At 02:11 PM 6/19/01, Patrick Sweeney wrote:
>Speaking of bad films, did anyone catch "Ape!" on American Movie Classics
>last weekend? It's a hilariously bad movie about a giant ape that attacks
>South Korea (!?), made in 1977 or thereabouts and starring Joanna Kerns
>(the mom from Growing Pains, then known as Joanna de Varona).
>
>The ape costume is horrible. His rubber fingers don't move, so during his
>destructive rampage he slaps things instead of punching or grabbing them.
>His face also doesn't move, so his mouth is permanently open.
>
>The guy inside the suit seems to be trying to "move like a gorilla," but
>in the scenes where he tries to grab passing helicopters (over and over
>and over), he looks more like he's performing some bizarre monkey dance.
>
>And the scene where he "wrestles" an obviously rubber giant shark in the
>ocean is just painful.
Better or worse that the similar scene in the 1966 version of _Batman_?
>It will be on again at 10 p.m. EST Saturday, June 30. If you like bad
>monster movies, don't miss it.
-- Ronn! :)
