubt before.
And I am a huge Naomi Watts fan! I had no idea she was involved in this film! I think I’ll fulfill my missing teenage dream by finally watching it. Thanks, Minty! 😄
I loved this movie, I think the addition of the animation rounded the movie and helped remind of its comic book ties.
I was part of the test audience for this movie when I was a teen, got to see it with the original music. It had ministry and body count for music.
"I have two words for you. BRUSH YOUR TEETH!" Tank Girl
One of my favourite films. Love it from start to finish.
Hey Minty, just wanted to say that I really have enjoyed your content. Ive watched nearly every one of your videos. The bits of humor and that fact that you inform of things I didnt previously know about quite a few movies.
Nice one, Minty.
(BTW, Benny Hill is well-known in America. The episodes were re-ran on American television during the 1990s. And I grew up watching the show in the 1980s as well.)
It's on now, Saturday nights on Antenna TV. Great because SNL is just horrible and continues to get worse. Benny Hill such a great alternative.
@@chul074
Absolutely!
Thanks for the heads-up. 👍
Thank you for doing this movie. I love this movie. It's my all time favorite Lori Petty movie EVER.
Movie so so underrated and Lori Petty is da bomb. Totally totally thought the cast did an awesome job.
Thanks again for doing this underrated movie. Ice T might be in full makeup, but I recognize his voice anywhere.
'Blur' appeared in the comics due to Damon Albarn living with Jamie the artist. Jamie went on to be Damon's partner in the Gorillaz colab
My two favorite Cult Classics are Tank Girl and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Weird, quirky and just plain fun!
Ha, I can just hear that iconic 90s Disney trailer voice now! "From Walt Disney Pictures...she's...Tank Girl!"
Between seeing the Nostalgia Critic review and noticing a mention of the comic in the first draft of the 'Ginger Snaps' script...fascinating;)
I remember reading in both Geri & Victoria’s Autobiographies about them auditioning for a part in the movie, it was the first time they had met each other before auditioning for the group that later down the line evolved into the Spice Girls! Another fab vid as always Minty!
One of my earliest crushes and influences to the punk rock life
Lorie petty was my child hood crush and I watched tank girl over and over it was amazing
I love this film so much. Saw it over ten times in the cinema and MANY times more on home media. THANK YOU so much for doing this video and being positive.
The visuals and crazy characters make this a fun watch. Lori Petty great as Tank Girl.
This is a side-by-side with Johnny Mnemonic; both are cheesy, fun, great soundtracks, and have Ice-T!
Ice-T rules
I remember seeing this movie sometime during the late 90s. I always wondered what it would have been like if Gwen Stefani (No Doubt lead singer) had played tank girl.
Not as good, that's what.
Oh Minty, I've missed you!! It was I that have been missing though. Glad I found you looking this brilliant movie up.
Loved this movie back in the day and just found the CD soundtrack at goodwill a few weeks ago. Great video.
Saw in the theater, contains one of/if not my favorite movie lines of all time. Didn't really see Lori as Tank Girl, but really shines as "Rebecca". Be interesting to see the R version and Sub girl scenes.
"I only want to help you, Rolo."
Gawd she was a pain. (According to Rolo.)
I'm Australian btw and I know what Grange Hill was. XD
Tank Girl has been one of my favorite movies since I first saw it on T.V. when I was a kid. I absolutely loved the insanity of it all and to this day it is my all time favorite wtf movie. Thank you for the great videos! I love seeing your content and I look forward to the next one!
Tank Girl and Johnny Mnemonic should have been a double feature back in the day.
"Mutant kangaroo junk" "massive flop" 🤣🤣🤣i fell off my chair
Congratulations on the 420k subs Minty.
The Titan Missile silo in Tucson, Arizona (technically Green Valley, just south of Tucson) you spoke of was, however, used in Star Trek: First Contact. The actual ICBM missile in the silo was the Phoenix in the movie.
And History was made with Lori Petty. Perfect casting
I just watch this for the first time last month. Had I watched it in its day I know I would have LOVED IT!!
I LOVE this movie! 😍🤩😝😘 Especially the musical number! HAHA Also, I'm surprised the animation had to be added due to production forgetting to film them... they were great and I thought it was part of the GRAND DESIGN to include an homage to the source material comics. 😖
she's just the girl,
the girl you want!
I LOVE Tank Girl the Movie. Would love to have seen it before the studio got their hands on it (Director's Cut ???) but what we got was the perfect level of quirk to fire my imagination. Lori Petty's performance made it all work.
Mad Max for stoners. (with a Kick Ass OST to boot!)
Thank Minty, this "10 things you didn't know" was unexpected and VERY welcome!.
Woah! I didn't know the Gorillaz guy made Tank Girl! I knew he was an artist before the band obviously but wow, pretty cool.
When you said Number 8, the video went into a Liberty Mutual commercial making it seem like part of your video. I thought it was humorous. Thanks for another fun video.
Lori Petty also appeared alongside Pauly Shore and David Alan Grier in In The Army Now, around that time. I love Tank Girl when I was a teenager; this many years later, I'd be interested to see a director's cut.
LOL I got your Roland - Grange Hill Reference but Roland was from my generation on Grange Hill and I'm 50 so it probably went over most peoples heads. I found it funny though 🤣
I remember hearing this film was going to be released from teletext (which obviously doesn't exist anymore) as well as a new Batman film that was coming out (Batman Forever) - which was rumoured to have Robin William's playing The Riddler.
I remember Lori Petty from A League of Their Own and Free Willy. She is awesome
OH! You made a Tank Girl video on my birthday! And I missed IT!!!
This movie is the reason I even know about and collect the Tank Girl comics. I love this movie!
loved it in the theater. We went 14 times to see it. I want a full directors cut
I love Tank Girl! I watched it with my uncle back when I was a kid. Both of my uncles introduced me to the best media ever!
Truly one of my all time favorite films outside of PCU. I had two older sisters growing up, one of them who was really into "alternative" comics so when they sat me down to watch this I had no idea what I was getting into, and looking back on it I am so glad because even though this is a loose adaptation for me at the time it pushed so many creative boundaries I thought I was maybe at least partly aware of, and totally flipped them around.
I love PCU! That movie has everything. A chubby John Favreau, Jeremy Piven before hair plugs, David Spade being David Spade, and of course the iconic and legendary Jessica Walters.
PCU, there's a movie I haven't thought about in awhile. I enjoyed it, I think I saw it at the end of middle school/early high school.
YES! This is amazing. I love this movie and Lori petty is Tank Girl. Thank you so much for doing this video.
Here's another fact for you.
Both Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) and Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice) auditioned for the lead role a year before they were famous.
HOOORRAAAYYY!!!! the movie, the music and the Minty!!! What a great way to start the day!!!
TankGirl is one of my favorite comics and movies. And Minty, I like your sponsored humor !
Just watched this a couple weeks ago. I have seen it so many times & still love it !!!
Yeah I remember this movie. This is the one where ICE T was some type of dog or kangaroo or wombat.
I loved TankGirl! I was stoked when I saw Lori Petty was in it because I dig her work. Well, I'm sorry it flopped but, I'm glad I contributed to the money they did make.
Cult Classic definitely!😘😘💖💖👏👏👏
Benny Hill was in the 80s very popular in Germany.
Ps. I still hope for a BMX Bandits Video from you.
I loved this movie as a teenager. it was a must watch for anyone new to my circle of friends. In fact i still have a VHS copy of it archived.
I only found out about this movie, because my husband and his friends were so excited about it. I'd never even heard of Tank Girl. I have to admit, I love this movie. I actually found a DVD of it and bought it for my husband for Christmas last year. I already had the VHS, but my VCR is no longer connected to the TV.
Minty, . you are the only movie review type channel i follow, . Thrs so many more classic movies for u to review. . wld love to see, . . "The Heavenly Kid" "Romancing The Stone" or "Jewel of the Nile" . . "Solar Babies" . . "RollerBoys" . . "Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man" . "Cant Buy Me Love" the original. . "My Science Project"
Today happens to be my birthday and Tank girl is my ABSOLUTE Favorite movie!!!! Thanks for the birthday pressie Minty!!!!!! 👍😎
hahaha love the "word from our sponsor" jokes
I didn't hear anything about this movie when it came out, but my older brother showed it to me shortly after and it instantly became my favorite movie. When I was old enough to get a job, I spent weeks searching for it, and eventually it was the first DVD I ever owned.
When I was about 15, I went to a punk concert at a tiny record store. The place had a separate room specifically dedicated to Tank Girl. I was amazed, as I didn't know the movie was based on a comic book. I almost missed the show, because I didn't want to leave the room.
Fun fact: The band "Gorillaz" is a collaboration between one of the creators of Tank Girl and one of the members of Blur.
I think if this movie came out like 4 years earlier it would have been a bigger hit. And how cute is Naomi Watts in this?
Yes! Glad you tackled this movie, Minty.
Loved this movie when it came out! Thanks for covering it, Minty👍🏻
I saw the movie, found out it was based on a comic series and then read all the books. I love em both even if the creators hated the movie. Lori was a _perfect_ Tank Girl.
And the soundtrack was epic! Especially because one of my favorite bands (Face to Face) wasn't only on it, but one of my favorite songs by them was used for a bigger action scene in the movie.
The Cole Porter musical scene was the best, "End it!" 😂😂😂
Lori Petty is so loveable and goofy. I could see her playing Harley Quinn.
Loved the pic of NYC you used, with the WTC in the middle!
I loved the soundtrack to this movie!
Thank you for this. This was one of my friend's favorite movies.
One of my favorite lines: “There ain’t gonna be no tea and crumpets!” 😂
My SO and I saw Tank Girl twice in the theater. We liked it!
The comic book insertions are great.
Thank you for this clip, Minty! Hope you do more obscure comic book movies.
No competition, Lori Petty was born to play Tank Girl. 🥰. And Malcom McDowell was destined to outperform his brother in several films, including TG.
I remember watching Tank Girl, the first time it was shown on tv.
I love that Ice-T lives by “it’s better than prison” lol
I also think Iggy Pop was one of the background Ripper/Kangaroo mutant characters, but was one of the Rippers who didn't have any lines.
I would love for you to take us on a tour of all your movie memorabilia in the background of your videos.
I'm always looking around back there.
Your channel is very entertaining, highlighting some movies that I completely forgot about.
Thanks for this Monty , I LOVE this movie ! 💞👍🏻💞
Arianne Phillips did the costume design. She's also known for styling celebrities like Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, and Courtney Love. Also Costume Design for movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Crow, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Girl Interrupted and the upcoming Joker sequel "Folie a Deux".