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Straight to Hell (1987) + Extras [w/Commentary]
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Straight to Hell (1987) + Extras
DVDRip | AVI | 688x368 | XviD @ 1810 Kbps | 82 min | 1,27 Gb + 255 Mb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary track | Subs: None
Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
DVDRip | AVI | 688x368 | XviD @ 1810 Kbps | 82 min | 1,27 Gb + 255 Mb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary track | Subs: None
Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
Director: Alex Cox
Writers: Alex Cox, Dick Rude
Stars: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee. The townspeople are hostile to the outsiders at first, but seem to accept them once they've killed a couple of people. After a while, a mysterious man named Dade arrives, who seems to have unpleasant business to settle with the robbers. A free-for-all shoot-em-up ensues.
The price of man's obsessions are a trip Straight to Hell (in a rented red import no less). There is no nuance in this movie, just blood, money, coffee, guns and sexual tension. There is a pregnant demon named Velma and a Christ figure named Karl. All but two of the characters in the movie are hardly characters at all, just expressions of lust and obsession. Conveniently they are all played by non-actors (Musicians that couldn't get the backing to do a concert in Nicaragua in '87). Dennis Hopper plays what is essentially Mephistophilis calling all the players home to hell. Sy Richardson's Norwood is the only character who is not ruled by his obsessions. In this morality play that is what separates his fate from everyone else's. An important commentary on our modern world. Or maybe it was just all that mescaline.
Seriously folks cut Alex some slack. The picture is beautifully filmed. The people who can't act are given one dimensional roles which is highly preferable to giving someone that has no acting ability a role with weight and importance (Daryl Hannah in Wall Street, Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing). It's got a fantastic soundtrack and Karl doing the Weiner Dog Song is one of the funniest things ever. Really. Ever.
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Straight to Hell (1987) + Extras [w/Commentary]
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Audio commentary: with writer/director Alex Cox and co-writer Dick Rude
Extras:
– "Back to Hell" documentary (23:21)
– Pogues Promo (2:36)
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