Showing posts with label david bowie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label david bowie. Show all posts

26 October 2009

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)

This guy is the best. I finally saw this concert movie, and it was definitely fun. Bowie sports many costumes and no eyebrows for the whole concert. Can he be any more of a babe?

I also was glad to see our friend Ringo Starr backstage with Davey.

4/5 pizzas

28 September 2009

World's Greatest Dad (2009)

I'm confused about my feelings for this movie. At first, I absolutely hated it. It seemed entirely too sad and way too dark. Examples: Robin Williams is a failed writer who is a high school poetry teacher. He only has 3 or 4 students in his class, however. And he's a bit tubby. And he's actually a bad writer. Sad, right? Okay, now we learn that Robin's son is a huge asshole: he says the F word every five minutes, beats off with the door open, and is misogynistic, homophobic, and racist. Something terrible happens, and it's super dark and sordid, and maybe it's supposed to be funny. Anyway, the movie gets a little better because Robin does some morally questionable things and takes pleasure in that. The movie doesn't actually get better until the end: when Robin Williams swims NAKED and we see his D!

The most important thing about this movie was its usage of a song I usually hate because Queen is involved in it. The application of "Under Pressure" in this movie, however, was fantastic -- played at the exact right moment. It was World's Greatest Dad's saving grace. Great job, BowQueen.

2/5 pizzas