Venue/Location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 Southeast Hawthorne Blvd, Phone: (503) 467-7521
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012 - 11:00 PM
The cortandfatboy Midnight Movie: Total Recall
Admission: $3.00
21+ Only
And thus begins our Summer of Schwarzenegger.
Normally, we try to augment the summer blockbuster season by pulling from bonafides from the past. Hollywood spits out a Transformers movie, we decide to show Raiders of the Lost Ark. Fast Five is coming to town? That's cool, we're showing Top Gun. That kinda thing.
This year, we decided to haul out the big gun himself, and as many a producer did in the late '80s/early '90s, we're turning the summer over to Arnold Schwarzenegger. A trilogy of marble-mouthed mayhem will explode across the Bagdad screen for the next three months, beginning with Paul Verhoeven's ridiculous sci-fi cartoon, Total Recall.
What are the odds the upcoming remake, directed by That Guy Who Did Die Hard 4 & The Underworld Movies, will be even a third as garish, lurid, unapologetically hyper-violent, and most importantly, goofy as all hell? I'd bet on the sure thing, myself: Bet on Kuato. Bet on Cohaagen. Bet on Jonny Cab, and triple-breasted women, and visuals that will make your eyes pop out of your head.
June 1st? Get your ass to Mars. The summer's only starting.
To download the Total Recall Midnight Movie commentary when it becomes available, visit http://cortandfatboy.com.