Hercules in New York (1970) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!

Yes, it's the source of the Running Arnold Schwarzenegger meme!

...stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in his acting debut as the eponymous divine hero, who engages in escapades after traveling to New York City. Produced independently by Wisberg on a budget of $300,000 (equivalent to $1.86 million in 2024),[3] the film was shot entirely on location.

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 14% of 7 critics' reviews are positive.[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 23 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally negative" reviews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_in_New_York

Hercules in New York (1970) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 26 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• DUBBING NOTE: in some cases, Arnold's voice is dubbed, in other cases it's his own voice
• TITLE NOTE: it's also called "Hercules Goes Bananas"
• tubi (Arnold's own)(availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/321122/hercules-in-new-york
• youtube (NON-US ONLY): https://youtu.be/wumeRlYX_AQ
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for those tubi and youtube links
• dailymotion (Arnold dubbed): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9tvr50
• dailymotion (WARNING: 4 minutes shorter?) (Arnold's own): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9iuapw
• archive (Arnold dubbed): https://archive.org/details/hercules.in.new.york.1969.1080p.bluray.x264.yify
• archive (Arnold's own): https://archive.org/details/1969-hercules-in-new-york
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/hercules-goes-bananas