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On April 29, 2025, The Pick-Up was released on Blu-ray in the United States.
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Movie Review | House on Bare Mountain (Frost & Bishop, 1962)
This review contains mild spoilers.
The opening credits announce that this stars "Lovable Bob Cresse as Granny Good", and having watched the whole movie, I think that adjective is a tad generous. Bob Cresse is the exploitation pioneer, who along with director Lee Frost, made the early Naziploitation flick Love Camp 7, in which he also stars as a Nazi prison camp commander with the presence similar to Dom DeLuise. Now, that movie and his performance in it are both very bad, and you could say the same thing about this one. Here he stars in drag as the den mother of a bunch of lovely ladies. Cresse's screentime in this movie is akin to a comedy snuff film, in that you're watching laughter die onscreen in real time. The shtick he does is so aggressively, brutally unfunny that maybe you start thinking that the whole concept of humour was a mistake and that we might never laugh again. But not turning off the movie. That never crosses your mind. Cresse appears in the bookends of the movie behind bars, and one would think that he's been thrown in jail for his many, many crimes against comedy.
The movie does however make a good case for the concept of nudie cuties in that the scenes of ladies prancing around in the nude are substantially more appealing than any of the scenes where Cresse is anywhere near the camera. Listen, we are all amigos here and I did not find the ladies unpleasant to look at, no matter that their hairdos would be dated even the year this movie came out. The movie is certainly shameless in delivering the goods, like in the scene where the girls are doing their exercises outdoors and take their tops off immediately after complaining about the heat. But it also displays a sense of humour, like when the topless girls sketch Cresse's (thankfully) fully clothed character (one of them depicts him in particularly spherical terms), or the sound effect that accompanies one particularly well endowed character. The movie has a bright, sunny pastel look that makes it nice enough to look at, especially when boobs and butts appear onscreen with some regularity.
Now let's just say that maybe some complications arise as the movie progresses. Let's just say that maybe there are monsters in this movie. Let's just say that maybe some monsters are more authentically monstrous than others. Let's just say that maybe there's a costume party where the fake monster or monsters get mixed up with the fake monster or monsters. Let's just say that maybe none of this bears any impact on what happens after whatsover. Let's all just say these things, and when somebody complains that we've maybe spoiled the movie, we can hide behind the concept of plausible deniability. A lot of people were saying things, who's to say what anybody said? But this movie does serve as an interesting thought experiment, helping us ponder how bad a movie we might sit through just for the sight of some monsters and mammaries.
This was recommended to me by a longtime internet friend, and I don't know whether I should be moved or offended by how well he has me pegged. After all, I sat all the way through this.
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Recenzja filmu "Wyścig z diabłem" (1975), reż. Jack Starrett. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, R.G. Armstrong
Dla reżysera Jacka Starretta (chociaż nie można zapominać, że był również utalentowanym aktorem) najważniejsza była ekranowa frajda, którą z każdym tytułem oferował widzom garściami. Nieważne było bowiem, czy był to film z nurtu blaxploitation ("Cleopatra Jones"), czy szereg wcześniejszych bikespolitation (debiut "Run, Angel, Run!", czy też szerzej tu opisywany "The Losers"). Każdy oferował mniej więcej to samo - przy niskim budżecie maksimum rozrywki, sporo przemocy, napięcie, ciekawą historię i solidne podstawy, by w przyszłości (choćby i dzisiaj) być wspominanym jako dzieło noszące znamiona kultowego. Tak jak "Wyścig z diabłem". Nakręcony w 1975 roku obraz łączy kilka filmowych podgatunków z kina śmietnikowego, ale jest przede wszystkim świetnie opowiedzianym thrillerem o ucieczce z krainy diabła, z Teksasu.
may i introduce you to Wesley Bishop. He is the Worst, I love him, Cody hates him. His first really important appearance is during Fallen Kingdom.
Okay, so I’ve probably just arrived too late, but I keep seeing things for your Badlands fic mentioning other characters that are not Cody, could you give me like a synopsis or something?
yeah!! i can absolutely give you a synopsis! i'm just going to go character by character because that's easier for me.
So we have Cody, obviously.
James Skipton
james is second most important character in badlands
she's eighteen
she's cody's younger sister, and there's six years between them so there's always a little bit of distance between them because of that.
she doesn't talk to Cody all that much because she hates going home since their parents are really strict and controling.
cody gets her an internship working in the lab for InGen because James has adored biology forever.
she spends most of the movie with Zack and Gray
Wesley Bishop
Cody's boyfriend
an asshole
he helped Hoskins with his whole weaponizing the raptors idea and naturally, Cody took it very personally that her boyfriend was supplying Hoskins with all the private information she had told him.
they don't last much longer than that.
he comes back in Fallen Kingdom at the auction
Logan Elliot
he's part of the asset containment unit, and is the only one of his squad to survive the Indominous attack
he's some weird sort of father figure to Cody and James even though he refuses to call either of them by their names
he also kind of hates owen grady
💋 + cody and wesley!!! (yes this is a demand)
ahem.
it's actually very very boring
your standard "oh hey, want to go on a date?" context
they're on the island at this point
and honestly even though Wes is the Worst™ he is smooth as fuck so he has this whole thing where they're walking through the park at night
it's basically empty but there are still a couple lights on
and they're standing in the middle of the main courtyard because his bunks are one way and her cabin is the other ,but neither really wants to say goodnight just yet, and then he kisses her
Send me a 💋 + a pairing and I’ll tell you about their first kiss.
