Six-String Samauri

I was trying to think of a word that best describes this move. I think that word is ‘silly’. The plot? After WWIII happens in 1957, Elvis becomes king. Well, the king is now dead, and dozens of musician/tough-guys are on their way to Lost Vegas to claim the crown. The main character is an invincible-semi-alcoholic-swashbuckling-martial-arts-expert-guitar-player. Throughout the movie he manages to kill hundreds of people who get in his way… He’s chased by some death metal guy, and is forced to be a father figure to a little kid who is tagging along. This movie steals scenes and ideas from all kinds of movies & other stuff: Wizard of Oz, Conan the barbarian, Buddy Holly, countless westerns & Kung-Fu movies, Star Wars, Road Warrior, Buckaroo Banzai, 60’s TV shows, and probably a dozen other movies I’ve never seen. I’m not sure if that was its greatest strength or greatest weakness… It was done very blatantly… and in a comical way. It was like a warped reflection of popular culture over the last 40 years. I was a little ‘bugged’ by the filming of many of the action scenes – you couldn’t always see just what was going on. I think that had a lot to do with the low budget of the movie though. Anyway, if you want to see a silly movie, this one will do just fine. If you want to see ‘high art’, go see something else. (I think my favorite ‘stolen scene’ was in the very beginning… They totally duplicated the scene where Conan’s mother gets her head chopped off – I was laughing out loud.)

 

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