The Lost Empire (1984) - Because You Watched Starcrash
Episode description
“Where’s Conan when you need him?”
The distinguished professors discuss Jim Wynorski’s The Lost Empire and continue to do this profit-turning genius appropriate homage. Topics include trying to figure out what genre this film fits into, comparison with Fu Manchu, its Producers-like origins, self-aware dumbness and sexploitation, connections with Russ Meyer, Elvira-level wordplay, video game structure, 80s action movie racism, the movie’s clarity of plot, Anthony Kiedis’s dad, Wynorski’s open sleaziness, the insanity of the prison fight, the shampoo commercial-style hair flip, Rick as a Chuck Norris parody, Corman and women’s prisons, the Wynorski documentary Popatopolis, and the importance of eyebrow grooming when you’re a brutal henchman.
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Music credits:
"Laser Groove" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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