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Possibly the most perfect face in all of movies.

It might be. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen when I saw it around 9 or 10 years old, and I didn't even get a lot of it then.

The last line of this should be applied to way more B-movies.

This is because the Gorillaz beat MC Skat Kat to death in a back alley brawl many years ago.

"Tell Bill I said have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up."

Let's cast Fozzie in a Muppet remake of The Day The Clown Cried.

His best quality as an actor is his choice in directors.

Your post reveals that part of what makes this film so great is that it introduces so many different types of horror.

FISH! FRESH FISH!

The cool thing about Jackpot was seeing Lazlo from Real Genius play a lead role for once. And Garrett Morris was pretty good in it too as I recall.

I was just going to pose this exact same question! The only good movies about writing seem to be ones where the author believes he's great while the movie clearly does not (as in Barton Fink).

I first saw this in a high school history class. I was already into films at that point but had never seen anything quite like this and it completely messed me up. It really does make other movies of its stripe look like Hollywood backdrop bullshit.

I was about to get upset at the presumption in your last line, but then I remembered you are Alien Jesus, addressing the entire human race.

Agreed—it's like the Weird Science render crashed half way through.

"Shit ain't hardt!"

Regular Daddy

It's actually worth checking out, especially in a theater. It's really well shot and has a great sense of atmosphere.

I like that thing Tex Avery initiated when cartoon characters chase each other off the film strip into some nebulous white limbo.

That sounds like if Harmony Korine made a movie about the Trash Heap's slutty daughter.

Yeah, I think because it's more overtly a genre film, it gets too easily dismissed compared to his other films. But for me, it fuses psychological horror with his usual themes so fits pretty well within his canon.