Vicious Lips
Mar. 22nd, 2021 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunI know I haven't been around much, but I've been truly exhausted. Normally I write my posts late at night before I go to bed (helps get all the stuff out of my brain) but I've been so tired these last few weeks I've fallen asleep at my desk. I woke up at 4am this morning, still in my chair. It happens so suddenly, like one minute I'm doing something or reading updates and the next I'm just gone. Not fun, but that's the stress stage we're in. So I'll do a proper update later, but I had some time this afternoon and I wanted to tell you about this absolutely BONKERS movie I watched Sunday night.
I should preface this by saying that during this year long panorama two of my friends and I do a facetime call every Sunday night and watch a ridiculously bad movie together. So our bad movie night bad movies have ranged from just sort of dumb and boring to so outlandish you don't understand how the movie ever got made. The movie we watched on Sunday falls into that latter category.
So VICIOUS LIPS - a 1986 fantastical sci-fi... that defies real description.
I pulled some more screenshots from it to tumblr post. Best I can tell you the story: An up-and-coming band loses it's lead singer and their sleazy manager goes to a high school talent show to recruit a new lead singer. The band gets an offer from a fancy club owner to come perform at her club but on the way across the galaxy their ship crashes after avoiding an asteroid. Shenanigans ensue.
But listen, that short description doesn't do ANY of this movie justice. This is peak punk club aesthetic, there's a girl that literally looks like every late 80s/early 90s graphic neon fancy lady, complete with the spiky black hair and beauty mark. Something like this old Patrick Nagel artwork. Anyway, nothing can quite prepare you for the assault on your eyes that is this weird collision of sights and sounds that BARELY string something resembling a story together.
Now, would I recommend it as a good movie? No, absolutely not. But would I recommend you watch it and laugh and have a good time? ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.
Okay so let me tell you there is a character named "Judy Jetson" (no lie). The band is an all female group, some of them with wandering accents throughout. Everything moves so fast - our man character, "Judy" renamed "Ace" after like two minutes, doesn't even finish her song in the beginning of the movie before the band's 'manager' recruits her. There's no transition, she's just immediately taken to join the band like five minutes before their set at whatever seedy club they're starting at. She's never heard of them, but is given just those five minutes to get their whole set list ready to sing. Except they don't even finish that! They barely finish the first song before their band manager is dragging them all off across the galaxy.
DO they have a ship to make the trip across the galaxy to this ritzy club that promises to be their big break? NO they do not. So their manager steals one. None of these scenes end... they don't give them any time...just one to another, don't finish just rush everyone to the next thing.
IT IS WILD.
I can't even spoil it for you, because none of it makes sense. I could tell you how it ends and you wouldn't know anything about it, because the movie explains nothing to you. No visual clues, no narration, nothing to help you understand the setting or the world or the place they get stuck when they crash land. It's fucking wild. There's just not another description for the way this movie is done.
And yet... I think you can understand it... KINDA? by the end. If you're paying attention to all the details and inconsistencies and the weird confluence of events they string together.
I will say, for a cringy mid-eighties movie with a poster that looks like this:
It's pretty tame. There's one like gratuitous "sexy-ish" scene and that's like it? Very mild. Very weird. Very fun. If you've got Amazon Prime, it's free streaming over there. Take an hour and a half and laugh at this very stupid movie.
PS. There is ZERO fandom for this movie and I aim at some point in 2021 to fix that.
I should preface this by saying that during this year long panorama two of my friends and I do a facetime call every Sunday night and watch a ridiculously bad movie together. So our bad movie night bad movies have ranged from just sort of dumb and boring to so outlandish you don't understand how the movie ever got made. The movie we watched on Sunday falls into that latter category.
So VICIOUS LIPS - a 1986 fantastical sci-fi... that defies real description.
I pulled some more screenshots from it to tumblr post. Best I can tell you the story: An up-and-coming band loses it's lead singer and their sleazy manager goes to a high school talent show to recruit a new lead singer. The band gets an offer from a fancy club owner to come perform at her club but on the way across the galaxy their ship crashes after avoiding an asteroid. Shenanigans ensue.
But listen, that short description doesn't do ANY of this movie justice. This is peak punk club aesthetic, there's a girl that literally looks like every late 80s/early 90s graphic neon fancy lady, complete with the spiky black hair and beauty mark. Something like this old Patrick Nagel artwork. Anyway, nothing can quite prepare you for the assault on your eyes that is this weird collision of sights and sounds that BARELY string something resembling a story together.
Now, would I recommend it as a good movie? No, absolutely not. But would I recommend you watch it and laugh and have a good time? ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.
Okay so let me tell you there is a character named "Judy Jetson" (no lie). The band is an all female group, some of them with wandering accents throughout. Everything moves so fast - our man character, "Judy" renamed "Ace" after like two minutes, doesn't even finish her song in the beginning of the movie before the band's 'manager' recruits her. There's no transition, she's just immediately taken to join the band like five minutes before their set at whatever seedy club they're starting at. She's never heard of them, but is given just those five minutes to get their whole set list ready to sing. Except they don't even finish that! They barely finish the first song before their band manager is dragging them all off across the galaxy.
DO they have a ship to make the trip across the galaxy to this ritzy club that promises to be their big break? NO they do not. So their manager steals one. None of these scenes end... they don't give them any time...just one to another, don't finish just rush everyone to the next thing.
IT IS WILD.
I can't even spoil it for you, because none of it makes sense. I could tell you how it ends and you wouldn't know anything about it, because the movie explains nothing to you. No visual clues, no narration, nothing to help you understand the setting or the world or the place they get stuck when they crash land. It's fucking wild. There's just not another description for the way this movie is done.
And yet... I think you can understand it... KINDA? by the end. If you're paying attention to all the details and inconsistencies and the weird confluence of events they string together.
I will say, for a cringy mid-eighties movie with a poster that looks like this:
It's pretty tame. There's one like gratuitous "sexy-ish" scene and that's like it? Very mild. Very weird. Very fun. If you've got Amazon Prime, it's free streaming over there. Take an hour and a half and laugh at this very stupid movie.
PS. There is ZERO fandom for this movie and I aim at some point in 2021 to fix that.
