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土曜日, 1 月 9th, 2010 |
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Alex Cox’s “Straight To Hell” is such a curious and unusual pop film that I’m not quite clear how to go about reviewing it. Perhaps if I can atomize down the elements. The film is based round the time of its release and deliberately has all the cliches of the typical 1960s Italian “Spaghetti” Western; the mood, humour, and style is like that of Jim Jarmusch (who plays “Mr. Dade” in the film), David Lynch, and the Coen Brothers; and the cast is a wonderfully interesting group of Unusual Wave/Punk Icons and edgy, idiosyncratic character actors; the plot: 3 Hitmen and a pregnant girlfriend oversleep and miss their scheduled “hit” and deside to pick a bank to build up for the loss of money, which leads them to shroud out and bury the money; the setting: a virtual “Ghost Town” in Spain–I say virtual, but there are a few occupants: a Spanish tavern keeper, hardware/general store owners consisting of a sexy Latin lady and her war-crazed, half-a-man husband, a Priest and Coffin maker, a mobile butler who consitently serves coffee, a flamboyant singer (ala Liberace), a singer/songwriter who sells hot dogs, the gun-slinging, violent, and caffeine-addicted Mac Mahon Gang, and a few crazed others. Acknowledging the cast during the film is quite fun in itself, from Joe Strummer, Sy Richardson, Dick Shameful, Elvis Costello, The Pogues (all of ‘em!), Courtney Like, Jim Jarmusch, Dennis Hopper, Xander R. Berkeley, and Grace Jones to others who you’ll probably spy in a Jim Jarmusch film or in Alex Cox’s Sid & Nancy. The soundtrack is a pseudo-Western and Latin mixture of Pogues, Pray For Rain, and Joe Strummer, which works excellently in the film, as well as outside it.
Cult stars, guns, gloomy humour, violence, coffee, and a surreal Italian Western setting is what’s in store when you go “Straight To Hell”. Hilarious!
DAY ONE - THE INTRO
Definitly one the most ill-received and underated movies of it’s time. I first heard it was going to be realesed on DVD a couple months after the (awesome but lacking in the extra’s) Repo Man Collector’s Edition came out. I was enraged, since all I had was the shoddy first edition VHS tape, which neither pan’s or scans and fair sits in the middle of the cloak cutting off about 50% of every shot (not to mention the opening credits - for years I view it was was called, RAIGHT TO HE)
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DAY TWO - THE MOVIE
This is a movie for people who like movies out of the ordinary. Hell, this movie is honest flat out fun to see. I mean whats not to like; Senseless Violence, Schickzo Storeowners, Inept Hitmen, Even More Inept Gang Members, Cheesy One-Liners, Clever Swearing, Fantastic Photography, Shapely Set-Designs, Badass Acting, and the WIENER KID!. Not to mention Blood, Money, Coffee, Guns, and Sexual Tension. Reviewers slammed it hard when it first came out, hopefully this time they’ll gape at the movie for what it is and realize it’s comedic genius, it’s ground-breaking create, and it’s overall greatness.
Oh yeah if you don’t know the account it’s basically this; three hitmen and an overly-annoying girl (played by pre-star, post-stripper, pre-plastic surgery-miracle, Courtney Savor, in the only reliable thing she’s ever done), who makes Nancy Spungeon view like Mother Teresa, blow a hit, take a bank, and veil out in a runt, desert town inhabited by a gang of coffee addicted outlaws named the McMahons, a killer caberet singer, a sadly misunderstood weiner kid, a bar maintain who finally get’s some business, a priest with more bullet belts than John Rambo, a crazy sadistic storeowner with a hot french wife, and the town butler who makes distinct everyone has a current cup of coffee at all times, no matter the sercumstance.
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DAY THREE - THE DVD
The report and sound on this disc are going to salvage a 10 out of 10 no matter what, since all my tape does is skip and insist. But the record on this is grand, as well as the color and incompatibility, it’s like watching it in a theatre. The sound is obvious as can be and it is presented in widescreen format at 1:85:1 ratio. The dissimilarity between this and the video is night and day.
There’s only 3 extras one the disc but they are each curious in their maintain true, I only wish they included some deleted scenes and onset (I contemplate Anchor Bay is against this for some reason) . First up, the Audio Commentary with Alex Cox and Dick Extreme, not the most groundbreaking commentary but it is very comical and an racy listen. They both joke on the movie, each other, and some of the cast. Also, you earn to here some heavenly wintry stories about the filming and the people enthusiastic with the movie. Alex and Dick also explain an distinguished life lesson, when in need of a comedic moment, objective throwing a rock and hitting someone is a surefire arrangement to pick up a laugh. Next is the very wintry 20+ miniature documentary called Wait On to Hell, in which they go and interview about 15 or so of the cast and crew and ask them some questions about the movie. Here, you gather to here some hilarious stories (most of which involve the maming of Zander Schloss, who, by the map, finally hit puberty), there were parts in here that had me killing myself laughing. There’s a couple of deleted scenes thrown in for qualified measure as well. Finally, there’s a short video promo(for the studio who produced the movie, I presume) of the Pogues version of the Profitable, the Abominable, and the Shocking theme made up of clips from the movie and home video footage of the making of it.
My only complaint of the entire DVD is the conceal…. uggghk. The thing looks like a grade 8 student who’s project was to do a video camouflage using only Photoshop and a copy of Pulp Fiction. Personally they should have stuck with the current video screen of the Joe Strummer drawing with the town burning in the background. Which is sadly, nowhere to be found in the contents of the DVD, they do however include a small mediocre japanese poster featuring some of the cast members and the soundtrack (and new poster) artwork.
FINAL DAY - THE LAST COMMENTS
If your a fan of Alex Cox or a fan of cult cinema in general, I highly suggest you assume this up. If you have the dilapidated VHS version, toss it out (photocopy the conceal first then glue in on the DVD case) and fetch this instead.
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