Pieces
The Snob takes on the legendary 1982 slasher film from "Pod People" director Juan Piquer Simon.
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"I riff PIECES because I love PIECES."
You have described exactly why I love MST3K. And, frankly, you. That quote, "I riff PIECES because I love PIECES." could be read another way and describe the great affection necessary for art and people that one loves enough to make fun of: "I riff pieces because I love pieces."
Thank you, Brad.
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Why must good people die?
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been wanting to see a review of "Pieces" for some time now, and now it's here!!!!!!!
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Great episode Brad! I especially love that part where you said you had to put poison in the Nostalgia Critic's tea, lol! I have to share this song with you because of the blond chick yelling bastard. Enjoy Electric Eel Shock's "Bastard" : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA8EraiJItk
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Well, no matter how much Roth loves this film, I prefer Frankenhooker to this. Good review, man.
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"Jerrid Folles as Fake Bruce". Took me a second to get that reference. Fantastic. Oh, and the rest of the review was great, too!
P.S. A kung-fu display out of nowhere...much like the one by the Pancakes kid in CABIN FEVER. Yep, I can see how this influenced Eli Roth. In the worst way possible, but still.
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Hahaha, Holy Shit! That thing with Reagan had me fall out of my chair in a lauging fit, my sides still hurt XD
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LOOOL, the start gag was hilarious, i paused it when your shirt is off, and your arms are like chicken wings compared to the rest of your build, still good gag in all
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I actually saw the full "Pod People" episode of MST3K earlier this week. And just as I was typing this my dad comes up and gives me the same episode on VHS. Coinsidence? O.O
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Yay! Lupa.
Ha! \o/
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One brick joke, and 2 callbacks that I could see. The kneecap, Lupa's punch and Kickassia. Nice. This movie almost as old as I am, couple of months difference, but it almost looks older. That said, loos as graphic as anything they'll put out now.
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Damn, I need to see this movie!
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you can kind of see jerrid's face when he's punching you
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Aww..I thought you were going to dance naked in the front porch again. Great review!
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Great job as always Brad keep up the good work
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This is one of my favorite reviews yet. I guffawed (a sadly underused word) regularly. Love all the Pod People references.
Blurry jelly rolls now!
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Now I know where alot of people's Goru fettishes come from thank you Pieces for my nightmares!
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Thank you for this wonderful review on my birthday.
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The hell?! That's Tommy's room from Pod People. It's almost like JP Simon just shot this and Pod People at the same time. It's also really funny considering that some of the dubbed voices are the same too
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Wonderful episode, I laughed and laughed and laughed...Good to know American retailing in 1942 had time to sell porn jigsaws.
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Could this be the best episode of Cinema Snob.... EVER?
Yes. Yes, I think so.
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yay a Prisoner Reference!
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Good episode!
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You couldn't scare off Trumpy!
Love "Pieces", the most entertaining slasher ever made!
Excellent episode, Brad, so good i watched it twice in a row!
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We saw this at Splatter Cinema last year. It was AWESOME to the POSSUM!
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The scene with the "Kung Fu Professor" = Big Lipped Alligator Moment !
and loved the Pod People references and Lupa's quick cameo ! XD
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No wonder Eli Roth loves this movie. He loves any movie that has castration.
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You've referenced Pod People so many times on this show that instead of asking when you're gonna review it, I am asking why you haven't reviewed it yet?
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What? No Enter the Ninja reference. Christopher George played the main baddie in that one...
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Has it become a theme that Brad needs to get naked at least once a year?
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Lupa got her revenge for Asylum's Sherlock Holmes? I think I now have a new favorite inside joke. Wonderfully random, Brad.
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Bad chop-suey! LOL! Oh my, that was truly an epic show. And to think that you had 'You ain't got the authority to declare happy birthday!' and 'BASTARD! BASTARD! BAAAAASTARD!!!' in the same episode! Truly legendary stuff.
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This proves it; you've been looking at my queue! Because just five days ago....
http://thegreatwhitedope.blogspot.com/2011/05/pieces-1982.html
Still, awesome as always...and to think you get paid for this! Lucky.
- TGWD
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Funny thing I was thinking when the Kung-Fu professor popped up, I was expecting a Clouseau/Kato reference but the Kung Tai Ted cameo will do.
I too had seen the MST3K episode of Pod People and found the movie itself enjoyable. Sure it's an E.T. ripoff, but at least they made a happier version of it!
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Well, as far as stitching together corpses movies go, it's no May.
Also being attacked by Kung-Tai obviously-Jerrid
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I thought "May" sucked, a totally obvious "Donnie Darko" ripoff, but what amazed me about the film was that it, in fact, (Spoiler) basically has the exact same ending as "Pieces!" (minus ball squishing of course)
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Amazing how this wasn't listed on the DDP 74 Video Nasties, or maybe it was at one point listed or mentioned.
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Nice to see this posted on the same day Doug put up his commercial video. Gives me 2 reasons to look forward to today.
I' am surprised you didn't mention that the same Ronald Reagan picture also appeared in Pod People in the cabin that evil Trumpy wrecks.
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BASTARD!!! that's awesome...
I can say I've watched Black Devil Doll thanks to you. I want my money back, and I downloaded it for free.
Great reviews mayne.
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The look on your face during the nut-squash, perfect. The screaming and blood and balls, yeccch. Goddammit, you nailed it. A perfect episode, Dig.
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Son of a bitch! If WMM didn't suck, I'd have been uploading my review of Pieces WHILE this was being posted!
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Great review as always, loved the Kung Tai reference.
Also loved the Prisoner reference, I agree.
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Lupa got her revenge. hahaha
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I'd like to see a sequel with the puzzle corpse as a zombie.
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fun ep of a very cool slasher film.
And loved Lupa's cameo <3
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I think that brick joke with Kung Tai Ted is the funniest thing I've seen in months. I literally fell out of my chair laughing. Thanks for making my day so much better Brad.
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Joel fan? Me too.
In John Candy's 1983 movie Going Berserk, gymnastics instructors could control minds. So they had that going for them.
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You and Roth do like the same kind of movies. Out of the two of you though I'd say you're the better film maker.
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I think the first 2/3rds of "Cabin Fever" are pretty good, with some terrific makeup FX (like the girl's lips rotting off). The movie isn't nearly as bad as "Porky's Revenge," I've got to say. However, the film completely falls apart in the last 30 minutes, and becomes totally random with complete horse shit like the Pancakes Kid and the Easter Bunny, and nothing is resolved in any way. It also becomes totally predictable, with the guy coming out of the cave yelling "I made it! I'm alive!" then he gets shot; wow, didn't see that coming. That the film actually ends with a punchline is just retarded, for lack of a better word. Roth clearly had no idea where he was going with the story.
"Hostel" is one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever sat through, it's like a made-for-TV torture-porn movie, and the gore FX were pathetic. However, the sequel "Hostel: Part II" is a pretty decent, underrated thriller, with a particularly disturbing final 15 minutes. Though it wasn't great, it was a vast improvement over the original. Roger Bart (from "Harold and Kumar 2") also made a very effective villain.
Having said that, I do think "Cheap" is much sleazier and more disturbing than anything Roth ever made.
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Incidentally, Cinema Snob, you left out the best part of this movie in your review: when they zoom into that guy wearing the evil-looking mask and Kendall screams like a little girl! He screams girlisly quite a lot in this movie.
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Hey! I kind of like the 1994 version of The Shadow. Of course, it's hard for me to not like anything with a Jim Steinman theme song.
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The thing I found funniest for some reason was there actually is a horrible film where Regan is the killer, and slaughters like 30 hippies.
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Upon reading the top tag line of the Pieces posters, I thought of another famed slasher movie the Snob could tackle: the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It might be something up the Snob's alley.
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Yeah, it still kinda baffles me that it's okay to see slaughter of humans but not a pair of breasts.
Where did we go wrong?
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Because this is a slasher movie, not a porn. Isn't gore the point of a slasher film, and thus, be stupid to censor? It's like saying it would be stupid if the censors cut out all the gore/violence in a porn, but not the nudity/sex.
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Breasts aren't porn. Even some things with full on sex scenes aren't porn.
Porn is primarily aimed at getting people off.
I don't think that's the intent of Anti Christ or Bais Noir or even some of the scenes in Caligula.
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I love how everyone on campus is so nonchalant about all the gruesome chainsaw murders going on. In 1998, there was a decapitation murder at Lindenwood College in St Charles, MO and the whole campus went on lockdown. Everybody was pretty much on edge until the guy who did it was caught. They didn't go for nude swims alone or go walking alone at night.
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I may be a bit biased considering Pieces may be my favorite slasher flick of all time, but this has to be your BEST review so far! It has everything: Pod People, 1942, Human Centipede, racism, revenge for accidentally punching women, everything I tell you!
Also, I was gonna call you out for not making fun of the "BASTARD!" scene, but then I immediately figured that would be your endcap clip. And I was right. Go me.
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Nice! I've been waiting for this for longer than you can imagine. Thank you, Snob.
BOOM!
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I just got through watching this with a group of friend a couple of weeks ago. It's a great party movie. I love it.
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LESLIE NIELSON:"YOU DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DECLARE HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!"
THat was great. Is the big gardener red harring guy the little red haired girls dad in Argento's Deep Red? I'm trying to remember where I know him from. I'm sad now, my Argento and David Lynch DVDs got robbed
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Reagan bytch slap!!
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Nice Prisoner reference.
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BASTARD!!!!!
Keep up the great work, Snobby!
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There was another tagline on the Australian poster:
"You don't have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!"
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I saw that on the American VHS art as well, Vestron Video era! I saw this on video cassette, once owned a crappy budget DVD copy, and now am proud owner of the Grindhouse Releasing special edition. I can't say I love it, but I admire it for attempting a giallo tone even it does come out cheesier than Velveeta. I've been hoping Brad would do this since I heard about Simon's passing, and now it's here, with Obscurus Lupa and Kung Tai Ted cameos, too. As Castor Troy would say, "Bra-fucking-vo." Only thing missing is a soundbite of "Inky Dinky Doo Dah Morning" over Brad changing clothes, which is kind of frightening.
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I really hate to criticize you because you are funny and this show is great. But
When I saw that you were reviewing Pieces I said to myself, "really?" Then you started talking about the movie out of character and about the mst3k Pod People. I left your site and first watched Pieces by itself and then the mst3k of Pod People. Then I watched this.
It's not that you weren't funny (the Reagan and Lupa jokes were great) but the review was less funny than the movies they were making fun of. Let me put it this way so that everyone understands.
If a reviewer/comedian has riffed on Airplane or Naked Gun please let me know. Because all I've ever seen in reviews like this are references to funny jokes in those movies.
I hope that make sense because I'm sure my laundry is done by now and I don't want it to get all wrinkly.
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Bravo, bravo, amazing review, I'm french from Quebec Canada, and I do not want to offend, but the Lupa cameo was so funny. I love your stuff, the more you do it the better you get. The cannibal holaucost review was outstanding. I know an awesome short horror feature films in Montreal (Quebec) I do not know if you know but I could give you access to great horror movies short films. If you are interested: eti.gravel@gmail.com
Love your work, I wish I would have your talent to make horrible movies funny... but your the master.
Thanks again and have a awesome day.
P.S.: Once again I'm french and I do not know how to end a letter
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Short horror film festival... I forgot My english is horrible sorry.
One of the caracters, tje bag man is the funniest thing that happened to horror in 3 years
(Jason X)
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Edmund Purdom! Classically trained act-tooor reduced to the state of a BUM!!!
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Its exactly what you think it is xD
Another awesome one. And wtf was with the ballbusting endscene *.°
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Nice to see Ricki-Oh Got a Cameo in this one...Great Review,Brad!
I have to find this one to add to my Collection!!! It looks very Grindhouse-like.
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Well, that's certain one way to end a movie...
I loved the call-backs in this review.
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Considering the kinds of movies you review, you really are a classy guy Brad, and I say that without irony.
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Ha Ha Lupa cameo that was great.
This movie had a huge WTF ending but it made me laugh at how random it was.
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Awww, no "Wind in my eyes" reference?!
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Very informative, I didn't recognize our hero to be the guy from Pod People. Also the reason behind the random Bruceploitation moment, even though I think you really need any justification for adding random martial art, hehe. I love Pieces so much, and I'm happy to hear you share your honest opinion about it at the beginning. Even though I know you are a fan of this stuff, it's hard to know at times if it's you or The Snob trashing a movie.
I also smiled at the Nightmare City clip. I've got a weakness for that movie.
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Ok, Kung Tai ted beating the shit out of the Snob: funny.
Lupa cameoing just to mock him: HILARIOUS.
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Wait, was that Sylar? aka Zachary Quinto? When did he direct a movie?
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the video is still loading, and Im already excited, LOL.
I am big fan of dissing JP Simon, i love his disastrous movies, i remember watching a few of them as a kid on the local networks. He is worthy of maybe a special or a few episodes devoted to his movies.
Also, if you ever find the time, i would really love it if you would do some reviews on "80's vigilante films". I remember you review for The Exterminator (a Brad Jones review, not the Cinema Snob), but how about snobbing The Executioner 2, a movie sequel with no part one, LOL
or, maybe, i dont know
The Exterminator 2
Wild Thing (1987)
Street Law
Death Wish 4 (most people would say 3, but i love part 3... i believe that part 4 has a lot of goofs that are hilarious,just prime for snobbing,even "Machete" is there)
Actually, many J Lee Thompson movies from the 80s can get the snob treatment, as they are enjoyable as well as disastrous.
Saludos desde Puerto Rico, the land of Bacardi, "progress island" for all you sarcastic MST3k lovers (like me)
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Damn, that's the same Reagan picture from the reanger shack in "Pod People"....and some of the same dub actors came back to do voices! Notice that the Killer's mother in 1942 has the same vice as Tommy's mother in "Pod People." Jesus, this guy was yet another Jess Franco/Ted V. Mikels - and I thought it was bad enough that Ed Wood had clones in Coleman Francis and Larry Buchanan.
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Oh where to begin with Pieces? Well let's start with almost the entire cast of Pod People is there as previously mentioned. I was waiting for Robin Williams to make an appearance during the Bluto beserker scene but hey we move on. As for its rather disturbing and bloody ending, the upside Rick/Kendall is now a a lovely concert soprano. Until of course James Gandolfini and the rest of the mob want a cut of the action.
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I love Pieces. It's proper exploitation.
Every ting that was fashionable at the time was bunged in whether it fitted or not. It's just a hoot.
Eli Roth's problem is that he gives the impression he watches loads of films on weed. Cabin Fever makes not a lick of sense, but is too smug and hip to be fun. All his main characters are crude and stupid and his dialog is abysmal. I like the revenge killing in the toilet at the end of Hostel. it's got that Torn Curtain feel. Hostel 2 is not too bad, but it's like recent Tarantino movies. You watch it and it's sort of entertaining, but at the back of your brain you're thinking:"is this a movie or is he just trying to pick-up girls"?
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I gotta say, I don't see what everybody's problem is with Eli Roth. I was entertained enough by the Hostel movies. You gotta see the guy knows his horror.
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That Bluto looking guy could've played Gregor Clegane back then.
Also, my mom was an aerobics instructor in the 80s.
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Roar. Hear the engines roar now. I'm a virgin!
Big-lipped alligator moment.
Reagan has done plenty of suspic... sorry, wanted to make a good Exorcist joke but couldn't think of one.
Does the killer have a portrait of Grimace above his fireplace?
Poison the Nostalgia Critic's tea? What is that a reference to? Is this going to pop up in an upcoming Nostalgia Critic episode?
Are we going back to the days when paranoia was considered a consequence of homosexuality?
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lol, that ending reminded me of Lamberto Bava's "Macabre".
I remember seeing clips of "Pieces" in that slasher documentary called "Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Genre". Looks fun.
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Good review again, Juan Piquer Simon is an interesting director with nice, trashy movies.
About the ending: The first time I saw it and now again, it reminds me of the first "Friday the 13th", were in an oterwise non-fantasy-flic there comes a turn to the fantastic as a last shock in the very last scene of the movie. Nice tribut or shamless copy? You decide!
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At 6:10 - 6:14, the lady could've easily escaped by ROLLING TO THE RIGHT!
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The actor who you wear calling pluto was all so in david lynch's DUNE as beast reban
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Everyone loves Less-Lee Neilson, and kung-fu Ronald Reagen.
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OK, wwhile I do enjoy Brad's reviews, I just had to comment on the scene where the boy murders his mother. I mean, I have nothing against depicting children with serious problems or even child sexuality, just as long as a)the children don't actuallypartake in the violence and b)if they have to, they would have to be old enough to understand and not graphically do the things they do. There was a movie called sweet sweetback which had a teen performing (other wise simulated) sex but it still is wrong because I hear that the scene is rather graphic.
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WARNING: This review may contain traces of BASTARD!!!
Great work as always,Snobby!
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Actually Cinema Snob, the urine coming out of the women at 10:50 can actually be explained. When a person dies, all their body fluids come out because when you die air is released and drains all your urine.
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Wait, was that Bruce Le as the "kung fu professor"? Kinda looked like it might have been him... but IMDB credits no one in the role.
Also, this makes the second film to feature both Paul Smith AND Bruceploitation. The first being Bruce Li's "Return Of The Tiger".
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