LolaRennt Wrote:The suggestions sound fun! The boyfriend is asking how much booze he should stock up to accompany said bad movies. Ha ha ha!
Some years back, bad meant good and baddest meant best. I recommend the Mick Travis trilogy of dark "comedies" directed by Lindsay Anderson starring Malcolm McDowell.
If...,
O Lucky Man! and
Britannia Hospital. Stock up on the beer, these three are almost seven hours without hitting the pause button to pee and skipping any "special features" on the DVDs. They are (in my arrogant opinion) excellent flicks. "O Lucky Man" has possibly the best music I've ever heard in a movie that wasn't originally a stage musical (in fact, that was the first soundtrack album I ever bought). (Wait, I bought the soundtrack to Planet of the Apes" before that -- that "music" doesn't work without the visuals). Alan Price did some great stuff for the middle movie (which by itself is over three hours of the marathon).
The title song
If you have a friend on whom you think
you can rely - You are a lucky man!
If you've found the reason to live on and
not to die - You are a lucky man!
Preachers and poets and scholars don't know it,
Temples and statues and steeples won't show it,
If you've got the secret just try not to blow
it - Stay a lucky man!
If you've found the meaning of the truth
in this old world- You are a lucky man!
If knowledge hangs around your neck like
pearls instead of chains - You are a lucky man!
Takers and fakers and talkers won't tell you.
Teachers and preachers will just buy and sell you.
When no one can tempt you with heaven or hell-
You'll be a lucky man!
Those last two lines were my .sig quote over twenty years ago. (I've gone through a lot of .sig quotes since I first hit Usenet in 1985 as a kid of thirty).