oddly arousing. Except for when it blew up.

Right across the street from Slow Town -

The man was hosting a Sunday night sledding party when he filled an automobile muffler with gasoline and gunpowder, strapped it to his back and had it lit, seeking what McCabe called “a rocket-launch effect.”

And he’d been alive for 62 years already when he had this bright idea.

Brother Stink, this is for you, sir.

Fans of the Kill Bill movie may recall the scene near the beginning of Volume 2 where Michael Madson’s character gets in trouble with his boss at the strip club.  Well, the guy playing the boss’ name is Larry Bishop.

Last year he wrote, directed and starred in a movie called Hell Ride.  That movie sucks.  BAAAAAD.  He got some A (bust mostly C) list talent to star in one of the most over-acted, over-stylized, poorly done pieces of shit I’ve ever seen.

But occasionally there’s a nugget of joy.  Not because it’s well done, but because it’s just SO VERY awful, it becomes awesome.

Witness: The Fire Scene

In lieu of doing the traditional 3 Sentence Movie Review of 2012, I’d like to do a list of potential alternate titles.

• John Cusack Surfs a Wave of Desrtuction
• Roland Emmerich Blows Up Famous Shit
• Speed
• OH, NUH-UH!
• Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Boats
• I Know Who’s Gonna Die
• Near Miss
• Luckiest Man Alive
• Tool – Ænema
• We’re Fucked

That being said, not a bad movie, over all.  It’s boilerplate characters and plot, but the shit blows up REAL nice.  I found myself tense and breathless, despite my logical mind knowing exactly what was going to happen.

FYI, I constructed this from four different images. 1.) The wall and feet. 2.) The city 3.) The logo 4.) The mountains. Clouds were created in Photoshop. Retouched by hand.