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Dec. 19th, 2013 11:37 pmFor the nineteenth, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
coyotegoth asked me about three favorite cracktastic movies!
As usual, this is not at all my three favorite for ALWAYS, just three favorites I happen to be thinking about at the time.
One of those will obviously be Dororo, which I am still charmed by a year aftershati first made me watch it. Giant cuddly ghost fetuses! Children with fake limbs made from dead babies! A team-bonding demon-fighting montage set to wacky salsa music! DORORO. What a great film.
Another very weird movie that I love very much is Alex Cox's The Revenger's Tragedy, which someday I will get the time and energy to do a full picspam of.
For now, what you need to know: The Revenger's Tragedy is an adaptation of an extremely gory Jacobean tragedy, set in post-apocalyptic Liverpool, using all of Thomas Middleton's original period dialogue except in very important and dramatic instances such as when angry Liverpudlians set on Christopher Eccleston while screaming "ARE YOU A COCKNEY?" Christopher Eccleston defeats them, of course, and then wanders off to talk to his dead girlfriend's skull for the rest of the movie. Later, Derek Jacobi makes out with the skull and then his face rots off while Christopher Eccleston and his knife-throwing sister hyuck it up because it's the funniest thing they've ever seen.
Wow, how do I describe The Revenger's Tragedy? It's kind of like if Baz Lurhmann's Romeo and Juliet had a baby with the Gormenghast chronicles. And then that baby grew up to be a dedicated Christopher Eccleston/Eddie Izzard hateshipper. It's (intentionally) hilarious, it's (intentionally) gruesome and horrifying, it's (unintentionally, I think?) trapped in a bog of its own symbolism (PRINCESS DIANA!!!!), it's at times completely incomprehensible, IT'S AMAZING. I love it to pieces. I had to read a synopsis after the fact to figure out why all the Liverpudlians were so angry, because this is never explained.
And now, for something completely different: another super weird movie that I super love, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, aka the film that's basically MARY POPPINS FIGHTS NAZIS.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a classic and, for those of you unfamiliar, its plot goes as such:
1. Angela Lansbury is a prim spinster witch in a small town during WWII who gets stuck with three plucky refugees. In short order, she turns at least one of them into a rabbit.
2. Then she hooks up with the dad from Mary Poppins. He attempts to turn her into his lovely assistant, and instead she turns him into a rabbit.
3. Then, EVIL GANGSTERS
4. Then they all go to a land of cartoon animals where the dad from Mary Poppins referees a football game between some lions and giraffes
5. Then they go home, and Angela Lansbury and the kids bring their clothes to life and Angela Lansbury's nightgown goes on a rampage and beats everybody up
6. Then, NAZIS
7. In a surprising plot twist, the dad from Mary Poppins turns HIMSELF into a rabbit
8. Angela Lansbury leads an army of empty suits of armor from atop a broomstick and chases the Nazis away from Britain
9. GENERAL REJOICING
I have lost count of the times I have watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks in my life. Do I ever get tired of watching Angela Lansbury primly defeat every Nazi in a spinster sweater-vest? NO I DO NOT. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the one film that makes me forget about my rule about watching films with Nazis in on Christmas.
coyotegoth asked me about three favorite cracktastic movies!As usual, this is not at all my three favorite for ALWAYS, just three favorites I happen to be thinking about at the time.
One of those will obviously be Dororo, which I am still charmed by a year after
shati first made me watch it. Giant cuddly ghost fetuses! Children with fake limbs made from dead babies! A team-bonding demon-fighting montage set to wacky salsa music! DORORO. What a great film.Another very weird movie that I love very much is Alex Cox's The Revenger's Tragedy, which someday I will get the time and energy to do a full picspam of.
For now, what you need to know: The Revenger's Tragedy is an adaptation of an extremely gory Jacobean tragedy, set in post-apocalyptic Liverpool, using all of Thomas Middleton's original period dialogue except in very important and dramatic instances such as when angry Liverpudlians set on Christopher Eccleston while screaming "ARE YOU A COCKNEY?" Christopher Eccleston defeats them, of course, and then wanders off to talk to his dead girlfriend's skull for the rest of the movie. Later, Derek Jacobi makes out with the skull and then his face rots off while Christopher Eccleston and his knife-throwing sister hyuck it up because it's the funniest thing they've ever seen.
Wow, how do I describe The Revenger's Tragedy? It's kind of like if Baz Lurhmann's Romeo and Juliet had a baby with the Gormenghast chronicles. And then that baby grew up to be a dedicated Christopher Eccleston/Eddie Izzard hateshipper. It's (intentionally) hilarious, it's (intentionally) gruesome and horrifying, it's (unintentionally, I think?) trapped in a bog of its own symbolism (PRINCESS DIANA!!!!), it's at times completely incomprehensible, IT'S AMAZING. I love it to pieces. I had to read a synopsis after the fact to figure out why all the Liverpudlians were so angry, because this is never explained.
And now, for something completely different: another super weird movie that I super love, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, aka the film that's basically MARY POPPINS FIGHTS NAZIS.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a classic and, for those of you unfamiliar, its plot goes as such:
1. Angela Lansbury is a prim spinster witch in a small town during WWII who gets stuck with three plucky refugees. In short order, she turns at least one of them into a rabbit.
2. Then she hooks up with the dad from Mary Poppins. He attempts to turn her into his lovely assistant, and instead she turns him into a rabbit.
3. Then, EVIL GANGSTERS
4. Then they all go to a land of cartoon animals where the dad from Mary Poppins referees a football game between some lions and giraffes
5. Then they go home, and Angela Lansbury and the kids bring their clothes to life and Angela Lansbury's nightgown goes on a rampage and beats everybody up
6. Then, NAZIS
7. In a surprising plot twist, the dad from Mary Poppins turns HIMSELF into a rabbit
8. Angela Lansbury leads an army of empty suits of armor from atop a broomstick and chases the Nazis away from Britain
9. GENERAL REJOICING
I have lost count of the times I have watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks in my life. Do I ever get tired of watching Angela Lansbury primly defeat every Nazi in a spinster sweater-vest? NO I DO NOT. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the one film that makes me forget about my rule about watching films with Nazis in on Christmas.
