Also from the review, but whitefonted:
Sheybal takes the young lovers to what appears to be a Broadway version of hell, where Stewart is serenaded by a strapping, g-string-clad fellow who sings the immortal couplet "It's a natural, natural, natural desire / To meet an actual, actual, actual vampire." Gilmour experiences a psychedelic disco freak-out after his drink is drugged and he encounters scores of homely transvestites rendered in trippy kaleidoscope vision. Then he falls in with a tribe of cave-dwelling hippies, reunites with and impregnates the chastened Stewart, and is led into an extraterrestrial paradise by a white-suited supreme being, in what's either the best or worst ending of all time.
Damnit, I never got to see the ending, since Sean and I got scared, and now I'm spoiled.
and now I'm spoiled.
Not really. Don't worry. That information will have no effect on your viewing of the film up until that point. Really.
Matt, at least certain things will look very cool. So who cares about the plot?
Look at that - Hello Down There is being released on DVD.
I only know about this because Jeff Barry (Archies main man) did the music for this. 1969, Tony Randall's family lives in a bubble under the sea. Teenage son Richard Dreyfuss writes pop songs and beats on a shark's snout with his guitar. Wacky fun, I guess.
Also, I recently bought (though haven't viewed) The American Astronaut by Cory Macabee of the Billy Nayer show. (Not a NASA documentary, incidentally.)
Getting back to WKW/CD, I think I've seen Chungking Express more than any other movie, maybe 20-25 times now. Just something to be savored. And I still own it on laserdisc.
Speaking of OTT Asian flicks, I've pimped this in this very thread before but I have to again pimp the Korean action piece Tube. It was gleefully, wonderfully, awesomely OTT, not to put too superlative a point on it. It was like the bastard love child of Speed, Die Hard and Heat, all hopped up on steroids and crystal meth, and having a grand old time doing it. It puts other OTT movies to shame. Even it's action movie/hero cliches were brilliantly over the top.
Getting back to WKW/CD, I think I've seen Chungking Express more than any other movie, maybe 20-25 times now. Just something to be savored. And I still own it on laserdisc.
It's even tempted me to pick up some of Faye Wong's albums.
Sounds potentially like THE UNINVITED with Ray Milland and , but they were brother and sister I believe, not husband and wife.
That's IT!!! Thanks Ken! (Can I still call you Ken? I've even seen the Ken Buddha sketch on MPFC now.) I should've specified it was a 40s movie.
