Well, I had an entire review of the Something Weird Video double feature release Common Law Wife and Jennie, Wife/Child but I left the room to whip up some food only to return to see my program crashed; lost it. In any event, Jennie, Wife/Child plays like it was pulled from a dusty stack of rejected 1950s social studies films made to discourage growing up too fast (read gold-digging, in this case) as it portrays an ever-so cute but stir crazy twenty-year-old married to a middle-aged farmer but who's hired hand, Mario, begins to catch lovely Jennie's eye, which leads to all sorts of hilarious tension. What's more, little Jennie becomes a bit possessive of Mario after he spends a drunken night in town with the 'town tramp' Lulu, a bubbly blonde whose morals are a smidgen loose, to be kind. But the grizzled and somewhat bitter Mr. Peckingpaw is growing weary of Jennie's exploits. He has a plan. For an underground film made on a dirt cheap budget, there's some real substance to these characters. Intended or not.
The second movie, Common Law Wife, isn't so educational-based in feel; it goes far beyond with a truer thrilling plot line of an old oil-rich skinflint named Shugfoot Rainey whose live-in girlfriend, Linda, has suddenly become too old for him. Old Man Shug intends to bring his "blood niece" Jonelle a.k.a. Baby Doll to "care for him". After Linda happens upon the Common Law, she assumes the upper hand. What's that saying about assuming stuff? Baby Doll is back in town and has an agenda all her own. This feature has a surprisingly solid ending.
Now, the disc has a hidden third "feature" titled Moonshine Love (at one time known as Sod Sisters) that employs the thinnest and inanest of plots wrapped around a couple of "sisters" that harbor an amnesiac who, unknown to them, played a part in a recent robbery. The two live in a mountain cabin with an older fellow who could be any or all degree of relation; all three come to relish their visitor's presence until his two accomplices track him down. This film features copious full-on nudity, to wit, a several minute scene where one sister gratifies herself in many ways with a large, irregular yam or potato! Believe it or not! I hope I didn't spoil it for anyone...
Common Law Wife is the only one really worth a watch, if the opportunity arises, although I understand a scene or two didn't make the leap from video to disc that shed more light on the "Baby Doll" character's history in the town to which she returns. Jennie borders on comical, and well, Moonshine is as I've said.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
I knew potatoes could be used in tons of different ways, but damn! *bu-dum-pum-ching....or however you write out the sound of punchline drums*
As for the writing being lost, I know by now to save what I'm doing every paragraph, if not more often. Some call it paranoid, I call it careful!
And congratulations, I have never remotely heard of either of these movies. I really like the still image, though. It's intriguing and it also looks neat in your layout when you come to the page. Very arty!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Yeah, Moonshine Love came way out of left field. It was the dvd equivalent of someone walking out of, say, Punch-Drunk Love and being pulled aside by an usher who says 'hey, if you stick around we're showing another film to a select few...' which turns out to be Irreversible!
It took an insane amount of tweeking to get the jump to match what was on the main page. A little from that green/black "pod"-style template I used a year ago, and a newer similar template with a cleaner sidebar. All those widgets settings and border radii! So much trial and error. One reason for the simple color scheme.
I do save at various points but I've never had TextEdit (who know why I was using TextEdit) crash before. Totally inexplicable.
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