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The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #139: ‘Date Night’

[Not much of a post, but you get a chance to see Amber Heard looking super-hot, so why not? Check out the original post (from 25 February 2011) here, if only for the comments, in which people debate the grammatical nuances of the movie’s title!]

I’ll have a real column up tomorrow or Sunday, but in the meantime …

… you MUST see this.

It’s almost embarrassing how happy this movie made me.

Julie took me as a delayed Valentine’s present.

I’m telling you, I haven’t had that much fun at the movies in years. It’s like every 1970s Roger Corman movie mashed into one beautiful hot mess. There’s tough guys in shades. There’s muscle cars ramming cop barricades manned by angry redneck troopers. There’s hot babes. There’s a villain that’s a soft-spoken slimeball who wears bad silk shirts open to the waist. There’s stuff that blows up. There’s fightin’ and shootin’ and general badassery. And best of all, there is the brilliant William Fichtner as Satan’s accountant.

It takes a certain panache to deliver a line like ‘Yes, I called you a fat fuck… unless you’d prefer I call you a DEAD fat fuck?’ with the sort of bored nastiness Fichtner brings to this. I adored it.

Understand, this is probably going to get terrible reviews and it won’t help Nicolas Cage’s career at all, but God help me, I loved every gleefully unrepentant grindhouse second of Drive Angry. If you love Escape From New York or The Warriors or Vanishing Point or the original Death Race 2000 or Eat My Dust or Spacehunter or any of the other inspired schlock from that era, then this one’s for you.

Trailer here [Edit: First one below]. And the red band trailer, which feels a little more accurate in what the movie is like to watch, can be found here [Edit: Second one below, although Greg’s link didn’t work anymore, so I found it elsewhere – I just assume it was the same one!].

Best Valentine EVER. My wife is awesome.

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