Meanwhile, Grindhouse (the Tarantino/Rodriguez double feature from a few years ago), for all its flaws, keeps on giving, spawning not only a Machete feature-length spin-off but now Rutger Hauer in a feature-length Hobo with a Shotgun. The DarkHorizons piece about this also notes in passing and links to the reporter’s own favorite from the Grindhouse faux-trailers competition, Maiden of Death, about a vengeful zombie rocker chick. I was reminded of Maiden of Death when I got home from work last night and saw a bunch of plastic swords and a plastic black electric guitar being thrown out by one of my neighbors. Definitely was tempted to retrieve them.
TODD SEAVEY author of Libertarianism for Beginners and writer of/speaker about many other things
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Ewok Barbershop and Hobo Grindhouse
Jacob Levy notes this barbershop quartet singing the triumphant Ewok song from the end of Return of the Jedi. (Even the original Ewok song seems OK to me now, compared to the prequels. I would far rather watch nine hours of Ewoks than hear nine seconds of Anakin telling Padme she’s not like sand.)
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My little brother used to sing the Ewok song with his college buddy. Somehow they had the “lyrics” perfectly memorized, which made it even more hillarious. I’d crack every time.
Those crazy kids and their pot.
You were right. Kick-Ass was awesome. It was the Pulp Fiction of Superhero movies. I may still detest Mark Millar as a writer but there is no doubt they turned his stuff into a very effective movie. I was disturbed there was a mother with a young girl sitting behind me. Did she not notice the “R” rating? Read any of the reviews?
I saw families with eight year-olds in the audience of the Roundabout Theater when I went to see the revival of Cabaret back in college.
Likewise, if memory serves, Nybakken and I saw the John Woo movie _Hard Boiled_ in 1992 in Seattle — back before he became NY-bakken — and there was at least one dad with a very young girl, as balletic gunplay climaxed with dozens of thugs and cops slaughtering each other in a hospital at the end. Somewhere out there there’s probably a six-year-old who’s been to a _Saw_ movie.
A few years ago there was a fabulous little girl singer who used to show up at all of the New Jersey Filipino community events and sing a song. She must have been around 7-9. One of the songs she sang was “Caberet.” She was amazing but I did start giggling when she got to the part about “the day she died the neighbors came to snicker, well that’s what comes from too much pills and liquor.” She sang a couple of other songs about having her heart broken by untrustworthy men as well. It always made me scratch my head but boy could she sing.
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