I Let My Fists Do The Talkin’

AV and I went to see Violent Saturday at Film Forum yesterday.

It had a lot of “dumb” and “ridiculous” in it, but at least five moments of perfection. One was Ernest Borgnine (as an Amish farmer) stabbing Lee Marvin (as Lee Marvin) in the back with a pitchfork. It made a resounding “THUD” and the whole audience—mostly elderly upper class lunatics and a minority of college nerds—“UGH!”ed out loud.

During a bank heist a little kid shouts “BANG!” at one of the armed robbers (previously established as the coldest of the bunch), and he shoves some hard candies in his mitt and delivers this masterwork—” Now go over there, stick those in your kisser and suck on ‘em.”

For some reason it’s running for a week, despite being a pretty forgettable, sloppy, soapy mess of a movie. It’s not bad, mind you, just kind of silly and middle of the road.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 am and is filed under I Watch Movies.