"I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time."
--Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) on perhaps his greatest character motivation in Oliver Stone's The Doors?
Okay, I can see why surviving of the band The Doors hated a lot of what was in Stone's biopic and particularly its questionable portrayals of real people. I get that much of it is fiction, maybe Jim Morrison fanfic based on what Stone thought the rockstar's life might have…
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Slightly-less-racist Popeye Doyle goes on vacation to and is immediately dissed by the local cops, robbed, assaulted, kidnapped, drugged repeatedly till he's left addicted to smack, and then pushed out of a moving vehicle... but when he then returns to the address of his torturers with a lighter and a bottomless gasoline canister that he's spilling everywhere while shouting about being an exterminator who's there to take care of the rat problem? Such a vibe. Goddamn, Gene Hackman. You will be missed.
You people giving The Room half a star and being like "how could a movie possibly be any worse?" You haven't even begun to gaze into the abyss.
I like my bad movies looking like they were found in a box that was home to a family of possums living under a leaky sink at a drive-in that's been closed for 40 years.
I like my bad movies to have a musical score that sounds like a cheap bootleg of…
I know this David Lynch short was filmed as part of a series by different directors to celebrate the tenth anniversary of 's Le Figaro Magazine, but I really want to pretend this was a TV pilot for what would have been one of the weirdest shows ever. It's a funny commentary on stereotypes with a language barrier that makes you feel like you're only in on half the joke (but that in its way is the whole joke).
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