Essays and Bad Ideas

Just a heads-up: Saturday (June 4th, 5pm Eastern) I’ll be doing a mini-marathon stream. We’ll go for three or four hours, and perhaps more if the group is all-in.

But the headline is that we’ll be watching and talking 1985’s Flesh & Blood, Paul Verhoeven’s big flop that preceded his triumph with Robocop a couple years later. It stars Rutger Hauer and a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh, and it has two primary characteristics that make it suitable for our purposes:

  1. It’s Verhoeven’s first English-language film, and it shows… the dialogue and performances are all over the place, and it offers lots of over-the-top nonsense to mock.
  2. It is one of the rapiest mainstream movies ever made. Peasant women, chaste nuns, whores, you name it… if it has a cunt, it gets molested for at least a second or two in F&B. But most significantly, JJL gets gang-raped and/or violated multiple times while steadily growing to enjoy and even revel in her victimization. So… yeah. It’s perfect.

Set aside some time to join us!

Or if you’re going to be an annoying little twat, I guess you can blow it off and watch the replay later. 🙄