Having just watched "J-Men Forever", a thought occurs [View All]

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I'll preface by saying that I'd never watched this odd film from the Firesign Theater's Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman until last night, but I figured that based on my love for Mystery Science Theater's riffing on crappy old movies, I'd enjoy it. And enjoy it I did.

Here's the odd thought. J-Men Forever was released 28 years ago.

At the time of J-Men Forever's release, the Republic movie serials they were parodying as having been hopelessly square, ancient even, weren't a whole lot older than that.

So yeah, I watched, and I laughed, but in retrospect I'm not sure I was laughing at the antiquity of the Republic serials being lampooned, or the antiquity of the lampooning itself.