Never before in the history has so much coffee been consumed! Never before has there been so much skydiving! Never before had I been bored off my rear end than by watching this movie!! What Roger Corman does for walking, Coleman Francis does for skydiving.
The story concerns a small skydiving school that teeters of the brink of ruin. The owner's wife is fooling around, people are jumping out of planes left and right, a sinister plot is afoot, and more coffee is being consumed in two hours than in one year at a Starbucks. Oh, and did I mention that someone falls to their death?
Coleman Francis knows three paces in movies: slow, turgid, and dead. Your common box turtle moves faster than this movie does. However, I will say that it does not reach the level of "Red Zone Cuba", Francis' magnum opus. At least The Skydivers has that cheeky woman to look at towards the end; "Red Zone Cuba" gives us a horrible Fidel Castro impersonation.
This movie is required viewing if you plan to work in an ad agency that has Folgers or Maxwell House as a client. If not, use this to cure your insomnia.
The story concerns a small skydiving school that teeters of the brink of ruin. The owner's wife is fooling around, people are jumping out of planes left and right, a sinister plot is afoot, and more coffee is being consumed in two hours than in one year at a Starbucks. Oh, and did I mention that someone falls to their death?
Coleman Francis knows three paces in movies: slow, turgid, and dead. Your common box turtle moves faster than this movie does. However, I will say that it does not reach the level of "Red Zone Cuba", Francis' magnum opus. At least The Skydivers has that cheeky woman to look at towards the end; "Red Zone Cuba" gives us a horrible Fidel Castro impersonation.
This movie is required viewing if you plan to work in an ad agency that has Folgers or Maxwell House as a client. If not, use this to cure your insomnia.