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Re: Payday

bvllets — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:11:43 -0000

Cool, thanks for the heads up. Just added it to the NetFux queue. Unfortunately it's going to have to wait until I get the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Nothing against Rip Torn but I have a hot wager with a friend about how many times Michaelangelo says dude. I think it's over 20. He does not.

Re: Payday

Dan Leo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:49:34 -0000

Rip Torn is just brilliant in this movie. I like the way he sings in it too. Behind the sentimental lyrics there's just the littlest hint of "Fuck all y'all, goddammit."

Re: Payday

Kathleen Maher — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:43:10 -0000

The misogyny at work both shocked and enlightened me. And it wasn't particular to the Deep South. Going by movies and music, 1972 strikes me as a seminal year in many ways.

One of them, I now think, is that as feminism began to gain traction, a backlash occurred that I've read little about, although I'm old enough to recall witnessing some of it. Listen to the lyrics of old Rolling Stones, just as an example.

By comparison, outright pimps (in movies anyway) seem almost gallant.

(i>Payday is grim but fascinating, and I'm encouraging women to check it out. It's almost unbelievable today that men ever behaved so hideously, only to be met with (apparently) a collective, social reaction that this made them sexy.

Incredible--until you watch Rip Torn.