I had intended to see Machete anyway thanks to the ridiculousness of its Grindhouse trailer, but even if I knew nothing about it the recent real trailer showing Cheech Marin as a priest wielding a shotgun in each hand would have sold me.
Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 04, 2010 6:18:06 pm PDT #11098 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Laga - Sep 05, 2010 12:53:52 am PDT #11099 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I could swear I remember that from the first trailer.
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2010 5:28:29 am PDT #11100 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Sep 05, 2010 6:29:06 am PDT #11101 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mmmm. Conan.
Looks a little, uh...Crow-nan.
Scrappy - Sep 05, 2010 8:32:29 am PDT #11102 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Saw both The American and Machete last night. It's the perfect double feature. Both feature killers, lotsof naked women and have a '70s vibe. One is intense, personal and has very little action, the other is light, b-movie-ish and has non-stop action.
I liked both films--The American is a very slow, meditative film. If you can hang with Jarmusch, you might get into it. Clooney was superb, I thought.
Machete was great gory fun. I think Jeff Fahey and Cheech Marin stole the picture.
Sean K - Sep 05, 2010 9:03:30 am PDT #11103 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Is The American a Jarmusch film?
Scrappy - Sep 05, 2010 9:28:02 am PDT #11104 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
No, but it has the same deliberate pace as his films. Some people get into it and some hate it. One couple walked out of the film last night, even though the DH, our friend Andy and I all really liked it.
Sue - Sep 05, 2010 9:51:38 am PDT #11105 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Is The American a Jarmusch film?
It's Anton Corbjin, best known as photographer to the rock stars. I really liked Control, his Joy Division biopic, so I'm willing to give The American a shot.
DavidS - Sep 05, 2010 3:50:35 pm PDT #11106 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've been curious about The Final Programme (1973) since I read about it in Cinefastique, and tracked down the Anchor Bay reissue at my local Le Video.
I can see why Michael Moorcock hated it as the director changed the ending to something stupid and jokey, but overall it's pretty cool.
It was directed by Robert Fuest who is best known for the two Dr. Phibes movies and directing some Avengers episodes, which you'd think would make him a perfect director for Jerry Cornelius.
And he gets a lot right. The casting for one, Jon Finch (Hitchcock's Frenzy, Polanski's MacBeth) plays Jerry and he's suitably handsome, dandyish and dark. He's got black painted fingernails and ruffled shirts and Edwardian cut coats! And a needle gun. And Jenny Runacre (who also worked with Pasolini, Cassavetes, Antonioni) is great as Miss Brunner the bisexual, duplicitous vampire (she doesn't suck blood, but absorbs them whole).
There's some really cool pop art sets and scenes and the two leads are fab. It plays a lot like a polymorphously perverse supergroovy Dr. Who. (This association driven in part by the soundtrack which is very Who-ish and the sometimes cheap effects.)
Here's a link to a review (a bit more laudatory than I think it deserves) but with some great screencaps that give you a feel for it.
Atropa - Sep 05, 2010 3:54:31 pm PDT #11107 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
John Carpenter's The Thing holds up really well. Of course, part of that may be that I haven't seen it since it was originally released, when I was 12. But *damn*, those are good effects.