Kill Each Other
October 11, 2009 8:07 AM   Subscribe

 
Argoman is gifted with great powers, but he uses them primarily to make his enemies kill each other and to force beautiful women to come to his island and have sex with him!

Well, damn, if there's a better reason to have super-powers, I've yet to see it.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 8:10 AM on October 11, 2009


That shit happens to me all the time.

Kill each other!
posted by cjorgensen at 8:31 AM on October 11, 2009


His weakness ... is that he loses his powers for six hours following any "rendezvous with a woman."

That happens to me too, but I just lose the power of being awake.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 8:34 AM on October 11, 2009 [1 favorite]


I gave this movie to my girlfriend for our anniversary and that's why she loves me so much.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:44 AM on October 11, 2009


Oh hi everybody, it's just me, Argoman, sitting down over here for a little bit.
posted by vronsky at 8:52 AM on October 11, 2009 [2 favorites]


A homicidal serial rapist has got to be the worst role model ever. I'm glad that the television doesn't show crap like this anymore.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 9:02 AM on October 11, 2009


Ha ha, sorry AZ, but I was just imagining your girlfriend unwrapping her anniversary present and finding an Argoman dvd and being all sarcastic like, "Oh I absolutely love it, just what I always wanted!!!" and you being totally oblivious to it :)
posted by vronsky at 9:06 AM on October 11, 2009


Real Name: Sir Reginald Hoover

Translation: Aristocratic, yet sucks.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:12 AM on October 11, 2009 [2 favorites]


Keanu was most definitely beat to the bullet-dodging punch by Argoman... though that last shot from Tin Man definitely took him out -- not sure what that was supposed happen...
posted by bostran at 9:35 AM on October 11, 2009


He runs like a girl.
posted by HuronBob at 10:06 AM on October 11, 2009


The key to understanding Argoman is knowing that it is, in fact, a satire of a specific style of Italian films from the 60s, usually starring muscle-bound actors who previously would have been confined to muscles and togas movie. Since spies and superheroes took off in the 60s, Italian filmmakers often sort of just stitched them together into these weird (and, frequently, quite boring) Frankenstein's monsters that really have the feel of an assembly of dozens of plot points, shots, and scenes from other, more popular, and totally unrelated movies. Done well, you end up with something like Danger: Diabolik; done weirdly, you get Superargo versus Diabolicus, and it was Superargo that Argoman was specifically parodying.

So,yes, the plot is absurd. Yes, there is something creepy and manipulative about Argoman's seduction techniques. Yes, the special effects are cheesy. Yes, the costume is horrible -- it's about the most horrible thing ever, really. But it's camp all the way, baby, and, when seen that way, is never less than outrageously entertaining. Also, the film is rather eye-popping. The Sixties never really looked like they were supposed to in films like this, but, man, it should have.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:09 AM on October 11, 2009 [1 favorite]


For a while, after she got the film, my girlfriend was signing her emails as "queen of the Universe," which is the official title of the primary antagonist in this film; I recall the character actually had it printed on business cards.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:12 AM on October 11, 2009


Argoman? Never heard of him. But I'm pretty sure our man Flint could take him out. (No superpower but the incredible coolness of James Coburn).
posted by Bron at 11:42 AM on October 11, 2009


Astro Zombie, how come you didn't teach my film classes?
posted by lumpenprole at 12:14 PM on October 11, 2009


I came here in search of 5 minutes of something surreal or absurd that might help me to see patterns (pdf) in the Haydn symphony I'm analyzing. I think that might do it, and I laughed to boot. Win!
posted by nosila at 12:37 PM on October 11, 2009


So he keeps saying "KILL EACH OTHER", but no one actually does it? Is he just sort of hoping it will happen? Instead, he just endlessly flips the bad guys over and over?
posted by orme at 4:37 PM on October 11, 2009


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