I can’t even find a good image for this film.
What the Hell is this? I don’t really know. Everyone in this movie is a useless moron. You’ll cheer when they die! Yay, death! You’ll see pregnant men! Violent women! Leftist diatribes!
Why did I pick this? Things happen after a three martini dinner. I recommend the same for anyone watching this. I scanned it, making sure there was some amusing bits, and then chose it. Hey, it’s been a hard few months! It seemed like a good idea when I picked this film. Independent film, check. Seldom seen by anyone, check. Singular vision, check. So laugh at this train wreck and realize that if even five of us watch this, the audience over time has just doubled.
Enjoy as our protagonists (antagonizing protagonists) are sucked into an alternate timeline where angry, violent women rule the world. This is different from now, where warmongering men rule the world. Which is better? You’ll be able to say after watching this film. Surely.
This film got 3 of 10 stars, s0 I figured it would be fun to read some reviews from IMDB! Here’s the top review:
“There are definitely anti-capitalist, pro-environmentalist, feminist tones presented in really campy ways. The movie could serve as a fun jaunt in beginner’s leftist topics. It draws on stereotypes from both sides.”
Oh wait – there was only one user review. Thank you, intrepid reviewer. And the review is right, this is a film that tried WAY too hard to sell a point. Case in point – about 30 minutes in the head leftist queen rants about Trump destroying the world fighting Putin. Hilarious. If only they knew what we know now.
This movie is the singular vision (see statement above) of writer/director Sheldon Silverstein, a man with six credits as a producer. One film he was responsible for is The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which I damn well wish I had a trailer for! I’d show that tonight!
This movie may or may not be based on an actual book, by the same title. Probably not. The title of this film may be inspired by the book title, at least.
So watch! Or Don’t! Or talk amongst yourselves! Everything is voluntary! Next week is “You asked for it” week: Sharkula! As the trailer says, “This great white is putting the bite back into terror!” After that, we are overdue for either a western or a kung fu film. Any preference?
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*hits play*
“After that, we are overdue for either a western or a kung fu film. Any preference?”
Does it have to be kung fu, or is Korean or Japanese chop socky OK?
Any chop – socky, any western that can be shared across multiple regions easily.
Sister Street Fighter!
There is that Chinese western, by the same people who made, what is it, Hong Kong Fui or something?
Or, and dig if you will – Tears of the Black Dragon! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N6UES4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=asianfilmvaul-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B000N6UES4&linkId=d9a28661b61f0d423520b72591f33e58
Huh? Can’t beat that!
And here is a whole list of Asian Westerns
https://asianmoviepulse.com/2021/02/15-great-asian-westerns/
A review of Tears:
Imagine John Ford (The Searchers), Jean-Luc Godard (Weekend), and John Waters (Pink Flamingos) collaborating on an insane 1950s melodrama, drenched in succulent Technicolor–rose-petal reds, turquoise blues, saffron yellows, and Pepto-Bismol pinks–and you’re just barely encompassing the cinematic delirium of Tears of the Black Tiger. This fever dream of a movie features rival gunslingers, a poor farmboy and the daughter of a wealthy landowner, a murdered father, bloody revenge, a forced marriage, and a half-dozen other cliches stitched into a preposterous yet weirdly engaging story. But the story isn’t the point; director Wisit Sasanatieng takes every opportunity to dive into a different style or device, ranging from delicate shots of a lovely girl in a mint-green gazebo to spewing gore and full-on battle with machine guns and grenade-launchers. The sets are often blatantly theatrical, the lighting exaggerated, and the acting ranges from wooden to maniacal. In short, this Thai movie is like nothing you’ve ever seen, born of a deep moviemania and unbridled chutzpah, and you owe it to yourself to watch it. –Bret Fetzer
Seriously? I’ve been raving about Tears of the Black Tiger for decades!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-qY7RBZjzk
You want westerns – see also “Sukiyaki Western Django” with a cameo by Tarantino, “The Good The Bad and the Weird” and others.
Hentai Kamen
👆
+1 Golden Power Bomb
Kamen Ride Her?
Either/or surely there is a kung fu western you could show.
Absolutely there are.
Kung Fu was a TV western.
“There are definitely anti-capitalist, pro-environmentalist, feminist tones presented in really campy ways. The movie could serve as a fun jaunt in beginner’s leftist topics. It draws on stereotypes from both sides.”
Oh wait – there was only one user review. Thank you, intrepid reviewer. And the review is right, this is a film that tried WAY too hard to sell a point. Case in point – about 30 minutes in the head leftist queen rants about Trump destroying the world fighting Putin. Hilarious. If only they knew what we know now.
I could go to Boston Swing dances for this.
Sorry RJ. I’ll pass on this one.
Understood.
As a side note, in 2016 around the time this came out it was paraded around by conservative news as another example of the lefties’ besmirching of conservatives. Very true. But this movie is so bad that nobody watched it, not even Trump haters. I had a couple articles lined up to reference but I lost them in a tragic boating accident.
My wife’s cousin is/was an aspiring filmmaker. He made a film at her parents house that I saw once, a long time ago. I would have been perfect for Glibflicks except 1) it was a short (about 20 mins) and b) I cannot find a single reference to it anywhere. He (or at least a guy with his name and similar background) has an entry in IMDB but that movie isn’t listed.
I still want to do a post of just shorts, so let me know what f you get a title or link.
An ex-buddy has a library of shorts (I’m in one of them) that are comedy gold. Some of it might be inside jokes but the humor in the hijinx of a bunch of drunken twenty-something Americans of all kinds of backgrounds is pretty universal.
There’s a Glib who knows some people that may have done some shorts. CRaMP or something like that.
Snuff films usually get taken down pretty quickly
It’s been so long that I cannot recall the details. The only scene that I remember was a picture from below looking up at my father-in-law as he turned away in disgust saying, “Oh, my God. . .”
Could have been snuff but I think that the cousin is a whole lot better than that.
I’m watching football with my husband. That’s about all the stupid fun I can take on this shitshow of a day.
I put the game on with the sound off. Occasionally I’ll look at the teevee and see the score, sometimes catching a good play (or the replay).
Bills?? I forgot.
But I am confused. 506 Sports says it’s on NBC but it is not on NBC.
Ugh, I’m an ass. 20 years later and sometimes I still forget that NBC is 4 here, not 2.
I am watching it on NBC. 10-10 going into the half.
Can you be less good, because, you know, you’re in our division.
😝
STFU and play more Ozzy!
And we interrupt this movie for a ham-handed lecture about climate change.
It’s like Son Hunter or Don’t Look Up. Political movies, and songs for that matter, only work if you put the politics front and center, which means you have to move the silly things like acting, storyline, and whatnot, off to the side. And this is why the suck so much and are completely laughable six minutes later.
Political movies can work. Look at all the Warner Bros. social commentary movies movies of the 1930s. Granted, they’re not party-political the way the movies of today are, but they still have a decided viewpoint and hold up surprisingly well close to 90 years on.
Yeah, like Leni R’s movies!
or “In the Loop”.
That’s why I liked Get Out. It looked liked it was going to make some tired point about racism and then *boom* it was actually about classism instead.
Political movies, ie: movies with a principled philosophical message, if done well can be utterly genius. Partisan movies, ie: Soviet-style propaganda, current woke bullshit, et. al. are the death of art because of the exact reason you describe. Any artistic merit has to be subordinate to THE MESSAGE and thus destroy and value they might have.
I am still amazed this was even released. Maybe it was self-financed?
You made it to the lecture! I had many bourbons by that point.
I’m going to need another bacardi…
Just bring the bottle.
I have found that Bacardi’s dark rum is a great mixer with Cole, more so than their light rum.
Coke? Coleslaw? Fuck it. Typing is optional tonight.
Agreed. Also ran out of Coke and used Dr Pepper. Now prefer it to Coke with rum.
Dr Pepper == liquid carbonated bbq sauce
Yep. There is even a Dr. Pepper BBQ sauce that draws on the great tradition of using colas to flavor BBQ.
I would like to learn more.
IOW, Dr Pepper is disgusting and while I love bbq sauce, I don’t want to drink it, much less with bubbles.
You just don’t like Dr. Pepper because it’s TEXAS bbq and not KC bbq! 😉
I grew up not drinking ANY soft drinks (in a family full of Pepsi drinkers) because I didn’t like the sensation of carbonation. Once I got to college, I took a liking to Mello Yello/Mountain Dew, especially for pulling all-nighters, then 7Up/Sprite when I didn’t want the caffeine. Finally I discovered the joys of Dr. Pepper, and THAT is my soft drink of choice (assuming ginger ale isn’t available.) I still don’t like colas.
Not a cola fan either. Can’t remember the last time I drank one.
I like fruits.
😑
My family is full of Dr Pepper addicts. I never liked it. I was in single digits the last time I had it, and I can STILL taste that shit.
I like fruity tastes too, which is why I like Mt Dew, Sprite, strawberry Shasta, NuGrape, and orange Fanta. I also like root beer and cream soda.
BUT I am not a real fan of carbonation so I can take it or leave it. Also, drinking my calories makes me balloon immediately, so I don’t.
😏
Brown or red cream soda? I grew up on red cream soda homemade popsicles. BEST POPSICLES IN THE WORLD!!! I don’t think I ever encountered brown (actually beige?) cream soda until I was an adult traveling on the East coast.
It’s about the color of ginger ale. I never got the point of red cream soda.
When I was young, there was a soda fountain we occasionally went to and my dad would order a vanilla phosphate. Took me years to realize it was just cream soda.
A local BBQ joint serves “Buford T’s Diablo Sandwhich” which has a Dr. Pepper based BBQ sauce. I ordered as one should “make it fast – I’m in a got-damned hurry” and the kid looked at me funny. The pitmaster laughed and said, “he doesn’t get the reference, I’ll explain it to him.”
I prefer Fanta before it went woke.
But Dr Pepper tastes nothing like BBQ sauce.
It does, but alternatively, prune juice.
Mt Dew has orange juice in it.
Of course Mt Dew has orange juice in it, it’s ingredient #2 behind carbonated water.
I drank a few too many in my younger days (not as many as Rumandcokeski, though) and lost the taste for it. Now I’m clueless as rum world has apparently exploded, but the flavored chick flavors still don’t appeal to me. Sentimental for Pussers.
#metoo
Rum makes me nauseous now.
Rumandcokeski?
Guy with a Polish last name who abused his liberty while drunk. His new nickname has always stuck in my mind in reference to the drink.
“I have found that Bacardi’s dark rum is a great mixer with Cole, more so than their light rum.”
So you are saying you are more of a sorority girl than you are a Cuban?
Saint Patrick’s Day came early this year.
https://archive.ph/M9qfj/381d6331fc5a332b75aa9cec2e5bafdb54fb9233.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/dPpFm/cc954635c33c1c4273f01121d0718af795a645fd.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/uOIUO/df8d70b87a722b5dc209be024fcde7b2f386d913.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/fUJGK/84335df8f3aac93732d48b9fc0358ef3ce09bd48.jpg
NSFW.
https://youtu.be/RdWdOVsjL5Y
Yeah, nope.
Max Headroom it is.
Amanda Pays. Hubba hubba.
Let’s not forget this bit of Space 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Planet
I ❤️ that series.
I still want to do a post of just shorts, so let me know what f you get a title or link.
The Terror of Tinytown
I can play that with Brutal Relax
For any video game emulation enthusiasts, I have been setting up a Miyoo Mini with all the games systems available in the updated Onion OS. It so far has gone much smoother than I anticipated. Normally setting up a Linux based device (with a totally rando chip) to emulate tales years off one’s life.
Takes. AAAAH!
Maybe cut back on the alcohol?
I hadn’t had any tonight. I did have a martini after that last typo. It’s just overwork, and typing on this tiny phone.
*wipes eyes*
*re-reads commenters handle*
*heartily guffaws*
*drinks*
I was wondering the other day if there are any Nintendo emulators out there. I really wanna relive some of the golden oldies but I don’t wanna haul the console out of storage.
I know they are fiercely protective of their brand (shit, I’ve paid for Super Nintendo World how many times now?).
Are you serious?
They’re crazy easy to find online and so are huge libraries of almost every d game ever made. You can dl it to any windows computer, some I’m not sure, but probably.
How It Started
most over-rated
#14 MichSt
#25 Houston
#17 Pitt
#23 Wake Forest
#21 BYU
#18 NC State
#15 Miami
under-rated: #19 Wisconsin
ThisComingWeekend
Pitt loses by 1
BYU loses by 5
Houston loses by 1
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn’t vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don’t vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, how did you become King, then?
: The Lady of the Lake– her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite,
held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by
divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why
I am your king!
Look, watery tarts distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government…
Taken to it’s logical conclusion…there is no basis for government.
/but that’s just my opinion *sips
tea, pinkie extendedvodka*Vodka Sparkling Ice FTW
Putin stooge ☝🏻
*нис*
I wish time travel was real so I could kill whoever was going to make this movie.
Lol
Just don’t kill Hitler.
So, anything interesting happen in Memphis yesterday?
since a good guy with a gun didn’t get to him first, I’ll be paying dude’s room and board ad infinitum
Well, anyway, thanks RJ 🙂
My Firsting sense is quivering.
So…you’re happy to see me?
Why would my Firsting sense go off because of you?
Why wouldn’t it?
Most days, I don’t even think you are fit to be a seconder slave in the First Realm, let alone to create a First.
You might wan to have a doctor look at that, Could be a tumor.
Obligatory.
A bird in the park is doing a fantastic impression of that beginning part of Ozzy’s Crazy Train.
Got me thinking about Ozzy and his mom/wife/manager announcing they were moving back to England because America won’t ban guns that cause school shootings. Maybe he should re-read his own lyrics:
I’ve listened to preachers, I’ve listened to fools
I’ve watched all the dropouts who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role
Fuck your rules, man!
*Makes a ton of money of that message*
Actually, let’s not be too hasty.
Jesus, that’s the reason for their move?!? I’ll just assume it’s the brain damage talking.
Ozzie himself has Parkinsonian dementia and likely knows not what he does. Don’t hold this against him too harshly.
You thought your job sucks? Try working in the factory that makes these.
https://www.hunterfoods.com/product/hunters-gourmet-hand-cooked-potato-chips-cherry-tomato-and-olive-gold-edition-150gm/
First!
I wouldn’t even trust you to hold the First cock while I pissed and handling cocks is just about the only thing you’re good at.
You’d really be punishing me by not letting me do that.
None of you will First. Something is wrong with my Firsting Sense. I must go to consort with The Great Firster for an answer.
Okay, Bye Chett.
Everyone will be sleeping now but fair tidings! My benefit claim has at last been approved. Three months and a bit but finally! https://youtu.be/zDdQhsjNHcw
Good news?
Indeed! Thousands of Lupins! We won’t go hungry for a few more months.
The payroll clerk went on maternity leave. She didn’t forward my info. Three months living on savings and bonus pay. Winter is coming.
Normally I wouldn’t give a shit but seeing as I’m using a cane now it is sort of a big deal.
Congratulations Festus. I hope the Great Maple Leaf gives those 3 missing months too.
That’s where the Lupins came from. It was an Herculean task. I never want to be under anyone’s thumb again if I can help it. Fucking nightmare, it was.
Go Festus! Go Festus!
👍
Huzzah!
That’s fantastic news! I hope you and Judi are doing well. I’m off to make peanut noodles; we serve them every Friday at the café and they sell out by lunchtime.
Good!
O Frabjous Day! 😃
Woot! And I love that tune, a staple at the churches I once frequented.
Good to hear Festus. Was wondering how you were doing.
Mornin Glibs.
Morning. I think I will do a short day today.
😀
https://www.fox29.com/news/convenience-store-workers-in-philadelphia-call-attention-to-trend-of-brazen-shoplifting
A sledgehammer?
Philly is a gun-free zone.
However, in a city with a surging rate of violent crime, a police source admitted that the department has “bigger fish to fry.”
You know, like the people who eventually defend their lives and property with violence.
Mornin’.
Kinda chilly here in southern NH.
Gym time.
Bills number one!!!!
WOOHOO
There’s a tie for second place.
Morning, Glibs.
I guess it’s time to load my crap into the car. Gotta make sure I don’t forget anything important.
“Gotta make sure I don’t forget anything important.”
That trick never works. Besides, a proper road trip requires a stop at Walmart to acquire those important things.
😖
I used the checklist in the Boy Scout Handbook for many years.
I have never been a boy scout.
The last two items on my todo list are:
Verify if Grand Rapids is ‘safe’ to visit on Saturday the 24th
Decide if I’m bringing my work phone with me
I was a Blue Bird, then a Camp Fire Girl, the now-coed-and-all-but-obsolete-no-councils-within-fifty-miles-of-my-address “also ran” of girls’/youth organizations. 😒
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie, U, RoaT, Lack, DEG, Sean, l0b1e, and rhy (maybe? Can’t tell if you are/were up already or still up!) Another putter day of errands and chores, but then off to scenic Brookville, IN for the evening to hear some good friends – former Hoosiers, now denizens of MI’s UP – play a gig! 🎶🎸🎙
✨
“scenic Brookville, IN”.
Umm, okay. But the sounds will be glorious. Enjoy!
Ackshually, the site of a rather attractive state park in the Whitewater River Valley of Not Flat Southern Indiana. Just mind the blue-green algae and the black vultures. 😉
Driving home from ME there was a sign in MA saying “You are at [some number <1500] feet. This is the highest point on I-90 East of South Dakota."
Another milestone to check off your list!
Going north from Dayton on I-75, there’s a helpful sign informing you when you’ve crossed from the Ohio River watershed into the Lake Erie watershed…just in case you keep track of where it’s going when you flush, I guess.
You see those all over the Carolinas, too. “Now entering the (Cape Fear / Catawba / Pee Dee) Watershed.” I never have figured out why.
In the case of the Pee Dee Watershed, perhaps left unsaid is, “Don’t drink the water!!”
In and out of consciousness.
Mornin’.
Why I hate Windows, chapter 27548.
rant
Last week I decided to boot my dual boot laptop into Windows t research an issue with my Bluetooth headphones, which are not recognized on Linux (on that rig, they work just fine on the desktop). Turns out they are not recognized on Windows either, Intel did a lousy job with that wireless/Bluetooth device (8265 if you’re keeping score).
So now I boot back into Linux. What’s this, network is not working? Let’s check with DDG…
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/gn4lsx/wifi_not_working_iwlwifi_probe_of_000002000/
“This is because I was dual booting with Windows. Windows defaults to using “fast start” which hogs the wireless card to itself when shutdown. Turning it off fixed the problem.”
Fuck Windows.
/rant
They’ll fix that as soon as they support UTC hardware clocks.