{"id":12262,"date":"2010-08-28T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2021-01-03T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T21:23:39","slug":"herculeshercules-goes-bananashercules-in-new-york-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12262","title":{"rendered":"Hercules\/Hercules Goes Bananas\/Hercules in New York (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Hercules goes where he wishes!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-61402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-1003x1536.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-1338x2048.jpg 1338w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-176x270.jpg 176w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-New-York-Poster-scaled.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nGreek demigod Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger) defies his father, Zeus (Ernest Graves), by leaving Mt. Olympus and heading down to Earth, where he befriends a nebbishy pretzel seller (Arnold Stang) and impresses mortals with his superhuman strength.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ancient Greece and Rome<\/li>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Father and Child<\/li>\n<li>New York City<\/li>\n<li>Supernatural Powers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary isn&#8217;t nearly derisive enough of this unbelievably &#8220;lame-brained comedy&#8221;, which he labels merely a &#8220;disappointment&#8221;, noting that &#8220;not only is there no wild humor, there are shamefully few jokes and gags at all&#8221;. Indeed, the only humor to be had at all comes from the sheer ineptitude of the acting, script, and direction &#8212; bad movie aficionados may want to check it out simply to watch for all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065832\/goofs\">goofs<\/a> that are made, including the sound of cars in the distance during scenes supposedly set on &#8220;Mt. Olympus&#8221; (actually a NYC country club), or fleeting evidence of shoes on the &#8220;bear&#8221; Hercules wrestles in Central Park (which is so clearly&#8230; oh so clearly&#8230; a man in bear costume). With that said, this film remains of marginal historical interest given that it was the film debut for Schwarzenegger (going by the screen name &#8220;Arnold Strong&#8221;), eight years before he starred in the infinitely more interesting body-building documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2271\"><em>Pumping Iron<\/em> (1977)<\/a>; watching him here makes one appreciate how far he eventually progressed (relatively speaking) with his acting abilities. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2-479x270.png 479w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hercules-Still2.png 1825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not much of anything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; definitely free to skip this tedious clunker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065832\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/fantasy\/hercules-in-new-york-1970-hercules-goes-bananas.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1166&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hercules goes where he wishes!&#8221; Synopsis: Greek demigod Hercules (Arnold Schwarzenegger) defies his father, Zeus (Ernest Graves), by leaving Mt. Olympus and heading down to Earth, where he befriends a nebbishy pretzel seller (Arnold Stang) and impresses mortals with his superhuman strength. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Ancient Greece and Rome Comedy Father and Child New York City Supernatural Powers Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary isn&#8217;t nearly derisive enough of this unbelievably &#8220;lame-brained comedy&#8221;, which he labels merely a &#8220;disappointment&#8221;,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12262\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61405,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions\/61405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}