Here’s some movie advice from our man Alex Pardee:
It’s 2 AM on Friday night (i’m posting this Saturday night tho). I’m waiting for approvals on 2 different projects before I can move forward, and I need to get up in a few hours to start on a different project, but as usual, I’m about as tired as a tasmanian devil on meth. So instead of sleeping, here’s a list of 10 random movies, some new, some old, that you may or may not have seen or heard about, but you should. And if you’ve seen them, watch them again. They deserve that much:)
1. GENTLEMEN BRONCOS:
You remember when Napoleon Dynamite first came out and after your Vote For Pedro shirt was all stained from your shame-sweat and your mouth finally stopped uncontrollably muttering “GOSH, IDIOT,” you actually had that moment where you stopped and were like, “Yah, that movie was OK, but now that I think about, it was super G-rated. What the fuck, who duped me into watching a G-rated movie and, even more, who hypnotized me into running around pretending I’m not allowed to cuss and that I need to practice my karate? Damn! If I was gonna be influenced that much by a movie, I wish that shit was DARK!”?
Then Nacho Libre came out right about then and did nothing to fulfill your fantasies, as that movie vacuumed a pile of dicks up off of the floor in record speed. HOWEVER, the magically imaginative husband/wife team of Jared & Jerusha Hess have finally accomplished what we wanted them to do in the first place. Gentlemen Broncos is, in the most general way possible, a dark Napoleon Dynamite. But it gets so much deeper than that, and so much more compelling and original. It’s not just a cussing version of Napoleon. Actually, I still don’t think there’s even cussing in THIS on either, but its super fucked up nonetheless. Filled to the rim of the film canister with sci-fi, innocence, mormon values, snakes, deers with lasers, gay spacemen from the future, castration, vomit, plagiarism, indy filmmaking, more lasers, and superstar Jemaine Clement from FOTC. This shit’s on DVD. Get it.
2. THE HIDDEN:
My favorite sci-fi flick hands down, back from the late 80′s when movies didn’t NEED good premises, but most of them had AWESOME ones anyway! I don’t want to ruin any magic of this movie, but basically, it follows an intergalactic alien FBI agent who has been chasing an alien serial killer around the galaxy only to follow him to Earth, where the alien loves 80′s metal, guns, fast cars, fast food, and vomiting itself into host humans of all types. You can rest assure that before I die I’m going to make something that is heavily inspired by this. I love it. Shits on DVD, go get it!
3. MARTYRS:
One of the best, and easily the most brutal, beautifully crafted movie the last 10 years. I recommend not researching ANYTHING about this if you haven’t seen it, so I’m not even going to put a description or trailer or anything. Just note, it’s a legitimate roller coaster ride through Hell. And it tests your patience, too. Consider a movie like Jacob’s Ladder, or The Exorcist, Funny Games, Or even INSIDE, as a fucking slow Peter Pan Disney Ride through Hell in comparison. It’s French. Watching the French audio with subtitles is recommended but really, there’s not much dialog so if you hate subtitles, it doesn’t really matter with this one. It’s brilliant. Shits on DVD, watch it!
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