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Straight To Hell Returns

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I saw this on Amazon at £34.54 with only three in stock. I thought that was a bit steep and found it on the Ace Records site, £11.00 including free p&P. That's more like it!

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dave202 wrote:I saw this on Amazon at £34.54 with only three in stock. I thought that was a bit steep and found it on the Ace Records site, £11.00 including free p&P. That's more like it!
I got it it's OK.
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I'm not sure that that film justifies a director's cut—it has its moments, but c'mon—but I'm watching it now.

edit: Okay, it's a better flick than I remembered. Lots of absurd fun with the genre's tropes. The additional scenes that I could identify didn't especially add much. The insane hardware store owner George stood out for me in terms of dialogue, as well the Pogues'/McMahon's sniggers.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:I'm not sure that that film justifies a director's cut—it has its moments, but c'mon—but I'm watching it now.

edit: Okay, it's a better flick than I remembered. Lots of absurd fun with the genre's tropes. The additional scenes that I could identify didn't especially add much. The insane hardware store owner George stood out for me in terms of dialogue, as well the Pogues'/McMahon's sniggers.
I like it and as you point out it has it's moments. It's absurd but it works just about.
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i like it. not great cinema by any means, but a fun (if sometimes slow) ride with some interesting real life characters trying to play not-so-interesting fictional characters. and some great fun moments.

Strummer really could have been a pretty fine character actor ala David Johansen, but alas, he was just a bit too ornery towards the medium of acting, or maybe just too undisciplined or self-concious for it...
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Personally I'm glad Joe ultimately stuck to the day job, because I don't believe he could act really. Wasn't his whole adult life basically an act anyway, the act of being Joe Strummer, and even that was a role he didn't always pull off that convincingly? I don't think he's good in Mystery Train, maybe that's partly due to a sense of over-familiarity on my part, but acting alongside Buscemi just shows him up for the amateur he was. That said, am glad he was in it, because I doubt I'd have ever watched it otherwise and it is rather excellent.

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Low Down Low wrote:Personally I'm glad Joe ultimately stuck to the day job, because I don't believe he could act really. Wasn't his whole adult life basically an act anyway, the act of being Joe Strummer, and even that was a role he didn't always pull off that convincingly? I don't think he's good in Mystery Train, maybe that's partly due to a sense of over-familiarity on my part, but acting alongside Buscemi just shows him up for the amateur he was. That said, am glad he was in it, because I doubt I'd have ever watched it otherwise and it is rather excellent.
My sentiments exactly.
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I would have watched it regardless of Strummer/Costello/Pogues being in it. I like Alex Cox movies.
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