some type of adult girl

bourtange:

none of you chumps reminded me but here we go anyway nearly a decade later. the phantom empire is a film serial from 1935 (a film serial is basically kind of like a tv show with weekly episodes but they released it in a movie theater before the main feature) with gene autry in his first starring role. gene autry was a popular country singer in the 1930s, and this role is what cemented him as cinema’s “singing cowboy”. he plays a version of himself as the owner of the “radio ranch”, which he runs as a dude ranch but is also where he sings for his radio show. for reasons i don’t remember, if he ever misses a single episode of the radio show he will lose the ranch. enter the badguys, who try to make this happen so they can get control of the ranch, which they want because it’s built above a giant deposit of radium, which they want to get rich off of. what they don’t know is that underneath the radium is a secret, super-advanced civilization that has flourished underground for 10,000 years. there’s also some teen sidekicks and a bunch of side business i don’t remember because it was close to 20 years ago that i watched it. anyway my main point is that

1. movies have always been made as a product and the final quality of that product is irrelevant to the money people behind the scenes 95% of the time as long as they’re able to get theater owners to buy them, so given that framework i prefer movies that are stupid and bonkers because they were just churning out whatever they could as cheaply and quickly as possible in order to have something to sell, rather than bloated expensive horseshit that somehow costs $250 billion despite looking like dogshit and is all just the same dumb focus-tested superhero crap over and over and over again; and
2. the robots in the underground civilization have hat brims built into their heads:

(via averyterrible)