Thoughts on Bubba Ho-Tep
-Sebastian, an old man in a soul-killing retirement home who may or may not be Elvis Presley, contemplates age, frailty, dignity, and death while investigating strange happenings with Jack/John Kennedy (Ossie Davis).
-Surely the greatest movie ever made to star both JFK and Elvis. And that's not a narrow field.
-Bruce Cambell, anyway, creates the best on-screen representation of the man ever. A surprisingly straight, dry character who's come to terms with his fate--never being able to retrieve his identity from the impersonator he signed it over to--and mnildly waits for death with 'a growth on his pecker', and by the end you really hope that he is Elvis.
-After seeing this movie, I'm never carting anyone I know to a retirement home.
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4 comments:
God I love this movie, it's so demented but at the same time kinda touching and shit. My brother was always obsessed with Bruce Campbell cuz of the Evil Dead movies and I was like meh, then he showed me this and I became a Cambell fangirl. Such is my story.
Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis. I was sold at that. The movie lives up to the hype and is quite funny. I remember some rumblings of a sequel a little while ago, but I haven't heard anything since.
Haha - glad you liked it..! :)
It is one of the most unique yet gleefully satisfying films ever made. It was the film Bruce Campbell was made to star in.
Sugary: Such is.
Will: Yeah, the sequel might have Paul Giamatti, but I think the director is more focused on the John Dies At The End movie.
Dan: I thought that was Evil Dead?
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