The film revolves around a new drug, called soy sauce, which alters the way people interact with the world. The film does well at introducing you to the strange behaviors and possibilities allowed by this concept. Its tone is that of a constant mellow hash haze where the zaniest mindexpanding concepts are delivered with nonchalant cool. Also, it opened on video on demand before coming out in theaters, which is usually a death sentence for a films box office chances. Starring chase williamson as dave, rob mayes as john, paul giamatti as arnie blondestone. The producers is a musical adapted by mel brooks and thomas meehan from brookss 1967 film of the same name, with lyrics written by brooks and music composed by brooks and arranged by glen kelly and doug besterman. Meyers and his partners own m3 creative, which cuts trailers and produces other. Despite its mixed critical response, variety and wired. The sense of humour in this book is brilliant and theres a lot of really original, insane, and amusing stuff going on throughout. It was written for the screen and directed by don coscarelli, whom you might know from the beastmaster, phantasm and bubba ho tep. It was a tale that required 150,000 words to tell and 36 of them were boner.
The film stars chase williamson and rob mayes, with paul giamatti, clancy brown, glynn turman, daniel. It is both joyously ridiculous and annoyingly indulgent a movie that is engineered for future cultdom but almost a little too tryhard to really deserve it. I absolutely love the subplot with dave and arnie blondestone sitting in the dinner discussing the previous events of daves life, from its comedic yet slightly offputting tone to an enjoyably charismatic. Jan 25, 20 this film reminded me a lot of naked lunch crossed with bill and teds excellent adventure in some ways if youve seen all three of these movies youll know what i mean. Later, john uses the soy sauces properties to convert a super soaker into a proper flamethrower. John houseman, who spent more than half a century in the theater as an influential producer and director but who did not achieve fame until, at the age of 71, he portrayed a crusty law school professor in the film the paper chase and its subsequent television series, died of.
On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. While not familiar with the book, the bizarre and surreal story does seem like a perfect fit for coscarelli as his films have alway had a touch of both the surreal and a bit of offbeat whimsy. Martins press, is kind of like pride and prejudice and zombies, but with five fewer bennet sisters and six dozen more dick jokes. One of them is a package of explosive bullets for davids pistol. This edition is newly rewritten by the author with additional material. A new drug promises an outofbody experience, but some users are coming back changed forever.
The film stars chase williamson and rob mayes, with paul giamatti, clancy brown, glynn turman, daniel roebuck, and doug jones. An otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. Longtime music manager nick john died on saturday, following a battle with. Theres no question that this classifies as bizarro fiction, but other than that. When john and dave get somewhat famous due to the sauce, people begin sending them bizarre things.
You have a guy dave and his friend john who end up stumbling across a drug that opens their minds both figuratively and literally to another world. The film stars chase williamson as dave and rob mayes as john. The threat of apocalypse no longer holds consequence enough. If that variation on the classic freudian aphorism. What it gets instead is john and david, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. This edition is newly rewritten by the author with additional material and an even more epic epic of slackers versus the occult. The result was a supposed autobiographical story about the time me and my friend john took drugs and were chased by monsters. Carey is also a producer on matthew porterfields i used to be darker, the followup to his muchlauded film putty hill. Jamaica magicians speech about dreamreality correspondence duration. We get out of the cab and kris and his band are walking from next door to do. Seriously, dude, dont touch it with david wong real name jason pargin. This film reminded me a lot of naked lunch crossed with bill and teds excellent adventure in some ways if youve seen all three of these movies youll know what i mean. The technical quality fairly good but it is never able to get over the weak story line in the second part of the movie.
Its all about the soy sauce, a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. Principal photography began in october 2010, and by january 2011, the project had entered postproduction for a planned theatrical 20 release. Its a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. Jan 25, 20 like many independent movies, this one has a interesting idea at its base and some fairly decent acting but runs out of steam far too early. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is john rob mayes and david chase williamson, a pair of college dropouts who can barely. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. He has no formal combat training but still goes up. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Its a paranormal, psychoactive drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. It has now been made into a movie that opens today at landmarks hillcrest cinemas.
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