So the Willmott-binge is not going well. Turns out most of his films are plain impossible to get ahold of.
Thankfully Chi-raq was not amongst the unavailable ones. It’s been a long time since a movie made me giggle this much. Still very serious subject matter, mind you!
Something wonderful has happened in the realm of cinema since Hitch’s last outing. Or in the realm of digital transfer. Or both. In any case, this film looks about a million times better than the earlier ones.
Things have taken a turn content-wise as well. This feels much more like the later Hitchcock we all know and love. I’m almost allowing myself to hope we’re done with musicals and theater-adaptations.
I know I was supposed to binge watch all of Kevin Willmott’s movies, but I’d forgotten to buy #2.
*doh*
And then I got sick. So now I’m on the couch with this new old laptop with some Linux on it, meaning I had to get tearing free video to work.
*doh*
But I’m happy to report that getting tearing free video is much easier now than it was the last time I tried when it was impossible. Anyway, I have this bootleg in high quality version (in a sense) that I don’t know where I got. Luckily, it’s on the Youtube. It really is quite peak prog, even if it’s kinda fake—the audio is apparently sourced from a number of different recordings, from more than one night. No bother though—Armageddon in Nine Eighths still melts my brain.
Rutger Hauer in an old school splatter film alongside half the bloody cast from Trailer Park Boys! How can it not be the Movie Of The Year? Of 2011! Nohow, that’s how!
There’s an air of ridiculousness over Alec Guiness as Charles I in this flick. Every time he comes prancing into the room, it leaves me thinking of inspector Jacques Clouseau.