Strega, have you seen Shoot 'Em Up ? I think you'd love it since you loved the similarly awesomely ridiculous Crank. This movie is more self-aware about its ridiculousness and broaches new levels of absurdity. Granted, there are no buildings spouting blood, but still.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
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Polter-Cow - Jul 11, 2009 10:15:12 pm PDT #2934 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Typo Boy - Jul 11, 2009 11:19:32 pm PDT #2935 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
This looks interesting - a documentary on sword fights in the movies.
Does it include the 20 minute sword fight at the end of Scaramouche? Because though it has probably been exceeded many times since I still remember it as the most awesome movie sword fight ever.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2009 4:24:30 am PDT #2936 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Have you seen any Pier Pasolini?
OH YEAH. P-C should really give Salo a try.
whistles innocently
evil jimi - Jul 12, 2009 4:24:35 am PDT #2937 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
PC, I'm with you on Shoot 'Em Up. Fantastically over-the-top. The sex scene with Belluci is hysterical, and Giamatti's villian is glorious. In a sense, I'd say it's on a par with the Yun-Fat Chow starring Hard Boiled, and The Killer in terms of being extreme in the body count (eat your hearts out Total Recall and Rambo but not Hot Shots 2!) but it lacks their pathos.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2009 4:27:40 am PDT #2938 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Shoot 'Em Up is a live action Warner Bros. cartoon. Clive Owen is Bugs Bunny, and Paul Giamatti is cross between Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam. I don't know who that makes Belluci, though. Not Daffy, that's for sure.
evil jimi - Jul 12, 2009 4:29:12 am PDT #2939 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Jessica Rabbit?
askye - Jul 12, 2009 8:24:13 am PDT #2940 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Bugs in drag?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 12, 2009 8:53:30 am PDT #2941 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
The Warner Bros. cartoons suffer from a lack of female characters, with Granny being the sole exception I can think of.
tommyrot - Jul 12, 2009 9:24:23 am PDT #2942 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tweety is female, right?
juliana - Jul 12, 2009 9:32:04 am PDT #2943 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Tweety is female, right?
Nope.
Frankenbuddha is dead on about the Bugs-ness of Clive Owen, though. I like Shoot 'Em Up as long as I remember to turn off my critical-thinking and feminist modules first. Then, it's freakin' AWESOME.