I’m probably not gonna buy anything. A new car would be nice, buy I haven’t decided what my new favorite auto should be. I watched that weirdo Coppola movie Megalopolis the other night. Sheesh! What a waste of human resources. I have no fucking idea what it was supposed to be about and I doubt the filmmaker did either. In contrast the previous night I had watched a low budget flick from the 60s, Hot Rods to Hell. about a Boston family who move to California because the old man has lost his nerve after being involved in some kind of road rage incident.
She wasn’t in the movie, but should have been
Carver Dana Andrews an aging actor who seemed like he escaped from a Dracula movie, played the part of Tom Phillips, who after his traumatic car crash, is too scared to go back on the road as a traveling salesmen. His helpful and thoughtful brother Bill arranges for Tom to buy a remote motel in the desert town of Mayville, California. As they get closer to their destination, they are accosted by teen punks in hot rods who terrorize them by driving like Asian ladies all over the road. It turns out the motel that Tom is buying is also the local hangout for all the kids in the town, so of course this adds further tension by the time the family arrives in Mayville.
$130 million for $13 million return? You’d probably want to shoot yourself too.
I don’t want to tell the whole story but Tom is disgusted that the place he is buying has a bar attached which seems to be doing tremendous business. He has inherited a virtual gold mine, but such is his hatred for the hot rodders who hang out there that he’s going to call the local cops and have the place shut down. After effectively killing the best source of revenue he’s probably had in his life, it’s unclear how he’s going to make money with a poorly patronized fleabag motel in the middle of the desert, but that’s how nutty this movie is. Still, it was 10,000 times more entertaining than Megalopolis and probably cost about 2 grand to make.
Fuck no, it’s one of those self driving cars!
The Coppola movie cost 130 million and so far has grossed 13.7 million at the box office. Easy come easy go. Whatever man. It’s Friday and I’m tired just thinking about it, so I’ll stop right here. Have a good weekend.