Terminator Is Out There

[IdleRich]

horrendously pretentious low-budget art film, charming in some ways but pretty bad.

Memorable only for the line "I kill with my cunt" - which is a good line of course.

 

[wild greens]

Surprised Smithereens isnt in the sight & sound article.

 

[luka]

I'm doing escape from ny I couldn't get any of the other ones

 

[luka]

Get ready for some brilliant opinions on the film escape from New York

 

[WashYourHands]

Escape from Cuba, hang glider not included

 

[Mr. Tea]

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A few nights ago we foolishly left out a little plastic tub of cat treats - the kind of tub that has a lid you can easily pop off - within cat-accessible range. The greedy little fuckers sniffed it out, broke it open and gobbled the lot. In the morning they both looked a bit like that.

 

[luka]

Cab driver as psychopomp. Similar thing in Total Recall.

 

[luka]

Version why don't you like this film. Explain yourself.

 

[luka]

One striking thing
1. The iconography of the city in these olden days is a no go zone patrolled by psychopathic street punks

It's this taken to the extreme. A city wholly abandoned to criminals. Like those South American prisons where the guards vacate the interior and let the prisoners run it themselves. You watch Rubble Kings and it doesn't feel all that far fetched. Vietnam vets coming back and imposing military discipline on street gangs. Cocaine money converted into weaponry etc.

 

[version]

I like bits of it - the green-edged scans of the city, some of the music, Kurt Russell, the general idea of what happens to NYC - but it's clunky and irritating. The car with the lampshade headlamps, the wrestling match. It's just a bunch of stupid and poorly executed ideas cobbled together.

 

[woops]

It's this taken to the extreme. A city wholly abandoned to criminals. Like those South American prisons where the guards vacate the interior and let the prisoners run it themselves. You watch Rubble Kings and it doesn't feel all that far fetched. Vietnam vets coming back and imposing military discipline on street gangs. Cocaine money converted into weaponry etc.

yeah but it's too camp at the same time. as if the psycho street punks will immediately revert to leather waistcoats and stuff. and crossbows

 

[luka]

I like that though and again, it's not actually a million miles from actual looks of the real street gangs like the Warriors, the Baseball Furies and the Lizzies.

 

[woops]

the warriors is an even sillier version of this. not just the gang "uniforms" but the silly gothic high priest character

 

[luka]

In New Zealand and Australia the gangs still dress like that.

Stunning Portraits Feature Members of the Mighty Mongrel Mob

Jono Rotman spent years photographing members of the notorious New Zealand gang.

abcnews.go.com

 

[version]

There's a bit I thought was interesting in the second one with a bunch of Beverly Hills celebrities and plastic surgeons holed up in a makeshift surgery who are abducting people and harvesting their organs and facial features. Again though, the idea's cool but the execution's poor.

 

[luka]

Well I liked it. And probably the best cast ever assembled for any film anywhere.

 

[luka]

It was brilliant when they put the blonde wig on the President

 

[version]

I love the bit at the start where they're saying some shit about the president to Russell and he just goes "President of what?".

 

[shiels]

Cab driver as psychopomp. Similar thing in Total Recall.

New word for me - psychopomp

 

[luka]

It's a good 'un.