6/19
Zombie Strippers (2008, Jay Lee, on demand) - 8
The government makes some zombies, and they escape into a strip club. The beginning of this movie is excruciatingly painful and near-impossible to sit through, but as soon as it gets to the strip club, things immediately get much better. It's still kinda bad anytime there are extended scenes of dialogue, but for the most part, it's all tits, really gory zombie kills, and bloody, rotting zombie tits. I was really pleased that the movie lived up to its title, too. The strippers don't just become zombies, they become zombies and then continue to be strippers, which I honestly didn't expect. Movies with those kinds of titles rarely actually deliver. It gets lame at the end again, when it tries to be all political (it was awesome when Russ Meyer did it in Vixen, but in any other case, getting political is always a terrible idea), but the middle is amazing.
6/20
Duck You Sucker (1971, Sergio Leone, encore) - 7
Rod Steiger is Mexican and James Coburn is Irish, and they become friends sorta, and get involved with the revolution. The movie is way too long and fairly slow, but Steiger and Coburn are both really great and kept me from being completely bored. The best part of the movie is a close-up on James Coburn's amazing, smiling face, from the end of the movie during a bizarre flashback sequence that didn't make any sense. I tried to find a picture, but couldn't.
6/26
Presto (short, 2008, Doug Sweetland, 35mm) - 9
A magician deprives his rabbit of a carrot, so the rabbit torments him while refusing to come out of the hat. It's really fucking adorable and clever and great. I'm not generally a fan of the Pixar shorts, they've all been either only kind of good to a little bit bad. This is one is fucking swayze, though.
WALL-E (2008, Andrew Stanton, 35mm) - 10
I don't even want to try to describe what it's about or why I loved it as much as I did, because it's flawless and touching and beautiful and fucking adorable in a way that goes beyond my ability to put words together. It's maybe one of the best movies I have ever seen. Also, it's a love story between a PC and a Mac! Fucking see it. It's incredible.
7/1
Kiss of Death (1947, Henry Hathaway, dvd) - 9
Victor Mature plays a generally good person who gets arrested for robbery and refuses to name his accomplices. But after his wife commits suicide, leaving his daughters in an orphanage, he decides to rat everyone out in order to speed up his parole. Once he's out and fully reformed, he has to get info on the psychotic Richard Widmark, who ends up not getting prosecuted and is now trying to find him to kill him and his family. It's great, and Widmark's performance is every bit as incredible as everyone says it is.
Comments