Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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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.
Have you seen any Pier Pasolini?
OH YEAH. P-C should really give Salo a try.
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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.
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.
Jessica Rabbit?
Bugs in drag?
The Warner Bros. cartoons suffer from a lack of female characters, with Granny being the sole exception I can think of.
Tweety is female, right?
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.
Yeah, not really a great movie to be a woman in. But tons of stupid fun.