Pretty rad movie. I'm not used to seeing Nicholson play such a doofus, he's too cunning for his own good. Also, his cartoon character wife really sucked - he should have been with the slutty neighbor instead. Regardless, it had a sweet Ry Cooder-rific score and a great head explosion and flat tire man-crush. Not to be forgotten.
Oates is barely in it and plays a shitbag, but nice work nonetheless. Earns it some points.
Flat tire man-crush!!!!!! My favorite part. Also when he smiles all smarwmy-like in the end after saving the baby. And the bent over naked skinny flexible vagina lady part in the strip club was pretty awesome too. I really enjoyed this movie. Excellente.
for all its faults you gotta give this movie props for the touches of gross realism: the nasty mexi-lady crotch bend, the dead bodies in the van, the slit throat find. and of course the accidental face shotgun blow. kind of jarring mixed with the wackiness back home, the goofy wife the texas bbq debacle (wich i did like). but thinking about it now i think that duel aspect of the movie works. they might have been aware of that in the writing and that could be the reason for the incongruities in the nicholson character. but i still think i would have liked it better if jack played more of his 5 easy pieces type character. curious jackass trouble-hunting could have driven the story just as well as doofusy naivete.
i thought jack nicholson and his character were actually pretty well matched. for some reason i had no trouble imagining him as the character rather than as jack nicholson, the quick-witted man-in-charge we all know. i think this was maybe because he (the star of the movie) and warren oates (the star of this month's movie nights) looked so similar in their sunglasses/ranger hat uniforms. actually all the border dudes looked pretty similar, and maybe that helped me with believing that jack nicholoson was the character he tried to portray. i dunno. that stripper chick was hell of hot dude. reminds me of the good ol' days with huntoon in T.J.
The movie gets points from me by simply taking place in the best spot for movies to take place, the Southwest. The down side is it will inevitably make me think of the best of the best, Rolling Thunder, The Getaway, The Wild Bunch, Alfredo Garcia and all the great road movies of the 70s. Not to mention the work of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy. The Border, how I wished you'd have given me that whorehouse shoot-out!
I walked away most impressed by the horrors of his living situation (that Texan wife had a thong for sure). Maybe it was an American dream gone wrong set to illustrate the futility of scrambling across the border, like a warning... whatever it was, it grossed me out big time.
Pretty rad movie. I'm not used to seeing Nicholson play such a doofus, he's too cunning for his own good. Also, his cartoon character wife really sucked - he should have been with the slutty neighbor instead. Regardless, it had a sweet Ry Cooder-rific score and a great head explosion and flat tire man-crush. Not to be forgotten.
ReplyDeleteOates is barely in it and plays a shitbag, but nice work nonetheless. Earns it some points.
Flat tire man-crush!!!!!! My favorite part. Also when he smiles all smarwmy-like in the end after saving the baby. And the bent over naked skinny flexible vagina lady part in the strip club was pretty awesome too. I really enjoyed this movie. Excellente.
ReplyDeleteyeah, the stripper threw me for a loop at first, but I think she was wearing a beige thong. very sexy.
ReplyDeletefor all its faults you gotta give this movie props for the touches of gross realism: the nasty mexi-lady crotch bend, the dead bodies in the van, the slit throat find. and of course the accidental face shotgun blow. kind of jarring mixed with the wackiness back home, the goofy wife the texas bbq debacle (wich i did like). but thinking about it now i think that duel aspect of the movie works. they might have been aware of that in the writing and that could be the reason for the incongruities in the nicholson character. but i still think i would have liked it better if jack played more of his 5 easy pieces type character. curious jackass trouble-hunting could have driven the story just as well as doofusy naivete.
ReplyDeletei thought jack nicholson and his character were actually pretty well matched. for some reason i had no trouble imagining him as the character rather than as jack nicholson, the quick-witted man-in-charge we all know. i think this was maybe because he (the star of the movie) and warren oates (the star of this month's movie nights) looked so similar in their sunglasses/ranger hat uniforms. actually all the border dudes looked pretty similar, and maybe that helped me with believing that jack nicholoson was the character he tried to portray. i dunno. that stripper chick was hell of hot dude. reminds me of the good ol' days with huntoon in T.J.
ReplyDeleteThe movie gets points from me by simply taking place in the best spot for movies to take place, the Southwest. The down side is it will inevitably make me think of the best of the best, Rolling Thunder, The Getaway, The Wild Bunch, Alfredo Garcia and all the great road movies of the 70s. Not to mention the work of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy. The Border, how I wished you'd have given me that whorehouse shoot-out!
ReplyDeleteI walked away most impressed by the horrors of his living situation (that Texan wife had a thong for sure). Maybe it was an American dream gone wrong set to illustrate the futility of scrambling across the border, like a warning... whatever it was, it grossed me out big time.
ReplyDeletemexi-lady crotch bend! thong or not, besides beige goes well with anything.
ReplyDeleteoh and i forgot about the self shotgun face blow. actually my true favorite part.