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Trigger Happy / Mad Dog Time

 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
19:39 / 10.06.02
``Mad Dog Time'' should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor.

Trigger Happy plays like a Rat Pack- obsessed retro-hipster's vision of a '90s black comedy

Very possibly the most hated movie of all time. But why? I actually really like it. It's weird as hell, occasionally funny, has a cast to die for. The reviews in the UK were much more favourable.

Anyone seen it apart from me? And, more importantly, does anyone know if there was ever a soundtrack?
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
19:57 / 10.06.02
I don't understand either, Nick. It lit my pumpkin. In particular, Gabriel Byrne as Brass Balls Ben London, the master of needless irritation. His version of 'My Way'...
It's bizarre, style over substance stuff. But it's little touches redeem it, like the duels in the basement, or Vic's return in a dressing gown, or the fact that most of the character's names rhyme. OK, I know those reasons are pretty paper thin.
There's a great interview with the director here: http://www.mgmua.com/maddog/interview.html
 
 
Margin Walker
20:25 / 10.06.02
I will now seek out this film because of Roger Ebert's first words:

``Mad Dog Time'' is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching ``Mad Dog Time'' is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.

And the plot sounds very "Hudson Hawk"-ish, which is either really good or really bad depending on your tastes....
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
09:26 / 11.06.02
Okay, see, it's not anything like Hudson Hawk. I hated Hudson Hawk. It's like a cross between 'Get Shorty', 'Unforgiven' and 'Smoke'.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
16:22 / 13.06.02
Nick is not wrong. It's wonderful... Brass Balls... the classy, off-kilter showdowns across desks... Burt Reynolds in a wigtastic manic role... and the subtextual shit, where the entire movie could all be going on in Richard Dreyfus' head... a cult classic in the making.

And can I find it to buy? Can I buggery.
 
  
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