"Shut up, codpiece face."
Bad Taste is a joyful, exuberant romp and a genuinely great B-movie. The dialogue is alternately sharp and intentionally, delightfully dumb. The gore is fantastic. It's exactly what it sets out to be.
Derek (Peter Jackson), A.I.D.S. agent:
✓ convinces an alien he's shooting him by making gun noises
✓ makes gun noises while actually shooting him
✓ blasts a huge hole in the alien's stomach
✓ sticks his Uzi through it
✓ blows away the…
Aguirre is incredible. I knew I was going to love it from the opening shot, which is itself incredible: vertiginous mountains, fog, haunting score, strangers in a strange land.
This is the story of a doomed, futile exercise of hubris in pursuit of a lie, which ultimately serves only to produce misery. Among the many metaphors that drive this home, my favorite is the sedan chairs: You know who brings sedan chairs into the Andes? People who have no idea…
I figured this'd be dumb but fun, but it turns out to be a creature feature after my own heart. It's not as gnarly as Piranha 3DD, but it's in that same zone. Lake Placid vibes, too.
Everywhere I would want to see someone get bitten by a snake, someone gets bitten by a snake. Snake-o-vision is great. There's a solid body count. It's a hoot seeing Keenan Thompson (Troy) playing a heavy.
It has an actual plot, too. I…
"So he will be lashed, and we will go round the Horn."
Gorgeous cinematography. The Bounty is a beautiful tall ship, and it's shown off from every angle.
The cast is excellent, packed with big names doing good work. Anthony Hopkins (Bligh) was why I watched this, and -- shocker -- he doesn't disappoint. I also really dug Wi Kuki Kaa's performance as King Tynah. (Pity Mel Gibson is a sack of shit, but I generally grandfather in his films…
This early Edgar Wright short is like Click, but as a Vine, many years before either of those things existed.
One of my favorite elements of the Watchmen comic is the way Alan Moore intercuts the in-universe comic Tales of the Black Freighter with the comic you're reading.
It feels odd at first, but as the story progresses parallels become clear, and by the end they're practically marching in lock-step -- despite one being a lurid, EC Comics-like pirate story and the other being a serious, moving deconstruction of superheros as a concept and as people.
Seeing it intercut with the film, as it is in Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut, was a treat. As it does in the comic, it adds a lot to the movie.
