Willard!

Cafe Society
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I just got back from Willard, and had a campy good time, just as expected.

The plot was a bit thin and predictable, but who really cares? It’s a modern B-movie, and it has Crispin Glover. And rats. I adore both rats and Crispin Glover (who is looking his creepiest, pallid-est and hottest by far), and since 95% of the movie’s screen time is filled by one or the other there was really no way I wouldn’t enjoy the movie.

I don’t understand the extensive marketing New Line is doing, though. Willard seems like it was made to have a somewhat limited release, be adored and hated, and drift off into cult obscurity, much like the original.

So yeah: Glover, rats, all good. If you are a fan of either, I say go out and have a ball and start thinking up sassy callbacks for midnight screenings 15 years down the line.

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So, how does this affect rat PR? The wife and I want to see it, but all I can think is, “man, this’ll make people hate rats even more.” Still, I wanna see it.

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Or you might rent the original and watch it before you go see the remake.

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I’d say if you hate rats before seeing the movie, you’ll just hate them more. If you loved rats, you will be rockin’ out in your seat every time Willard makes a sobby face or gets uber-emotional over his rats. If you are nonplussed by rats, you might actually start to understand crazy rat-people like me. Socrates is adorable!!, and the rats in general are painted in a “heroically sinister” light.

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Well, either way, it’s just going to make me want to train our rats to, um, tear things up… doubt they’d actually do it though.

Reeder: will do.

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The only thing better than a movie about rats is a movie about rats staring Crispin Glover. Its funny how the only people that seemed to like Willard own rats. I counted 3 people out of the dozen or so at the the theater walk out before the movie was over, but my sister and I(with 4 rats between us) loved it. What he did after he visited his boss’s office that night did kind of ruin it a bit for me. Anyone see Glover’s music video for the movie? Wonderfully creepy.

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I just saw it last night. I thought it was sort of predictable but fun. Crispin Glover is terrific of, course. Nobody does crazy like Crispin.

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I heard a coalition of rats were picketing outside the studios because they object to the negative stereotyping. They wrote a letter of protest but no one can read it (their handwriting is just too darned small.)

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In all the photos I’ve seen, Crispin Glover looks exactly like Aubrey Beardsley! Weird.

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I thought Ben was a cutey. He kind of looked liked a bat.

Do you think that Socrates and Ben were played by female rats, at least for part of the film? I was not certain.