Tuesday, August 29, 2017

WHAT WOULD YOU WATCH?


What would be of more interest to you?  A Belly-Dancing Stripper or a Drug-Using Donkey?

This is a tough one as we delve deeper into the psychology and moral progression of ‘wild and crazy’ party scenes from the 80s.

The party scene in Weird Science (1985) was reserved for high-schoolers and represented more of a soiree feel with its use of a fully-stocked buffet table.

Risky Business (1983) had some light drinking, but was more memorable for its deviant display of suburban teenage hormones fused with hookers, certainly upping the ante versus Weird Science.

With a film titled Bachelor Party, the viewer expects to see a stripper do their bit at some point.  A donkey doing copious amounts of pills and blow takes the party up a notch.  It’s subversive and yet honest, as there is always a guest at the party bogarting someone else’s drugs.

We at Nitflix find humor in this and beseech the producers of the film for a re-edit.  Give us more of the Drug-Using Donkey.


Monday, August 21, 2017

REST IN PEACE: SONNY LANDHAM (1941-2017)

Hollywood lost one its perennial ‘bad-asses’ this past week in actor Sonny Landham.  He was 76 years old.
 
Sinister, scowling, black-hearted film roles are what we’ll remember about him the most, namely with 48 Hrs. and Predator.

However, one of Hollywood’s elite gave Landham his due (thank you,Daily Mirror UK).  

Sylvester Stallone touted the late actor as his co-star in Lock Up (1989), which is arguably Landham’s most dramatically-centered role.  He portrays a prisoner who is commissioned by the warden (Donald Sutherland) to make life a living hell for prisoner Frank Leoni (Stallone).

This is evident in the prison yard-football game scene (watch it here).  

The editors wanted to thank Stallone for his acknowledgement of his co-star, as we salute Landham’s performance and his contributions to the silver screen. 


Friday, August 18, 2017

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING

OVER THE EDGE (1979)

Any self-respecting Gen-X’er has seen the film Over the Edge (trailer here).

The film featured a young, Matt Dillon exuding the long-haired teenage outcast and displayed the precursor to his role in The Outsiders.

The editors at Nitflix has seen this movie on more than one occasion and have always been curious to the character of Tip.  For those that need a refresher course, Tip sells some hash to Claude and rats him out to the cops to take some heat off themselves.
 
Matt Dillon holds Tip at gunpoint attempting frontier justice and exclaims, “A kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid.”  Has anyone figured out if Tip is a boy or a girl?  Their high, raspy voice and bangs are reminiscent of Peppermint Patty, but they have the build of a boy.

The clip is here between 7:21 and 7:46

We urge you to do your research on this, for we have already done ours and know the answer.