Rip Jagger's Other Dojo

This 1971 Hammer effort is a very odd movie. Creatures the World Forgot is the last of Hammer's dinosaur and dame movies. Some count Prehistoric Women in the mix but that film's more like She than anything else. One Million B.C. and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth preceded this one and with each film the budget got a bit smaller. This movie has the same director as One Million B.C . and so we get a more serious feel than the somewhat sillier When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth but without a budget there was not much he could do. There are extensive scenes of an earthquake used from One Million B.C. and given the difference in the looks of the characters are very jarring.  One of the biggest problems with this movie is that the main characters don't arrive until fully halfway through the flick. This movie shows us a few generations of primitive peoples and the core story is about two boys born to a leader of the tribe, one dark haired and resentful and clumsy, and the other bl...

When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth . was produced hot on the heels of the successful One Million B.C. which introduced the world to Raquel Welch in her delightful fur bikini, this one gives us Victoria Vetri in an even more revealing sliver of clothing. The overarching plot of the movie (and there is a mild spoiler here) is that in some mythical moment in the deep past when man and dinosaurs somehow held sway together on the planet it did not yet have its Moon, but it would get one. That's pretty much the plot if you ignore all the scrimmaging around various and sundry actors do as they rush around trying to finish off Vetri's character named "Sanna". She was to be a sacrifice to the Sun, but she escaped and the rest of the movie is about how the Cliff People try to find and kill her though she has come under the protection of the Beach People. Sanna escapes again and finds herself reborn (sort of) and in command of a pretty neat dinosaur in a King Kong-ish momen...

One Million Years B.C. is not Raquel Welch's first movie, but it is the one that made her the sexual icon of my generation. This image of the gorgeous Ms. Welch in her patented fur bikini dominating a scene filled with cavemen battling dinosaurs speaks effectively about this Hammer Films remake of the 1940's caveman classic starring Victor Mature. John Richardson is the caveman Tumak who falls out with his father the leader of the Rock Tribe, and must seek his own destiny only to fall into the caring hands of the Shell People and specifically Loana played by the stunning Ms. Welch.  Aside from the very special effects that the lovely Raquel brings to the big screen we also enjoy the work of Ray Harryhausen and his stop-motion magic. Thanks to him we get to enjoy an Allosaurus fight with humans and a battle between a Triceratops and a larger than ought-to-be Ceratosaurus. There's also an enormous turtle and some good old Pteranodons. We see a brontosaurus as well as a few tr...

Welcome back! When I closed this blog a few years ago it was so that I could return to its big brother the original Rip Jagger's Dojo. This blog was a potential lifeboat in case of potential problems at the other site and as it turns out there are. So, the old place will close up again (still available for reading if not for commenting) and new conversations and posts can be begin, here at Rip Jagger's Other Dojo . I want to welcome old friends and hope to see new visitors as well.  One thing will change and that is the daily nature of the blog. As it turns out I have been meaning to cut back a bit on the posting for a while. There has been a near daily post at my sites for nearly a decade and a half and I'd like to pull back a bit. Expect new content for certain, but don't be surprised if a day or two slips by without a new posting.  So let's get started.  Rip Off  

This blog is closing up shop for the time being. It was created when its big brother Rip Jagger's Dojo was for a time out of commission, but things have changed and the original Dojo is up and running. So there's no immediate need for this "Other Dojo". I will close it from comments in a few days (to scare off the scavengers) , but it will still be up to serve as a potential life boat if there is trouble in the future. I want to thank everyone who has supported this site with their comments and their patience in plowing through the daily posts. To keep enjoying that same dash of bewildering enlightenment please feel free to join the discussions at Rip Jagger's Dojo . Thanks again one and all, and as always Rip Off

Capricorn One comes from a time when we got our conspiracy theories from the likes of the Weekly World News and not the Oval Office. One of the most prevalent conspiracy theories I've run across is the crusty notion that the United States did not put men onto the surface of the Moon, and that the whole shebang was just a product of the "Industrial Military Complex" and it's need to keep a tight tether on the fickle public. Sometimes aliens get mixed into this rhubarb, but the essential element is that government of the people and for the people spends most of its time lying to the people. Now I'm not going to say that governments don't lie, they do with regularity, but the dopey and preposterous notion that we didn't go the Moon ain't some of them. This lack of trust in public offices and the conjoined notion that science ain't all it's cracked up to be has no small part in the current debacle the United States lays claim to as a public h...