Diary of a Schizophrenic

A madman's diary.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Amazon Women on the Moon

This is just a bit tad strange to be funny. My favourites are the surrealist skits -"Remote Control", "Critics' Corner" and "Ray" albeit you can't really laugh.

One would have thought it would just follow the slapstick of the first skit with Arsenio Hall but it doesn't really.

Otherwise, the throwbacks to another age - "Son of the Invisible Man" and "Reckless Youth" do raise some giggles. But "Hospital Room" and "Two Valid I.D.s" are a bit too mundane to be funny. The main feature, a send-up of 50s sci-fi, is also a bit too obvious.

The deleted scenes offer a lot of recompense - the bitterly ironical take on war heroes in "The Unknown Soldier" and the Python-esque "French Ventriloquist's Dummy". Oh why weren't they included in the main feature?

I suppose this is some sort of alt-comedy masterpiece, if you can take in the subtleties and nuances to laugh.

You don't mess with the Zohan

Nothing much to say about this. I can't watch this sober. Lotsa silly sex jokes. Does provide an interesting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, though.

Der Todesking

This is also another masterpiece. "The is the King of Death.... He makes people want to die". A suicide-related death for every day of the week.

Death is just so much sweet release isn't it? Mindblowing days are Tuesday and Sunday. Tuesday - after watching some crude WW2 Holocaust atrocity re-enactment, a man goes on a murder-suicide rampage. Sunday - a great mindfucking performance from a tortured 2-bit actor. Interspersed with shots of a putrefying corpse. The "suicide bridge" segment is also atmospheric. Less gripping - some found footage and an old maid.

Guaranteed to make you fucked up, at least a bit, after watching this and you'd wish for sweet sweet release yourself.

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