10/02/07: MORE QUARTER PLUNDER
BONUS! Here are some of the movies I got for a quarter a couple weeks ago ... The ones I've watched at least. There's tons I haven't viewed yet!
MAD DOG (Grieco, 1977): Alternate title for Helmet Berger-starrer aka BEAST WITH A GUN. Yummy Marisa "Diabolik" Mell costars and provides an awful lot of Fan Appreciation. Incredible, delirious music compliments a sadistic streak a mile wide in this one. I adore movies where the main character is an unredeemable slimebag. And a rapist and murderer too!
SHOOT (Hart, 1976): Weirdo Canadian psychodrama with Cliff Robertson who has a rather unhealthy romantic relationship with guns. The scenes where he oils his rifle are straight out of a gay porno. A bunch of yahoo hunters stumble across another group of yahoos in the woods and mutually open fire on each other, seemingly out of frustration over no deer in the area. "All dressed up with nowhere to blow" seems to be the theme. Remainder of the film has our group's escalating paranoia driving them to seek a rematch, only with vastly superior firepower. Trouble is, they suspect the other group is doing the same. But ... are they?
THE FINAL OPTION (Sharp, 1982): British actioner about the 1980's terror-busting SAS! Lots of Bond franchise talent on-hand give this one the feeling of a more sober Bond without all the shenanigans. More of a sedate espionage thriller, but featuring a knockout climax based of the true Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980. Dig gas masks and MP5s? See this.
THE PARK IS MINE (Stern, 1986): the 80s saw this Tommy Lee Jones Nam-vet-on-a-righteous-rampage flick on seemingly unavoidable heavy cable rotation. The thing was as ubiquitous as those awful Old Navy ads with Morgan Fairchild from a couple years back, you just could not stay away from it. Of chief appeal is the film's attempts to make Jones affable and sympathetic when for all intents and purposes he is little more than a pissed-off emasculated White Dude tired of being pushed around by not only The Man but also his Ex Wife. Its difficult to endorse his tactics of mining Central Park and shooting up cop cars with an AK and terrorizing NYC into broadcasting his whining manifestos over all channels. Jones frequently plays it for laughs in attempts at levity but there is no escaping the fact that he is an outright terrorist with no perceivable goals except to "not take any more shit for 72 hours." When he finally gets arrested (but not before an honest-to-God VIET CONG mercenary is dispatched in attempts to 'neutralize him,' the film's strongest sequence), he declares victory at having met his goals. Congrats dude, now go to jail for the rest of your life. Bizarre. (Super Ultra Merit Points to Yaphet Kotto for being an amazing actor in this one.)
MAD DOG (Grieco, 1977): Alternate title for Helmet Berger-starrer aka BEAST WITH A GUN. Yummy Marisa "Diabolik" Mell costars and provides an awful lot of Fan Appreciation. Incredible, delirious music compliments a sadistic streak a mile wide in this one. I adore movies where the main character is an unredeemable slimebag. And a rapist and murderer too!
SHOOT (Hart, 1976): Weirdo Canadian psychodrama with Cliff Robertson who has a rather unhealthy romantic relationship with guns. The scenes where he oils his rifle are straight out of a gay porno. A bunch of yahoo hunters stumble across another group of yahoos in the woods and mutually open fire on each other, seemingly out of frustration over no deer in the area. "All dressed up with nowhere to blow" seems to be the theme. Remainder of the film has our group's escalating paranoia driving them to seek a rematch, only with vastly superior firepower. Trouble is, they suspect the other group is doing the same. But ... are they?
THE FINAL OPTION (Sharp, 1982): British actioner about the 1980's terror-busting SAS! Lots of Bond franchise talent on-hand give this one the feeling of a more sober Bond without all the shenanigans. More of a sedate espionage thriller, but featuring a knockout climax based of the true Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980. Dig gas masks and MP5s? See this.
THE PARK IS MINE (Stern, 1986): the 80s saw this Tommy Lee Jones Nam-vet-on-a-righteous-rampage flick on seemingly unavoidable heavy cable rotation. The thing was as ubiquitous as those awful Old Navy ads with Morgan Fairchild from a couple years back, you just could not stay away from it. Of chief appeal is the film's attempts to make Jones affable and sympathetic when for all intents and purposes he is little more than a pissed-off emasculated White Dude tired of being pushed around by not only The Man but also his Ex Wife. Its difficult to endorse his tactics of mining Central Park and shooting up cop cars with an AK and terrorizing NYC into broadcasting his whining manifestos over all channels. Jones frequently plays it for laughs in attempts at levity but there is no escaping the fact that he is an outright terrorist with no perceivable goals except to "not take any more shit for 72 hours." When he finally gets arrested (but not before an honest-to-God VIET CONG mercenary is dispatched in attempts to 'neutralize him,' the film's strongest sequence), he declares victory at having met his goals. Congrats dude, now go to jail for the rest of your life. Bizarre. (Super Ultra Merit Points to Yaphet Kotto for being an amazing actor in this one.)
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