Zombie Strippers

[FridgeMagnet]

No, I think Lethal Weapon is good because of early Mel Gibson - the stereotype that it established wasn't so entrenched then and he actually _does_ seem dangerous and out of control and worrying, as opposed to the "friendly nutter" stuff in later and imitative films. He's not locked into the overpaid-twat mode. See also the first Mad Max.

The plot doesn't survive well at all though; being the first or one of the first doesn't help there e.g. Halloween = actually a bit crap despite being seminal and so on.

 

[Firky]

Mad Max is actually very good but I am a sucker for dystopian stuff, probably my favourite genre. I do still maintain there are films that have zero content in them but are actually very satisfying, I won't say good as that's not the right word. I don't know if you have seen Doomsday but the film doesn't know where it wants to be. It doesn't know if it is Mad Max, Escape from New York, 28 Days Later, Excalibur or Resident Evil. So in the end they think 'fuck it' and throw it all in and the result is a mish mash of films constantly jumping from one foot to the next. But you don't care because you're grinning away at how ludicrous it all is and how she ended up in Spain when in the last shot she was in a Scottish forest in Medieval Scotland. They re-erect Hadrian's wall to keep the Scottish out, ffs

I don't think Mel was anymore acceptable in Lethal Weapon than he was in his later films. He did then what he does now - only he was younger so it made for easier viewing rather than watching your dad dance pissed.

 

[foo]

Mad Max 2 is my favourite. can't stand Mel Gibson, but love that film.

it reminds me of squat parties in Hackney.

 

[Sadken]

I watched this last night. After a shaky start where they try and squeeze in some painful political satire in a transparent attempt to ape Romero's films it picks up and rules.

I give it 8/10

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I understand the points of both arguments here. If you like something you like it therefore it is good or there is a quality that you find 'good' in it.
However it is often entertaining to see something executed badly.




The pauses, bad editing, bad script and acting are of course terrible and they were not originally supposed to be the funny part. Therefore you could say it was a badly made film. However it is as you can clearly see possibly the greatest film ever made.

 

[Kameron]

*treefrog posting*

Just seen this- is fucking ACE!!!

 

[Isambard]

If you want a zombie film with a bit of sex appeal then this new Bruce la Bruce film that has just come out and has all the makings of a classic:

http://www.ottothezombie.de/trailer.html

 

[subversplat]

I saw Zombie Strippers a little while back and thought it was great - Robert Englund almost steals the show

 

[Gramsci]

Jenna Jameson has her own site:

www.jennajameson.com/

Saw this was on at Prince Charles.Reminds me of when the Scala used to show this kind of stuff.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Saw this was on at Prince Charles.Reminds me of when the Scala used to show this kind of stuff.

I'm off to see it there on Tuesday (after seeing their Hitchcock double bill on Monday)

Expecting... well, not very much really

 

[Daniel]

Ha just watched this, its so stupid that its good, worth watching with a few funny moments in there.

 

[Wolveryeti]

It was so, like, a totally profound allegory about individualism and the decision to conform. With tits and guns.

 

[Gramsci]

I'm off to see it there on Tuesday (after seeing their Hitchcock double bill on Monday)

Expecting... well, not very much really

Prince Charles is nice cinema.I was there recently to see "Testosterone" a Polish comedy.Which was funny and very un PC.

 

[kyser_soze]

Zombies, strippers and Jenna.

Got it all really.

 

[El Jefe]

Fucking awful. On every level.

It fails at being good. It fails at being "so bad it's good" (wanker concept anyway). It's not:

funny
scary
sexy
exciting

It's just a really really shit low-budget zombie movie that's tried to get some extra butts on seats by pretending it's self-aware trash like Planet Terror. It's not self-aware trash, it's just trash.

Not a single funny line, amusing moment or anything that makes me think my 90 minutes wouldn't have been better spent sticking a pin in my eyeball

 

[Kameron]

El Jefe, I think you saw a different film. I disagree with almost every single word you've written. Brilliant on every level, continuous nailing of every stereotype, perfectly takes the piss out of itself perfectly, Jenna Jameson reading Nietzsche! I mean it is called Zombie Strippers - What in gods name were you expecting? If nothing else it lives up to its name at every hands turn.

 

[El Jefe]

"meh meh meh were you even at the same gig as me? meh meh meh"

Nonsense. It fails even as a parody / pastiche. See Planet Terror - well made, and funny.

This is infantile trash.

 

[butchersapron]

Jenna Jameson reading Nietzsche!

This is all i need to know. Totally shit.

 

[El Jefe]

This is all i need to know. Totally shit.

Yeh, it's hardly the cutting edge of well-observed parody is it?

The idea could have been really funny, but most of the film is a series of stripping routines, the fantastic twist beinf - wow - in the second half, it's ZOMBIES stripping.

Course there was going to be a stripping element to Zombie Strippers - but this is just an adolescent wank fantasy of a film. No humour, no style.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Oh dear.

There is no such thing as 'so bad it's good'. If it's bad, it's bad. Simple.

Explain how Zardoz manages to be so awesome then?

 

[The Octagon]

No, I think Lethal Weapon is good because of early Mel Gibson - the stereotype that it established wasn't so entrenched then and he actually _does_ seem dangerous and out of control and worrying, as opposed to the "friendly nutter" stuff in later and imitative films. He's not locked into the overpaid-twat mode. See also the first Mad Max.

The plot doesn't survive well at all though; being the first or one of the first doesn't help there e.g. Halloween = actually a bit crap despite being seminal and so on.

Oooh, doing so well until that point, Halloween is a good film and seminal, that's kinda the point of it being a classic.

 

[strung out]

it would have been better if it was called zombie strippers from mars

 

[El Jefe]

Explain how Zardoz manages to be so awesome then?

Because there's an imagination. a warped creativity at work that isn't realised in the film properly but it makes an attempt at it, has a faux-grandeur which impresses. The rest is crap but enjoyable because the central conceit is worthwhile.

If there's nothing like that in a bad film to hold you, it just becomes shit.

 

[Kameron]

Yeh, it's hardly the cutting edge of well-observed parody is it?

Do you actually not like any metafiction or is it just this example that doesn't grab you? The self-referance at each stage is almost fractal and just when you think it is over then there is a donkey.

Course there was going to be a stripping element to Zombie Strippers - but this is just an adolescent wank fantasy of a film. No humour, no style.

Jesus man, who's adolescent wank fantasy might that be?

 

[El Jefe]

Do you actually not like any metafiction or is it just this example that doesn't grab you? The self-referance at each stage is almost fractal and just when you think it is over then there is a donkey.

Yeh,wow, freaky

Jesus man, who's adolescent wank fantasy might that be?

Well going on past evidence, yours?