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For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re starting off with Hellzapoppin’ (1941), the highly-acclaimed cult classic meta-musical about a group of comedians who want to turn their romantic play into a movie, but are sick of romance clichés, so they spend the whole runtime mocking love-story conventions and breaking the fourth wall. According to critics, this film may hold the all-time record for most jokes in a movie. It has become a cult movie in recent years due to its highly self-referential and anarchic structure; it was a major influence on Mel Brooks’ filmography, containing much of the DNA of The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, etc. This is by far the best-known and best-regarded film of otherwise-undistinguished director H.C. Potter. Excellent reviews everywhere for this one, so we’ll give it a shot. After that, since The Raid (2011) was a hit on Friday, we will watch its even-better-reviewed and more-ambitious sequel, The Raid 2 (2014). This time, the protagonist, Rama, goes undercover to infiltrate the Jakarta criminal underworld. Uh-oh, he’s going too deep. Will he end up kicking a bunch of people in the face? Probably. This film is one of the highest-rated action films of the 2010s and the highest-rated Indonesian film on Letterboxd (though, as with the first, the director is Welsh transplant Gareth Evans.) Let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Hellzapoppin’: https://letterboxd.com/film/hellzapoppin/
  • The Raid 2: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-raid-2/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Hellzapoppin’: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
  • The Raid 2: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/20625

CWs for Hellzapoppin’:

  • Slapstick violence.
  • Problematic ethnic caricatures.

CWs for The Raid 2:

  • Protagonist is a cop.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Fist fights.
  • Torture.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Decapitation.
  • Bloody nose.
  • Gun violence.
  • Police brutality.
  • Strangulation.
  • Stabbing.
  • Broken bones.
  • Drug use.
  • Drug addiction.
  • Profanity.
  • Misogyny.
  • Squashed heads.
  • Finger mutilation.
  • Death by falling.
  • Eye mutilation.
  • Death of parent.
  • Audio gore.
  • Misophonia.
  • Anxiety attacks.
  • Claustrophobia.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Flashing lights.

Links to movies:

  • Hellzapoppin': https://vimeo.com/904843687
  • The Raid 2: https://vimeo.com/904650484