rubbish anarchist films
Apr 25 2007
films about 'anarchists' which are laughably bad and therefore worth watching.
1) the anarchists - john woo style kung fu nonsense
2) What to do in case of fire - stupid german bollocks
3) The Anarchist Cookbook - stupid american nonsense
moar!
Apr 25 2007
#2
no no no! you can't have any of them cos they aren't rubbish enough. I'm looking for totally ridiculous mainstream rubbish.
Those filsm you postedb are rubbish cos they are rubbish anarchists, i want less annoying rubbish.
Apr 25 2007
#3
That one with Immortal Technique is fucking awful.
The Anarchist Cookbook is funny though. In an 'The Office' kind of way. I'm still not sure if thats intentional though.
Apr 25 2007
#4
georgestapleton wrote:
That one with Immortal Technique is fucking awful.
Anything with Immortal Technique is fucking awful.
Apr 25 2007
#5
madashell wrote:
georgestapleton wrote:
That one with Immortal Technique is fucking awful.Anything with Immortal Technique is fucking awful.
Not if they made a movie of that track of his about the beautiful virginal girl who gets "good AIDS" and dies. It could be like Philadelphia without the fags.
Apr 25 2007
#6
Tacks wrote:
no no no! you can't have any of them cos they aren't rubbish enough. I'm looking for totally ridiculous mainstream rubbish.
The Edukators?
I wonder if anyone's ever made a film of The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad). I bet that would have some terrible depictions of anarchist characters in it. Like that one who's obsessed with blowing things up including, at one point, possibly an individual policeman...
Apr 25 2007
#7
There is at least one film of The Secret Agent, I remember quite liking that book.
Apr 25 2007
#8
posi wrote:
I wonder if anyone's ever made a film of The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad). I bet that would have some terrible depictions of anarchist characters in it. Like that one who's obsessed with blowing things up including, at one point, possibly an individual policeman...
There's an article in this week's Time Out that claims that that's based on the Sidney Street siege of 1910 or something. I'm considering writing a letter, cos they claimed Malatesta's first name was Henri. Dude's fuckin Italian! Jeez...
Apr 25 2007
#9
It's based upon some real events but it's a long time since I read it (and the intro that gave all that info)
Apr 25 2007
#10
I liked the book too, but some of the characters are just too OTT to be filmable, IIRC.
Apr 25 2007
#11
Not quite anarchist films but still….
Ghost Rig, where a bunch of unusually militaristic environmentalists take over an abandoned oil rig in protest against its imminent dumping into the sea ala Brent Spar, the rig turns out to be inhabited by a demon raised by bored oil workers.
The Black Gestapo, 70s exploitation film where a Black Panther type group go around in SS uniforms, see also Assault on Precinct 13, which has very Panther looking street gangs.
Rebel - ’His way to peace is war - against society’ Sylvester Stallone plays a 60s Weather Underground type urban guerrilla, surprisingly this film isn’t actually totally stupid and is quite sympathetic to the Weather Underground types, and was made in 72 or 73, so at the time they were active.
Dawn of the Dead, the crappy re-make of a couple of years ago has, in the part where one of the characters is watching the TV news of America descending into zombie chaos, footage from the Genoa G-8 protests, the same footage is in the film the Red Zone. Dawn of the Dead the re-make also has a weird bit in the opening credits which looks like Muslims praying, and very Palestinian looking zombies attacking the White House.
Apr 25 2007
#12
Also A Fistful of Dynamite, Sergio Leone film from 71 or so with an ex-IRA man (and ‘explosives expert’ at a time when the IRA didn’t really do bombings) in the Mexican Revolution. The bloke in question is seen reading Bakunin, film also opens with a quote from Mao. Guess that sort of thing sold movies in the late 60s early 70s. There are a few westerns about the Mexican Revolution with some kinda vague left wing theme, A Bullet for the General is another one, can’t really remember that though. There have been a few soap operas and sit-coms to feature "eco-warriors" as well, there was one on Irish TV recently, though I couldn't bring myself to watch it, doubtless very cringe worthy
Apr 25 2007
#13
Prison riotting count?
I remember seeing The Last Castle, possibly the worst film any self-involved, patriotic, disillusioned yank has ever made.
Apr 25 2007
#14
Terry wrote:
Also A Fistful of Dynamite, Sergio Leone film from 71 or so with an ex-IRA man (and ‘explosives expert’ at a time when the IRA didn’t really do bombings) in the Mexican Revolution. The bloke in question is seen reading Bakunin, film also opens with a quote from Mao. Guess that sort of thing sold movies in the late 60s early 70s.
Are you kidding? That film is fuckin superb! It's opening scene is absolutely incredible. I wouldn't think factual accuracy was really Leone's priority. After all, the opposing army appear to be led by an Aryan German. The whole film is full of parallels to 1930/40s Europe. And yeah, mental as he was, the Mao quote is not only pretty accurate but completely underpins the thrust of the entire film.
V for Vendetta. The guy's a fuckin weird sub-WOMRADE nutjob and all the "masses" in it appear like sheep.
Apr 25 2007
#15
When I was in Denmark I saw a hilarious 80s US film about a Russian ballet dancer (played by the Russian artist in the last season of Sex and the City) escaping from the Iron Curtain with the aid of a black (inevitably) US state asset. It was great, will find out the name.
Apr 25 2007
#16
Here in Austin a friend of mine and I are putting together a screening of This Revolution! where you have to come in black bloc, bring protest-themed food, and we will have "molotov" cocktails. The invitations are faux protest fliers. We're showing it at the infoshop and we are doing it Rocky Horror style, with yelling at the screen and what not. Should be fun!
Apr 25 2007
#17
Alan wrote:
V for Vendetta. The guy's a fuckin weird sub-WOMRADE nutjob and all the "masses" in it appear like sheep.
Despite this, the comic is still fucking sweet.
Alan Moore's shit politics still shine through, but I defy anybody to deny that the conversation between V and the statue of Justice is genius.
Apr 26 2007
#18
Alan wrote:
There's an article in this week's Time Out that claims that that's based on the Sidney Street siege of 1910 or something. I'm considering writing a letter, cos they claimed Malatesta's first name was Henri. Dude's fuckin Italian! Jeez...
Well if you're going to write in, you ought to point out that the event it was based on happened in 1894 in Greenwich, and is known as "the Greenwich Park explosion". I saw a film of it with Bob Hoskins and Eddie Izzard in it, it was shit.
Also, what to do in case of fire is a fucking quality film! Yeah, they all had shit politics, but they break into a police station and steal a water cannon, I'm not saying its good in the kind of way the bit in Matewan where the migrant workers refuse to cross the picket is, but its a laugh!
Apr 26 2007
#19
madashell wrote:
Despite this, the comic is still fucking sweet.Alan Moore's shit politics still shine through, but I defy anybody to deny that the conversation between V and the statue of Justice is genius.
Yeah, it's a shite film and an awesome comic. 
Apr 26 2007
#20
SLC Punk is about as rubbish of an anarcho film as i've ever seen. Its about this punkish guy livin' in Salt Lake City coming of age and trying to figuer out if he wants to stay 'punk' or go to law school and 'sell out'. Litte does he know that he has already sold out, and will suck roughly the same amount whether he goes to law school or not. What really makes it bad is right in the middle of the film he explains his politics in realtion to the local nazi crowd. It kinda goes something like this, "Nazis are about order so they are bad, anarchy is about chaos so that is good, that is why we fight them!". Throughout the movie are all sorts of terrible refrences to "anarchism" and all sorts of circle a's and plently of those silly punker kids causing mischief. So all in all a bunch of punk kids, a terrible anarchy speech, and lots of brightly colored hair make this film a hell of a watch, and a complete piece of shit at the same time.
Apr 26 2007
#21
bozemananarchy wrote:
SLC Punk is about as rubbish of an anarcho film as i've ever seen. Its about this punkish guy livin' in Salt Lake City coming of age and trying to figuer out if he wants to stay 'punk' or go to law school and 'sell out'. Litte does he know that he has already sold out, and will suck roughly the same amount whether he goes to law school or not. What really makes it bad is right in the middle of the film he explains his politics in realtion to the local nazi crowd. It kinda goes something like this, "Nazis are about order so they are bad, anarchy is about chaos so that is good, that is why we fight them!". Throughout the movie are all sorts of terrible refrences to "anarchism" and all sorts of circle a's and plently of those silly punker kids causing mischief. So all in all a bunch of punk kids, a terrible anarchy speech, and lots of brightly colored hair make this film a hell of a watch, and a complete piece of shit at the same time.
SLC Punk is the best explanation the anarchist milieu I could possibly imagine.
Apr 26 2007
#22
bozemananarchy wrote:
SLC Punk is about as rubbish of an anarcho film as i've ever seen. Its about this punkish guy livin' in Salt Lake City coming of age and trying to figuer out if he wants to stay 'punk' or go to law school and 'sell out'. Litte does he know that he has already sold out, and will suck roughly the same amount whether he goes to law school or not. What really makes it bad is right in the middle of the film he explains his politics in realtion to the local nazi crowd. It kinda goes something like this, "Nazis are about order so they are bad, anarchy is about chaos so that is good, that is why we fight them!". Throughout the movie are all sorts of terrible refrences to "anarchism" and all sorts of circle a's and plently of those silly punker kids causing mischief. So all in all a bunch of punk kids, a terrible anarchy speech, and lots of brightly colored hair make this film a hell of a watch, and a complete piece of shit at the same time.
I got that on demand years ago, it really is fucking awful, in every fucking way!
Apr 26 2007
#23
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (which is the prequel to Oldboy) has an anarchist woman in it. Quality film - better than Oldboy - but doesn't really deal with her politics so much.
I think that we can safely say that if this thread is reprised in one year's time, Battle in Seattle will be the answer on everyone's lips.
Apr 26 2007
#24
edit:
double post
Apr 26 2007
#25
revol68 wrote:
bozemananarchy wrote:
SLC Punk is about as rubbish of an anarcho film as i've ever seen. Its about this punkish guy livin' in Salt Lake City coming of age and trying to figuer out if he wants to stay 'punk' or go to law school and 'sell out'. Litte does he know that he has already sold out, and will suck roughly the same amount whether he goes to law school or not. What really makes it bad is right in the middle of the film he explains his politics in realtion to the local nazi crowd. It kinda goes something like this, "Nazis are about order so they are bad, anarchy is about chaos so that is good, that is why we fight them!". Throughout the movie are all sorts of terrible refrences to "anarchism" and all sorts of circle a's and plently of those silly punker kids causing mischief. So all in all a bunch of punk kids, a terrible anarchy speech, and lots of brightly colored hair make this film a hell of a watch, and a complete piece of shit at the same time.I got that on demand years ago, it really is fucking awful, in every fucking way!
how about when the punks are having a really cool party and those totally un-cool nazi kids storm the house and cause trouble!
Apr 26 2007
#26
Posi wrote:
I think that we can safely say that if this thread is reprised in one year's time, Battle in Seattle will be the answer on everyone's lips.
Starring Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson & Ray Liotta, wtf!?
Apr 26 2007
#27
Oh please let Charlize Theron get masked up!
Apr 26 2007
#28
revol68 wrote:
Oh please let Charlize Theron get masked up!
Typical anarchist. Ruin the only good thing about something just for revolutionary chic.
Apr 26 2007
#29
OMG that movie looks great!!!
It's Pacey from Dawson's Creek:
And the guy from Outkast:
Apr 26 2007
#30
Andre 3000 dressed as a turtle!
this film does have everything
The 2nd half of Libertarias is pure rubbish I thought. "Anarchism in America" documentary is terrible. "Pickaxe" was rubbish. "Breaking the spell" wasn't violent enough.
That said there is some really good shit out there too.