Anyway, i dont wanna talk about the stuff at the festival, since i just wrote a short article about it today.
what i really wanna talk about is this...
I just finished watching this after two nights of trying to get through it and falling asleep.
Now that doesn't really colour my opinion of this movie at all, i was just really tired.
Now that doesn't really colour my opinion of this movie at all, i was just really tired.
The Stuff starts out simple enough, with a couple simple guys who find some white shit is leaking out of the snow at the old mine. The old bearded bastard plants his finger in the pulsating white goop and after sniffing at it, decides to taste it. I thought that was a pretty bold move, but he's pretty happy about it, and when his buddy, lets call him Jimmy Joe because he doesnt fucking matter for the rest of the movie, mosies on over and tries out some of the white shit too. And he likes it, he really likes it! Enough to instantly suggest they market and sell it.
Next up you're treated to this creepy lady telling you how much she used to like ice cream. She uses a really inapropriately whispered/husky voice, that I could have done without. But it sets up the tone for the satire a la Roboco that permeates the rest of the movie.Then this kid sees the stuff move in his fridge and later goes apeshit at a grocery store knocking the shit all over the place.
That's probably the coolest part of the begining of the movie. Seeing that kid go off on all those tiny cartons made me wanna go, i dunno, fucking destroy all the margarine in the dairy aisle. I wish i was as cool as that kid when i was ten.
Then we get to meet Mo Rutherferd. Who entroduces himself as a sleazy piece of shit. He tells the same lame joke about why everyone calls him mo, in two adjacent scenes. Which i thought was pretty funny. "you know why they call me mo? because whenever people give me money i always want mo". "you know why my friends call me mo? because whenever they give me something i always want mo". Awesome.
Then we get to meet Mo Rutherferd. Who entroduces himself as a sleazy piece of shit. He tells the same lame joke about why everyone calls him mo, in two adjacent scenes. Which i thought was pretty funny. "you know why they call me mo? because whenever people give me money i always want mo". "you know why my friends call me mo? because whenever they give me something i always want mo". Awesome.
This little d-bag is trying to infiltrate the company that makes the stuff, to find out what it is and how to talk 'em down, for the big ice cream company that hired him. This guy is actually the main character of the movie, which i thought was a pretty cool twist, its not everyday you get to follow around a sleazy con artist who rips off everyone he can on his journey.
Then nothing happens for awhile, he investigates, people eat the stuff like fucking crazy, and you get to hear some pretty bitchin 80's style jingle's, complete with fur coat clad bikini ladies walking around and eating the stuff, and spandex wearing ladies flipping around inner city new york all to the madeningly catchy stuff music.
Just one lick is never enough of the Stuff! yeah, watch it and try not to get that shit stuck in your head.
Next up the kid (danny, i think..) figures out his whole family are fucking crazy, in a spooky stepford wife kinda way, and he tries to fool them by eating shaving cream, it doesnt work and the dad dips two fingers to taste that shit, which i thought was creepy. then the kids running away and meets up with mo and they go find the military.then of course the stuff turns people into zombie things and white shit gets everywhere.
It's just like the blob, or at least what i think the blob must be like (never seen it) , except the blob probably had a bigger budget and therefore more gore and therefore was more entertaining than the stuff. but the stuff has enough of a brain and plot that you can forgive it, at least for a little while. The problem with The Stuff is not enough of the stuff exploding out of people, the way it does this fella above, towards the end of the movie. It definently dragged out a bit. but watching movies over three days, and then restarting them from scratch on the third day, could only feel like it dragged on abit. Kinda like how this post dragged on.
The stuff was ok. not the best, but ok. I was expecting a little more gritty new york, and a little less boring wandering around. that black guy mo meets up with at the ghost town DEFINENTLY should have been in the entire movie. scrap the ad woman, and give me more chocolate chip charlie please. also more blood and more face spewing explosions. oh and more of the stuff spraying all over that guy on the wall. that part was awesome. actually the stuff was pretty fucking cool. there was just a few spots where pacing might have been an issue. i bet if i revisit this movie in a year, and im drunk with some buds, ill have a better time. Its only 6 bucks at HMV right now, so nows the time to check it out. I'd recomend it to fans of They Live and The Blob.
