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Gabe's Green Slime Attack #2

Attack of the Green Slime's Pick Shelf #2

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Get slimed by beautiful movies that make you feel sort of gross.

Oh the dirty, dirty humanity!

Attack of the Green Slime's Pick Shelf #2
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My theme this week is: Beautiful Movies That Will Leave You Feeling Dirty! I think these kinds of movies are the some of the best. If a movie can move move you to feeling something, even it makes you feel dirty, then it's succeeded. I don't mean feeling dirty cuz you just watched a new piece of Hollywood turd, but because it strikes some kind of a nerve. It touches something human in you. It challenges your sense of morals. And so, I give you my four picks:

Misogyny! Sweet, sweet misogyny.
If someone asked me what my favorite movie was, which is a question I think is silly, but I'd have to say it's this Mike Leigh dark masterpiece.

Naked (1993 D: Mike Leigh)
A perfect film. It's score, cinematography, it's mood, it's acting, it's writing... And so, a main character that I somehow extremely relate to, is a jobless intellectual wading through urban isolationism of London's welfare state. He drinks and fucks, very angrily, his way to oblivion. Now I'm not saying I agree with the man. He raped someone. But his angst and the way he's too uncompromising for his own good. It's something I can relate to, and yet he's a monster that is his own worst enemy. The main character is David Thewlis, best known recently for being Remus Lupin, Harry Potter's werewolf professor. So if you were to watch any movie I ever suggest, I think you should watch this one. I really love it too much to properly critique it.

Who doesn't love to see a cop fuck up? And when they REALLY fuck up, it's even better. So, if you want to watch the ultimate cop-fucking-up movie of all time, then watch the brilliance that is:

Bad Lieutenant (1992 D:Abel Ferrara)
Holy shit! Harvey Keitel is genius in this. I mean, really genius. This movie is so dark and bleak and AWESOME. It's has a whole bunch of drugs, and hookers, and drugs, and gambling, and drugs. Lot's of drugs.
There's a scene where Keitel shoots heroin, but it looks totally fucking real.

Anyway, this movie is about to get much more well-known. I'm very sorry to say that as I was on the Internet reading about this movie just now, it appears that it's getting revamped into a vehicle for, gulp, Nicholas Cage. Oh, my god! What the fuck? And get this, directed by Werner Herzog, who says he's never seen the original. I don't know how to feel, but it's worrisome.
So watch this wonderful movie before Hollywood destroys it's memory.

"He came into town with his cock in hand, and what he did with it was illegal in 49 states." That's gotta be the best tagline I've read in a while. It's the tagline for the next movie in my little selection, and why it may not be what most people will call a beautiful movie, it might make you feel pretty dirty.
I FUCKING LOVED IT.
Directed by the man that directed "Two-Lane Blacktop."

Cockfighter (1974 D:Monte Hellman)
This movie has one tough cast. Warren Oates, by the way, who is awesome. Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr., Robert Earle Jones (father of James), and a bunch of tough country-folk. So, this movie is about cockfighting. And be aware, there is plenty of chicken blood in this flick. It's a movie for the dudes (and maybe for women that appreciate masculinity?). They just don't make movies like this anymore.
Thank God for 70's cinema. If you like movies by Sam Peckinpah, and what dude with any trace of testosterone left doesn't? But if you like movies like that, then do yourself a favor, and watch some cockfights.

Terrence Malick is one of my favorite directors. Days of Heaven is in my top ten. Well, I don't actually have a top ten. I don't care much for ranking things I like. But whatever. It's a breathtaking movie. I think he's better known for this gem of a film, a film which does make you feel a bit more perturbed than dirty.

Badlands (1973 D:Terrence Malick)

Forget "Natural Born Killers." (Forget Oliver Stone, all together! That's for another rant). Badlands is based on a true story, one in the vein of Bonnie and Clyde. Being a 25 yr old nobody in a small town in the southwest, obsessed with James Dean, and being a schizo, the main character (brilliantly played by Martin Sheen) falls for a 13 year old from a emotionally detached family. When the father disapproves, a series of events follows that is FUCKIN crazy. Sissy Spacek plays the jailbait masterfully. This movie captures the isolation and desolation of being a loner. It looks like 1959, but in a poetic way. Lyrical. The cinematography shows the beauty, beauty, beauty of the landscapes. The nonchalance the pair show in the murders is chilling. The end of the movie claims that it's fictional, but it's clearly based on the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate murders of 1958. Watch this motherfuker!