Its only been, what, like 6 weeks or some shit since the last one of these?
Got a good one for ya today. You turds ready?
We went to see this badboy last night. One night only engagement followed by Q&A with Kevin Smith via UStream.
First, the movie.
What happens when homophobic jesus freaks are well armed and kidnapping kids they lure with the devil's business?
The FBI shows up at their compound and shoot things up.
Also, the sheriff is gay, which doesn't really help the town with dealing with the religious cult.
Michael Parks as Abin Cooper - the cult "father"....was absolutely captivating on screen.
John Goodman, the same, and looks great after the weight loss. Its nice to still have him around & lookin' good. Years ago, I would've thought he'd go the way of John Candy.
Pretty damn good cast all around, really.
Its being claimed as a "horror" movie. I wouldn't call it that.
I'd say its more of an action thriller - and even using the term "thriller" seems a bit off.
I won't give you any spoilers here but towards the end John Goodman makes an amazing speech about how, when he was a kid, his grandmother had a couple of dogs as family pets. One day, he was finishing dinner and threw the dogs a turkey leg and they went at each other over this turkey leg like they'd never known one another.
Then he says, "People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe."
Ruminate on that shit for a minute or two.
Second - the Q&A on Ustream.
While they were streaming and setting things up, they had the twitter feed going and folks were crackin' me up with things like, "WTF, I paid $20 to see Kevin Smith on the computer?" and "I missed Breaking Bad for this?"
Kevin Smith was wearing a hockey jersey that made him look 10x bigger & started answering questions about how they took care of all the investors first, didn't take huge salaries in an effort to get the flick out there, and then the stream glitched out so we left.
There's some fun trivia here and an original ending summarized here with more about how they made it on a small budget and crap.
I loved it and give it 5 out of 5 Gabriel's horn blasts.
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