Here's an idea: get 110 lions, a handful of tigers, a few leopards, jaguars, and cheetahs and throw them in and around a house with a handful of humans. Despite knowing 1000% for sure that no one died during the making of this incredibly, insanely ill advised production I was just waiting for someone to get eaten (that's not to say that no one got seriously hurt, because according to Wikipedia over 70 people did).
I don't know that I've…
Bucket List: Every. Damn. Cannon. Film.
I'm no brain genious but I like to think that I can catch some of the deeper themes that run through many films. This one left me feeling like a complete moron because I legit didn't even know how to process what I was watching. A ton of disconnected vignettes that all reference layers upon layers of esoteric intellectual bric-a-brac and I think I caught maybe a small handful of them? Usually a movie…
Snuck out to the theater to see a remaster of this previously-only-released-on-VHS Aussie thriller and was pleasantly surprised. I had heard both that it was awesome and that is was boring so I knew that I'd probably land on one side and luckily it was the side of enjoyment. I appreciate that I really didn't know where it was going right up until near the end and when it finally got there it pulled out all the stops and left me going "whoa that was pretty cool."
On a second viewing it's still hilarious, still mind boggling, and still awe inspiring in its presentation of misinformation as fact.
