{"id":36497,"date":"2016-11-23T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=36497"},"modified":"2016-11-23T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:45:57","slug":"challenge-week-44-condorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/challenge-week-44-condorman\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Week 44: Condorman"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a fun little adventure espionage movie! Woodrow Wilkins is a cartoonist who likes to test real-life costumes for his comic book character Condorman. Also, his best friend is a CIA desk agent who ends up asking Woody to do an innocuous civilian exchange for the agency. Only Natalia, the other civilian, is actually a KGB agent and when she decided to defect, she requests “Condorman” as her liaison.<\/p>\n

The whole thing is very silly, but silly Cold War-era espionage movies with a ton of fun gadgets is very pleasing to me. I mean, it’s James Bond but with the cheese factor knowingly turned up way higher. There are quite a few cliches, especially in how Natalia is written, but that’s pretty much all made up for when you have a chase with a gypsy wagon that turns into a car that turns into a hydrofoil, all at the push of a few buttons.<\/p>\n

I…really can’t think of much else to say about this. I can definitely see it being something I return to in the future because of how fun and silly and endearing it is.<\/p>\n

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Stats and stuff…<\/h3>\n

1981, USA<\/em>
\ndirected by Charles Jarrott, written by Marc Stirdivant<\/em>
\nstarring Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m ranking all my Challenge films on Flickchart (as I do all the films I see), a movie-ranking website that asks you to choose your favorite between two movies until it builds a ranked list of your favorites. Just for fun, I will average out the rankings and keep a running tally of whose recommendations rank the highest. When you add a film to Flickchart, it pits it against films already on your chart to see where it should fall. Here’s how Condorman<\/em> entered my chart:<\/p>\n

Condorman<\/b> > Sylvia Scarlett
\nCondorman < The Shining<\/b>
\nCondorman<\/b> > The Three Caballeros
\nCondorman < The Moon-Spinners<\/b>
\nCondorman<\/b> > Gone Girl
\nCondorman<\/b> > Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
\nCondorman < Little Shop of Horrors<\/b>
\nCondorman < The Battle of Algiers<\/b>
\nCondorman<\/b> > Breakfast on Pluto
\nCondorman < Why Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t You Play In Hell?<\/b>
\nCondorman < Los tallos amargos<\/b>
\nCondorman<\/b> > Love Crime (2010)<\/p>\n

Final #1212 out of 3718 (67%)<\/p>\n

It is now my #1 Charles Jarrott film, my #1 Michael Crawford film, my #3 Oliver Reed film, my #27 Action Comedy, my #22 Spy Film, my #25 Superhero film, and my #6 film of 1981.<\/p>\n

Condorman<\/em> was recommended by Andrew Robinson<\/a>, a film blogger friend. Averaging together this #1212 ranking with my #930 ranking of his other film, The Color of Money<\/em>, gives Andrew an average ranking of 1071.<\/p>\n

A few more screenshots…<\/h3>\n

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\"tf-in-car\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-chase\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-hydrofoil\"<\/p>\n

\"tf-flight\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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