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.)
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).
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 👍🏻
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.
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.
The Ducktales movie is interestingly recursive, since the Scrooge McDuck comics are believed to have been one of the inspirations behind Indiana Jones.
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.
@@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.)
"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.
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?”
FYI: There are no Nazis in King Solomon's Mine. The movie is clearly set before 1918. When Germany tried colonialism like, for example, its greatest rivals France and Great Britain.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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..."
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
As a Filipino I can tell you that at 41:10 the last two lines are "Terrific! Buwayatic!" "Buwaya" is "crocodile" in Tagalog with the added suffix of "tic" because all the words before it ends with "tic" and I can't believe I get to explain it in a UA-cam comment. Tito Vic and Joey movies were a staple in the 80s they churned out new movies like every other month and movie tickets were cheap. In the 90s Tito Sotto went into politics so Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon were the ones who kept making movie parodies in name only. Their formula was simple: Pick a Hollywood blockbuster concept or hit song or even just its title and mix in blue collar worker woes, rich vs poor drama, a token love interest and comedic sidekick, gay, fat and ugly jokes, a sudden song and dance number on a beach resort with whichever love team or singer was popular at that time and an action shoot out sequence in the final act in either a cooking oil factory or some rich person's mansion.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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! 💯🙏🏾
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 UA-cam). 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.
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.
@@3baxcb True. A lot of good & bad scripts sat around doing nothing until Raiders smashed the box office records and then every lazy greedy asshole in Hollywood decided they had to copy the formula and pray for easy money. At least Romancing the Stone was fun. Those cheap Allen Quartermain films didnt live up to expectations.
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!
These videos are incredibly well made and this entire channel is criminally underrated. IMHO its content dwarfs many much more popular movie critic channels.
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
The Armor of God movies starring Jackie Chan is a really great example of a good knockoff, it's obviously inspired by the Indy movies but it is a great funny action movie to stand on its own.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
Why is it that these few "White people" are so tripped about past White actor's play-acting in different ethnic roles? I'm a POC, and I'm NOT bothered by it nor upset one single bit! Coz its Theatrical. .....that's why it's called, fictional fantasy & make-believe acting! A person acting out a part different than his own kin & self. If he's portraying himself then that's nothing special, coz his acting only himself. But, him acting out a role different in culture & creed, then that becomes what play acting theatrical is about and SHOULD BE!! Just STOP it with this hypocrisy! Its getting tiresome & pathetic!
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.
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.
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!
Sir! Your brilliant, poetic,, and alliterative introductions and their captivating delivery!!...written like the refrains of old. Legendary lexical skills my man!
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.
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
@@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
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.
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.
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!!!!
Two things: 1) I like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's a fun time and I dig the atmosphere. 2) Why was John Rhys-Davies in so many of these Indy knockoffs?
There is also Polish-Soviet coproduction from 1988, called "Curse of Snakes Valley". Long before Crystal Skull (alien plot twist), heavily inspired by Raiders. The awfully bad what makes it great!
There was a huge, and I mean HUGE wave of tomb raiding movies and series in China in the later 2010s until around last year when the government basically banned them. (not wanting to promote tomb robbing, which is a long going problem over there) I think the one western audiences might've come across was Mojin: Lost Legend. (also one of the better ones, though a few of the TV dramas are also excellent fun.)
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?
Just remember that Antonio Margheriti was no stranger with directing films with lots of VFX and filming with several cameras at once when he could. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a couple of producers and/or distributors who called him to make a few movies loosely inspired by Raiders Of The Lost Ark just as was the case when he was reached to direct Cannibal Apocalypse while the cannibal boom was taking off.
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.
I don't get why people freak out about people playing different races, nationalities. I mean they're actors, that's what their supposed to do. Imagine how boring acting would be if you could only play the same parts.
All movies are knockouts of The earliest surviving film, known today as the Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), was captured by Louis Le Prince and briefly depicted members of his family in motion.😅😅😅
Charlton Heston in Secret of the Incas is not the source of the the Indy costume - both are clearly sourced (along with his hate for fascists) from For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Down to the messenger bag Indy carries, slung across the chest. Cooper's Robert Jordan, who is also a teacher, actually carrying a binoculars case. Both are Paramount movies, it's just that the Secret of the Incas just did that copying... poorly. Oh and one more thing. Name of the Love interest in For Whom the Bell Tolls is Maria.
I think you forgot Tales Of The Gold monkey, an American TV series from the early 80s. It's funny you should mention High Road To China as Tom Selleck was initially hired to play Indiana Jonex in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. He had to back out because he had already been hired for the TV series Magnum P.I.
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.)
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).
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 👍🏻
Please do more - your content is fantastic.
Of course Tom Selleck was going to play Indiana Jones, but "Magnum, P.I." got in the way - hence "High Road to China".
@@johnyporter6341 I've actually looked into this. Sadly it's not cheap.
One of the most underrated channels on UA-cam
Fancy seeing you here!
Always happy to see shoutouts from the bigger channels!
OMG it's Vincenzo Vinesauzo, the director of classic cult B movies such as "SPEEN 2: SPEEN HARDER" and "Capussi Please!"
hello binty
Yes binty!
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.
When the world of rip-offs and mockbusters needed him most, he returned.
Welcome back, you handsome borrowing bastard.
I don't think he's ever "gone", it's that he has to watch 100 bad films between videos.
@@kyleolson8977 Good point.
Romancing the Stone is classic 90s ITV Saturday/Sunday afternoon entertainment.
Man! It seems like I watched it so many times at my grandparent's house, on cable! It seemed to always be on. LOL
I remember when Michael Douglas riding the mudslide and landing right between Kathleen Turner’s legs was considered salacious.
Saw it in Theatres, it wasso much fun!!! great movie!!
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.
It was a great movie. I was 10, perfect target audience. looking at it now it still would cater to 10 year olds.
The Ducktales movie is interestingly recursive, since the Scrooge McDuck comics are believed to have been one of the inspirations behind Indiana Jones.
I loved that damn cartoon, not talking about the new stuff but the much older Ducktales and new video games were AWESOME!
Ducktales movie rules. Anyone who says otherwise sucks.
Even the poster is made by Drew Struzan, who made poster for several of the Indy movies.
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.
@@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.)
Technically the Germans in King Solomon’s Mines are from WWI.
This just another delusional zoomer who is repeating another zoomer.
"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.
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?”
That communication by telephone with a diver at the bottom of the ocean is possibly the greatest terrible thing I have ever seen
FYI: There are no Nazis in King Solomon's Mine. The movie is clearly set before 1918. When Germany tried colonialism like, for example, its greatest rivals France and Great Britain.
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.
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
Indeed
@@belindabountyblumenthal Infinitely scarier than the animatronics, for sure.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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..."
And Bring Them Back Alive.
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!
I'd like to throw in Relic Hunter, 'cause Tia Carrere looked good in a tank top.
beat me to it, was gonna say the same
You're meant to look at Mrs. Stone, not listen to her.😶🌫️
Your writing and comic timing make this the best "bad movie" channel.
In 1999 there was Relic Hunter with Tia Carrere.
That was more a Tomb Raider rip-off, which makes it kind of an Indiana Jones Grandchild knockoff
These are “drop everything” videos. There’s no plans today until this is done. ❤
As most people have expressed in comments on this video and others, thanks for your effort on these precious pieces of entertainment
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.
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.
@@seancomrie4714 Alright.
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.
@@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?"
@@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.
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.
Thanks very much!
I am so ashamed that the 'and you'll still be bald' line got a chuckle out of me
Only the great Chuck Norris can make wonders with that line.
@@tyrannozilla more like that line is so good no one could fuck it up
@@murciadoxial8056 Especially, the Chuck.
Kind of strange comment since his best friend Louis Gosset Jr. Is also bald. 😂
@@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.
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.
As a Filipino I can tell you that at 41:10 the last two lines are "Terrific! Buwayatic!"
"Buwaya" is "crocodile" in Tagalog with the added suffix of "tic" because all the words before it ends with "tic" and I can't believe I get to explain it in a UA-cam comment.
Tito Vic and Joey movies were a staple in the 80s they churned out new movies like every other month and movie tickets were cheap. In the 90s Tito Sotto went into politics so Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon were the ones who kept making movie parodies in name only. Their formula was simple: Pick a Hollywood blockbuster concept or hit song or even just its title and mix in blue collar worker woes, rich vs poor drama, a token love interest and comedic sidekick, gay, fat and ugly jokes, a sudden song and dance number on a beach resort with whichever love team or singer was popular at that time and an action shoot out sequence in the final act in either a cooking oil factory or some rich person's mansion.
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.
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.
Amd how on earth did he melt the gold with an AXE?? 🤣
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.
I didn't know that! Damn they're good together though.
@@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
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.
Also.... Requisite In Pace, Louis Gossett Jr.
Firewalker
Iron Eagle series
The Principal
......the list goes on. What an amazing actor
R.i.p
Don't forget "An officer and a gentleman" where he won an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Enemy Mine, Jaws 3D.
It's "Requiescat". You wrote that it's "necessary" for Louis to rest in peace...
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.
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! 💯🙏🏾
Get well!
He’s pretty good
I hope you feel better soon. 🤒
@@onkcuf @andia6865 Thank you! Just got home so I'm about to watch the hell out of this! 😁
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 UA-cam). 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.
Definitely not one made by Italians.
Didn't Melody Anderson stop acting after "Firewalker"? Says it all.
Self-awareness and irony are intensely overrated in movies.
Jalal Merhi related to the Merhi in Pepin Merhi Entertainment?
"DuckTales: The Movie "!
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.
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.
@@ripleyjlawman.3162 and I am sure direction and sets wouldn't be the same if not Indy's influence.
That wouldn't be too surprising but neither might have never been green-lit if Raiders Of The Lost Ark was never made.
@@3baxcb True. A lot of good & bad scripts sat around doing nothing until Raiders smashed the box office records and then every lazy greedy asshole in Hollywood decided they had to copy the formula and pray for easy money. At least Romancing the Stone was fun.
Those cheap Allen Quartermain films didnt live up to expectations.
YES! Time for Alan Quartermaine and the Raiders of the Public Domain
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!
"Indiana Jones for the profoundly undemanding" is one of the funniest series of words I've heard in my life.
These videos are incredibly well made and this entire channel is criminally underrated. IMHO its content dwarfs many much more popular movie critic channels.
"It's like the 80s never ended and things kept getting sillier" is the best Bolliwood description I've ever heard.
George Lucas admitted that Indiana Jones was partly inspired by Scrooge McDuck comics, so you could argue that it was DuckTales that inspired Indy.
I'm all for that take!
Absolutely, specifically the work of Carl Barks.
Welcome back, my man. Felt so long since the last one of these Borrowing Blockbusters videos.
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
Well, this is an unexpected treat! 😊 Another brilliant and hilariously deadpan documentary! I can’t imagine how much work these are, thank you!
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.
yes Rob!! ive been watching back through your old videos over the last week or so. i cant wait to watch this!
The Armor of God movies starring Jackie Chan is a really great example of a good knockoff, it's obviously inspired by the Indy movies but it is a great funny action movie to stand on its own.
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.
thought the same thing
you just pulled McGyver:Atlantis from a deep dark corridor of my psyche. To the light! from tomb to light.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@TheBadMovieBibleI am absolutely one of those people who can laugh at outdated ideas in old movies. Keep doing what you're doing man!
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!
I like how when he gets to Armor of God he goes "yeah not much to say here 10/10 moving on to movies I can actually make fun of"
I'd LOVE for you to do one on Rambo.
Why is it that these few "White people" are so tripped about past White actor's play-acting in different ethnic roles?
I'm a POC, and I'm NOT bothered by it nor upset one single bit! Coz its Theatrical. .....that's why it's called, fictional fantasy & make-believe acting! A person acting out a part different than his own kin & self. If he's portraying himself then that's nothing special, coz his acting only himself. But, him acting out a role different in culture & creed, then that becomes what play acting theatrical is about and SHOULD BE!!
Just STOP it with this hypocrisy! Its getting tiresome & pathetic!
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.
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.
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!
Ducktales was based on carl barks' comics which Lucas and Spielberg where bigs fans of and drew inspiration from
Got here from Oliver's channel and I can't help but love Rob's way with words!
"Strikingly bewigged" is a phrase I'd like to hear used more often.
So freaking glad we get a new video! Amazing work as always!
this remains one of the best researched and edited video series on youtube.
yes! always a treat when a new BMB video drops
" Fighting in Trees " would be a great name for a nineties indie band ......
But which music genre?
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.
I just love this channel. Another one to infinetly rewatch.
Sir! Your brilliant, poetic,, and alliterative introductions and their captivating delivery!!...written like the refrains of old. Legendary lexical skills my man!
I love the "I didn't edit this" indicator
It's been a while Rob. Thanks for dropping another awesome video👌👌👌
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.
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
@@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
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.
Excellent stuff as usual. My favourite Indy knock-off is still the Terry's chocolate orange ad, though.
High Road to China is an excellent film and the screenplay for Romancing the Stone was written a few years before Raiders was conceived.
31:03 that "guy" is the legendary Peter Falk.
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.
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!!!!
a new BMB video always sparks joy!
Only 62k subs!! That’s ludicrous, this channels fantastic.
Two things:
1) I like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's a fun time and I dig the atmosphere.
2) Why was John Rhys-Davies in so many of these Indy knockoffs?
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
There is also Polish-Soviet coproduction from 1988, called "Curse of Snakes Valley". Long before Crystal Skull (alien plot twist), heavily inspired by Raiders. The awfully bad what makes it great!
My day has been made!
"High Road to China" with Selleck was a blast! Highly recommended
There was a huge, and I mean HUGE wave of tomb raiding movies and series in China in the later 2010s until around last year when the government basically banned them. (not wanting to promote tomb robbing, which is a long going problem over there) I think the one western audiences might've come across was Mojin: Lost Legend. (also one of the better ones, though a few of the TV dramas are also excellent fun.)
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?
Thank you kindly. I'd like to do more Silver Linings but I think you and I might be the only ones!
I just love your channel, man. Thank you!
Robert Genty looks like Rob Ager from Collative learning YT channel
I notice you left "Tales of the Gold Monkey" off the list of TV stuff. I don't know whether that was intentional or an accident.
"We begin in Italy"
Called it!
It's basically a catchphrase now.
Just remember that Antonio Margheriti was no stranger with directing films with lots of VFX and filming with several cameras at once when he could. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a couple of producers and/or distributors who called him to make a few movies loosely inspired by Raiders Of The Lost Ark just as was the case when he was reached to direct Cannibal Apocalypse while the cannibal boom was taking off.
44:24 Your segment on DuckTales made me so happy 🐥⚱️👑
I love everything you post, and always go back for a re-watch or three.
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.
I don't get why people freak out about people playing different races, nationalities. I mean they're actors, that's what their supposed to do. Imagine how boring acting would be if you could only play the same parts.
All movies are knockouts of The earliest surviving film, known today as the Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), was captured by Louis Le Prince and briefly depicted members of his family in motion.😅😅😅
"Crocodile Jones", the son of "Indiana Dundee" 😂
Commenting to algorithm boost because it is dumb that you have under 200k subs
"Alan Smithee" is rolling over in "his grave" over some of these...
Excellent work. A lot of effort went into this.
Nice videos -- quite some, I'd never even heard of.
Thanks for the info and effort, cheers from Austria!
I watched it on Patreon last week, and you bet I'm going to watch it again tonight. Amazing work as always!
Thank you!
Charlton Heston in Secret of the Incas is not the source of the the Indy costume - both are clearly sourced (along with his hate for fascists) from For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Down to the messenger bag Indy carries, slung across the chest. Cooper's Robert Jordan, who is also a teacher, actually carrying a binoculars case.
Both are Paramount movies, it's just that the Secret of the Incas just did that copying... poorly.
Oh and one more thing. Name of the Love interest in For Whom the Bell Tolls is Maria.
Romancing the Stone and DuckTales the movie always stood out as better successors to ROTLA at least to me as a kid.
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.
I think you forgot Tales Of The Gold monkey, an American TV series from the early 80s. It's funny you should mention High Road To China as Tom Selleck was initially hired to play Indiana Jonex in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. He had to back out because he had already been hired for the TV series Magnum P.I.
I'd also add Fritz Lang's the Indian Tomb/Tiger of Eschnapur for Temple of Doom influences.