I saw the weirdest movie in the world last night (coarse language)

[jmowreader]

It's called "Joe."

Stars Susan Sarandon as a hippie chick and Peter Boyle as a freeper.

It's the great American novel, man. Hippie chick has junkie boyfriend. Junkie boyfriend fucks up so hippie chick's dad kills junkie boyfriend with his bare hands. HCD then meets freeper, who finds out HCD killed JB. HCD thinks freeper's going to send him to jail, so accepts freeper as running partner; freeper secretly idolizes HCD because he killed one of those "lousy hippies."

HCD then lets slip to HC that HCD killed JB, HC disappears into netherworld. HCD and freeper follow her into netherworld. Eventually HCD and freeper get invited to dope party. They get stoned, they get laid, they get ripped off.

HCD and freeper follow guys who ripped them off to quiet farmhouse where they proceed to shoot up the place, killing everyone there. HCD fires the last shot...killing his own daughter.

If you think that sounds weird, you haven't seen the film.

[Philostopher]

1. I saw Peter Boyle's biography on A&E a couple of weeks ago.

He talked about that, among other things. He said he took the role because it was a good role, but had no idea anybody would watch the film. Besides the fact that the character was ideologically abhorrent to him, it was one of the first movies he'd done after he'd bailed out on the monastery (he was originally a member of some Catholic order, can't remember which), and he hoped his parents wouldn't see him spewing all that bad language.

But the film came out at an auspicious time and was much higher profile than anybody involved expected, and not only that, people mistook him for the character quite often in the years right after it. He made it sound like it was especially disturbing when they agreed with Joe.

[Rick Myers]

2. I remember seeing the 'preview' for that YEARS ago

i was probably about 10-12, was it 68-70???

[pinto]

3. I've seen it. As convoluted as that western with a title starting w/ "Z.."

something or other. Got to love those films.

Unfortunately, I could see the hippie chick, hippie chick dad, junkie boyfriend and freeper happening. Tells you a little about my "blocks", huh?

[Zen Democrat]

4. Zachariah

[pinto]

5. Yep. What a.......film. I loved it.

[DS1]

6. Reflecting Skin. One I'll bet Viggo now wishes he never made

[dweller]

7. did you like the

soundtrack?

dp

[NightTrain]

8. I thought of it not as weird, but as a product of its time (1970).

Joe was Archie Bunker without the sense of humor!

[jmowreader]

11. Archie Bunker was modeled in part after Joe Curran

But only in part--Archie regularly dropped the freeper shell; Joe had no shell, he was freeper through and through.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

9. I saw that baby first run!

On a date, LOL! You left out that hippie chick's dad is rich corporate dad. Laughs aplenty as blue collar freeper and HCRCD get glimpses of each other's worlds.

MAD Magazine did a satire on it - one of the good ones drawn by Mort Drucker...the funniest part was when they clean the paper plates by erasing them.

[Tom Kitten]

10. I remember that MAD parody!

It was called "Shmoe" and it was hilarious! That's how I've remembered it all these years because I never saw the film! though...but I did see "Zachariah" with a very young Don Johnson and the late Elvin Jones! as a bad guy...and the James Gang! Playing in a saloon! And out on the prairie! Yee-hah!


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