"This is chaos!"
I love this movie. I've never had a desire to be an actual filmmaker, but
BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT is pretty close to what I envision in my handsome brain.
Matko is a small-time swindler. He lives in a large shack, with his
teenage son, Zare, beside the Danube. Matko is always coming up with
(unsuccessful) ideas to make a quick buck. His latest idea involves lying
to a local mobster, Mr. Grga, to secure a loan to finance a train robbery.
He then involves another gangster, the psychotic Dadan (played by Srdjan
Todorovic, in one of the funniest performances in movie history), to split the
deal with him. Unfortunately, Dadan double-crosses Matko and
then demands repayment! Being flat broke, Matko does the only thing
he can do: agree to marry off Zare to Dadan's younger sister....but Zare has no
plans on marrying Dadan's sister because he's in love with his girlfriend,
Ida.
That's enough about the story. The real attraction here is the
absolute insanity of this movie! It never lets up for a second. Right
from the start, BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT blasts off like a rocket and it only get
crazier as it goes! And yet, somehow, through all of the screaming and
drug-fueled madness there is a sweet story of true love and family bonds.
I could talk much, much longer about WCBC (especially about Todorovic's
absolutely brilliant performance or questioning why so many of the great actors
involved with this film never appeared in anything else), but that would be
unfair to anybody who hasn't seen the film. Long story, short: BLACK CAT,
WHITE CAT is an absolute masterpiece of storytelling and filmmaking, that
deserves to be seen by anybody who loves Cinema.
Highly recommended.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
THE CHILLING (1989)
Linda Blair works at a cryogenics laboratory. Dan Haggerty is their security guard. Forty-two minutes later, tinfoil wrapped zombies show up and boringly chase everybody around for the remainder of the movie. That's about it. It's not entertaining. Everything is too dark, the budget was probably below $20,000 and one doctor had a giant sword in his office. You think all of that would add up to be a perfect recipe for a movie so bad it's good, but no. Outside of a few funny Dan Haggerty moments the entire movie was pretty tiresome.
The one highlight was towards the beginning when three bank robbers storm into a bank and start screaming at people. All the customers/workers are cowering in fear, when suddenly the armored truck guys barge in and yell for everybody to get on the floor. Immediately this one guy jumps up and announces loudly "I'm outta hear!" then bolts for the door. A bank robber shoots him in the back and the dude yells like he just jumped on a bicycle with no seat. "ACK!" He then grabs his back like an infomercial actor and falls down. It was really funny.
Only for hardcore horror masochists and fans of wooden acting and badly written dialogue.
The one highlight was towards the beginning when three bank robbers storm into a bank and start screaming at people. All the customers/workers are cowering in fear, when suddenly the armored truck guys barge in and yell for everybody to get on the floor. Immediately this one guy jumps up and announces loudly "I'm outta hear!" then bolts for the door. A bank robber shoots him in the back and the dude yells like he just jumped on a bicycle with no seat. "ACK!" He then grabs his back like an infomercial actor and falls down. It was really funny.
Only for hardcore horror masochists and fans of wooden acting and badly written dialogue.
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