Moony picked Killer Joe as this weeks cult classic flick. I have never seen it or heard of it which makes me quite anxious to give it a look. Hope everyone enjoys!!!
Hope everyone's ready for some pulp worthy of the printed text, i.e. something Hollywood truly shys away from. Some of these scenes will stay with you. Never really been a fan of McConaughey's, but since Bernie and now this (haven't seen Mud yet, but I hear he's great in it), he's really earning my respect. Oh, and I recommend putting the kiddies to bed and sharing a bucket of KFC with your significant other while you watch.
Haha! Yea, the KFC scene will always stick with me. And ill never be able to look at Gina Gershon the sam again.
I don't know, Moony. I hear what you're saying, but...I can still look at her.
I'm having trouble finding this one, which is odd because, it's only a couple years old. Maybe I can find a cheap copy at Best Buy.
Fun and twisted with a great performance by McConaughey, who has been on a role lately (MUD was great, too). Great dialog (adapted from the stage play by Tracy Letts, who also wrote BUG). The chicken scene is FUGGED UP. And I don't care how low the IQ of the character she's playing is, Juno Temple is super sexy in this flick.
That's right, I went there.
Josh, may I be the first to thank you for going there. I thought I was going to have to rest on my laurels by defending Gina Gershon's still dirty hotness.
I didn't know it had been adapted from a play. Now that I think back on it, it had a bit of that stagey feel. Then it might've gone to the next level cinematically speaking.
Same film director as Bug, too (Billy Friedkin, of The French Connection and The Exorcist fame), made on the way-cheap. I was also gonna talk about the KFriedC scene, but it looks like that's been covered. I wonder if Gershon can ever eat that stuff again…. Juno kinda creeped me out in this movie. I love these types of plots, characters in way over their heads and desperate, everyone paranoid that someone else is gonna talk.
The KFC thing, though more graphically depicted than the statutory rape, didn't bother me as much. Gershon's character was a scheming tramp, while the young girl was basically sacrificed for their plans. The only possible moral satisfaction one could glean from the whole mess is left up in the air: did she shoot him?
It's one of those "(Almost) everybody's a piece of shit" stories of which I've seen enough that they seem ultimately just as trite as the happy-go-lucky Hallmark films. I would've been shocked at age 17. The story itself isn't anything special. Some good acting, though.
I love William Friedkin movies, not too into this one despite him and the good performances. You could tell this was a play, sure, but more so you could tell it's a 90's story. I would skip this and watch DROWNING MONA, same dysfunctional redneck thriller comedy, better characters, but regretfully less cranberry sauce fake blood.
I like Matthew McConaughey, MUD I think is my favorite movie so far this year.
Talk about a film I can get behind: Dirty cops, assassination, insurance money, blackmail, abuse, and kung fu.
The minute I saw it, I raved to all my (more messed up) friends, "I have a new favorite movie!"
It's definitely not something I'd recommend to anybody at a church social, or who's not into awkward sex, fried chicken, prostitution, and violence, but I do have it tucked between Cry Baby and SLC Punk in my DVD case.
P.S. Renfield, 90s stories are some of the best stories.
