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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 14h

so that was The Bat Woman. not sure what to do now. maybe live skeet another weird movie? if i'm gonna keep doing this i feel like there must be a better way to organize these thoughts.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 14h

oh shit, she also later did another film with the same director AND El Santo.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 14h

ah yes, she just confirmed the actual wrestling scenes were done by another woman, an actual luchador, and the body suit was to conceal her "bulkier physique."

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 14h

she also ran out of oxygen during one of the scuba scenes.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 14h

jeez. i'm watching an interview with Maura, and she insists she did her own stunts. in the parachute scene, the boat ran out of gas right as they approached a cliff, she plummeted into the water and got caught in a riptide. one of the camera guys dove in to save her, she nearly died.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 14h

Oh yeah, another thing i liked was that the mad scientist was Dr. Wiliams. like, yeah, it's a Mexican movie with an all-Mexican cast (well, Maura is Italian, but was a Mexican citizen), but this asshole villain is clearly meant to be a white guy. it's like a reverse whitewashing.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

(5/5) ...a thing i rarely feel compelled to say and am kind of uncomfortable mentioning, but i stand by it. Maura Monti is so distractingly hot that i kept forgetting to read the subtitles. That just is what it is.

All movies are miracles, i'm glad this exists, but i probably won't rewatch it.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

(4/?) I kind of regret buying it, but i've spent more on worse experiences. The only good things are that scene where the mook struggles to get his mask on, occasional unintentionally funny dialog, and of course...

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

(3/?) But mostly it's the script that's bad here. The mystery was solved 20min in and then everyone just forgot or was indecisive, and the plot was driven by irrational or inconsistent character decisions. The writing term is "idiot plot," the story only makes sense if everyone's an idiot.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

(2/?) Super disappointing, especially after Santo vs The Riders of Terror, another luchador film by the same director. Maybe partly because El Santo was an actual famous luchador, and Maura Monti just played one. I think the body suit in the wrestling scenes is because it was a stunt double.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

The PH Indicator line are not great movies by any stretch, but so far they've all been interesting or had nice touches or things to think & talk about. This is the first i've seen that's just kinda bad all around. (1/?)

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

the movie ends with Bat Woman giving a frank explanation of how her plan to use the monster against the villain worked, and the cop is like, well what if it hadn't, and she's like guess we'd die lol. Then she sees a mouse and freaks out, screams, and begs the men to kill it.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK YOU

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

fish-man just hugged that guy to death. even gave him a lil kiss.

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

bad guys just got the drop on her a 5th time.

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

ooooookay, this is my mistake. i forgot about the limitations of tech in the 60s. she assumed it was a tracker and was planning for her movements to be monitored, but it was actually a transmitter to lure the creature to her. can't be both, 1967. my bad.

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

she. um. deliberately put the tracker on her lingerie and went to sleep. i assumed there was a plan, but fish-man broke in & attacked, she screamed and fainted. the cop rushed in and fish-man beat him up. now he's carrying Bat Woman away. Ma'am. Are you a superhero luchador detective, or not??

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

alright, let's finish this. where i left off, Bat Woman had just changed into lingerie to meet the detective for coffee and found the giant tracking device a blind henchman had stuck to her cape like a burr while she was signing autographs after a wrestling match.

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

she woke up when they reached the sea, fish-man dropped her, and the cop caught up. both the cop and Bat Woman are rushing this guy, and he just smacks them away like it's nothing.

What kind of luchador movie is this?? WRESTLE GOT DAM IT

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

she. um. deliberately put the tracker on her lingerie and went to sleep. i assumed there was a plan, but fish-man broke in & attacked, she screamed and fainted. the cop rushed in and fish-man beat him up. now he's carrying Bat Woman away. Ma'am. Are you a superhero luchador detective, or not??

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

alright, let's finish this. where i left off, Bat Woman had just changed into lingerie to meet the detective for coffee and found the giant tracking device a blind henchman had stuck to her cape like a burr while she was signing autographs after a wrestling match.

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

i mean. google ai may have also invented a secret third film.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

alright, let's finish this. where i left off, Bat Woman had just changed into lingerie to meet the detective for coffee and found the giant tracking device a blind henchman had stuck to her cape like a burr while she was signing autographs after a wrestling match.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 15h

Are you sure it's this one? There's also an unrelated American movie called Wild World of The Bat Woman with similar costume design from 1966. Both movies have been featured on MST3K.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 17h

alright i'm going to grab dinner with @catbirdpoet.bsky.social . I've got about 20 min of this movie left, which for as much as i'm pausing to skeet, will probs take 45 to get through. will finish up when i get back.

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 17h

an hour in and we finally know WHY he created a fish-man: he thinks he can create an army of them and control the world's oceans. this wasn't revealed in a monologue to Bat Woman or the cops, he just said all that, unprompted, to Igor, who acts like he's hearing it for the first time.

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 17h

"we're looking for a mad scientist that created a fish-man. could it be this licensed scientist whose boat has REPTILICUS in huge letters across the bow and is registered with the Port Authority under that name? i legitimately don't know."

Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 17h

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Riot Leviathan @riotleviathan.bsky.social · 17h

this is the third time an enemy has gotten the drop on Bat Woman. What kind of superhero/detective are you??