Nomination Year: 2016

SYNOPSIS: Earth is under attack by the evil Princess Dragon-Mom (no, not Danaerys Targaryen) and her horde of Stupid-Looking Monsters! Their power is unstoppable. There is only one chance: Professor Chan has developed a method of turning a man (just one) into a robotic (?) hero, Inframan! Like a video game or an old Japanese TV show (which is to say, like a video game), Inframan plows through monster after monster in fakey, rubber-suited fights overflowing with gimmickry and the development of new powers mid-fight. He then meets the level boss and is temporarily defeated...until the "ghost" of the not-dead Professor gives him the insight to escape the icy trap. Inframan pops up and defeats the nigh-unstoppable dildo-bots, cuts the head off the main baddie, cuts the head off the main baddie, cuts the head off the main baddie, cuts the head off the...(you get the idea), then changes tactics and blows the Princess the hell up. The Day Is Saved, thanks to...Inframan!

Smithee Award Nominations

"Wanna Run That By Me Again?"

Thunderball Fists! ofessor when he says that victory is impossible until he gives Inframan Thunderball Fists! “Thunderball Fists?!” “Yes, Thunderball Fists!” “I can have such a thing??” Much like other Japanese psychic-pulses of Instant Knowledge like with hero and monster names, this must be one of those. The natural reaction one would expect is “WTF are Thunderball Fists?!” But evidently no explanation is necessary to our hero. Or the audience.

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Deus Ex Machina

Adv-Ice from Beyond , Inframan, like all Japanese tech-based heroes of his day, has a little red beeping and flashing light that tells the audience “Oh, no! I’m about to be defeated for good!” But then: Inframan has a vision! Or memory! Or receives an astral psychic bullshit projection from the Professor, telling him “If you’re ever encased in liquid ice (check), your missiles are designed to thaw you out. Use…oh…FIVE of them. Professor out! Peace!” The problem is this is *nowhere* else in the movie, so if it’s a memory, it’s from an off-screen scene. It’s out of the blue, arbitrary, and overly convenient. The very definition of a DEM.

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Stupidest-Looking Monster
SLM-Fest Princess Dragon-Mom introduces her army of critters. Each is more stupid-looking than the last. It’s like they mined all of the back episodes of every Sid & Marty Krofft production ever, seriously!	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Shan Hua	Also known as Wah Bo-Fat ("Wahhhbofat!")

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Danny Lee	<Not Yet in Database>	Plays Officer/Inspector/Just Plain "Lee" in nearly all he does
Terry Liu	<Not Yet in Database>
Hsieh Wang	Professor Liu Ying-Te	With over 180 film credits, he was bound to show up here. And he has, from the Prof. in Infra-Man to bit parts in Mafia vs. Ninja and others.
Bruce Le	Sergeant Lu Hsiao-Lung	Yet another Bruce Lee knock-off, he eventually developed a style all his own.

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