The four-hour hentai epic that the world didn't ask for but sorely needed. The son of a Catholic priest becomes obsessed with sin, while a religious cult starts to become a social problem in Japan.
Is it about sex? Pornography? Religion? Insanity? Yes! If this film doesn't have it, you don't need it.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Ai no mukidashi (IMDB)
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [****_]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [*****]
Beerequisite : [*____]
Pornability : [**___]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]
Extra Points: The shortest four-hour movie in history. At last year's NYAFF, the 90 minute film Dream was twice as long as this.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Aachi and Ssipak
Poo, glorious poo!
A cyborg cop battles a gang of popsicle-addicted proto-smurfs while two disaffected youth try to rescue their lust-interest (and her popsicle-generating sphincter) from amidst the carnage.
Motorcycles. Oppressive government. Organize crime. Porn. Tremendous amounts of spent ammunition. Can this film do no wrong?
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Achi-wa ssipak
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [****_]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [****_]
Pornability : [**___]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [***__]
Scene I'd watch on endless loop: The fight scene on the steps.
Memories I want to erase: Jimmy doing his trannydance in the mob boss's jail cell.
A cyborg cop battles a gang of popsicle-addicted proto-smurfs while two disaffected youth try to rescue their lust-interest (and her popsicle-generating sphincter) from amidst the carnage.
Motorcycles. Oppressive government. Organize crime. Porn. Tremendous amounts of spent ammunition. Can this film do no wrong?
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Achi-wa ssipak
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [****_]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [****_]
Pornability : [**___]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [***__]
Scene I'd watch on endless loop: The fight scene on the steps.
Memories I want to erase: Jimmy doing his trannydance in the mob boss's jail cell.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Killing Time (24/7)
The first thing you say to yourself when watching this film is "Wait, it's not dubbed."
The second is "Holy crap, does that guy piss a lot!"
Jake is a hired killer (more glorified terms such as hitman or assassin would imply some sort of skill or planning involved in his work) who lives (and sleeps?) with his sister. Sex, violence, and family issues with the more bloody scenes curiously replaced with low-quality animation.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Killing Time (24/7) (IMDB)
Wince : [*****]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [***__]
Beerequisite : [****_]
Pornability : [***__]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [**___]
The second is "Holy crap, does that guy piss a lot!"
Jake is a hired killer (more glorified terms such as hitman or assassin would imply some sort of skill or planning involved in his work) who lives (and sleeps?) with his sister. Sex, violence, and family issues with the more bloody scenes curiously replaced with low-quality animation.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Killing Time (24/7) (IMDB)
Wince : [*****]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [***__]
Beerequisite : [****_]
Pornability : [***__]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [**___]
Monday, August 27, 2007
Carny
How many times have you said to yourself, "Boy how I wish that Jodie Foster ran away from her folks at the end of Taxi Driver to join a circus and become a burlesque dancer" ? I know, I know, it's the same with me: lots.
Well, here's your chance. A young Jodie foster runs away from her invisible mother and gruesome boyfriend to live the carnival life with Gary Busey. She becomes part of the carnival crowd, taking different jobs until she finds one she likes, and expands her relationship with Busey to include his friend, Patch. At about this point the movie picks up the pace as the local mob decides that the carnival's payoff wasn't big enough.
While aimless, and leading to no great insight for any of the characters (except possibly Jodie Foster), this is a decent film with some very solid performances by Gary Busey (seriously!) and Robbie Robertson. There is an authentic feel to the hustles pulled in the carnival, and to the community built up in the carnival itself.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Carny (IMDB)
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [**___]
Beerequisite : [**___]
Pornability : [**___]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]
Well, here's your chance. A young Jodie foster runs away from her invisible mother and gruesome boyfriend to live the carnival life with Gary Busey. She becomes part of the carnival crowd, taking different jobs until she finds one she likes, and expands her relationship with Busey to include his friend, Patch. At about this point the movie picks up the pace as the local mob decides that the carnival's payoff wasn't big enough.
While aimless, and leading to no great insight for any of the characters (except possibly Jodie Foster), this is a decent film with some very solid performances by Gary Busey (seriously!) and Robbie Robertson. There is an authentic feel to the hustles pulled in the carnival, and to the community built up in the carnival itself.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Carny (IMDB)
Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [**___]
Beerequisite : [**___]
Pornability : [**___]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
Do you like Concept movies? Symbolism for symbolism's sake? A dwarf dressed in women's underwear? Homoerotic tension between civilization and nature? Pretentious scat films? Skeletons? Then what are you waiting for, rush out and see this!
Aden Rey, oedipal epileptic, has run off to the desert after the death of his mother, turning his back on civilization and the image-conscious upper-crust society he was raised into. He soon encounters a preternatural runt of a man (too tall and properly-proportioned to be a dwarf, yet abnormally short) eating sand. This is Marvel, tens of thousands of years old yet entirely innocent of the ways of humans. He feeds Aden some goat-turd pie, and we're off!
Marvel is the yin to Aden's yang, the nature to his nurture, the Abbott to his Costello. Naturally Aden, quite taken with Marvel (who apparently reminds him of his childhood), decides the best thing to do is to introduce him to society by taking him to the big city to meet chicks. A series of what should be slapstick gags ensues where Marvel predictably fails to interact with society properly. It's all fun and games until someone loses a prostitute, then suddenly the two are on the lamb and the film transitions into some kinds of Jesus-buddy-road-movie. Well maybe not so much 'buddy' as 'unconsummated same-sex love interest'.
There is no point in calling this film "pretentious"; that would be like calling Plan 9 From Outer Space "bad". All of the usual targets are painstakingly set up for abuse: society, politicians, businessmen, the Church, meat-eating, deforestation, consumerism, television, luxury living, landlords, responsible adults, etc. There was a rather unexpected strike at circuses, probably an attempt at a scathing indictment of greed and spectacle. The film is chock full of the kind of mysticism, healing, sex, skeletons, sex with skeletons (well, close enough), dream sequences, cross-dressing, excrement (all flavors), toenail clippings, cannibalism, crucifixes, genitals, goats, goats' genitals (just kidding, the film doesn't go *that* far), trigger-happy cops, and pompous windbags given comeuppance that one expects from the early 70s surrealist films.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (IMDB)
Wince : [***__]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [*****]
Pornability : [****_]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [*____]
Did you know...
... the Virgin Mary was a redhead?
... happiness is a naked boy shot by a firing squad of old ladies?
... dwarf urine and mud can heal all wounds?
... Jesus is Money?
"I didn't need to see that!":
* Genital torture makes baby Jesus cry.
* Male bonding via back-to-back crapping.
* That cleaver is uncomfortably close to those genitals
* So uh, yeh, that's a transexual right.
* Did he really need to put on his mother's lingerie? OK, maybe, but did the *other* guy?
Never seen *that* before:
* Not tongue-tied, but tongue-nailed.
* Was that a phallic candle or a candled phallus?
* Gas masks instead of bondage hoods, hmm...
* Beaten by blind men!
Aden Rey, oedipal epileptic, has run off to the desert after the death of his mother, turning his back on civilization and the image-conscious upper-crust society he was raised into. He soon encounters a preternatural runt of a man (too tall and properly-proportioned to be a dwarf, yet abnormally short) eating sand. This is Marvel, tens of thousands of years old yet entirely innocent of the ways of humans. He feeds Aden some goat-turd pie, and we're off!
Marvel is the yin to Aden's yang, the nature to his nurture, the Abbott to his Costello. Naturally Aden, quite taken with Marvel (who apparently reminds him of his childhood), decides the best thing to do is to introduce him to society by taking him to the big city to meet chicks. A series of what should be slapstick gags ensues where Marvel predictably fails to interact with society properly. It's all fun and games until someone loses a prostitute, then suddenly the two are on the lamb and the film transitions into some kinds of Jesus-buddy-road-movie. Well maybe not so much 'buddy' as 'unconsummated same-sex love interest'.
There is no point in calling this film "pretentious"; that would be like calling Plan 9 From Outer Space "bad". All of the usual targets are painstakingly set up for abuse: society, politicians, businessmen, the Church, meat-eating, deforestation, consumerism, television, luxury living, landlords, responsible adults, etc. There was a rather unexpected strike at circuses, probably an attempt at a scathing indictment of greed and spectacle. The film is chock full of the kind of mysticism, healing, sex, skeletons, sex with skeletons (well, close enough), dream sequences, cross-dressing, excrement (all flavors), toenail clippings, cannibalism, crucifixes, genitals, goats, goats' genitals (just kidding, the film doesn't go *that* far), trigger-happy cops, and pompous windbags given comeuppance that one expects from the early 70s surrealist films.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (IMDB)
Wince : [***__]
Flinch : [***__]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [*****]
Pornability : [****_]
Obscurity : [****_]
Explicability : [*____]
Did you know...
... the Virgin Mary was a redhead?
... happiness is a naked boy shot by a firing squad of old ladies?
... dwarf urine and mud can heal all wounds?
... Jesus is Money?
"I didn't need to see that!":
* Genital torture makes baby Jesus cry.
* Male bonding via back-to-back crapping.
* That cleaver is uncomfortably close to those genitals
* So uh, yeh, that's a transexual right.
* Did he really need to put on his mother's lingerie? OK, maybe, but did the *other* guy?
Never seen *that* before:
* Not tongue-tied, but tongue-nailed.
* Was that a phallic candle or a candled phallus?
* Gas masks instead of bondage hoods, hmm...
* Beaten by blind men!
Monday, August 20, 2007
Wild Zero
The second half of Friday's double feature.
I was not going to give this its own post ... and then I remembered the Captain! This guy has a Prince Valiant (sometimes red!), a goatee, a milk habit, and a pair of laced-up-the-haunch lycra shorts that would make the entirety of the Folsom Street Fair blush. He giggles a lot, pops pills, drives a flame-spouting (don't worry, they all do that) merc, and packs an RPG. He, uh, may or may not be straight, though between the hair and the ass-huggers it really doesn't matter.
The Captain is hunting rocker Guitar Wolf (backed by Bass Wolf and Drum Wolf, naturally), who is racing to help psuedo-rocker Ace, who is trying to find his hours-old girlfriend Tobio, who is being attacked by zombies. Did I mention she's a tranny? Or the Lara Croft ripoff in a houndstooth bodysuit? Only in Japan, people, I can't make this stuff up.
As far as rockabilly zombie (not vampire) movies go, not bad. Otherwise, eh. Has its moments.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Wild Zero (IMDB)
Wince : [****_] (-1 * for subtitles)
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [*****]
Pornability : [*____]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [***__]
I was not going to give this its own post ... and then I remembered the Captain! This guy has a Prince Valiant (sometimes red!), a goatee, a milk habit, and a pair of laced-up-the-haunch lycra shorts that would make the entirety of the Folsom Street Fair blush. He giggles a lot, pops pills, drives a flame-spouting (don't worry, they all do that) merc, and packs an RPG. He, uh, may or may not be straight, though between the hair and the ass-huggers it really doesn't matter.
The Captain is hunting rocker Guitar Wolf (backed by Bass Wolf and Drum Wolf, naturally), who is racing to help psuedo-rocker Ace, who is trying to find his hours-old girlfriend Tobio, who is being attacked by zombies. Did I mention she's a tranny? Or the Lara Croft ripoff in a houndstooth bodysuit? Only in Japan, people, I can't make this stuff up.
As far as rockabilly zombie (not vampire) movies go, not bad. Otherwise, eh. Has its moments.
* * * R A T I N G * * *
Wild Zero (IMDB)
Wince : [****_] (-1 * for subtitles)
Flinch : [**___]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [****_]
Beerequisite : [*****]
Pornability : [*____]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [***__]
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