Chew scenery & kick ass....
Oct. 26th, 2005 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack_babalonTrick or treating, the NY Halloween parade in Washington Square Park, candy induced sugar comas, the great shaving cream & egg wars of Yonkers, seeing a garage punk band butcher The Misfits- Halloween, getting shitfaced in nightclubs & hitting on zombie grrls... all of these are some of the great Halloween traditions i've been lucky enough to live through, but my absolute favorite was the annual playing of the cheesy horror movies on basic cable! I thought I might post a few of my favorites of this great genre of the modern American cinematic experience. My first choice came to me while taking the B-Movie Bad-Ass meme I 'accidentally' got Roddy Piper and I was immediately reminded of John Carpenters Reaganomic parable THEY LIVE!.
But first since this is the INTERNET lets have some token nudity to justify you having read this far:
And there you go....
One of my friends back in Ft.Lauderdale described this film as a B-movie vErsion of a Killing Joke album and that reviews prettY been much stuck in my head ever since. It's campy, fun, ludricous & at times downright hysterical in that way horror movies were before the Scream era of pseudo-ironic teen slasher flicks.
The movie itself is about "Rowdy" Roddy Piper ("star" of Sci-Fighters, Immortal Combat & Hell comes to Frogtown) who after being kicked out of the WWF for alleged steroid abuse & a scandal involving Cindi Lauper, Captain Lou Albano & Mr.T (known now to historians of the 80s as "The rock'n'wrestling-gate") finds himself stripped of his Kilt, his belt & most importantly his job. One thing leads to another and The Piper Man discovers a pair of magic sunglasses which allows him to see subliminal messages in magazines, money & billboard advertising. The glasses also allows him to see the real reason behind the unbalanced dichotomy between the rich & poor: The rich are really aliens! This part of was probably influenced by Noam Chomsky's seminal classic:The Rich- they're aliens and they want to eat your babies!
Rep.Tom Delay cites "THEY LIVE" as one of the main reasons he got into politics...that and Jesus told him too
Well one thing leads to another and our boy Roddy joins a San Francisco activist cell and begins a steady vegan diet and takes some courses on post-colonial literature ...nah just fucking with you... he "Chews gum & kicks ass.." and he's all out of gum!
"I've come to chew scenery...and kick ass!"
The most important part of this film, to me at least, is the six minute fight sequence between Roddy Piper & Keith David in the back of an alleyway. I like to think of it as the B-movie equivalent of the opening tracking shot in Orson Welles Touch of Evil. The dialouge for this scene pretty much goes like this:
Roddy:Put...the...glasses...on!
Keith:Never!
(More fighting)
Roddy: I said...put..the...glasses...on!
Keith:NO!
(more fighting)
Yeah fuck David Mamet man, John Carpenter really knows how to write like people talk.
Roddy after doing too much blow behind the set with Hulk Hogan poses here with Issac Hayes... oh wait sorry the six minute fight scene thing...
I don't want it to seem that i'm dissing John Carpenter here. The Thing, Prince of Darkness & Halloween are some of my favorite horror movies of all time. That said someone still owes me four hours & change of my life for Ghosts of Mars & Vampires! This movie is bad, but a good kind of bad, the kind of bad you invite your friends over and get fucked up and make wry remarks throughout the film. It's the kind of movie that i'm surprised no one has made a drinking game out of yet.
Anyway that's my lunch break. Enjoy & remember...
New aggresive marketing strategy unleashed by microsoft today...
But first since this is the INTERNET lets have some token nudity to justify you having read this far:
And there you go....
One of my friends back in Ft.Lauderdale described this film as a B-movie vErsion of a Killing Joke album and that reviews prettY been much stuck in my head ever since. It's campy, fun, ludricous & at times downright hysterical in that way horror movies were before the Scream era of pseudo-ironic teen slasher flicks.
The movie itself is about "Rowdy" Roddy Piper ("star" of Sci-Fighters, Immortal Combat & Hell comes to Frogtown) who after being kicked out of the WWF for alleged steroid abuse & a scandal involving Cindi Lauper, Captain Lou Albano & Mr.T (known now to historians of the 80s as "The rock'n'wrestling-gate") finds himself stripped of his Kilt, his belt & most importantly his job. One thing leads to another and The Piper Man discovers a pair of magic sunglasses which allows him to see subliminal messages in magazines, money & billboard advertising. The glasses also allows him to see the real reason behind the unbalanced dichotomy between the rich & poor: The rich are really aliens! This part of was probably influenced by Noam Chomsky's seminal classic:The Rich- they're aliens and they want to eat your babies!
Rep.Tom Delay cites "THEY LIVE" as one of the main reasons he got into politics...that and Jesus told him too
Well one thing leads to another and our boy Roddy joins a San Francisco activist cell and begins a steady vegan diet and takes some courses on post-colonial literature ...nah just fucking with you... he "Chews gum & kicks ass.." and he's all out of gum!
"I've come to chew scenery...and kick ass!"
The most important part of this film, to me at least, is the six minute fight sequence between Roddy Piper & Keith David in the back of an alleyway. I like to think of it as the B-movie equivalent of the opening tracking shot in Orson Welles Touch of Evil. The dialouge for this scene pretty much goes like this:
Roddy:Put...the...glasses...on!
Keith:Never!
(More fighting)
Roddy: I said...put..the...glasses...on!
Keith:NO!
(more fighting)
Yeah fuck David Mamet man, John Carpenter really knows how to write like people talk.
Roddy after doing too much blow behind the set with Hulk Hogan poses here with Issac Hayes... oh wait sorry the six minute fight scene thing...
I don't want it to seem that i'm dissing John Carpenter here. The Thing, Prince of Darkness & Halloween are some of my favorite horror movies of all time. That said someone still owes me four hours & change of my life for Ghosts of Mars & Vampires! This movie is bad, but a good kind of bad, the kind of bad you invite your friends over and get fucked up and make wry remarks throughout the film. It's the kind of movie that i'm surprised no one has made a drinking game out of yet.
Anyway that's my lunch break. Enjoy & remember...
New aggresive marketing strategy unleashed by microsoft today...
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on 2005-10-26 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-10-26 06:48 pm (UTC)"THEY LIVE! Why
Nice shots on yr last post btw!
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on 2005-10-26 07:17 pm (UTC)As far as Carpenter goes, I''m rather fond of In the Mouth of Madness, The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China.
~rl
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on 2005-10-26 08:15 pm (UTC)