all solid objects can be destroyed by the proper pitch

In Like Flint (1967), dir. Gordon Douglas 


I got through the entire film without thinking at any point that it was actually a sequel, because I'm dumb. A copy of it came through at work and I borrowed it because it had JC lookin' nice on the cover and continued with no further investigation. Clearly, I've never seen Our Man Flint so I guess that makes ""In Like"" a pretty solid stand alone because I had a GOOD TIME.

For all I knew our very first introduction to our American man Mr. Flint, is poolside in a tight white sweater workshoppin' his dolphin speak. Nothing comes as a shock in the film not necessarily because of some arbitrary predictability scale but because all of our schemes and all of our tools to combat them are introduced right from the starting line in some fractured version of the whole. 
You know he's gonna use a dolphin to his advantage at some point and when it finally comes, you cheer! Hip hip!

 The lesson here is to never accept a hand rolled cigarette from an enchanting temptress. 

At a leeeengthy and relentless 114 minutes I really had to muscle my way through it. It treads at a sluggish pace but fortunately the sets are elaborate and colorful, Coburn is profoundly sturdy in his goofiness, and yo did they just prophesy of the coming of our Lord and Savior, The Gipper?

Nineteen sixty-seven babie!!

 Just some good lookin' tech 

 Imagine this face uhhhhhh..

 Is that a Juul

 I just...really love the big mouthed wet monkey man. 

Their attempt to satirize the hunky chauvinist falls a little short when they slip into like..an actual blatant aversion to second wave feminism but they tried, they did their best, and I refuse to critique a pretty piddling movie for the nuance of its politics. Hey look at Flint as a ballerina!









No one's asking us to take it seriously! It's campy and fun. Flint's got a mind like a steel trap, he fucks, he fights, builds model airplanes, reads Architecture Digest, and can mosey his way onto a billion dollar rocket -- the man knows how to live! 

Oh boy what a hoot ! A riot even !


Me at minute 56. 

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