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Friday, September 07, 2007

Cuatro-Movie Madness!

Weeeeeelllllll, I got a few minutes to kill at the moment, maybe I should let you guys in on What Doug's Watching. It's like a movie corner, except the television is what's actually in the corner, naked and shivering, crying to me, "No more, no more! For the love of Doug go outside!"
Yeah, that'd be nice.
But anyhow, I'm going over 4 movies in order of how I saw them.
First up is John Waters' Pink Flamingos. Remember Hairspray? He did that one, too. And Divine was in both. But you don't want kids watching Pink Flamingos. You don't want kids or parents anywhere near you while watching this. It's about a viscous killer named Divine (name of the cross-dressing actress as well) who's hiding out in Baltimore while maintaining her title of the Filthiest Person Alive. But there is a couple in town who want to take that title away from her. The movie is just so much chicken fetish/incest/black-market-baby/masturbation/indecent-exposure/licking/murder, and yet, for the most part, you can't stop watching it. Waters himself makes no excuses for the movie. It is what it is.
Next movie I saw was Halloween --the Rob Zombie version, which I went to with Derek, Tab, Kevin and April. This movie seemed some parts remake, some parts prequel. Where the original focused quite a bit on Laurie (his baby sister), the new one takes a better look at Michael Myers himself. It actually brought a more human aspect to Michael, even though he was an amoral psycho. Zombie even kept much of the 70's music in it, and even managed to get in Misfits' Halloween II on a radio. Pretty much anything Rob Zombie lays his hands on turns all black and shrivelly, but that "black and shrivelly" to me is like "gold" to normal, undeified folks. The movie was awesome. And I might watch it again this Saturday with Karissa.
Third on my list is Gory, Gory, Hallelujah. Jeez, this one's kinda hard to describe. A group of hack theater actors all audtion for the part of Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told"--that is, a bitter black guy, a bitter Jew, a bitter woman, and a neohippie moron. None get the part, so they decide to travel to New York to try out for Jesus Christ Superstar. They embark from Seattle, Washington, and on their way to New York somehow end up in the deep South. They get into a fight with an Elvis Impersonator convention and end up killing an Elvis (don't worry, not a real one). So they get out and end up in a little bumfuck town called Jackville. The neohippie, who is bisexual, offers a little nookie to a southern guy peeing in a gas station bathroom and gets busted by the cops. They're all taken in to the church (wtf??) where they're remanded to the custody of various townfolk. The black guy goes to the Preacher (who has devil-horn eyebrows), the girl to a woman soon revealed to be a hardcore neofeminist "witch", the Jewish dude ends up at the local whorehouse (located in a deep marsh), and the neohippie goes to a local old black guy, who's parents had been "accidentally lynched" in the 60's by the townspeople.
A lot of stuff happens, a big rod is found that looks a lot like a penis made from a skinny barber's pole. After that it becomes a zombie flick, as the old guy's ancestors rise up from there graves and start killing people (the "rod" is involved). More stuff happens, the girl is the only one left alive, the zombies are still milling around, grilling body parts, dancing, trying to remember how to play instruments, typically zombie stuff. Then the old black guy, who had died, turns out to be God.
Simple enough. I wouldn't have described so much of it, but who among you was actually planning on watching it? Yeah, fuck you, liar. It was a good movie, though. And funny.
Last on my list, and possibly least, is a movie I found on Netflix called Beer Drinkers In Outer Space. To give you an idea of how popular this movie is, I couldn't even find it in the Internet Movie Database--hence, no hyperlink.
This movie was filmed by some guys in a house in Orlando, Florida, who may have had access to bowling machinery and/or a bowling alley. As they filmed the movie, they got progressivly drunk. Th acting is terrible, most of the movie itself nevr leaves the main pilot's cockpit.
The plot? A ship is carrying beer to Nebuli 7-11 (I know, I know) to people who love people, when they confronted by Probes, an alien race whose descendants acted stupid and drove funny because of beer, so now they want revenge by eliminating all beer from the galaxy. Whew!
A fighter pilot happens upon the confrontation (a horrible actor who looked like he was actually playing atari in a helmet) and helps the ship out a bit. Again, stuff happens, another alien race called the Leshinboons calls the ship and tries to sell them tapes discussing the word of Love. They're funny little green puppet aliens, perhaps the funniest part of the movie. More stuff happens, and at this point the most important thing you need to know is that whenever the crew received bad news, one would call out "Condition Red!" and they would all chug a beer. It's a way of taking bad news better. Damn good advice actually.
So that's it. Those are movies I've seen thus far.
I just started my classes today, but I'm actually gonna wait to tell you guys about it until after the weekend.
By the way new Golden Brown up and running!

2 Comments:

Blogger Karissa (mommy) said...

I still can't believe that in some weird way I actually liked Pink Flamingos. Minus that one part that will disturb me for the rest of my life. I also though Gory, Gory Hallelujah was funny & I probably should have watched the rest of it.

You scare me with the movies you pick, but they are all so bad they end up being good.

7:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I want to watch Pink Flamigos too. I'm surprised that some of these movies even make it to the video store... who funds these things? independant directors with a degree in communications?

Yup, that was a slam against communication majors.... oh wait... shit.
April

9:18 PM  

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