I clicked on the link to the trailer, but it turned out not to be the trailer but the film, so I watched the film as dawn broke… with a power nap here and there in-between.
I saw the moral to this story straight away… stay away from god damn deserts, where communities that look like they belong in the circus reside, and the only good thing about deserts, are desert raves… only make sure you’ve got a ride home afterwards, or you’ll end up limbless where they’ll be thrown on an open grill to keep the circus-freak community on swole with free protein courtesy of your limbs.
Now why couldn’t they just keep chickens or goats or something.
Carey was totally unrecognisable to the end, and was that Keanu Reeves as the polygamistic multi-impregnating cult-leading Svengali? God truly was, their DJ.
Sort of. So those of the bad batch are society’s undesirables, and instead of being incarcerated, they get exiled beyond the border of Texas to a lawless wasteland. You got that much.
There’s two opposing groups in the movie. The rogue cannibals and the citizens of ‘Comfort’, who aren’t cannibals. They grow gardens and eat rabbits instead of each other. Comfort is protected and fortified by armed guards who keep the rogue cannibals out. Reeves, who’s obviously modeled off of the Jones cult guy from Jonestown, is the leader of Comfort… and they love him because he gives them plumbing and drugs. And Carey is a hermit not part of either group. So that’s the basic outline of the movie.
Their motto should be… cannibalise or be cannibalised. Maintaining those physiques obviously takes a lot of protein, huh.
I also got that Prom, but I didn’t like or care for either community… be a cannibal or be impregnated by Comfort’s Dream, where he really will comfort you… if you’re of child-bearing age and not averse to being part of a harem and brushing hair.
Comfort, is preferable, in the survival stakes, and the only moral choice out of the two… but, tbh, when she woke up in chains, I thought they were gonna have their way with her… I never saw that storyline coming.
It didn’t pull its punches I suppose, and if you took the time to string its symbology together I guess you could pull out a few pearls of wisdom, but meh, an overall “if you are ostracised by genteel society you will, one way or the other, lose ownership of your body.”, is a 5 minute cautionary cartoon at best.
But lol, you’re looking at the man who thought ordering “Zombie Strippers” from amazon was a good idea, so what the hell do I know.
One thing that always bugs me about dystopian movies is the characters’ lack of affect. No-one ever carves a leg off someone who’s still alive and pleading with them, has a cook-out, then goes back to working on their pecs with their bruhs unless it’s either extremely ritualized or already deeply inculturated. Neither does someone lose an arm and a leg, then hop straight back on the normal-functional-human-being bus a couple of days later. Cognitive dissonance is a thing etc.
Jim Carey probably read the script, thought, “yeah, they can knock out all my scenes in a day or two” took the paycheck and gave it to orphans or whatever he does these days.
you guys gotta keep dystopian movies in their element and understand that one can only go so far in writing/directing them. The plotlines aren’t gonna be very elaborate.
I just watched two John Cusack movies back to back. Never again. Never again.
Hiccup, a Viking, must kill a dragon to mark his passage into manhood and be initiated into his tribe. However, he ends up doing the exact opposite by befriending a deadly Night Fury.
Release date: 31 March 2010 (United Kingdom) Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders Produced by: Bonnie Arnold Story by: Cressida Cowell Music composed by: John Powell Screenplay: Dean DeBlois, Adam F. Goldberg, Chris Sanders, William Davies Production company: DreamWorks Animation Distributed by: Paramount Pictures Budget: $165 million Box office: $494.9 million
Watched last night… I ain’t even seen Ride Along 1 yet… did the same thing with Guardians of The Galaxy, which didn’t spoil my viewing pleasure in the slightest.
James takes Ben along to pull the plug on a drug racket involving an influential businessman, Antonio Pope. However, with Ben’s wedding day approaching, the two have little time to expose the crime.
Release date: 22 January 2016 (United Kingdom) Director: Tim Story Budget: 40 million USD Box office: 124.6 million USD Producers: Ice Cube, Will Packer, Matt Alvarez, Larry Brezner
A cult classic. Retroactivelly it is fun and a real riot. The sets are charming post WW 2 era , the acting charmingly filled with frozen bits, taking sudden fractured discontuinity for a ride, as if all emotion results from series of afterthoughts.
Some animated entertainment, on a mid-Covid19 May Saturday early-afternoon… I recall seeing this film before, but it was such a long time ago, that it was like I never had, but it’s always the ending that becomes familiar and gives it away that you did…
Viktor invites trouble when he revives his dead pet dog Sparky after it is hit by a car. Now, Sparky looks like a monster and terrifies Viktor’s neighbours.
Release date: 17 October 2012 (United Kingdom) Director: Tim Burton Featured song: Strange Love Budget: 39 million USD Box office: 81.5 million USD
Description: Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) of the U.S. Navy falls for middle-aged French plantation owner Emile De Becque (Rossano Brazzi), but recoils upon discovering that he’s fathered two mixed-race children. When Nellie leaves him, the heartbroken Emile agrees to take on a dangerous espionage mission. In his absence, Nellie struggles to reconcile her prejudices with her love for him – and after she spends time with his children and comes to care for them, fears that Emile may not return alive.
Release date: 21 April 1958 (London) Director: Joshua Logan Languages: English, French Awards: Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Songs
1 South Pacific Overture Alfred Newman 3:01
2 Dites-Moi Nellie Forbush and Children 1:17
3 Cock-Eyed Optimist Nellie Forbush 1:43