note; i spell el mystrioso
The Mysterious Island
This is my review on the mysterious island from the distant future year of 1929 (100 years befroe the 2nd robotech war and Shadow of the Ninja on NES)
Its based on a book by Jules Verne who did a lot of good cr-p
holy cr-p its directed by Benjamin Christensen who did Mockery with Lon Chaney and Haxan.
It stsars Lionel Barrymore from Captains Courageous and Its A Wonfdderful Life, Jacqueline Gadsden from West Of Zanzibar, Lloyd Hughes from The Sea Hawk and The Lost World, Montagu Love from Son of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Wind and The King Of Kings, Harry Gribbon from Ther CameraMAN AND sHOW pEOPLE, Snitz Edwards from The Phantom of the Opera, Gibson Gowland from Birth of a Nation and Greed, Karl Dane frm The Scarlet Letter, La Boheme, Thge Big Parade, Bardelys the Magnificent, The Red Mill and The Big House, Angelo Rossitto from The Viking, Freakds, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Pauline Starke from Intolerance and the 20s Dante's Inferno, Harry Tenbrook from King Kong, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Son of Kong, Mary of Scotland, nherit the Wind, The Quiet Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Stagecoach, Robert McKim from The Mark Of Zorro and some 1800s ghomies i never saw in anything
I saw this long ago and thought it was good
it originally had talking scenes and color but this is the b/w version
so after credits and it says its directed by Lucien Hubbard who did writings of films, we get text saying its about men and underwter things and is in the kingdom of hetvia by the sea
we get shots of people as raging water being oppressed and a guy gives a speech to the pesents who scatter as the horse cops come in
seeing how the ussr and france went when the people rose up, maybe its for the best
by the coast is andre dakkars island base thats guarded and has workers making metal
in an underground water lab these guys talk about this new invention that lets em go under water deep that seems like going to h e double soviet calivornia
the whole island is an underwater volcano and this science nerd describes how that works with cold sea water and hot lavam amiing a new thing no one ever saw
this part is talkie btw and the suit guy sez in a 1 month a revolution will happen and he can become king
oh i just cant wait to be king!
science guy just wants to make sh-t and be free and he's andre dakkar and friends with the wanna be king
then they see this thing in the water and get it out and dakkar explains to kinger theres current that brings water from the sea floor and claims life began in water
even though Creation Science hjas disproven the lie of evolution
so dakkar thinks theres an offshoot in the sea that evolved inder water into sea people
this is some go nagai sh-t man
so he sez theres under water people like eternal champions that are mermaids and watert things and he has proof from the sh-t that comes from the bottom of the sea
Wasn't there an Eternal Champions guy in the sea from Atlantis?
Or Aqua Man in DC?
But actually in REAL life therea sighting of sea things lie u fo's but in the ocean
and stories of things seen in the bermuda trianbgle and the devils sea of Japan(Whisch is on the opposite side of the planet)
so dakkar has skeleton parts of the seaz monkies and they might have cities and its brain is comparable to man in skull shape
and the boen that came up is the jaw bone
and dakkar wants to explore the ocean with this thing he was making in his hidden lab that can go under water and return
its got weapons as they aren't f--king stoopid like in 2001 a space odyssey and go off to the unknown unarmed
kinger wants to use this sea ship to conquer the world as he's the bad guy i guess, but dakkar only wants to use it for science
so we getta montage of the ship being made and the compressed air manifold is dropped and might be f'd
without it they cant go back up so they test it under pressure and this part is silent now
this chick is a countess and is in the lab interested in the ship and ins into this guy nikolai who her and her brother owe a lot to him
so threy put the compressed air thing in and are waiting for the baron before the launch
the baron comes in on horse cart and goes to see countess who just slipped onto nikolai and they had a romantic moment
he sees em smnooching and sez on behalf of his friend, her bro, he's gonna protect her from nikolai's advances
nicky sez sorry and baron wantrs his a55 whipped but this guy he orders sez on the island; all men are equal
baron b--ches of the sister of count dakkar and a common man being in love and the guy sez he'd talk to nicky
baron goes with countess and guy comforts nikki, then the workers finish the ship and its ready to launch and nikki talks to the guy who is count dakkar and wants to go in his place as pilot
its just a test to go 100 feet but if anything goes wrong, they won't lose dakkar and dakkar consents to show he trusts him as a friend
Nicky then kisses countess, named Sonia like the Mortal Kombat chick, and he and the crew go in the undersea ship and have a silent moment for prayer
the ship launches and we get a good miniatuire shot of it goiung in the water, then theres shopts of the machinbery going and people at stations
it goes undr water and they open a metal thing over a glass window and look around under da sea to look at fish
at the island; dakkar sez to baron he can communicate woith the ship in the ocean and reveals a communicator like a power rangers thing that he eventually uses to talk to the other unit on the sub
this part is talkie and the ship sez its 230 feet deep and baron, who doubted it copul;d work, is impressed
there's a 2nd ship if the 1st works but all these horsemen ride in and 1 guy working for them in the castle lets em in
dakkar realises baroin brought them over and they come in and waste a buncxha guys with rifles
countess sonja escapes to her room and lockds the door but guys are on it so she gets something with a hidden safe and closes it b4 they come in
the commies artrest sonja and baron mordo wants to capture the ship when it surfacves
dakkar is caught and they want his secret papers but he sez he dont have em
so the ship rteturns and nikki comes out and is fireed on by snipers so he escapes before becoming j fk 0
the snipers get on the ship but it goes down and they jump off
dakkar is being tortuired with rope trying his legs to a wood thing between em and baron comes in and sez that wont work
dakksar wants revenge and baron has then tie up and tighten the ropes on ther legs of sonja as she sez she won't tell
imagine if they forcefed her to make her a fat load and used that to make him talk?
dakkar tells her to talk but she dont and bites it somehow
wait, she jusat almost bit it and they bring her in and upstairs
if this were made in japan thewy'd be b0ning her
they take away dakkar as he laughs and baron checks her out as a guy is behind the curtains in the room
underwater these on the ship guys go out in sea suits ands come in a hidden area on the island through hidden passages
1 guy strangles the guasrd of dakkar and takes him and 1 suit guy looks for sonja and finds the guy behind the curtains who sez what happpened
he sez to find where sonja is and he's gonna be back and they return to ther ship and take off their suits
dakkar is with em and was in a suit and wants to ice baron who's named falon like jimmy fallon
but baron took sonja and suddenly; they get word on the communicator from sonja whjo sez she escaped and tells em to come for her at midknight by the rocks
then its midknight and jimmy baron fallon is ready with his goons at that spot and reveals he toryured this blonde with the leg rropes to send the message
the shhip arises rodimus prime and they use a view screen to see sonmja on the rocks
they get a team with weapons ready and sonja is ties to a thing and yellling for them to not come as its a trapo
the baddz fire on the ship and it starts getting f'd in a cool scene with minisaatires
it goes under and 1 guy, i think mcteague from greed, comes in sand frees soinja and sez the crew of the 2nd ship are on board but under guard
if they capture it, they can get to the sea floor and get the diving suits
mcteague and sonja sneak around and he takes out a guy but more guys come and he hides her and hides in the shsadows and pup[pets the guard he just nailed
they don't notice and he gets her and get to the 2df 2 but are seen as he's getting in after her and he fights em off and gets in
then jumps the guard inside and more guards come in and a fight breaks out with mcteague gewtting capped
he sez to close the thing and turn on number 4 and baron gets on and the ship launches
mcteague bites it, but hes ok, he just needs some rest, theres a hospital planet nearby
sonja takes a grenada and is gonna blow em all to h-ll but nails the pressure thing
i guess they're gonna asplode or inmmplode now from the pressure change and poop out their guts like in Men Behind The Sun 01
the air compressor is f'd and they can't rise again as they can't puut air in the tanks
as ship 1 sinks it starts to deal with water prressure and water starts coming in
tthey got 12 hours of light and air and they don't know how deep they are
they think they are gonna spend their their last hours seeing rthing no man hasd seen, including the sea people
they saee this huge crab thing that is designed to survive under dep pressure and if it was higher it would asplode from anti pressure
then they land in a cool area that only silent films do and see sea guys
the air people close the window to the sea people and thousands o sea guys stsart pulling the ship around
thety oipen the blinds and see a roman slave ship that ben hur probably esacaped fromthe air people think the sea guys are gonna attack and they usse a battering ram with a sheep head on the ship
they cant torpedo or it would send the ship back from recoil and then this sea lizard cpomes up and preys on the sea guys who flee
its done with a lizsard with a sail and horn put on it
the air people watch the lizard and fire a t\orpedo at it to ice it
they get the meta suits to handle the pressure and pressureize the ship area to equal the water pressure and they go out
meanwhile, the 2nd ship is moving around on the bvottom and fnds the other ship and the sea guyss
sonja makes a deal with baron to go there and get the air compressor to fix this ship and batron has her go with barons minions
ship 1 guys meet the sea guyus and see ship 2 and ship 2 guys go out and reiunite with the ship 1 team
they talk i tbink and baron meets dakkkar and they have a robotic fight
death match! duel on the sea floor!
barion gets a spear in his face through the helmet and his blood leaks out
as the sea monkeys dont know what it is; they spazz out anfd unleash their homie; a gionormus octopus, but the title cards call it a "slugish creature"
ship 1 is almost outta air and som,e guys go in, take off their suits,its nikki and sonja, and make out
tthey get the compressor and the octops comes for em with a cool shot of it asbove thje sea guys
they get back in their suits and i tjhink they are the only survivors as the sea chimps have icesd the other suits
they return to the ship with the sea midgets comming for em and some other guys have survived
the sea monsters come in up to their necks but return and look freaky as h-ll
this sea octopus is bigger than the ship and its tentaclers come in and grab the guys, even though theuy are too small betweenm shots to be that big, and ice a guy or 2
its on the ship and they insatal the air compressor and the sea octopus in on the ship
the ship takes off annd the octopedo falls off and they ascend
meanwhilew; barons forces have captured the island and his menb are partying and b0ning like in The Ten Commandments with the Gold Cow
the suit guys return and the woprkers are armed and fighting back
nikki sez they are his prisdoners and they win but then dakkar sez everyone has to get out of the shipyard before sunset or gets executed
the people escape and a busted up dakkar sez he's biting it but don't wanna be remembered as a guy who made a killing machine and the buildings on the island start popping and burning
he dont want another diving ship made so hes gonna sink it with him in it as a grave
he wishes happiness to sonja and nikki and is carried into his ship and drives it down
kindda like how in Godzilla 01 the guy went out wuith the Oxygen Destroyer
the end
that was pretty good
nice half talkie with good effects and story
good references to real dangers like sea daemons and communism
i never read the book and hear the 60s movie is good but this was o youtube and is probably public domain
good twists and feels and its based on Captaiin Nemo's origin story, even though dakkasr bites it at the end, although we dont see him bite it so he could still be alive
I like how it used science like wayter pressure that is pretty much ignored in later things like Transformers
Its pretty good and is an interesting film to see
For The Mysterious Island 2 I want it to be years later and nikolai and sonia are married and have a kid, but get a message from the communicator of the ship dakkar went on saying how to make a new ship and where to meet him. they do it but find its a trap and the sea guys have used their evil tech to manipulate the body of dakkar and read his memories in his brain so they could make a new ship designed by their experts so they can use it to take on the surface! Nikki and Sonia and their teen son also have been working on things anmd made undersea power suits that let them fights better and turn into mini sea crafts to fight the undeersea things and try to keep the ship out of the sea guys hands (who are revealed to actually be daemons and their tech is actually daemon magic). Its also a 128 bit game like Robotech Batttlecry on Sega Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2 and Xbox where you play as nikki, sonja or the teen and each has their own abilities to do different missions and take on their bases and factories and just take em down so they don't get us.