Monday, June 30, 2003
When is a REALLY crap film really great?When it's Alex Cox's Straight To Hell.
A magazine was giving this away on DVD, and loving some of Cox's other work and having heard such awful things about the film, I figured what the heck, I'd give it a looksee.
Knowing the story behind the film helps, though it doesn't help you understand the plot, as there really isn't one. Basically, you have a bunch of semi-washed-up rock stars and an indi/cult movie director who couldn't afford to go on their planned tour of Nicaragua, so made a trashy modern day spagetti western in Spain instead.
The result is pure mayhem and nonsense. Imagine The Good The Bad and The Ugly minus the script, acting skill and buget, as filmed by the Monty Python team while either drunk as skunks or out of their faces on industrial strength coffee.
Terrible acting, scenes where the dialogue makes no sense whatsoever and obviously isn't supposed to, and a sense of humour so dark you need a flashlight to find it, all add up to the kinda movie I love, but can't bear to watch too often. Once you stop trying to make sense of what's going on and realise there is no sense, it's a very cool crap film.
Labels: movies
Steve 11:36 PM [+]
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