salesman Stan asks a customer to confess their love for the baby Jesus
Short version: imagine if Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas had an orgy. This movie would be their mutant lovechild. scrounge up a dvd. download it off itunes. run 1.71 gigawatts of electricity through chicken entrails if you have to, just watch this movie.
Long version: I was originally considering going to a movie theater tonight. I was going to go to a restaurant and pay too much for some food i could have gotten out of the freezer section at Kroger, then go see The Dark Knight. Thankfully, the full parking lots at the various restaurants i like around here sent me back home, where I found this gem of an oddball indie movie from 1996.
Our protagonists are door-to-door salesmen peddling (what else?) bibles and guns in Orange County, California. the movie begins with a call to adventure – the company convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. it’s sometime in the 80s or 90s in the movie. Many of these men are vets of Korea and Vietnam, a little too off-kilter to hold down more conventional work. One used to be a Rabbi. but they play golf, sell their wares, believe in a just and wrathful God, and generally get along well as older men trying to make the best of a stressful situation, and the situation is stressful.
Sales have been low for the past couple years, and there’s talk of the California branch of their company closing. to pad their numbers a bit, they figure they’ll do a little door-to-door work in Vegas, and this is there the fun begins.
By fun, I mean gunfights with their rivals from Texas who claim to have already leased the rights to operate in the Las Vegas area. By fun, i also mean do drugs and star in softcore porn. by fun, I mean realize how miserable your life has been and get crazy drunk and start waving loaded guns around.
I tell ya, the entire Orange County office of the Bible and Gun Club is a bunch of perverts and paranoids the likes of which you won’t find outside… well… outside events like the one I got back from last week, and this colorful cast of entertainingly dysfunctional characters makes for some damn fine movie viewing.
Tags: movie, paranoid, pervert, porn stars, review, subgenius, The Bible and Gun Club
July 24, 2008 at 4:36 pm |
i can’t find this movie!!!
July 24, 2008 at 9:55 pm |
i found it on itunes, in the “independent” section of the movie store, for rental and purchase. I bought it, based on title alone, and i am glad i did.
April 23, 2009 at 4:33 am |
I’ve seen this movie at the Rotterdam filmfestival in 1996 or 1997.
Its one off my all time favorites !!!
Thanks Doktor Holocaust for the tip, i will serve to itunes asap to order