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Moving back to Blogger
http://zombeak.blogspot.com/
That’s where I’ll be. It’s not you tumbler, it’s me.
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3 nightmares
These all happened last night. 1. Rushing to the Fox on a small bicycle to perform stand up, with zero material prepared. 2. At a screenwriters meeting, trying to set up a slide show, making a mess of it, only one copy of script to share amongst twenty people. 3. Being wanted by the police. Hiding in some woman's house, the cop car was circling the neighborhood, I hid on the floor and when the cop broke in, I pretended to sleep until he went away.
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Ten Reasons You Should See… Death Race 2050 (2016)
1. To see the opening logo of New Horizons, Roger Corman’s production company. Seems like a little thing, but that little thing is the reason you are watching this movie in the first place. You are here because you love Roger Coleman, and love the legacy, and love all that it represents. Drive In Movies and Fast Cars and Transgressive Cinema! Why else are you here if not to get that fix. So New Horizons, which Coreman made in the 80’s after splitting from New World pictures, which he started because he was tired of giving AIP all that doe, and its logo is an icon that connects us to the history of independent cinema. This was begat by that, was begat by this, and we go back further and further, back to the 60s, back to Corman directing Creature From the Haunted Sea from a script by Charles Griffith (who wrote the original Death Race), with BW photography and rubber monsters, watched by teenagers who are now AARP card carriers. You see that logo and the weight of history comes crashing down. This movie is continuing that legacy, I am continuing that legacy by watching it, we are all one. That is from the logo. The movie will start in a few seconds and you will remember the other side of that legacy: cheap movies, made fast, sold with a lot of sizzle, but many not very good.
2. The first twenty minutes had me on board. Get over the tacky green screen work and you get this spastic, screeching, energetic comment on excess consumer culture. It’s not great, but as they introduce all the drivers and set the stage, it is presented with a lot of grit and gusto. You may think that you are in for a good time. A cheese and balogna sandwich. That’s what it is, a great hot sandwich made with American Singles and Mechanically Separated Chicken Parts, scarfed down in a caffeinated frenzy. That’s the first twenty minutes, before the darkness.
3. Then you get Malcom McDowell in another paycheck performance, doing a sleepy Trump caricature. He’s dressed like King Liberace and has this extreme comb over. It’s not great, but you know what it does do? It does put the stake in the dirt of being the first movie I’ve seen to lampoon the new president. So is that important? It is important in that it continues the tradition of cheep movies made fast and shot to the market with very little turnaround, exploiting some trend or topic that is in the zeitgeist. It is why there are so many cheap rollerblade movies in the early 90s. Maybe not inspired, or well told, but it exists and will serve as a place holder until Oliver Stone can get his ducks in a row.
4. This also is the first time I’ve seen a movie deal with the concept that has been floating around about assured minimal income. The idea is that when we are all out of work because automation has taken over, we will all be given a guaranteed income to live off of by the government. Everyone gets enough to buy Spam and keep the lights on. So this movie shows a society of drooling couch potatoes living in slum housing, spending their every moment in VR entertainment. It’s a good idea, and I like that the filmmakers bring it up. The script is going for satire, and it makes some solid base hits.
5. Fan mania equating to religious zealotry is another hit. All the drivers have their devoted followers that will gladly martyr their bodies to ensure their leaders win the Death Race. A great scene has Tammy the Terrorist, who is an alt right extremist, promise her followers virgins and chicken wings in the the afterlife if they throw themselves under her wheels. I liked it, made me laugh.
6. Another thing the script gets right is showing the resistance being the same thing as the establishment, and that the only freedom is by being an unaffiliated individual. A nice idea, a throwback notion, something that doesn’t get enough air play in pop culture. There are no Snake Plisken’s being created these days. Our heros are now YouTube stars reviewing bags of chips and begging for likes. Please appropriate me! If Snake was real now, he would have an etsy site, making jewelry.
7. I liked that they made one of the cars self driving, and that it has a identity crisis half way through the movie. Not much is done with it, but you could tell someone, somewhere was trying to give this some good ideas.
8. Where does this all go wrong? I’m going to pin the blame on the cars. The race cars in this continue the vibe from the original, but they are so shabby, so rickety, so impermanent, that they look like they would fall apart if you actually tried to run someone over with them. They look like go carts with thin plastic molded bodies. In the original, you had roaring muscle cars. The original Frankenstein'mobile was a bad ass monster machine. In this one, the car’s cut rate construction undermines the key threat. I would have liked this to be more gear headed, more car porny. The biggest source of unintentional humor comes from watching these micro machines racing each other. This is supposed to be a trans American race, but most of it takes place in parking lots and in the alleyways behind supermarkets.
9. Another swing and miss is the main character, Frankenstein. He is so one note and uninteresting that you never care if he wins, or doesn’t, or walks off the movie, or whatever. He sits and scowls and grumbles. The genetic superman antagonist has some campy b movie charisma, but it doesn’t serve a story.
10. After the mania of the opening, you are hoping that the movie will eventually tell you a story, and it never does. There is no story, no plot, no dramatic tension. It becomes a succession of poorly staged action scenes and flat comedy. The silliness never goes anywhere. I found myself checking my phone, wishing it would hurry up and be over. You will wish you were watching the original. You will wish you were watching the Paul Anderson remake (his best movie). You’ll wish Corman would fund 70s style action movies again instead of churning out undistinguished SyFy movies like Sharktopus. You’ll wish that Tom Cruise actually made that big budget version back in the 90s, Death Race 3000. You will wish you were doing your laundry or mowing the lawn. I love Corman, and his long legacy, but this does remind you that part of that legacy includes filling the market with some really dull movies.
Show stopper! Um… Think. Think. The um. I liked all the slum b role footage.
The WORST! The design of the new Frankenstein mask was terrible. Laughable. He couldn’t get rid of it soon enough.
FIGHT EVIL SD
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Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab—Here Are the Facts - National Geographic
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Disney Just Unveiled the Title of the Next Star Wars Movie - VICE
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New Blog is Go!
Okay, until Blogger gets their stuff together and allows me to post easily from my phone, this will be the home for Drog/Blog. Was on blogger for 13 years, and that site is still cool, but I need t be able to shoot something up without wrestling with the interface. So here we go. Bing bang.
I have nothing in my head right now other then a title, “Monkey Maggot”. So there is a story floating around there, and I am knocking that around, reverse engineering it from the title. I have a few ideas, and will try to get it into a mini comic this month. Right now it is just a scratch and some notes.
The big pain right now is the death of Jayson Hammett, my best friend for 23 years. I can’t write about it, because it is so surreal that he is gone. It is too painful to go through and unpack. I want it to internalize and have it metastasize before I can really get into it. Some stuff has to settle. I will say that every day I feel his absence, and it sucks. That is all for now.
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This was the last day of hanging out with Hammett. Honored to have so many amazing memories of this guy.
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