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Outlaw
2007
Half of the spirit of Outlaw comes from the British gangster genre,
humorless division. The other half channels Death Wish.
Sean Bean stars as a returning war vet with some psychological
problems and a rucksack full of automatic weapons. He finds that the
life he's returned to in Britain is shattered. His wife is involved
with someone else, and the country he fought for is filled with
criminals and street thugs. As time goes on, he hooks up with a
handful of disillusioned men who have been let down by the justice
system. For example, there's a barrister whose wife was killed by a
mob boss he was prosecuting. He can't prove the connection to the
mobster in court, so he turns to the vigilantes. Bean eventually
teaches his rag-tag army of middle-class wankers to man up, and with
the aid of a sympathetic policeman (Bob Hoskins), they form a Robin
Hood vigilante gang to take on the people who wronged them.
Bean, Danny Dyer, and Hoskins do provide plenty of talent for the
project but, like Dr. Frankenstein, they should have used their genius
for good instead of evil. The story is trite and fundamentally
unsatisfying. It can be boring and repetitious throughout the
development stages of the story, and the dramatic conclusion doesn't
even provide the usual revenge fantasy catharsis. Every member of the
gang dies except one, and several of their enemies survive, including
the snitch who rats them out and the crooked cop who ends up being the
mastermind behind the mob boss. Because of those developments, Outlaw
plays out like a revenge flick without enough revenge. On the other
hand, the director contends that it is not intended to be a
sensationalized revenge film. His commentary says, "People
have to watch it twice. It's a serious film!" So possibly it is
supposed to be a meaningful drama that has been pimped out with lurid
ultra-violence to dramatize the deterioration of social conditions in
England. Right. Either way it won't find much of an audience. It's too
one-dimensional and visceral for the Ken Loach social realism crowd,
and too ambivalent for the Charles Bronson revenge audience.
I don't whether the director was trying to make a thoughtful film,
but I do know this much. I will not follow his recommendation to watch
it twice.
The film was savaged by the
British Critics, with an average score of about one star out of
four (26.2/100)
NUDITY
Film clips:
Just so I could consider the film a complete waste of my time, even the nudity sucks. The only flesh
comes from some miscellaneous strippers in a club scene, and even those
women are generally decapitated into total anonymity by the framing and editing
of that scene.
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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Notes and collages
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Assault of the Party Nerds
(1989)
Apart from Julie Strain, former Pet of the Year
Michelle Bauer has done as much nudity as anyone, She is still acting and
will be seen this year in Gingerdead Man 2.
Film clip here.
Sample below.
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A Good Lawyer's Wife
(2003)
Well, here is my first attempt at a Korean
update. While the caps are fine, it's frustrating to work out the English
language version of their names because the languages are so different in
so many ways. Ah well, I hope they're right...
I suggest you look for the poster of A Good
Lawyer's Wife, as it sums up the film perfectly. The poster is basically
just Moon So-ri naked. A black square covers up the good bits, and
features the name of the film. The film doesn't skimp on the frank sex
and nude scenes, but it's also an interesting look at two people in a bad
marriage and what happens to their relationship when their adopted son is
murdered. Worth a look if you can find it, but it's confrontational.
Here are the film clips of
Moon So-Ri
(Warning: 150 meg).
The collages are
below:
    
   
And here are the clips of Baek Jeong-Rim
(Warning: 90 meg.)
The collages are
below:
 
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The Lost
(2007)
This film starts off as a crime drama, and ends up as a horror flick.
It blew me away.
Ray Pye is a domineering 19-year-old who abuses his girlfriend Jen
(Shay Astar) and best friend Tim, yet they continue to tolerate him. One
day while hanging out at the campgrounds, Ray decides to kill two young
women (Erin Brown and Ruby Larocca) who just happen to be there, on a
lark. His friends are horrified, but do nothing to stop him. Four years
later, thanks in large part to the silence of his friends, Ray has never
been arrested even though the cops are sure he did it.
Ray meets Katherine, a beautiful bad girl that starts pushing his
buttons. Even though Jen is still his girlfriend, he is swept off his feet
by Kath, but she suddenly dumps him for no apparent reason, and Ray
doesn't deal well with rejection.
This is one cool flick, although at the beginning and the end it gets
really violent and bloody, but it keeps you on the edge of your seat
throughout, and the acting was dead-on.
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Shay Astar |
Erin Brown |
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Film clips from Pineapple:
Scoop's notes: I was thrilled to see that LC did
this film because I have a screener and just kept putting it off. When he did
it, I tossed the screener in the circular file.
Why was I dreading it? Perhaps the IMDb description will give you the answer:
"Pineapple offers a window into the frailties and fallibility of humanity. This
gritty story exposes a world of rampant drug use and sexual experimentation.
Brutally honest in its portrayal of a dark lifestyle, it shows man at his best
and worst and how sometimes the two are nearly indistinguishable. The frank
subject matter and accurate character portrayals provide an experience bordering
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