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Attack of the Green Slime's Pick Shelf #3
Eat some slime!!! These picks feature movies that
center around eating.We all eat.
HOT SAUSAGE AND MUSTARD!
This time around the Green Slime is pushing food movies on you. I had some trouble sticking to my pre-agreed four movies per pick shelf. Honorable mention goes to "Soylent Green", "Eaten Alive" and "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman".
Don't watch these on an empty stomach!
La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast)- (1973-D:Marco Ferrei)
This an interesting, kind of surreal, black comedy about four men that are trying to eat themselves to
death. A good commentary on the western culture of consumption. Not for everyone, but if you like
arty french movies....
On my further research on this film and it's director, I discovered that Marco Ferrei was the man that
wrote the movie "Mafioso", which is an amazing film. He also directed "Tales of Ordinary Madness",
(which was based on the book "Erections, Ejaculation,Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary
Madness" by Charles Bukowski).
Anyway, the movie is a bit long at 124 minutes, but that's OK. Hookers, food, symbolism, hedonism, OO LA LA!!!!
The Stuff (1985- D:Larry Cohen)
Schlock!!!!!
If you have a fear of yogurt, then this film will scare the SH*T out of you! This is a delightful tongue-in-cheek horror movie about a mysterious goo that turns people into zombie hosts. Sort of a "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" mixed with "The Blob" but with some funny
stabs at American consumerism and Cold War paranoia.
A bit of trivia: Michael Moriarty and Paul Sorvino both star in this, and they were both on Law and
Order at the same time. How trivial! And Garrett Morris is a lot of fun as 'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W.
Hobbs.
The movie has some truely awesome gore effects. Goo pouring out from orifices leaving people as empty husks. You can watch it over and over! So, I think the moral of the story is: If you find some delicious, creamy globs coming up from the
ground...
DON'T EAT IT!!!
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972 D:Luis Buñuel)
The characters in this movie just can't seem to get their food!
So, this is a absurdist/surreal French comedy. That may sound terrible to you. If it does, then you are a
Philistine!
I'm kidding. This movie is so amazingly original, insightful, symbolic, intellectual, and it's very funny. It's belongs in
my Top Ten, if I were to have a top ten. (why pick favorites, right?) Maybe Top Twenty. Anyway, it's
pretty wonderful.
Buñuel likes to make clever attacks on all sorts of society's institutions. This film mainly attacks the
upper-middle classes, the Bourgeoisie, but also makes absurd situations that poke holes in on
conception of war, sexuality, and the church.
Anyway, try and decipher some symbolism. It's all good.
Tampopo (1985 D:Juzo Itami)
This movie really made me want a bowl of noodles. like REALLY bad.
In fact, I hearby challenge you not to want noodles after watching this movie. It would appear that the
Japanese eat a lot of noodles.
So, this movie has a very strange narrative style. It bounces back and forth from a few different
scenarios, but the main one involves a trucker, a kind of cowboy-ish character. The trucker teaches
a lady that runs a restaurant named Tampopo to make the perfect bowl of noodles. It's a nod to the
American western. That's how I interpeted it, anyway. It's mind-bending at times, and playful. The
sensual nature he connects food and sex is, well, provocative.
It's a foreign idea to some of us Americans, but the Japanese take have a serious reverence for
their food. This movie represents just how serious about food they are.
What a wonderful, bizarre film. I highly suggest this.
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