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Amusing Terrible Film #1: Hercules in New York (1969)

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imdb Link Wiki Link This is my first "Amusing Terrible Film" entry. Sometimes films can be so bad in so many ways, so much so that they cannot be boring. Instead of a comedy to laugh with it becomes a movie to laugh at. Oh, dozens or hundreds of people may have sunk months of work into producing this... thing, but hey, unintentional humour is better than no humour at all, right? As a disclaimer, this film is supposed to be a comedy, but it's laughs come from it's sometimes ridiculous production. (http://docuniverse.blogspot.co.uk)" But I wanna go back to Earth gnnnaaooaaooaww" This was Arnold Schwarzenegger's first film role (he's billed as Arnold Strong in it though), a good seven or so years before the 'Pumping Iron' documentary that really catapulted his career. Until relatively recently his voice was dubbed over due to "his thick Austrian accent". After watching the undubbed version I can say that this isn't the