Julie Corman Puns

2022-011 / MAP: 42.78/100

IMDb / Wikipedia / My Collection

I believe this is the last of the Roger and Julie Corman produced “Nurses Cycle” films. You may have never heard of the writer / director, Alan Holleb, but that’s only because, well, the dude only brought three films to screen and (yikes), I’m afraid this one looks to be his magnum opus. Hey, that’s three more films than I have right? :]

Three young hospital volunteers get more involved in their work, and the people they meet, than your average candy stripers. I’m used to these sorts of films being pretty bad - corny dialog, obtuse premise, lazy camerawork (you know, the big three) but this one has more drama than I’m accustomed to. Side stories involving the girls working outside the hospital to help people out of their troubles - a jock, a rock star, and a guy being framed for robbery. I didn’t mind the attempt at substance but the drama hit outside the actor’s ability so it wound up hurting, not helping. It’s good to keep expectations low on projects like this one and let it surprise you - if not, well, just movie on.

Side note - I found a very uncharacteristic mistake in the Movie Collection Catalog (MCC) - I normally pull the release information from Wikipedia but it only offered the year 1974. When this happens, I look for the full info on IMDb, which listed March 14. 1976. Long story short, I input this movie months ago and failed to notice the discrepancy until I was writing the flick up. The top of IMDb says 1974 and the release info near the bottom gave the March 1976 info. Curious, I touched it (I work off my phone) and discovered IMDb gives release dates from all over the world. I had no idea. As it turns out, this film was released in the US on September 25, 1974, UK on March 14, 1976, and Italy on March 6, 1981. I had a minute’s hesitation on the last - 1981?!?, hair, clothing, and music had changed so much between 1974 to 1981, wouldn’t it seem terribly out-of-date? But then I remembered what sort of film it was - oh yeah, nudity never really goes out of style.

Deathstalker II (1987) - MAP: 72.66/100

IMDb / Wikipedia / My Collection

Here’s my artistic reconstruction of the meeting between Roger Corman and Director Jim Wynorski in the heady days of 1986:

Roger Corman: Jim! Good of you to come in - great job on Chopping Mall, seriously, great job… and I ought to know because I got a reputation for spotting talent!

Jim Wynorski: Oh thank you, Mr. Corman

RC: Just call me Roger…

JW: Mr. Roger…

RC: … no, just Roger…

JW: oh, sorry, Just Roger. It was a great experience. With two films under my belt, I think I’m ready for a more mature film… maybe not Oscar level but headed in that direction.

RC: oh ((excited squirm)) oh, I’m glad you think so - why, I remember when Francis Ford Coppola… no, it was Ron Howard - oh, I mean little Martin Scorsese, or was it Jonathan Demme… huh, Peter Bogdanovich? No, it was absolutely Joe Dante! Wait, no… John Sayles ((long blinking)). James Cameron. ((Long pause)) Well, anyway, I remember one of them was sitting right where you’re sitting and I said, “Francis! (Ron, Martin, Jonathan, Peter, Joe, John and/or James) you make me one, just one good film, and you’ll never need to make me two.”

JW: Well, I thought you and your lovely wife Julie were pretty pleased with Chopping Mall…

RC: Oh, we were that’s why we’d like you to take this check for $11 down to the sweltering jungles of Argentina and make Deathstalker II! Here’s a plane ticket and the script (actually it’s horrible, you’ll need to completely rewrite it) - at any rate, good luck, have fun, see you back here in 2 weeks when principle photography is done!

And the rest, as they say, is Hollywood history! Ok, I can’t back up that view of things with paper or interviews or anything… maybe it was $12 but ((shrug)) I bet it’s pretty close to the truth.

I could be wrong.

Bearing almost no resemblance to the first film, Wynorski imbued the movie with a much needed change of cast and a quirky, self-aware story, Deathstalker II was a hoot to watch. While working my way through the MAP worksheet, I was struck by the irony that terrible acting and a complete failure to launch is usually a negative - but not here, no, those elements appear to be the main reason for the film. There were a few great touches like cartoon sound effects, bad fight choreography, and a repeating theme song that had drilled itself so deepl

Over the course of 2020, my podcast co-hosts and I watched and reviewed all 168 domestic wide releases from 1980 on their 40th anniversaries. If anything appears to be missing, (Superman 2, Watcher in the Woods) it probably didn’t release wide in the U.S. until 1981. What follows is my personal ranking for the year and a bite-size summary of each film. Links to longer reviews are available in the comments.

#168 - Falling In Love Again

You wouldn't think that a script about a mid-life crisis written by an 18-year-old would be any good, and you'd be right.

#167 - Home Movies

Brian De Palma taught a film class and invited his students to write and produce a feature film. De Palma directed and called in favors from Kirk Douglas, Keith Gordon, and his then-wife Nancy Allen to star.

#166 - Loose Shoes

A collection of very low-budget comedy sketches from SNL alumni and adjacents. Mostly famous for an early appearance from Bill Murray.

#165 - Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown and friends head overseas, unsupervised, as foreign exchange students and uncover long lost details of Charlie's family history. Poorly animated, even for a Peanuts movie, and the last nail in the coffin for traditionally animated Peanuts films.

#164 - Running Scared

Two servicemen (Ken Wahl and Judge Reinhold) wrap up a tour of duty in Panama and stumble across plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion and are mistaken for foreign spies.

#163 - Middle Age Crazy

Wrongheaded mid-life crisis "comedy" starring Bruce Dern. A man worried about his age buys a luxury car and cheats on his wife to feel young again and we are expected to sympathize with him.

#162 - Nothing Personal

Romantic comedy that inexplicably features actual footage of baby seals being clubbed. It’s embarrassing box office performance prevented Suzanne Somers from doing a second movie for 14 years.

#161 - First Family

Buck Henry is usually a terrific comedy writer, and the cast of this film are inarguably the funniest working actors and actresses of the time, but this misfires hard.

#160 - Up the Academy

An 80s teen comedy so bad that Mad Magazine took their name off it. Rick Baker provides a stunningly accurate and equally disturbing Alfred E Newman makeup job that bookends the film.

#159 - Loving Couples

Insanely the first of two wife-swapping comedies on the year to star Shirley MacLaine. This one's worse. Stars James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, and Stephen Collins.

#158 - The Hearse

Second haunted house

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Sending my contact information and details of the situation to any and every outlet I can think of, just trying to get it in front of as many eyes as possible and play the odds.

[***CONTACTED:***]

• Bill Meyer @ Bicoastal Media

• FOX 26 Medford

• News Tips and Craig Smullen @ KOBI Medford-Klamath Falls

• News Tips @ KDRV

• KCMX 880 News Media

• Brad Fay, Director of Content @ Southern Oregon PBS

• News, Letters to the Editor, Justin Umberson, Gary Nelson, David Smigelski, Alissa Corman, Damian Mann, Nick Morgan and Ryan Pfeil @ the Medford Mail Tribune

• Letters to the Editor and Allayanna Darrow @ the Ashland Mail Tribune

• News Desk, Joce Sterman, Ambar Rodriguez, Christina Giardinelli, Carmine Gemei, John McMahon and Kevin McNamara @ KTVL

• News Desk, Scott Stoddard, Jeff Duewel, Shaun Hall, Chris Bristol, Edith Decker, Lauren Bishop, Donna Brosh and Kathleen Alaks @ Grant's Pass Daily Courier

• Support @ The Oregon Herald

• Therese Bottomly, Karly Imus, Laura Gunderson, Jayati Ramakrishnan, Andre Meunier, Julie Evensen, Grant Butler, Janet Eastman, Kjerstin Gabrielson, Tom Hallman and Maxine Bernstein @ The Oregonian Media Group

• Vance W. Tong, Dana Haynes, Jim Redden, Nick Budnick, Zane Sparling and Peter Wong @ The Portland Tribune

• Rogue River Press

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

The bartender says, "Sorry, no minors”

Nothing, he was gladiator.

MAP: 72.66/100

IMDb / Wikipedia / r/500moviesorbust

Here’s my artistic reconstruction of the meeting between Roger Corman and Director Jim Wynorski in the heady days of 1986:

Roger Corman: Jim! Good of you to come in - great job on Chopping Mall, seriously, great job… and I ought to know because I got a reputation for spotting talent!

Jim Wynorski: Oh thank you, Mr. Corman

RC: Just call me Roger…

JW: Mr. Roger…

RC: … no, just Roger…

JW: oh, sorry, Just Roger. It was a great experience. With two films under my belt, I think I’m ready for a more mature film… maybe not Oscar level but headed in that direction.

RC: oh ((excited squirm)) oh, I’m glad you think so - why, I remember when Francis Ford Coppola… no, it was Ron Howard - oh, I mean little Martin Scorsese, or was it Jonathan Demme… huh, Peter Bogdanovich? No, it was absolutely Joe Dante! Wait, no… John Sayles ((long blinking)). James Cameron. ((Long pause)) Well, anyway, I remember one of them was sitting right where you’re sitting and I said, “Francis! (Ron, Martin, Jonathan, Peter, Joe, John and/or James) you make me one, just one good film, and you’ll never need to make me two.”

JW: Well, I thought you and your lovely wife Julie were pretty pleased with Chopping Mall…

RC: Oh, we were that’s why we’d like you to take this check for $11 down to the sweltering jungles of Argentina and make Deathstalker II! Here’s a plane ticket and the script (actually it’s horrible, you’ll need to completely rewrite it) - at any rate, good luck, have fun, see you back here in 2 weeks when principle photography is done!

And the rest, as they say, is Hollywood history! Ok, I can’t back up that view of things with paper or interviews or anything… maybe it was $12 but ((shrug)) I bet it’s pretty close to the truth.

I could be wrong.

Bearing almost no resemblance to the first film, Wynorski imbued the movie with a much needed change of cast and a quirky, self-aware story, Deathstalker II was a hoot to watch. While working my way through the MAP worksheet, I was struck by the irony that terrible acting and a complete failure to launch is usually a negative - but not here, no, those elements appear to be the main reason for the film. There were a few great touches like cartoon sound effects, bad fight choreography, and a repeating theme song that had drilled itself so deeply into my brain, I do

Put it on my bill

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.