Inchon - The Cinema Snob 

"The airing couldn't make up it's mind on whether it was a TV-G or TV-PG!" These are the little Brad touches I love.

"[Laurence Olivier's performance in INCHON] is like a plumber taking your check, banging a pipe with a wrench, and leaving your house." -Film critic Scott Weinberg on the podcast 80s ALL OVER

You know how Inchon could be improved? If there was a scene where Toshiro Mifune slicing tanks apart with his sword.

I'm one of the twelve people who actually saw this on first release. I always got assigned the bad movies as the second-string reviewer for the college newspaper. I was not kind to it, to say the least, but wish I had your witty chops back them to give it the full treatment deserved.

I heard Jamie Farr was originally in this movie, but he started wearing dresses just to get out of it.

This feels less like a movie and more like the person recording it kept getting bored of Inchon and switching the channel to a random action movie

Wow. I didn't know Moonies had their own Battlefield Earth.

The fact that the score for Inchon is the only thing the film gets any praise for is proof that Jerry Goldsmith is the only thing on any film that with a 100% “no suck” guarantee. And yeah, there would have been a swarm of killer bees, but Jerry scored that about three years earlier.

I did it.. I made it through this review...

you where right about not making through the whole episode i watched up to the production backstory and i felt like i just ran the ironman twice

Inchon! is a hidden gem on the equivalence of a forgotten land mine in a third-world country.

I doesn't matter if the movie is boring or bad; we are all here just for you, Snob.

Made it through the whole video, the Newhart bits had me rolling

The thing that gets me is the lack of period detail in hair and costuming. They couldn’t be bothered to change people’s disco era hair in the civilian scenes.

This will be the only time anyone real has ever said this, but Josh Hadley described it best as “Inch-along”.

$46 million budget and the only cameras they could get were the ones used to shoot every 70's TV drama?

17:00 This was David Janssen's (The Fugitive) last movie. He died before it was released. Good thing he did not live to see this movie (or to, I guess, take pride in being cut out of that shorter version)

This may have cost 46 million, but I feel it's like how Tommy Wiseau spent 6 million on a movie that would have cost anyone else 300 thousand

In all honesty though, when you actually crack open a book on the Korean War, MacArthur, and Inchon; it is one of the most fascinating stories because no one thought it would work because the US forces already in Korea got their asses kicked multiple times and were pinned down in something called the Pusan perimeter in the south. And also that MacArthur was a megalomaniac who if he legitimately wanted to, could have attempted a coup against Harry Truman because of how popular he, MacArthur was vs how unpopular Truman was

Random note - My dad was on the Missouri when the surrender occurred. He was one of only about 1000 sailors ever awarded the service ribbon for that mission. Took us months and multiple calls to the Navy to identify it after he died.

"Bitch, you were in Inchon!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why did the sudden cut from the tender moment between McArthur and his wife to the whining dog make me laugh so much?

I just realized something: This movie is to the Unification Church what Battlefield Earth is to the Church of Scientology!

Inchon, Inchon never changes...

Olivier: I'm in for the cash prize. Other actors: a movie with Olivier! This will look good on my CV!

Glad to see that whole subplot with Toshiro Mifune went somewhere. Anywhere. I guess.

At least the movie title is telling you the pacing of the film itself. It just inches on and on and on, and will do so FOREVER!!! Inchon!!!!!!!!

Although if the Snob wants a better MacArthur movie, there’s MacArthur with Gregory Peck from 1977

If ever Rex Reed gives a review of a movie he doesnt like, show him this.

'That's one hell of a hood ornament!' lol

Red Forman would love this movie.

Michael Bay watched this movie, saw the explosions and said:"Hold my Papst..."

I think it says something about me that I can watch this whole review but I can't watch 5 min of High tops.

"War changes everything." Except itself.

Snob doing films like these bring back fond memories of Pierre Kirby.

Godfrey Ho made a movie about the Korean War? Are you sure he didn't just take one that already existed and edit ninjas into it?

Jeezus, the makeup on Sir Laurence is .... really something. XD

Over 2 fucking hours of mellow drama, massacre, mellow drama then massacre. Respect Snob respect you are stronger than us all.

Cinema Snob a grateful country thanks you for your service in watching this film the metal we give you has a chocolate center .

Inchon, Inchoff

I made it to the end. Now to go rewatch the Windy City review.

Oliver actually doesn't disappoint,he reminds me of Travolta in Battle Field Earth.

That last clip is kind of funny. Yes Olivier, you should be doing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar instead.

"that's one hell of a hood ornament"

America and South Korea: We want nothing to do with this movie North Korea: For once we agree

Brad, you have plans on reviewing Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park during Musical March in September? You know, considering KISS are going on their “farewell tour”

North Korean soldiers with STEN submachine guns...My God...This is going to be good.

I actually saw this when it came out. Thought it might be an ok action flick despite the Moonie connection. Wrong. Good thing movie tickets were cheap in those days. Anyhow, Mr. Snob, do Lion of the Desert next. A Libyans vs. Mussolini epic, starring Anthony Quinn as a freedom fighter, and produced by the late, great Muammar Qadaffi (or however you spell his name). Also, having looked up GoodLife TV, I now know what happened to the Nostalgia Channel--and why my Baretta reruns disappeared back in '97.

I'm still oddly proud to admit that I saw the film in the theater, opening weekend. I've yet to meet anyone else who actually saw the movie in a actual cinema.

Wait.... There's a 46 million dollar movie from the eighties that's so bad that they never even bothered with a VHS release???? Oh boy.... please someone hold me tight I'm scared

Laurence Olivier really does look like a wax figure in this movie.

Crazy japanese cultist producing a war movie sounds like a sequel to Tropic Thunder.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mood Whiplash: The Movie!

What a great first review of 2019, Snob. Can't wait for next week with your first review of 2020

This movie really makes me want to hear Rex Reed’s take on the experience.

It's called Inchon because the movie is so slow it inches on(ward).

You give an Inchon, they take a mile! I have been waiting for someone to review this!

First "Cinema Snob" of 2019, and it was on a movie I've only just heard of and kinda forgot. I gotta say, for a movie that had such a high profile cast, spectacular war battle sequences, and such a big budget, this has got to be the most underwhelming of any box-office bomb. I also can't believe Sir Laurence Olivier was in this movie, I didn't see much of his work, but I can tell he definitely miscast for the role of Douglas MacArthur, seeing how he was struggling with the American accent. Also the way this movie was edited, it does have the feeling of a Geoffrey Ho movie, only minus the Ninjas. And seeing that he made an "Inchon" movie himself, kind of makes me question which version is worse. Great episode Brad.

I give Brad props for being able to dig up the material to stretch this review to 30 minutes 👏.

Cinematic Excrement just took this hot mess down. I cannot contain my joy at the Snob's take on it.

I've been sick all day. Thanks for helping me laugh through it.

Only your videos can make January not feel like the longest month 😂

Speaking of bad Laurence Olivier movies, The Jazz Singer would make a nice selection for Musical March (in September.)

This is not a movie. It's a last-minute school project on the Battle of Inchon edited into a movie. I had to check the red bar to see how long this review lasted...that's how bored I was.

Hey Brad, I decided to prove I'm a gold star snob fan, I'm watching this at exactly 11:55pm on the 31st of December 2019 GMT time. Just because I remember the joke about how by the time you finish the review it will be 2020. Please review Kevin and Perry go Large, I'm a DJ and that movie pisses me off and makes me want to burst ear drums with needles every time someone brings it up just so I can pretend I didn't hear them talk about it.

I gave out at 22:27 Sorry, what a slog. I can't imagine what it was like for you, Brad. lol

you deserve a gold medal for getting thru this movie. it actually beat out Annie/Megaforce/Butterfly plus The Pirate Movie for worst picture at the Golden Raspberry Awards. seriously it beat out The Pirate Movie. wow just wow.

You can tell that a propaganda film has failed on every level when you cant even figure out what message they're trying to push.

And to think I would never have had the dubious pleasure of hearing about Estus Perkle if not for the snob, thanks........ I think.....?

I just went fully numb

Oh boy, a new Cinema Snob episode! ❤ Happy New Year Snob !

No... No...! Why, Toshiro? Why? You did were in 16 Kurosawa films. You were offered the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sweet Merciful Buddha, Toshiro, who managed to blackmail you into this crap?

4:37 nice "Mortal Engines" reference :)

Is it weird that I have never heard of this movie before?

Love the gleeful energy. It's hilarious that this was made. I grew up in the UC and never heard of them sanctioning this film.

Only goes to show that $1M can buy a lot of ham.

It's funny you compare this film to Estus Pirkle films cause it basically is with sun myung moon behind it and his opinions on communism except you know his country was actually invaded by communist

This movie needs to be released in hd on the grounds that all the explosions and shooting scenes could provide cut and paste movie makers with material to make new movies for years

I've tried to watch this video three times. The first two i got distracted and clicked away. The third i just fell asleep. You are a monument of cinematic endurance for making it through this movie, Snob.

Oh my god I heard about this movie on the CULTS podcast when they talked about Moon's cult. Holy crap I'm so here for this.

I'm really hoping there's a print of _Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra_ or _Clash of Loyalties_ out there somewhere that has been made publicly available. I've never seen the film, I've only seen a documentary on its making, but bearing in mind that the film... ...had *Saddam Hussein* as an Executive Producer, ...and Oliver Reed at his most insane as one of its leading starts (and with his now widow in attendance, then 17 and studying for her A-Levels, *NO JOKE)* ...was filmed in Iraq, near the Iranian border, during the Iran-Iraq War, ...and the Iranians attacked the cast and crew during filming, believing it was the Iraqi forces trying to invade, ...and Oliver Reed, being Oliver Reed took the piss. I'd like to believe that he called Saddam a fucking cunt right to his face, it's the sort of thing he would have done back then. That I *DESPERATELY* want to see this film and I *DESPERATELY* want you to see this film and review it!

"Inchon , Inchoff " Teaching a measuring tape martial arts.

I can’t believe I made it through this review kudos to you snob for watching this whole thing

So THIS is why there are hardly any Korean War movies...

With that title I honestly thought this would be a porno

an expansion of SmegHead's review

LONG TIME COMMING!✨ Now we need Mandingo~

14:45 Boy, that RDR2 reference caught me off guard there. At first, I thought Snob was referencing the movie depicting the rescue of the Lipizzaner horses in 1945.

I've always heard of this movie but never knew anything of it. It can't be that bad. 15 minutes into the review: What the hell am I watching?!

Holy shit, Mifune is in it?! Can't be as bad as Ishtar.

Unsung battles of history, The Battle of Watching Inchon.

11:49 _WAS THAT AN ACTUAL EDIT IN THE FILM?_ Goddam, Inchon!

I have heard of this movie since 2008. Had always wondered about this.

my jaw literally dropped when I saw that Toshiro Mifune was in this mess

The Cinema Snob: FULL SNOB CONSEQUENCES!!

22:41 Forget Aquaman, the U.N. Peacekeepers should be more worried about The Darkspawn tunneling under the tower and taking it over while no one is looking!

Made it to the end! ... Should i be this proud? :P

Snob this was one of the longest and funniest review you did in a while!!! Love it!!!

“Giving a child a high budget to do a replica of the Mona Lisa, and breaking their fingers first just for the hell it”

I know that Inchon is a part of Korea, but it sounds like some porno film.