Oh.....alright.



 

Going a little deeper with Marianne Faithfull, here's a 1974 film I'm unfamiliar with.  But there's a couple of itching hooks: "The film features a rare performance from actor Vivian MacKerrell, who was later the inspiration for Withnail in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I"; "a sort of poor man's Celine and Julie Go Boating".



 

I remember Deal of the Century being very disappointing. It might serve as a glimpse of a simpler time, I suppose, when attack drones were more easily laughed off as "state of the art, my ass." Recent evidence of top fighter pilots admitting total defeat by modern drone fighters paint a terrifyingly different picture, partially because drones aren't afraid to die, and can therefore employ tactics that would be considered suicide for human pilots. Maybe the movie contained humor I was too young and/or naïve to appreciate, but I kinda doubt it. I do remember "Just under sixty billion" being an intentional jab at massive defense spending, a figure that would only have sounded absurd at the time, of course.

I wasn't sure whether to post the following video here or on "America's walk of shame," and this thread won the mental coin–toss since the conversation over there is currently on Heir Musk and is less a spot for comedy:



The full concert from which the above excerpt comes is great and definitely worth the time:

Deal of the Century is bad but watchable. I'm in the minority in finding Chevy's used car salesman style arms dealer funny though.

The movie is so so but the car chase is great.

crumbsroom wrote:

The Kindred (1987)
 

 Yeahhh that definitely takes me back. I spent a good deal of the mid–late 80s hunting for grotesque horror on VHS shelves and late–night cable. I don't remember much about The Kindred aside from the familiar thumbs–down feeling when the credits rolled. One of those monster movies of the time where you don't get any monster until the final sequence, and it's usually disappointing compared to the cover art. I think I have a vague memory of the movie having something to do with festering slime in a basement that eventually becomes the monster, if my memory does in fact serve. I'm consistently on–board with the basement–beast origin themes. Any trip down to an old basement easily lends the unsettling feeling that anything could be lurking down there. I don't need the scientific explanation. If it came from the basement, that's really 'nuff said. 

Jinnistan wrote:

I don't know when you saw the film.  I saw it at the time when it came out on video, and nine-year-old Jinn was definitely not up to snuff on issues like military contracting to dictatorships in Latin America yet.

Yeah that was my experience as well, saw it when it came out on cable. 

Rock wrote:

Deal of the Century is bad but watchable. I'm in the minority in finding Chevy's used car salesman style arms dealer funny though.

That's also my recollection.