Some movies are violent, some are disturbing, and others are just plain wrong. Paul W. S. Anderson’s Death Race is a fun ride with some gnarly crashes, but it can’t hold a candle to its demented predecessor, Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000 (1975).
Cinema’s favorite weirdo, Cripsin Glover, is taking his film across the country, personally hosting a series of screenings. The film, What Is It?, is dense and provocative filmmaking, but not necessarily in a good way. Glover describes his opus as a critique of corporate-controlled studios’ fear of taboo. It’s either that, or just a whole lot of snails being killed, mixed with porn, mixed with possibly exploitative uses of actors with downs-syndrome.
For a more upbeat take on the absurd, we take a look and some the fun being had in Spout’s Movie Games group. Specifically, what happens when scenes from our favorite movies are digitally translated to another language, then back into English. The result: surreal hilarity. Our dramatic reading proves that The Big Lebowski could have been a whole lot weirder.
–Two surprise clips of Drag Me To Hell were shown; one was good/funny, the other awful.
–Sid and Marty Krofft say H.R. Puffnstuf will be turned into a movie after Land of the Lost, and “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters after that.”
–Brendan Fraser is apparently perennially hopped up on over-the-counter cold medicine.
In honor of the news that schlockmeister Roger Corman will be the subject of a new documentary feature, take a look at the above fan-made mashup of the 5 Worst Lines in Corman’s The Last Woman on Earth. For all of the cinematic garbage he unleashed on the world, Corman gave a huge number of future stars and eventually important filmmakers their first big breaks, including Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese. Last Woman’s highly mockable was actually scripted by Robert Towne, who went on to write Chinatown, The Parallax View, Shampoo … and also Days of Thunder, Orca and Tequila Sunrise. Those salesladies at Saks will do it to you every time!
In the spirit of appropriation, email a sentence into filmcouch@spout.com. Kevin and Paul will incorporate it ever so naturally into next week’s show. The first person to identify the appropriated sentence wins a Spout track jacket from American Apparel (valued at $50).
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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