NinetyForChill - The #Podcast: Risky Business and Class Action Park

  

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast

Episode 34: Risky Business and Class Action Park (or should I have gone with "Risky Business at Class Action Park).

This episode is an expression of the range of my best contributors, a five-star suggestion from ThePoeticCritic in "Class Action Park" and "Risky Business" from Ally's Trash Feature Reviews. It also serves as a summation of white adolescent attitudes from the 1980's. Fortunately, fine flicks the both of them are.

With AEW Dynamite being on my last half day for the foreseeable from my banking job, I drove up to Hoffman Estates to catch it. And with the holiday and the pay-per-view, my efforts to find a guest may have been lacking. Throw in a mental break last night, this may demonstrate my mind may not have been up for it.

Despite all my issues this past week, thank you very much for giving my podcast a listen. This makes me collect myself and gives me a sense of purpose. And it looks like I still have a great concept because I do have some leads on some guests for upcoming episodes. Next week, I am fairly certain we will get an episode that I will be too long for YouTube.

If I missed anything with this episode, it is that I failed to mention that today (9/7) is the 17th anniversary of Stacia Hardin's passing. She was the best friend I have ever had and seemed to admire my determination in chasing my dreams. I am obviously flawed and have my demons, but remembering her inspires me to keep pushing on. All of my creative expressions are a tribute to her. So, hopefully I will remember this paragraph and make sure to thank her every episode from next week forward.

I would not mind being a couples week ahead when it comes to content, so I would love to hear from you with ideas on what to chat about. Frankly, it would be honor to host you and find out about why you offered your incite. Send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com with a movie, theme, director, or actor. If you promise to center the topic around movies between 74 and 99 minutes, audio gold should be the product.

If you need some suggestions, movies like "Fear of a Black Hat", "UHF" and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" can make for a great theme. ThePoeticCritic knew that Robert Downey Sr.'s satirical masterpiece, "Putney Swope" fits the pod's time restraints. There are also Tim Burton's early classics "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice". Or we could just focus on movies Danny Elfman scored.

 

I have been asking for weeks for assistance in composing an episode dedicated to vampire features like "The Lost Boys" trilogy, "Near Dark", and the "Underworld" movies. Here is to hoping that this bunch of critiques will stir up some inspiration in my audience to step up and hold off on the garlic. If this is a topic you up for discussing, feel free to send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All I need is a half hour on Zoom to get this done.

I hope I am impressing or at the very least amusing you with this podcast and I am open to any and all criticism. My biggest want is more guests and more suggestions on what to chat about (@catbusruss, russthebus07@gmail.com@coolmoviesdarth). If we can get 3 hours out of "Little Nicky", the possibilities are endless. Thanks for visiting.

 

After WrestleMania Backlash, I will tell you that we need to take zombie pro wrestling back. My suggestion is that we finally get my low-budget zombie movie, "Main Event of the Dead" off the ground. The script lacks a lumberjack match, so you know it has got to be better than the "Army of the Dead" advertisement. Ask for a treatment or give me suggestions on how to get it to a crowd-sourcing stage with an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

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Golgo 13: Queen Bee - If James Bond Had Too Much Sex

 *Blog post was started on September 1, 2021.

I have just come back to work after what I found to be an enlightening vacation. The enlightenment is probably going to kill me as I plan to drive up to Chicago tonight for AEW's Dynamite taping to then immediately drive back home. But I was able to get an extra hour of sleep and it seems like I will be downing an entire pot of coffee from work, so will I ever be more ready?

The vacation was a busy one, at least when it comes to the days that I would have been at work. Atrophy kicked in Sunday after two days of not leaving my apartment. There was a podcast recorded on Friday, so again, I still made use of the time that would have been dedicated to work. When it comes to the enlightenment I was speaking of, that came from my trip to Milwaukee for AEW's tapings. It would have been more eventful if I had left for MKE on Tuesday, but the tetanus and pneumonia vaccines were kicking my ass from Monday.

With that said, Pfizer's Covid Vax did not do shit to me. Get your fucking shots people.

I went to the arena and saw that the Hyatt Regency was only three blocks away, so I booked it presuming the crew was there. Well, the hotel bar was closing by that point and I obviously did not know downtown. If you are looking for food though, Ian's Pizza by the Slice was solid. Otherwise, this meant that I did not know where the after party(ies) were. This led me back to the hotel before midnight. At least there were the  "Archer" premiere replays. RIP Jessica Walter.

As I called it a night, I heard some Sting "Woos" around 2 am, but no other indication that I had missed much. Alone in an expensive hotel room, it kind of left me thinking where my life was heading. And I am proud to say that I took some initiative. I finally laid myself out there to a girl I had been chatting with for a year, and I am more dedicated to watching movies. Both seem to be paying off.

The date occurred, good weed was smoked, and she has not been ghosting me. On top of that, I had got the most out of my free trial of IFC Films Unlimited on Apple TV. My submissions to the ID10T's Community Corkboard and C2E2 Panels had been made. And I was able to still manage an extra hour sleep as Netflix delivered me "Golgo 13: Queen Bee", a one hour OVA. Perhaps I should jump on SixtyForChill.com

Golgo 13: Queen Bee (1998)

A South American militant has been taunting the presumed Democratic presidential nominee. The Queen Bee has been sending weekly notes to the campaign suggesting how she longs to see the president dead, so the nominee's top adviser determines that it would be best just to eliminate the threat by the simplest and yet most effective way possible. That being, hire Golgo 13 (a.k.a. Dick Togo) to assassinate her. With a 100% success rate, who can argue with this decision?

Togo is more than who he seems, and the seductive Queen Bee knows this. She finds Togo to offer him a contract to kill the nominee's advisor and test his horizontal reputation. Despite satisfaction when it came to the latter, Golgo 13 states he only takes on one job at a time. His word is his bond, so she knows she is next.

This may be his toughest assignment since she is protected by the mafia and her rebellion. Once she heads into hiding, the nominee's advisor decides to pull some strings with the military to unleash a psychotic special ops agent, Benning, and a military strike on the rebels. For Togo, it is one thing to kill a target. It is an entirely different thing to go scorched earth for one person.

On top of this, Queen Bee declares her motives in derailing the presidential campaign. Dick Togo may have to let his morals make the call when it comes to how he approaches this delicate situation, but will he let his reputation be diminished for the right side?

From what I have gathered (I have seen half of the TV series and the feature "Golgo 13: The Professional"), Dick Togo is supposed to be Japan's James Bond. He is a super agent who is irresistible to all woman. Unfortunately for the OVA (original video animation), "Golgo 13: Queen Bee" puts far too much emphasis on the latter.

With the focus on assuring that Queen Bee is naked and overly sexualized, the feature does not move along well. The great action pieces from the previous media (manga and the 1983 feature) are lacking, so you start to wait for a conclusion. Its one hour runtime end up being a blessing.

This video tries to make up for the lack of action by trying to hard to reference the manga's style. It stops the animation seeming every minute to try and emphasize the importance of those 60 seconds with a frozen frame which was seemingly pulled from the manga. Once every sentence ends with an exclamation point, excitement is lost. To do this at the start of the video results in us feeling the project is pretentious 10 minutes in.

It also figures out how to make the runtime a hindrance. Like "Golgo 13: The Professional", some messed up sexual circumstances are provided for character motivations. This is a shocking revelation, but no time is given to let it really settle in. In this case, Dick Togo kind of comes off looking bad for following his code as well.

Everything comes off as bad with "Golgo 13: Queen Bee". The television series and the original theatrical feature look better in nearly every way. Not to say that it looks bad, but when a TV show outshines the production level of an OVA, you are dealing with a flawed project. And when you try to divert our attention from the flaws with sex, your video just comes across as tacky. With distributor Urban Vision's decline, it is not a bad thing for "Queen Bee" to be a tough find. 

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