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Dune
Frank Herbert’s bonkers saga of huge worms that live in the alien deserts of the planet Arrakis (nicknamed Dune coz it’s got all this sand, see) was filmed by the similarly bonkers David Lynch. The result is a film so completely bonkers that it breaks the limits of the Bonkometer. Um, no, surely that’s wrong... Anyway, it’s got lots of deserts, and giant worms, and Sting being bonkers. Even Captain Picard gets to be a little more bonkers than usual. And lots of dunes of sand.
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Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
And talking of bonkers, not that we were or anything, this one certainly charts.
You don't come much more camp than The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert - a film that'll go down in the history books for parading General Zod, Elrond and Leonard Shelby about the Australian outback in frilly dresses.
And it remains the only film to be presented in Dragarama. Select theatres would get the mirror-ball going during the final dance number. Where was Dragarama during The Godfather, huh? |
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Three Kings
Trust David O. Russell to
deliver one of the best War
Movies of all time in Three Kings, his
pointed political statement on the first Gulf War.
Released in 1999, two years before The War on Terror would start the US government towards the second Gulf War, Three Kings told the tale of a trio of soldiers on the search for Saddam's hidden Gold.
Washed-out visuals, richly comic dialogue and with some outstanding special effects, Three Kings remains Russell's best work. If for no other reason than the fact that he electrically shocked Mark Whalberg for real during his torture scenes. Take that, Marky. Model underwear, would you? |
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