Just found Rubber on Netflix and I’m blown away (heh). How did this not win Best Picture? Why had I not heard of it before?
No fucking reason, I guess.
I haven’t smoked weed in a long time, but I kept thinking throughout: this would be amazing stoned.
I remember when the trailer came out and I thought it was the greatest idea ever. But watching an entire movie of it strikes me as overkill.
Loved it. Bought a copy. On Blu-ray.
More like… roadkill.
Totally read that as “Flubber” and wonder how anyone could have such taste
Okay, I just watched it…question still stands.
Rigamarole, you’d probably like “Troll Hunter” on Netflix. Surprisingly good film, for the concept!
I LOVED Rubber.
The mannequin with the bomb and the speaker was just hilarious.
Brilliant film.
After I watched it, I was like, that was so stupid.
There’s a very fine line between stupidity and genius.
I haven’t laughed so hysterically in a long, long time. It’s the absurdity of it all that really gets me.
“But… this is real life Chad, we have a dead body over here.”
“No, come on, it’s not real life. Look at you, you have a stuffed toy alligator under your arm.”
“… so?”
Me too, although I was working part-time in a picture house when it came out.
Answer: Kids.
It didn’t really work for me, and that’s too bad, because we were really looking forward to it. But the concept was a good one.
A Perfect Host and **Trollhunter **are brilliant, though.
A friend recommended it to me, and I found it on On Demand. I never got a chance to watch it though. I’ll have to see if it’s still there.
I must admit, there are few films that could not be improved by adding a telepathic, evil, murderous tire:
Citizen Kane “You’re right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year–OMIGOD!” [Kane is run over by a tire]
**Casablanca **“Play it once, Sam. For old times’ sake–OMIGOD!” [Ilsa and Sam are run over by a tire]
Gone with the Wind “You can take it all back to the kitchen; I won’t eat a bite–OMIGOD!” [Scarlett and Mammy are run over by a tire]
The Wizard of Oz “Let the joyous news be spread! The Wicked Old Witch at last is–OMIGOD!” [Dorothy and several Munchkins are run over by a tire]
That sounds like a good corollary to this section of Michael O’Donoghue’s instructional essay “How To Write Good”:
Bicycle Thieves “What a beautiful day. Wait, what’s this? Bloody footprints? It almost looks like somebody was trying to steal my bicycle and something killed them. But I guess I’ll never know what happened. Oh well, back to work.”
Actually the tire “looks” at the people and their heads explode.
*Gosh *I loved Michael O’Donoghue.
Imagine a story that ended with a truck that ran over everybody else in the story. Only that truck had giant needles stuck in its murderous tires. I think it would go something like this:
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