King Koopa is dead, long live King Koopa:
Monkey! So to celebrate the life of Dennis Hopper were going to watch some of his cult/b-movie contributions. But what to choose? The Trip? Mad Dog Morgan? Out of the Blue? My Science Project? Super Mario Bros.? Red Rock West? True Romance? Waterworld? Space Truckers? Holy geez, he's been in a lot of them. We could have Dennis Hopper month. Or we could just watch what's handy.
I have George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005). We probably would have watched it someday anyway. We've already watched Night of the Living Dead (okay, the remake), Dawn of the Dead (the original!), we should skip Day of the Dead because it's kind of boring, which leaves Land of the Dead, George Romero's latest (and it's looking last) zombie movie that occurs in the NotLD universe. The NotLDeadiverse. Dennis Hopper plays a George W. Bush type, especially if W was president of one building in Pittsburgh while the city was surrounded by a zombie wasteland. Hopper delivers my favorite line from an actor that's picking their nose. LotD also stars Dario Argento's daughter Asia. If you want to see an interesting tattoo do a google image search of Asia Argento. But not if you are at work.
I'd say the top three cult movie directors that we haven't seen at BMN yet are John Waters, David Cronenberg and David Lynch. We can cross off Lynch after Friday when we watch Blue Velvet. It marks the return of Kyle MacLachlan after only a one week absence (Showgirls). It's from the magical year of 1986. It has one of my favorite TV edits when Dennis Hopper says, "Freak you you freakin' freakers!" It was produced and financed by Dino De Laurentiis. Do I need to keep listing things?
Here's what happened last week:
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