Reliving the Nostalgic Chaos: A Humorous Look at 'Hercules and the Lost Kingdom' - Episode 46
Jul 08, 2024Season 1Episode 46
Wes Walker and Nick Zervas
Ever wondered how a ragtag group of 90s characters could still capture our hearts with all their chaotic charm? Wes and Nick continue their legendary journey watching the Hercules Tv Show Movies with where they unravel the hilarity and nostalgia of "Hercules and the Lost Kingdom," a gem from the past featuring Kevin Sorbo's iconic portrayal of Hercules. Get ready to laugh out loud as we recount the film's bizarre opening scenes—think ancient gods with a petty streak causing untimely deaths, and Kevin Sorbo's Hercules getting unhelpful pep talks from Zeus mid-battle. If you enjoy reminiscing about the quirks of 90s movies, this episode is a must-listen!
Join us as we critique and chuckle through the second half of the movie, following Hercules on a destined journey with a determined woman. We can't help but poke fun at the ridiculousness of mercenaries exploiting slaves who have managed to create their own bars and social structures. From dissecting the absurd plot points to appreciating the campy entertainment, our discussion is filled with humor and genuine affection for this classic. Grab your popcorn and come relive the adventures of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules with us!
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Ever wondered how a ragtag group of 90s characters could still capture our hearts with all their chaotic charm? Wes and Nick continue their legendary journey watching the Hercules Tv Show Movies with where they unravel the hilarity and nostalgia of "Hercules and the Lost Kingdom," a gem from the past featuring Kevin Sorbo's iconic portrayal of Hercules. Get ready to laugh out loud as we recount the film's bizarre opening scenes—think ancient gods with a petty streak causing untimely deaths, and Kevin Sorbo's Hercules getting unhelpful pep talks from Zeus mid-battle. If you enjoy reminiscing about the quirks of 90s movies, this episode is a must-listen!
Join us as we critique and chuckle through the second half of the movie, following Hercules on a destined journey with a determined woman. We can't help but poke fun at the ridiculousness of mercenaries exploiting slaves who have managed to create their own bars and social structures. From dissecting the absurd plot points to appreciating the campy entertainment, our discussion is filled with humor and genuine affection for this classic. Grab your popcorn and come relive the adventures of Kevin Sorbo's Hercules with us!
Support the show:
🎤 Go to listen to the audio podcast on your favorite platform: https://dumbcoolweirdpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share
🌐 To see more stuff, buy some merch, or support us go to https://www.retroradfilms.com/dumbcoolweirdpodcast
dumb, cool, weird podcast. So we're doing hercules and the lost kingdom, which is a movie that we watched like probably like a month and a half ago yeah, pretty much, but we all had like things we had to do.
Speaker 2:
You were working on your movie yeah, working on a movie.
Speaker 1:
Okay, boomer coming out later this year. Absolutely go watch it. So um, hercules and the Lost Kingdom. What are our thoughts on this fucking thing?
Speaker 2:
Well, it was good, still very poorly done, but a good, poorly done 90s movie that was entertaining.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's the thing about Kevin Sorbo and Hercules. When I think of 90s Hercules, I always think of Kevin Sorbo, and it's perfect because.
Speaker 2:
Kevin Sorbo has played the best Hercules. You know, when I think of 90s Hercules, I always think of Kevin Sorbo and it's perfect because Kevin Sorbo has played the best Hercules hands down.
Speaker 1:
So the movie starts off with these three guys running through the wilderness, across the fields, across the fucking terrain, each one getting murdered along the way. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Because of the ancient gods, it was Hera. She was petty again and cruel yeah that's what the opening says, anyway.
Speaker 1:
They're all petty and cruel and one of them gets murdered by getting drowned by some bitch that's in the water Drowns them. She was a sea woman, sea witch, bitch, sea wench. The other guy gets killed by rocks.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, it was funny, the rocks targeted him, yeah.
Speaker 1:
I remember that. And then the other guy just dies from exhaustion. Yeah, what a very lame way to die. He's like oh, I finally made it time to die dead I'm dead as a fucking doorknob.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, bitch, you are dead. And then you know, as usual, kevin sorbo is, uh, in the middle of something like fighting a giant and zeus appears out of nowhere to just you know. Tell him like you know fight harder, stop getting your ass kicked.
Speaker 1:
Yep, it's like thanks, dad, and then he whips that giant's ass and then he kind of moves on with his life.
Speaker 2:
You know? What was funny, though, is that he was kind of they were both sitting in the bar letting the giant like torment these people for a little bit.
Speaker 1:
That's because the gods are petty and cruel.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, apparently, yeah, apparently, hercules was kind of going down that same role.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, he was like well, Dad, am I supposed to be petty and cruel? Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, a little. I mean, you don't have to help these people.
Speaker 1:
Yep, that's what he said in the last one. You know, women are just helpless. You can't help them.
Speaker 2:
Have you ever listened to women?
Speaker 1:
No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm Zeus. I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's why Hera was doing so well with me and you.
Speaker 1:
Well, you know this movie. What it kind of starts out, as is this woman, is like asking Hercules for help. She's got a destiny, yeah, it's her destiny. She's got to go with him. So she goes with him to this place and this place has slaves. The slaves are just, they're slavey, they're a little slavey.
Speaker 2:
They're very submissive. They've created their own society. Once the masters fall asleep.
Speaker 1:
Yep and they go drinking.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, they have their own bars, they have their own society, like I said, but they get bullied by mercenaries.
Speaker 1:
Yep and the one mercenary's like, oh, let me come in here and make money off these slaves. And it's like man dude, you must be a little bitch. If you're making monies off the slaves, why don't you steal the money from the actual people that have the money.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that was funny. It was like it's like why are you out here robbing these slaves? Why not like rob their masters, who clearly have more money?
Speaker 1:
Exactly, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:
No, that's what I'm saying. No, but what I love is like when they get out of that town, after hercules refuses to have, refuses to keep being the manservant of the uh, the queen of that town, yep and uh, you know that one bitch is still following him and she's just causing problems the whole way, like hercules is trying to do his thing and she just causes problems left, right and center yep and then that's the.
Speaker 2:
The leader of the slaves basically follows them and he's like I could be your slave, I can do anything you're not a slave anymore. Dude, stop being a bitch yeah, and he just keeps having like these moments of like stockholm syndrome to slavery yep, so basically joins them and they get eaten by a serpent a giant, a loch ness monster, like serpent yep, on the fucking beach.
Speaker 1:
and the thing is, when they're in the belly of this thing me and Nick were talking about when they were doing the production of this they must have been dumping sewage and all the fucking, old, fucking food from months ago into the fucking water. And Kevin Sorbo and this girl are like it smells so bad in here and the director's like, oh well, it's method directing.
Speaker 2:
I took a piss in here real quick, one sec. Let me take a shit real quick.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so they're just trying to make it like as disgusting as possible, and it must have smelled so bad in there, because, like it didn't look good, it was disgusting looking.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it really looked disgusting, yeah. And then they get attacked by Yep While you know Kevin Sorbo's like I'm just going to keep running through the intestines. And then eventually, kevin Sorbo punches the sea creature in the heart and kills it, and kills it, and they happen to end up in the location of the lizard people kingdom.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so they're in the lost kingdom and him and her are looking for her lost kingdom. They find it. They find out that she's actually the princess of a guy that's just about to die. They literally get there just in time For him to die. For him to die, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and there's a ragtag of elderly people and young child soldiers waiting to attack the castle.
Speaker 1:
Yep, and they all start training and Kevin Sorbo is like, ah, you guys suck, and they have a little training montage.
Speaker 2:
Kind of like in what was it? I'm trying to think of the Bruce Campbell movie here.
Speaker 1:
Army of Darkness.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, like in Army of Darkness, where he gives them a quick run through.
Speaker 1:
Yep of how to fight.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and it just works.
Speaker 1:
It just works. So they go to fight these creatures, the lizard creatures, and then they do their little.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, they were swinging swords and it was making the staff twirling noises.
Speaker 1:
Yep, like from the last movie we reviewed.
Speaker 2:
They really recycled a lot of the sound effects and the extras.
Speaker 1:
Yep, they did In each movie. Yep, they did, and they somehow beat the lizard creatures. But then the main lizard guy's like, oh, I want to take this one as my own. And then they fucking kill that guy.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it took Hercules a lot to kick his ass.
Speaker 1:
Yep, but he finally whipped his ass. Hera lost. They got their kingdom back.
Speaker 2:
But Hera did put him in a tornado and then launched him off. Remember, yes. Into some other random place where this Scottish guy was like we need your help. Yes, they sent him to the northern part of the continent. Yeah, apparently Greece is Costa Rica, scotland and a few other mountainous regions.
Speaker 1:
Yep, and that was Hercules and the Lost Kingdom. It's definitely a very interesting movie.
Speaker 2:
Entertaining still.
Speaker 1:
What's the dumb about this movie?
Speaker 2:
Well, the dumb was the fact that the slaves just couldn't figure out that freedom was a lot better than what they were dealing with.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, they weren't smart enough to realize that freedom is really the way to go.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, like they just kept wanting to be slaves, like they couldn't even just be mercenaries.
Speaker 1:
No, they couldn't. They couldn't just be mercenaries. What was weird about this movie?
Speaker 2:
Oh, the lizard people. And the you know what, specifically I would say, that giant Loch Ness monster set. You know, the thing had a parasite in it, it had poo water. It didn't also make sense because you know, it somehow brought them to the lizard kingdom. But then the slaves also appeared to the lizard kingdom without the big lizard Loch Ness.
Speaker 1:
Monster creature. What was cool about this movie? Kevin Sorbo, kevin motherfucking Sorbo, sorbono Sobrano. Kevin Sorbo Now, seriously, kevin Sorbo looked pretty fucking cool in this movie. He looked a lot bigger he was fucking big and he was fucking shredded. And God, he looked pretty good with the long hair.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, that's right. His hair was longer in this one and he looked like he was juicing up, yeah he's definitely juicing in this one, yep. Dumb, but good.
Speaker 1:
So that was Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, and if you haven't seen it yet, go on Amazon. It's there along with the whole series. Watch the movies first, then watch the series.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it won't make sense if you don't.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so do it, bitch, fuck you. Suck my cock, eat my ass, lick my feet, do a whatever. Thanks for checking out the Dumb, cool, weird Podcast. We're a movie podcast now.
