miscellanium | our man flint: dead on target (1976)

the way this cage helps emphasize his lovely deepset eyes and that delicious nose..... mwah

the "is it worth watching this for lawrence dane" rating: 0.5/5

ok, admittedly i'm prejudiced since i've so far only been able to locate this on DVD and it has no closed captions, so i had no clue what they were saying and barely any idea of the plot beyond "middle eastern terrorists kidnap an oil company ceo but plot twist the ceo was working with them the whole time and then they murder him in literally the last five minutes and i have no idea if they ever explained why he was working with them", lol. the lead actors are very wooden, the pacing was strange, and i couldn't tell the blonde women apart lmao. judging by this person's review of the TV pilot/movie i'm not missing much by not being able to follow the dialogue.

but! dane is very cute, of course, since i'm of the opinion that he was most attractive during these years. it's... not his best performance, especially not his unfortunate introduction where his character is roofied and passes out - he hits his head on his dropped cup and i don't think that was intentional but the project was low-budget enough they had to keep the take, lol. i hope he was ok! or maybe it was supposed to be funny, since the "our man flint" films are supposed to be james bond spoofs....? it's not set up well enough to play as comedy, however, and i don't think there's a cultural disconnect here since there's definitely comedies from the '70s that hold up today. it just comes down to execution. he's not a bad comic actor when the material is decent, though i do think he does better with more nuanced or serious characters, so the fault here seems to fall pretty squarely on the director and/or scriptwriter.

speaking of execution.... yeah, i have no idea why he dies in this but it's not shocking since he dies in most of his filmography :') he does take an arrow to the knee, or close enough, and again i'm not sure that was supposed to be funny but i burst out laughing because without knowing the dialogue it's completely inexplicable and the pacing of the scene sure feels like something that'd fit better in a comedy.

i'm reluctant to assign this a zero because maybe the dialogue makes it a more amusing experience, since i imagine it's probably bad, and the cheesiness of it can be mildly entertaining. i've uploaded a video of just his scenes that you can view here (and i will grudgingly give thanks for the autocaptions youtube generated), and the usual screenshots are below. i haven't edited any of them.

highlight: he had a cane in this scene and it was sexy and the way he bopped the lady's gun with the barrel of his own was very cute

look how long his leggies are aaaaaaaaaaa

i hope....he'd make that face....if someone were under the [redacted] and giving him [redacted] and. you know

the way he drums his fingers on the desk is sooo cute

long fingies....

again, if someone were [redacted] and then [redacted] and. you get the idea by now

i'm sure you can guess what i'm thinking by now

in the process of dying..... at least his trousers are nice and tight lmao

i'm planning on making other videos to compile his scenes in things not really worth watching otherwise. i was already working on one for the national lampoon movie but the program i was trying to use was not terribly cooperative. but i found out about clip champ and so far it reminds me a lot of imovie when i had to use a macbook during undergrad. i really liked imovie since it was easy to use for fanvids, so if clip champ keeps working well i might start making those again.

our man flint: dead on target (1976)

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