rattlers ( film )
this article is about the british film. for the american film, see cherry bomb (film) .
espanola coach manny medina saw the rattlers play against the horsemen on saturday and is preparing for a good and tough game with the rattlers. the rattlers get off the ball well and have some defensive and offensive schemes that are hard to adjust to, said medina .
shock’s lee gambin takes a thoughtful, sociological look at the 1976 eco - horror rattlers .
adding to the issues of the rattlers was their performance on special teams. with blocked kicks and miscues, the rattlers gave away momentum with out - of - sync efforts on special teams .
l the rattlers will play against the sundevils at 7 p. m. , friday at espanola .
the film was so incredibly bad - nearly every aspect was evidence of poor decision ...
the ending of the film turns out to be the opening sequence to the film. although we only see bits and pieces of the ending interrogation, the audience gets to hear of malachy' s and luke' s final words on the incident before the film cuts out. [ 6 ]
with the headline: film review: natural born killers; young lovers with a flaw that proves fatal .
the rattlers had a rocky start to the season with a 40 - 7 loss to the 3a st. michael’s horseman saturday .
l the tucumcari lady rattlers (0 - 1) will play 4: 30 p. m. , thursday at elida .
some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film .
traverse city — they’ve been based in los angeles the past three years, but the michigan rattlers aren’t shy about showing off their roots .
l the logan longhorns (0 - 1) next game is 4 p. m. , saturday against the tucumcari rattlers at logan .
rattlers - regia di john mccauley - cast. sam chew jr - dan priest - ronald gold - fantascientifico - colore - stati uniti - trailer
the rattlers had just 262 yards of total offense, their lowest fcs output of the year. after nearly a week of interrupted practice due to hurricane irma, which followed a bye week, the rattlers did not pick up where they left off with an admirable performance against the arkansas razorbacks .
i prefer the traditional siren as well, however; the siren in
the alien factor
will make you laugh. so will the jokes and the riffs and unspecial effects and the lack of a budget of and kind at all. this movie must have been made by high school kids, i would have given them an
a -
for effort. this film made by people that are legit in the film industry? wow! just no. production values: none, check. actors, probably friends or the unforgiven that gave money to make the film or some folks walking by when there was film in the one camera, check. i would say, that if someone made a film that did none of things done in this film, you might be on the way to actual film making. go opposite day. one of the best from cinematic titanic. the
live
factor makes it even better .
“we made some mistakes against st. mike' s but we are already working on fixing those mistakes, ” said rattlers coach dub smith. “we watched the film of the st. mike' s game on monday and went over what we needed to work on with the players. ”
despite the loss, the rattlers are moving forward, said smith. the team is now concentrating on their next challenge of espanola, said smith. espanola’s coach has done an outstanding job with the team, said smith. winning against espanola would be a giant step forward in the season for the rattlers, said smith .
having experienced cinematic titanic live for two different shows in 2013 i immediately wanted to get cinematic titanic live - rattlers and the ct crew did not let me down .
we have not seen any film of house so that will be a challenge for us ,
said san jon' s coach waymond ragland .
a film i got from the mill creek drive - in 50 - pack collection. mutant rattlesnakes attack people while sam parkinson, a noted herpetologist, and ann bradley, photographer and die hard feminist are hot on the trail in search of the answers. the film started out just
ok
then entered ann bradley into the picture and i was turned off. ann bradley is quite irritating with her in your face feminism. as soon as you are introduced to the character ann bradley you will hear a sermon all about women' s lib with a crappy attitude towards men and basically the world. she' s hateful and irritating. if she was not in this film then i might like it better. i could not stand listening to her gripping yakety - yak - i was wanting a horror film not a film on feminism. she ruins an otherwise
ok
but not great film. 2 / 10
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
the african americans: many rivers to cross is a film by kunhardt mcgee productions, thirteen productions llc, inkwell films, in assocation with ark media .
scott levenson (l) and jordan yale levine attend the producers reception during the 2016 tribeca film festival on april 19, 2016 in new york city .
cherrybomb is a 2009 british drama film directed by lisa barros d' sa and glenn leyburn. it stars rupert grint, kimberley nixon, robert sheehan and james nesbitt. filming began on location in belfast on 7 july 2008, and lasted four weeks. [ 2 ] the film includes nudity, drinking, drugs, shop - lifting and car theft. [ 3 ] it was released to dvd on 23 august 2010 in the united kingdom. it premiered in the united states in september 2009 at the los angeles irish film festival. [ 4 ] the film' s theme song is
cherry bomb
by the runaways .
arizona rattlers v. salt lake screaming eagles when the arizona rattlers made the leap from the arena football league last offseason, they knew well what they were leaving behind — a foundering league that they had dominated for years. this season, however, they’re discovering what they’ve gotten themselves in to. not only is the competition stiffer, there’s also twice as many teams to contend with in the indoor football league. still the rattlers have fared well in their inaugural run, winning six of their first 10 games. and with conference punching bags the salt lake screaming eagles visiting talking stick resort arena, 201 east jefferson street, at 6 p. m. on saturday, may 20, the rattlers face a golden opportunity to pad the win column as they battle for their first ifl playoff berth. tickets are $ 8 and up. visit the arizona rattlers website or call 602 - 379 - 7800 for details. rob kroehler
the rattlers had a tough schedule like this last year but still did well going into the playoffs and beat one the state' s best teams last year which was capitan, said smith .
rattle snakes are attacking in droves and unprovoked. a militarily bio - lab is in the area. sam chew jr. and elisabeth chauvet investigate. this is a pretty straight forward, not too mysterious film with cut footage of rattlers added, but not as obvious as a fine ed wood production. i watched the film on a 50 dvd set and the sound was not restored, hollow in some areas, uneven in others, and a buzz at the end. film quality could have been better too. it does contain the classic woman in the tub scene as snakes come into the tub and she doesn' t even try to get out. guide: no swearing of nudity. implied sex .
rattlers is an suspenseless creature feature that goes on for too long, even though it only lasts 82 minutes. long story made short, something in the desert is turning rattlesnakes into killing machines. a male female research team is called in to find out what. although the beginning of the film has a rapid series of snake attacks, midway through it gets bogged down in conspiracy subplots and a budding romance between the two leads. when people watch a movie called
rattlers
they want to see snake bites, not gumshoeing. to make matters worse, the characters talk about how gruesome the victims' bodies are, but the corpses are never shown. the film might be rated pg, but keep in mind this is a 70s pg, which could be stretched for a lot of gore (e. g. jaws). also, there is no real final confrontation with the snakes, which is a prerequisite for this kind of film .
the film has garnered good reviews from critics but holds no rating on rotten tomatoes, although the audience rating is currently at an average of 3. 1 / 5. [ 7 ]
rattlers seems to be obsessed with male / female relations – ann is assertively feminist in her opinions about women shattering the glass ceiling, and her constant vocalization of her political beliefs are incessantly pitched throughout the film. this however, does not make her character repetitious, instead it heightens her motives, grounds her relationship (both professionally and romantically) with the male lead and her cool handling of heated situations shows us the audience that this is a woman who doesnt let misogyny get in the way of her work as she investigates the snake attacks that become increasingly popular as the film progresses .
this roman polanski classic revolves around jack nicholson' s dogged attempts to unearth the identity of the nefarious individual who owns valuable water rights in the san fernando valley. it takes nicholson the entire film to figure out that john huston is the puppet master here. today, all this stuff about crooked developers and water rights would already be on thesmokinggun. com, so no feisty gumshoe would be needed. the film would simply never get off the ground .
forget it, jack ,
would be the final line in the film .
it' s wikileaks .
special to the record - eagle / shelby goldsteingraham young and adam reed are the michigan rattlers. the petoskey high school friends were named by rolling stone as one of “10 new country artists you need to know .
“the rattlers had a few mistakes (saturday), like dropping the ball, but we know that they will be working on correcting those mistakes and will be ready to play come friday, ” said medina. “we have a lot of respect for coach smith and the rattlers. we know that each week they are working at getting better just like we do and they are one of the toughest 2a football teams in the state. ”
despite their lingering affinity for the great lakes state, the pull of los angeles’ music scene drew them to the west coast after college, with young settling in california first before convincing reed to join him to start michigan rattlers .
hilarious, simply hilarious. the film was so incredibly bad - nearly every aspect was evidence of poor decision making on the part of the film' s producer, director, and casting directors that it was rife for riffing. joel and the gang broke into giggles frequently which makes for even greater fun. the scene in the bar with the rock band will have you rolling. not one disappointing moment .
after seeing the film at sundance, as i reported at the time, i got in a conversation with three women who said they thought it was
existential .
existential ?
i asked .
tampa, fla (sept. 16) – florida a & m couldn’t solve the offense of the tennessee state as the tigers defeated the rattlers 24 - 13 in the inaugural famu tampa classic in front of over 17, 000 fans at raymond james stadium. the defense, which had early indicators of being the strength of the rattlers, gave up 514 yards to the tigers who used a balanced attack to keep the team from honing in on a defensive solution .
bowers led the rattlers on the ground with 34 yards rushing. stanley followed with 12 yards. brandon norwood led the receivers with 76 yards on eight receptions. famu redshirt freshman, chad hunter, had 46 yards on two receptions .
this is really a zero star film, but i got two stars of ironic entertainment out of this hilariously bad nature - gone - wild story about a deadly horde of rattlesnakes. a scientist discovers that the titular snakes have become infected by nerve gas dumped in the desert by the military, causing them to become highly aggressive. the film does get points for doing the unacceptable act of killing off children in the opening scenes, and it gets bonus points for filming those opening death scenes in a most supremely incompetent manner. overall ,
rattlers
is not scary, has a ridiculous story, but is a must - see for connoisseurs of bad cinema .
special to the record - eagle / anna sink for local spins the michigan rattlers at south by southwest in austin, texas. the group, formed in petoskey, currently based in l. a. , will tour northern michigan venues this summer .
i am so pissed off with hollywood now. hundreds of script writers who are churning out one golden egg after another on tv, yet are wearing a creative straight jacket by film producers too scared to invest in anything approaching originality .
cherrybomb premiered at the 2009 berlin international film festival, but was initially unable to find a distributor. an online campaign by grint' s fans was credited with helping to secure a deal for distribution in the united kingdom. [ 5 ]
could not help but prove a money - maker for novak, who distributed the film to more than a dozen foreign markets, among them the philippines, japan, taiwan, greece, egypt, italy, iran, israel, and portugal .
the rattlesnakes first kill an old man off - screen. they then (in our film' s opening sequence) kill two ten - year old floppy - haired boys who were stupid enough to go out wandering in the desert and fell into a nest of rattlers. with their small bodies, it wouldn' t take more than a few bites to kill them, but we learn later that the corpses show dozens and dozens of bites, as if the snakes swarmed them, biting and slashing and poking, even post - mortem .
anyway, we need to get these rattlers wrangled so let' s meet our film' s hero, dashing young herpetologist tom from ucla. no, he doesn' t study herpes (that' s your mom), he studies snakes and snake related things. tom is a walking, talking wikipedia entry for
1970s fashions
and in almost every scene he' s wearing a different far - out tweed and polyester outfit (surely fetching big coin in any trendy la vintage shop now). his hair also seems to be a sentient being .
the rattlers, after the extended layoff, will have two games in 12 days as they begin conference play in savannah, ga. , on sept. 23 and return to bragg stadium on thurs. , sept. 28 to take on the 2016 meac champion north carolina central eagles on espnu .
jeffrey sammons talked about his book, harlem’s rattlers and the great war: the undaunted 369th regiment and the african american quest for equality, in which he recounts the first african - american regiment to fight in world war i, the 369th infantry regiment. the unit was dubbed the “harlem hellfighters, ” a nickname the author said the regiment eschewed for the “harlem rattlers. ” in his book, mr. sammons examines the regiment’s leadership, its actions in the field of battle, and the challenges the men faced following the war. jeffrey sammons spoke at medgar evers college in brooklyn, new york .
jeffrey sammons talked about his book, harlem’s rattlers and the great war: the undaunted 369th regiment and the african american quest for equality, in which he recounts the first african - american regiment to fight in world war i, the 369th infantry regiment. the unit was dubbed the “harlem hellfighters, ” a nickname the author said the regiment eschewed for the “harlem rattlers. ” in his book, mr. sammons examines the regiment’s leadership, its actions in the field of battle, and the challenges the men faced following the war. jeffrey sammons spoke at medgar evers college in brooklyn, new york. close
cinematic titanic: rattlers is a movie starring trace beaulieu, frank conniff, and joel hodgson. something is very wrong in the southwestern desert! it starts when rogue rattlesnakes attack two young boys, and it goes downhill from there. the local authorities summon herpetologist dr... . see full summary »
mr. harrelson and ms. lewis deal as captivatingly as they can with the film' s wavering attitudes toward their characters. both hit the requisite raw nerves, and both also make sense of the material' s occasional romantic reveries. used in a labored effort to give this story a spiritual dimension is russell means, as the only character in the film whose life means anything to mickey and mallory. balthazar getty is seen briefly as a young man who gets killed at a gas station, which probably qualifies as some kind of black joke .
okay, i' m exaggerating when i call this a classic, but i like these' 70s revenge - of - nature films. i remember seeing the trailers for films like
rattlers
and
grizzly
and
empire of the ants
on tv when i was a kid. but would my parents ever let me attend these gems? heavens no! so now i' m making up for lost time as an adult, rediscovering these terrible films from my youth. in many ways these films are like a time machine to another era - - an era with bad clothing, terrible dialogue, cool cars, and in - your - face feminism, buster! while you can' t really destroy the plot of
rattlers
( rattlesnakes attack people, duh !), i would urge you to watch the film for the
performance
of the main female lead. you haven' t seen cardboard until you' ve seen her. wow. awesome .
in takashi miike' s excellent 2003 film – the 2008 american remake is not quite up to snuff – innocent japanese kids get phone messages from beyond the grave warning them that they are next in line to die a horrible death. phone messages make great cinema, due to the evocative power of the human voice. but one missed text? one missed tweet? just not the same. another thing: in more than one asian horror flick, photographers developing film in their dark rooms get murdered by people who unexpectedly come to life during the developing process. those days are gone. thanks, digital camera .
and for some inexplicable reason, our film decides that it needs to stop being a rampaging monster movie and instead become a romantic comedy! off to las vegas (vegas, huh ?) now as tom casts off his inhibitions and gets down to the business of giving ann the business end of his... uh, business. what the holy hell is the point of this ten minute interlude? did the focus group who test audience' d this film (ha !) say they needed more kissy - kissy and less hissy - hissy? were the producers worried that the housewives in the audience (of
while ann learns all there is to know about snakes, tom learns something about acquired feminism and the burgeoning womens movement in response to the issue of the workplace situation during americas grueling recession post - vietnam. what makes the tom character interesting and complicated is that his sexism is somehow inherit and undiagnosed; ultimately he is likeable and liberal minded and yet the film presents him as a man who discovers his personal misogyny through his partners fervent feminism. ann and tom both learn and that is the fundamental centerpiece of what could superficially simply be ranked as straight up exploitation; in many regards, rattlers makes a hefty point and delivers this point with entertainment clearly in key focus .
jaws also had an engaging leading man playing someone who is ill - equipped to deal with a deadly force of nature, yet must for the greater good. rattlers has someone with standard ’70s helmet - hair who is also a bit of a smarty - pants type. jaws had, at times, a sense of humor where rattlers is as serious as a heart attack, and thus cannot be taken seriously at all, which makes it perfect for cinematic titanic. the team of joel hodgson, trace beaulieu, mary jo pehl, j. elvis weinstein and, yes, home video’s frank conniff have worked together for many years so you can expect they will be at the top of their game (s) .
near the end of his career, and with hardcore pornography having eclipsed his comparatively modest gains in the raincoat market, novak put his money behind the occasional horror film, guaranteed money - makers in inner city grindhouses and on the southern drive - in circuit. novak produced a softcore remake of the roger corman killer plant classic
a snake expert and photographer are tasked with investigating a series of fatal snake attacks in the mojave desert. their detective work leads them to a nearby military base. i found rattlers to be a lot of fun. its story is simple but it basically works. it never gets boring and essentially delivers the requisite snake action you would expect. its budget restrictions means that some of these scenes might seem a bit clunky at times but it didn' t bother me to tell you the truth. the story kept me interested the whole time and the explanation for the psychotic snakes was ultimately decent enough. i guess you could say that rattlers essentially does what it promises to do and that is present a film with a series of snake attack scenes. for those of you with a taste for low budget 70' s american horror films then this one should suffice. there is also a bit of male / female bickering about the merits of liberated women which puts it firmly in the decade it was made but which is also quite amusing to watch now .
i guess they included that opening title for a little fan service. they have to acknowledge the original film for fans, along with dropping references within the movie to it, like slimer and a big twinkee sign in times square. it’s become this unspoken mandatory rule when remaking a movie to be sure to reference the original movie .
los cinco titanic brought their presentation of rattlers to morristown, new jersey’s mayo center for the arts in 2011. that performance is not the one seen on this disc but the jokes are scripted. it is the same performance in most ways, excepting the circumstances that no two audiences are the same and laughing along with a real audience works differently than with one on your television screen .
to illustrate this point, in the following paragraphs we will examine instances where mobile phones and twitter and facebook and google and linkedin and droids and ipads and the internet in general would have altered, and in many cases destroyed, the plots of classic motion pictures down through the ages, often making it impossible to film them in the first place .
in the natural horror film or the ecologically themed horror film  a subgenre that truly came to mass fruition during the tumultuous and turbulent seventies – there were character archetypes typically found within the narrative fabric that were extensions and bi - products of societal conditions and the cultural climate. one of the most popular of these prototypes is the sympathetic specialist or the intellectual independent presented as a smart, savvy, beautiful and self - possessed young woman. these characters are generally linked in some way to the natural order, or have a deep understanding of the featured animal / threat and therefore can lead or assist in controlling the devastation that has been unleashed upon unsuspecting civilians tormented by hordes of killer bees, dogs, spiders and so forth .
as played by mr. downey with a thick australian accent and perfect lip - smacking unctuousness, wayne is one of the film' s more deft inventions. but he, like everything else about
natural born killers ,
is allowed to go overboard. after their operatic arrest in a ghastly, green - lit drugstore (another of mr. stone' s genuinely disturbing images), mickey and mallory go to prison and are manipulated by a leering detective (tom sizemore) and a publicity - happy warden (tommy lee jones). even before it culminates in an actual riot, this section of the film becomes hysterical, to the point where it even features the rare out - of - control performance from mr. jones .
famu quarterback, ryan stanley, is looking to get the team back on track for the beginning of meac play. ‘we’re 0 - 0 in the conference and still have a long season ahead of us. i haven’t even seen them on film yet. we’ll come out and see what they do and go get that first conference win next week, ” he said .
killer rattlesnakes of the american southwest gather up in large numbers and start unprovoked attacks on people, and it' s up to a male expert on reptiles and a female photographer to find out why and stop them .
rattlers
has a thin, one - note script that can barely sustain even the 79 minutes of its running time, and the snake - attack scenes aren' t anything to write home about either, though at least the snakes are real which is instantly preferable to the obvious cgi we would probably get in a similar film today. the print i saw was in pretty poor shape, and made a constant crackling sound, as if someone was burning it up; the movie is not offensively bad (apart maybe from the scene near the end where the two heroes are enjoying a carefree romance in vegas without having done anything to stop the snakes first !), but it is so unremarkable that if someone did burn the master print up few people would probably notice. on a side note, the female lead is absolutely gorgeous. i was somewhat surprised to find out that she never made another film. (* * )
this was a film i knew i wasn' t looking forward to seeing since i' m not a fan of feig' s nor of wiig' s or mccarthy' s. simply, i have never found these two funny whatsoever. but i might just be surprised, i mean it' s good to keep an open mind on a few things. but after seeing the trailer, my close mindedness might win out. not only is this a remake, but the jokes are simply not funny. a few seconds in and crack jokes are already on display, not to mention the stereotyping of these characters is not only wrong, but so outdated that this film has a far more backward mentality than some sex comedies of the 80s. after seeing this trailer twice, i went on youtube and looked up my favourite ghostbusters scenes and you know what, the jokes are filled with wit and humour and the characters are very likeable and actually try to transcend stereotyping. sorry but from this trailer this film is going to suck, and i bet all the critics will be championing just so that they don' t seem sexist .
while they conceded it hasn’t always been easy gaining “natural traction” in los angeles, the duo has turned some heads. the michigan rattlers released an acclaimed five - song ep last fall that was produced by johnny k (plain white t’s, 3 doors down) and were named by rolling stone as one of “10 new country artists you need to know, ” compared to the likes of ryan adams, early wilco and old 97’s .
the most difficult thing the cinematic titanic crew needs to do is to latch onto a movie that is so bad mocking it becomes easy, but not so bad that the overall awfulness envelops their jokes. that was the problem with the crew’s prior riff - spin on war of the insects. i’m pleased to say that is not the case with rattlers. i will say, however, the dvd experience is not as good as the live experience .
tsu got on the board in the first quarter with a field goal with 3: 29 remaining. the second quarter, the rattlers took the lead on a devin bowers one - yard touchdown run. the extra point was blocked with an errant snap and hold. tsu would regain the lead for good with 1: 55 remaining in the half on a 44 - yard touchdown, which featured a spectacular run and catch by steven newbold. the gave tsu a 10 - 6 lead going into halftime .
animal scorpius dance theatre’s newest show, animal, explores the interactions between beasts and humans — and the behavior and physicality of domestic and wild animals through nine dance pieces. the show also explores the connection between pets and their owners through a series of funny interludes and a short film. inspired by artistic director lisa starry’s love of animals, the show is upbeat in tone but also delves into the experiences of caged animals through a multidisciplinary piece combining dance and film at phoenix theatre. a visual art display in the lobby will feature animal - inspired artwork by metropolitan arts institute students, and a portion of the proceeds from the show will go to the lost our home pet rescue. showtime is 8 p. m. on saturday, may 20, at 100 east mcdowell road. tickets are $ 25 and up. for more information, call 602 - 254 - 2151 or see the scorpius dance website. laura latzko
once learning that it is indeed a remake has also upset and disappointed fans. the more casual fans who haven’t been following the evolution of this movie for decades are just getting clued in on this. despite the original film coming out thirty - two years ago, a lot of fans wanted to see a continuation of that story and to be treated to seeing as much of the main cast back in their roles as feig managed to shanghai. that ain’t happening .
with more sophistry than poetry, oliver stone apotheosizes these trash archetypes in
natural born killers ,
his supposed satire about an america despoiled by violence and exploitation. satire? in his skill as a manipulator of thoughts and images, in his short - circuiting ordinary narrative, and in his intuitive visual brilliance, mr. stone could well turn out to be the most influential american film maker of his generation. but as a satirist, he' s an elephant ballerina .
tom and ann go to talk to a glider pilot in the local hospital. this man says he landed his glider in the desert nearby and was attacked by a swarm of rattlesnakes, just barely escaping with his life. his story lends credence to tom' s theory that for some reason the rattlesnakes of this area have become kill - crazy. oddly, the man playing the pilot is by far the best actor in this entire film, reading his lines with great gusto and enthusiasm .
then he joins in, as mr. stone pumps up the music, switches film stock, lets the camera sway vertiginously, shows a bullet circling playfully toward the scared face of someone about to die, and so on. grand flourish: when the spree is over, mickey and mallory dance together to
la vie en rose ,
with fireworks exploding romantically behind them. mini - witticism: mickey may have killed almost everyone in sight, but when he spoke to the waitress, he ordered nonfat milk .
here is the central paradox in all this: directors have no problem getting an audience to believe in ghosts, vampires, succubi, extraterrestrials, poltergeists, gremlins, wizards, giant worms, latter - day dinosaurs or rustic werewolves who seem to have unlimited access to steroids; all that is deemed perfectly logical and believable. but it is impossible to get anyone to believe that a character in a horror film or thriller would not be armed with the technology needed to foil the depredations of his rampaging, bloodthirsty stepfather .
there will most likely be constant nods to the original film bouncing around all over the place. so much for feig doing a completely clean reboot, establishing his own ghostbusters movie and not wanting to be tied to the earlier films like he has said. we’ll be constantly reminded of the originals i’m betting. but the inclusion of fan service within in the trailer kind of gives the false illusion this is a sequel and that has perplexed some people as to what this movie is going to be. bad call on sony’s part .
meanwhile, how can anything mr. stone says about his characters be dismissed as tasteless or unfunny, since they themselves are meant to be embodiments of a tasteless world ?
i love mallory ,
a grotesque sitcom version of mallory' s childhood, with rodney dangerfield in stained underwear as her lecherous father, is fairly typical of the film' s light touch. arriving on the scene as the prince charming who will rescue mallory by helping to murder her parents, mickey shows up carrying a dripping 50 - pound bag of raw meat .
scratch the frenzied, hyperkinetic surface of
natural born killers
and you find remarkably banal notions about mickey, mallory and the demon media. (
media' s like weather, only it' s man - made weather ,
says mickey, delivering one of the rare memorable lines in the screenplay .) to wit: born bad. blame society. the sins of the fathers. lost innocence. true love. wild horses, deadly rattlers, fireworks, freight trains. elements like these would appear more honestly threadbare if mr. stone were not a match for mickey and mallory in the area of overkill .
sultry psychopath jessica walter doesn' t get a chance to harass clint eastwood every night by calling him on the phone and purring ,
play misty for me ,
because eastwood puts her on the no - call list, a tactic that was not possible in 1971, when the film was shot. so she calls another dj, maybe somebody like jon voigt, who doesn' t know about no - call lists, and play misty for me does not jump - start eastwood' s directing career and none of us get to see those sondra locke movies .
, an outdoorsy type played by james franco finds himself trapped in a mountain ravine with his arm wedged beneath a boulder. a few years from now, with google earth tracking everybody everywhere, the franco character wouldn' t have much of a problem; after he' s gone missing for a day or so his friends or family would simply contact his cell phone provider, and they would instantaneously track his phone to the ravine and dispatch a search party to rescue him from his predicament. all he would need to do is sit tight, ration his water supply, and hope the rats and rattlers don' t get him first .
a movie like this doesn' t come along every day. i am glad i saw it. i saw it at the 2002 sundance film festival, where a fair number of people walked out. i would say half. i was reminded of advice once given me by the veteran chicago movie exhibitor oscar brotman :
roger, if nothing has happened by the end of the first reel, nothing is going to happen .
if i were to advise you to see
gerry ,
you might have a good case on your hands for a class - action suit .
that' s hardly the case with
american maniacs ,
the tabloid television show starring wayne gale (robert downey jr .), who appreciates mickey and mallory for their entertainment value. at one of its funnier moments, the film dwells on the show' s re - enactment of their exploits, with a title that says
a dramatization
as two actors, playing mickey and mallory, shoot a bicyclist identified as an american bronze medalist. finally persuading mickey to sit for an interview after 50 killings in three weeks, wayne asks the inevitable question :
any regrets ?
the whole plotline of the film revolves around a bunch of mysterious foreigners who mistake advertising executive cary grant for a fictitious federal agent they wish to do in. now retrofitted with modern technology, grant insists that he works on madison avenue, and not for the state department in washington, whereupon james mason and the boys log on to his firm' s website, realise their error, apologise profusely, and send him on his way. the scene with the crop duster never happens. eva marie saint doesn' t climb down mount rushmore in high heels. north by northwest goes south .
unfolding in only semi - linear fashion ,
natural born killers
devotes its first hour to mickey and mallory' s rampage, interspersing lurid bloodshed with moments of eerie tenderness. (after the opening slaughter, these two find themselves in the moonlight, with a holy glow enveloping mallory as she squats in the dirt and speaks about angels .) the couple' s blood wedding, with an exchange of rattlesnake rings and mallory' s white veil drifting off into the abyss of a deep canyon, offers one of the film' s most genuinely haunting visions, if only because it eludes easy understanding .
in recent years, directors have incessantly been forced to confront the narrative - busting intrusion of new technologies, resigning themselves to the fact that plotlines that were completely plausible as recent as 10 years ago are no longer plausible now. sometimes, directors simply choose to ignore this; the coppers would only need an emailed or even a faxed photograph in the recent thriller unknown to prove that liam neeson is not the scientist he says he is, but a professional assassin. unfortunately, that would mean that the whole premise of the film disintegrates before our very eyes. so the director simply chose to act as if his audience consisted of nitwits .
now, we know who put those snakes on the plane. two kids are killed after falling into a den of rattlers, and the sheriff immediately calls in a snake expert (sam chew jr .). they fell in a rattler den, for goodness sakes! some good snake scenes, sch as the rattler crawling up the plumber' s (tip mcclure) pants, and some ridiculous ones, like the mom (jo jordan) in the bathtub getting attacked and not standing up so we could see her. as you would expect the dialog was terrible, and some scenes ridiculous, like the mine shaft explosions. someone called it the
plan nine from outer space
of snake movies. i could not say it better .
however, not all of these women are specialists in science or animal behavior, sometimes they are nancy drew - types thrown into an investigation, such as heather menzies in piranha (1978). these women are just as dedicated to their work and completely wholeheartedly enthused by getting on top of the truth; as well as providing an enlightened view and concentrated education for their male peers. one of these sleuth - leads is the character of ann bradley played by actress elisabeth chauvet in the underrated exploitation drive - inn money maker rattlers from 1976. ann bradley is a photo journalist assigned to help out a herpetologist uncover some shifty cagey business involving the us armys involvement in experiments that are causing aggressive and highly deadly behavior in local rattlesnakes in rural california .
they are, but it is the little things that differentiate the live experience from the video, and the region - specific jokes that singled out snooki polizzi and new jersey governor chris christie had more bite (pardon the pun) in my state than it did where the video was finally recorded. plus, being in an audience and actively participating simply feels more engaged that watching the tv, but having said these, rattlers is one of the best of the recent cinematic titanic offerings (still not up to the bar set on east vs. watts). you will get some good laughs from the presentation and this disc would be excellent at parties. my only qualifier is that if you have the chance to see the group live, you really should .
i have always considered myself in the
mike camp
as far as who my favorite host of mst3k was. however, this may have changed my opinion (at least putting them as equals in my mind). recently i found a bunch of cinematic titanic episodes on hulu and gave them a watch. i laughed my rear - end off! so i decided i was now a fan and wanted to collect the episodes like i did with all the mst3k and rifftrax (mike nelson' s post - mst3k project) episodes. rattlers is the best episode yet! this was a live show i love the live presentations the best. probably because of the genuine audience laughter. you will not regret buying this if you have the smallest funnybone in your body .
and yet, and yet - - the movie is so gloriously bloody - minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity. the longer the movie ran, the less i liked it and the more i admired it. the gerrys are stuck out there, and it looks like no plot device is going to come along and save them. the horizon is barren for 360 degrees of flat wasteland. we have lost most of the original eight hours of
greed
( 1925), erich von stroheim' s film that also ends with its heroes lost in death valley, but after seeing
gerry ,
i think we can call off the search for the missing footage .
meanwhile ann goes out in the bush alone to photograph the area where that soldier died a while back. again, she' s just shooting randomly at the ground for no particular reason, i just don' t see what the point of that is. i' m not sure how much money she' s getting paid for this job, but based on her total body of work here, she' s ripping them off in epic style. on the way back, she gets the willies as she thinks she sees a snake in the back seat of her truck and has to be talked down off the ledge. this slight nod to the psychological effects of snako - slithero - phobia is maybe the most interesting thing in this film, if that means anything .
for some african americans, wilson’s rhetoric smacked of hypocrisy. after all, he was the president who had screened birth of a nation (a film glorifying the ku klux klan) at the white house and refused to support a federal anti - lynching bill, even though each year averaged more than one lynching a week, predominantly in former confederate states that had effectively stripped black men of their voting rights. “will some one tell us just how long mr. wilson has been a convert to true democracy? ” the baltimore afro - american editorialized on april 28, 1917 (quoted in williams). “patriotism has no appeal for us; justice has, ” the messenger, a socialist publication launched by editors chandler owen and a. philip randolph (of march on washington fame), declared on nov. 1, 1917—a sentiment that would land both men in jail under the espionage act in 1918 (quoted in adriane lentz - smith’s 2009 book, freedom struggles: african americans and world war i) .
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rattlers is a 1976 horror film starring sam chew , elisabeth chauvet , tony ballen , dan priest , ron gold , darwin joston , and gary van ormand . the film was produced , directed and co-written by john mccauley . harry novak , head of boxoffice international pictures was the executive producer . the film features an early score by golden globe nominated film composer miles goodman . 
rattlers is a 1976 horror film starring sam chew, elisabeth chauvet, tony ballen, dan priest, ron gold, darwin joston, and gary van ormand. the film was produced, directed and co-written by john mccauley. harry novak, head of boxoffice international pictures was the executive producer. the film features an early score by golden globe nominated film composer miles goodman.
rattlers is a 1976 horror film starring sam chew, elisabeth chauvet, tony ballen, dan priest, ron gold, darwin joston, and gary van ormand. the film was produced, directed and co-written by john mccauley. harry novak, head of boxoffice international pictures was the executive producer. the film features an early score by golden globe nominated film composer miles goodman.