Letterboxd — Your life in film

I love that this has pretty much the plot of a Zatoichi movie. Our slack criminals kee going nowhere fast and are getting anxious about it than a delightful treasure hunt comedy breaks. These are really good hangout movies.

This used to come on all the time on USA Up All Night so my rating is given with a heavy dose of nostalgia, but it’s still a stupid fun early 90’s comedy!

It’s basically a showcase of great tits and the skimpiest swimsuits ever made, but I never saw the uncut version back then so I was delighted to discover now that there is also a fairly healthy side of male ass and men in very skimpy bikini briefs.

I’m all for equal opportunity nudity, especially when it’s accompanied by a story do thin you can’t even remember it 24 hours later!

I remember wanting to see this when it came out because Colleen from Survivor was going to be in it. I also remember liking this movie and finding it to be funny....

Colleen is awful. There's a couple of so-ridiculous-its-funny jokes, but most of the jokes were just not funny.

The best moment in the entire film is when the car drives off a cliff. That was a pretty spectacular, full-on, car flying off a cliff moment, and I'll be honest, I'm glad I rewatched this for that scene. The boulder at the end of it made me laugh as well.

“Who are you?”

The enigma of the shadow. To keep buried that little voice that speaks—never when spoken to, always out of turn—from inside. If let out from within, projected into the external world as an abject malice, it plagues the quiet; it outfaces peace. Evil spreads.

You can lie to everyone but yourself.

What’s wrong with this guy? Shellshock? Is he slow? He reminds me of the protagonist from Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot”. But hungrier. 
I won’t get into the plot, but let’s just say starvation is the antagonist. Raw grass, yams, and monkey meat are the only thing keeping our heroes alive. Maybe even human meat, if it comes to that. 
No one here is sane anymore. Their brains have turned into a simple machine, whose job it is to only get food… even if that means killing everything in your path.

Oh, is that why Eastwood has been canonized as a director, because he's positioned so perfectly to be the new John Ford? Fuck that.

BUT I can't really say anything about this, because the copy I watched was missing the last 45 minutes.

An at times very intense and often surprisingly intimate tale of survival, bonding and choice. The strong character dynamics, well presented story and brutal outbursts of violence make this as intense as it is.

“Maybe you, I and the fish only exist in the memory of a person who is long gone. Maybe no one really exists and it's only raining outside.”

something something religious imagery and questioning structures of belief etc but can we talk about how (mild spoilers) the film builds up towards that absolutely brutal fall from grace when he takes the egg and she just screams into the void with so much grief as I’ve seldomly seen from any character?? I understood fuck all what was going on but in the confused grasping for meaning that angel’s lament hit like a truckload of bricks

I just (re)watched the film with the (very interesting and entertaining) audio commentary by Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson on the new 88 Film Blu-ray Special Edition. This masterpiece of mood and atmosphere has finally gotten the treatment it deserved. I very highly recommend this new release. You can read my full review here. Sweet dreams!