Kind of related to the "Avengers" series board...
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
NANJAO: Mimi Rogers looks AWFULLY good in that leather outfit (ala Emma Peel).
Groovy movie baby, yeah!
Great scene. Dr. Evil asks for ONE MILLION DOLLARS and TPTB just laugh at him. (See also Austin Powers II board)
The TBS/Superstation last night was interesting. First off, showing some the cut scenes was an interesting idea.
Second. Learned a few new words you can't say on cable. Strangely, everytime someone said something about the Swedish-made ••••• Enlarger, it was censored to "Swedish-made Enlarger". I would have figured you say ••••• on TV. They say it on the Discovery Channel all the time. And "horny" being totally replaced with "randy" throughout the film. This was understandable I guess.
(noticed on the message preview, that "peni$" is censored on this board, but what can you expect from a program that blocks "$tupid".)
btw, no offense to anyone. I just felt these cuts where almost nit worthy.
Re: Swedish "enlarger"
This edit does create a nit. The Swedish-made peni$ enlarger was important to the ending of the film. With out knowing what it is supose to enlarge, it is very hard to figure out how Austin was able to subdue Random Task at the end.
Nit:Austin's Boeing 747 customized plane.
Dr. Evil is frozen and shot into space in 1967 and Austin is frozen shortly afterwards. The 747 wasn't introduced until 1969. He should have had a Boeing 707 or a Douglas DC-8.
Austin's arm is leaning against the chair in Alotta Fagina's penthouse. Then, it is not in the same close-up shots.
I'm a henchperson.
I guess the enlarger was some multipurpose device... it can be used for good or for... evil...
Great line: "He's a henchman for Dr Evil. They often work late."
Nitpickers are getting to be everywhere! This movie was shown for the first time on British terrestrial TV last week, and the previews concentrated on nits! They mentioned the one given above about the 747; they also mentioned that Dr Evil shouldn't have known that Prince Charles was married; and they showed a visual nit of Liz Hurley lying in bed with Austin - in one overhead shot she was holding a gold goblet and in the next shot the goblet had disappeared.
It was quite nice seeing someone else nitpicking, especially when this board was down at the time - it helped soothe my withdrawal symptoms.
The film is basically made on two levels: as a sly satire that parodies the old spy movies...and as a film made for teens that can't get enough of someone yelling "SHAG ME, BABY!" For me, at least, the first is the only level of the movie that I can enjoy. Sadly, the sequel was basically just made on the second level throughout.
*sigh* Really? Well, I haven't seen it. However, much of the stuff I liked with the first one doesn't seem to fit into either category - The henchman scenes, the "get a-head", the cryogenically frozen cat, the stragetic placement of objects, the several-point-turn with that vehicle thing... of course, for you this might be considered the second level.
The henchman scenes belong to the first. The several-point-turn with the vehicle cracked me up, and I'll just count that as "Funny."
Favorite Lines: "Yeah, and they're always after me lucky charms!" "You shot me!" That, and the laughing dissolving into awkward silence are classic scenes.
Actually, the second movie's main fault is that it is a blatant rip-off of the first, albeit it set in the '60s, with scenes adjusted to that measure.
I know, I was talking about the first. I have seen one bit of the second where Dr Evil says "Why make trillions of these things when you can make billions." Scott says a trillion is more than a billion. I found that rather funny and more in my third category.
When I saw this movie, after Dr. Evil said the line, there was an audience member who loudly snorted, "A trillion is more than a billion.", like the movie was insulting his intelligence. I don't know if he had seen the movie before, and was quoting the next line, but it was just kinda funny.
Isn't that in the second one?
going back to this movie on tv there was one thing they censored and it blew a joke.
Austin saw Dr. Evil's cat and in the movie he says, "I never forget a pu$$y...........cat". But in the TV version he says, "I never forget a kitty.............Cat."
It totally ruined the joke.
Meg -- where did you see this, on the West Coast? Here in the Midwest, that line was intact. (It was about the only 30 seconds of the movie I had on.) Maybe they showed a different version in the later time zone?
D Stuart: I've only seen the TV version so I wouldn't know, but is that what her name is? Alotta Fagina? In the TV version, it's Alotta Cleavage (Pronounced "Clee VAJ eh")
And I thought the whole scene in the toilet was the best part. I must be an immature pig but I couldn't stop laughing.
He used to be a rave-man
But now he's a spy
Unfrozen Rave-man Spy!
On the matter of kitty cat... I'm surprised they did censor it, becasue the way they did implies they didn't understand it. I'm not sure of the context, but they should ahve either cut the line or reduced it to "I never forget".
The word "shag" has been forever made into a lurid suggestion of sex. In it's primeval beginnings, the Shag was a dance popular in the sixties. (I suppose that's why Austin uses the word so much)
The video copy I own has so-called "cut" scenes while showing the end credits. I like the one where Number 2 offers a large sum of money in an expensive briefcase, and Austin argues if the offer includes the cost of the briefcase.
The word shag got to stay because before Austin Powers the word had no real meaning in America. The only way that most Americans could tell what it ment in this movie was by looking at the context that Austin was using it in. BTW I read that some theaters in England were advertising Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as Austin Powers 2 because since the word has meaning in England it would be like putting Austin Powers: The Spy Who Screwed Me up on the sign.
Second. Learned a few new words you can't say on cable. Strangely, everytime someone said something about the Swedish-made ••••• Enlarger, it was censored to "Swedish-made Enlarger". I would have figured you say ••••• on TV.
Hey Amos, the neat thing about cable (& broadcast TV) is no one knows what you can and can't say. Their are not set rules, the networks make them up as they go along. I have seen network TV shows say peni$ before. Heck once Chicago Hope said $hit happens. Also TBS is not just a cable channel. Here in GA where it is based it is not cable but a local broadcast channel. In other places it is a cable channel because of Ted Turner's cable connections. Since TBS is based here in the "bible belt" they are notorious for cutting movies to ribbons before showing them.
>> BTW I read that some theaters in England were advertising Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as Austin Powers 2 because since the word has meaning in England it would be like putting Austin Powers: The Spy Who Screwed Me up on the sign.
That's not as bad as in Singapore where (due to very strict censorship) it was renamed 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Was Very Nice to Me'
What bits of AP:TSWSM were removed in Singhapore, even in the UK the film board were unsure about the "FB's hot turd solution" scene.
Unfortunately I didn't actually see the film, as my dad was working in Singapore, and he told me about the retitling
The title doesn't really apply to this film, except for the brief scene near the beginning (as the 'mojo' is taken)
Next Austin Powers movie.... "Goldmember"! I kid you not.
-- The title doesn't really apply to this film, except for the brief scene near the beginning (as the 'mojo' is taken) --
I should have posted that on the board for the other film.
-- Next Austin Powers movie.... "Goldmember"! I kid you not. --
Well, a finger is also a member. When someone is dismembered it doesn't mean that... the same thing happened to them as happened to Picard in The Best Of Both Worlds.
It does in this case, Spectre 
Mike Meyers will be playing Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat (Word Can't Say), and Goldmember in this one.
Goldmember. It's a good thing the MPAA is clueless about anything except looking for nipples and counting uses of the 7 dirty words. Just like with South Park. It was origionaly called "South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose" but they objected to the use of the word "hell" so it was changed to "Bigger Longer and Uncut" which can either reference a movie or a male organ. Of couse 2 years later it was cool to release "From Hell". Same with "Freddy Got Fingered" good thing they don't know what it means to get fingered.
Britney's A "Femme Bot" In Goldmember
Wasn't the "Femme Bot" tag taken from episodes of "The Bionic Woman", in which a deranged scientist (the late John Houseman) built evil female robots?
Great use of cocoanuts and other things to cover unmentionables.
Yes, it was, Adam.
Were there credit cards in 1967? ("One credit card receipt for Swedish-made ••••• enlarger pump, signed Austin Powers")
Yes, American Express and Diners Club were there, and I believe BankAmericard (now Visa) and MasterCharge (now MasterCard) were also existant.
I remember seeing BankAmericard commercials as a kid, but I don't remember the time frame.
American Express has been around since 1958; MasterCharge came about in the late '60's. I think previously it was called Unicard.
In the opening scenes, where Dr. Evil escapes from the club and blasts off in Big Boy, you can see a spiral design behind Austin and Mrs. Kensington. This design will reappear in APII as the time vortex.
Also, why does Dr. Evil have a cryogenic escape pod in Austin's club?
Maybe it was Austin's and Dr. Evil stole it?