neither does All Dogs Go to Heaven, as best as I can remember
oh no
Burt sang his songs
he’s credited on the soundtrack
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no, I would have remembered that. my memory would not have refused to store such a piercing fact
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it’s good to have coping mechanisms, it keeps the brain bits safe
I don’t remember any of the songs.
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Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid
https://youtu.be/LNBuyraMwQg
somehow manages not to be terrible or interesting. the director/writer complained in an interview that he paid everyone too well & Troma held out on him for the VHS sales
late 70’s New York so everyone is thin (not Fat Guy) and full of cocaine. the plot is incoherant, the main guy (not the Fat Guy) is some kind of trust fund fail son with a plot about having to get a job for unexplained legal reasons & which goes nowhere repeatedly. his two brothers are doing their own unrelated things.
some real art rises above the surface: the driving scene in a Bronco very obviously on a flatbed, 2 meters higher than the passing traffic. the live music performance with the frontman strumming away on the lead guitar with nothing in the mix. and best is the soundtrack from Leo Kottke (right out of Days of Heaven) drowning out the non-incidental dialogue “what… he won’t hear you anyway” damn right, Leo
some good clowning, there’s some dialogue that’s attempting to be funny but no jokes. actors did their best, mostly. better than a Farrelly brothers film
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I found a VHS copy of this at K-Mart when I was a kid and the box had me so incredibly hyped but when I got home the tape didn’t work and I was just absolutely gutted
Then I was gutted again X years later when I finally saw the actual movie and learned how boring it was. He doesn’t even get nutzoid!!
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I need to see that lady’s hair on a real person
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I really liked Mountainhead. I’m so impressed by a dialogue heavy satire and this one goes deep into absurd territory.
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i did eventually watch predator and body snatchers. surprise, they were both good! can’t wait to see the predator fight the alien lol…
also watched the star wars 4k77 project, it was pretty entertaining. ive been liking a lot of the scifi and fantasy stuff ive seen lately more, but it had some great creature effects and in-camera stuff, nice visual textures and surfaces, old wizard linen drip on the space ships, glossy helmets, etc. i should watch kurosawa akira’s “ran” or the arnold schwazenegger “conan the barbarian” or “excalibur” or something next
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you’re telling me that in the span of like 18 years chewbacca went from being former commander of planetary-scale self-defense forces in a conflict that claimed the lives of like tens of trillions to “spice” smuggler who cant even get a medal???
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“commander” and “general” are some of the funniest titles in star wars, they’re just like “this is a main character so we had to give them a military rank”
this is something else Andor did well because they (correctly) had him stuck at captain by the end of his story. like, everyone loves that guy but you can’t give him direct reports who aren’t already on his stupid ship
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I have to recommend Commando here re: Schwarzenegger. It’s incredibly cheesy but has nonstop action and some amazing one liners.
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It turns out the prequels are pretty bad actually
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Dont worry we can paper over all the plotholes by having the good guys erase c3po’s memories
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I wish Chewie actually died in TRoS
instead they immediately reveal the fake out and then boy I woulda looked stupid if I had walked out when that transport exploded
I could’ve been seeing Little Women. or Cats again.
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finished watching in vanda’s room, which i think is the last major pedro costa i hadn’t seen. greatest living feature filmmaker?
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The crosstime blues gig in Sinners ruled. I took that day off and went to a morning screening. Good day.
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Regarding the Klan sequence at the end, I thought that was really cool response to George Romero.
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the red spectacles. kind of glad I put off watching this until the uhd, especially seeing screens of the old releases online, and I guess now I have the benefit of watching it as an old man in a world that’s more insane and unrecognizable every day. I liked stray dogs even more though, only had some hdtv rip for that one.
and I watched Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters, a fake documentary about dine and dasher outlaw heroes that exist in the red spectacles world and also episode 45 of season 2 of the 1981 Urusei Yatsura anime that also features all the “Tachigui” mentioned in it
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