Comments on: ANGIE DICKINSON IN ROGER CORMAN’S B-CLASSIC BIG BAD MAMMA

By: Uranium Willy

Uranium Willy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:03:22 +0000

Thanks for your comments and disagreements on movie and music opinions are more than welcome since all of this is totally subjective, like what is the better burger, the Big Mac or the Whooper? Also, I know what you mean about typos and then sending off the comment and seeing all my blunders. I just cannot type and I try to get going fast and cannot make it 5 words usually with out bukku typos. I mean words like “have” or “connection” or “the” I just mess up over and over and of course I can spell those words, but my fingers seem to hit the vowels before the consonants.

As you may know I live in China and my choices are limited here and so one day when I was flipping through the unalphabetized DVDs at the local “FBI pirate warning ignoring” DVD store and found a few films that struck me as exceptional selections and one was Big Bad Mamma, a film I had never had much interest in seeing back when I had more choices. I think I had the DVD fir 6 months before I popped it in and while not “blown away” I was happy to have had for a night’s low brow entertainment and so recommended on that type of basis. It was better than CCTV (the state run propaganda network) or Mr and Mrs Smith (or the latest “hit” film that gets all the attention here). I will do an essay on movie watching here in China I think soon.

Also, I like gore less than my site may lead one to believe, though i am interested in it as a film phenomenon. I review of gore films can often be very tough and tend to be my harshest reviews. Alot of horror films were great without ever being gory or exploitive, while others were gory and great ( Romero’s Zombie films, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc…) but many are just pointless. To be frank, some scenes in Saving Private Ryan were “splatter” film material but of course it was not a gore film.

I am trying to branch out to other films now too, like The Seravnt and One Eyes Jacks and some film noir things since I love those films too. I have an essay in the oven on one of my favorite films ever called King Rat with George Segal and James Fox as POWs in WWII.

Thanks for the visit and opinions.

By: gilligan

gilligan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:16:25 +0000

Correction to the first sentence “I would have also recommended this MOVIE a month ago”… not site. I will ALWAYS recommend the Uranium Cafe.

My bad. I should proofread my comments before I submit. Too lazy I guess.

By: gilligan

gilligan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:14:39 +0000

I would have also recommended this site a month ago, but I just happened to re-watch this movie last week and wasn’t too thrilled with it. Admittedly, of all the movies on your homepage, this is my favorite since I’m not real into gore-fests (I’m more of a Smokey and the Bandit kind of guy), and I REALLY wanted to like this movie… I mean, Bill Shatner is laying pipe with Angie Dickinson, doesn’t that in and of itself make this a great film?

Nope. If you’re not going to give me great acting, interesting dialogue or an original plot – you better be ready to deliver the goods… and that means lots of violence and/or sexiness. This has only a moderate amount of both. And if you can’t deliver the goods, you’d better at least be cheesey enought to enjoy in a MST3K fashon, but this was just good enough to not fall into the “so bad it’s good category”. So a thumbs down from gilligan, but a big thumbs up to the Uranium Cafe back up and running!