Will it blend?

July 20, 2007 4:57 PM

Apocalypse Oz
posted by darkripper (34 comments total)

Link to the trailer on youtube (the site hates my firefox and already crashed it three times)
posted by darkripper at 5:00 PM on July 20, 2007

Cineclash? What if you use a mashup in a cineclash? Mashclash?
posted by geoff. at 5:08 PM on July 20, 2007

The key art looks better than the movie.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 5:12 PM on July 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

This will not Wendell Ian Crossland.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:15 PM on July 20, 2007

A more comprehensive title would be Apocalypse Oz Freeway.
posted by Iridic at 5:17 PM on July 20, 2007

Apocalypse Blue?
posted by KokuRyu at 5:29 PM on July 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Somewhere over the napalm, bluebirds fry.
posted by rob511 at 5:30 PM on July 20, 2007

Follow the Yellow River;
Follow the Yellow River;
Follow follow follow follow follow the Yellow River.

etc. etc.
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:33 PM on July 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Gaaaaah! My eyes!!!
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:39 PM on July 20, 2007

Hitting metafilter up for free adspace seems right in line with the rest of the movie's budget.
posted by jfuller at 5:42 PM on July 20, 2007

This Pepsi, it's blue?
posted by davy at 5:52 PM on July 20, 2007

When a man's an empty kettle
He should be on his mettle
And yet I'm torn apart
Just because I'm presumin'
That I could be kind-a human
If I only had a Hearts of Darkness.
posted by ColdChef at 5:56 PM on July 20, 2007

"I love the smell of poppies in the morning. You know, one time we had a yellow brick road bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Munchkin body. The smell, you know that lollipop smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory."
posted by ColdChef at 6:01 PM on July 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

didn't greg araki stop making these kind of films?
posted by cazoo at 6:10 PM on July 20, 2007

This is not pepsi blue and, obviously, this movie gonna suck pretty hard. However I can see at least one huge improvement on the source material.
posted by darkripper at 6:11 PM on July 20, 2007

Alright, alright, so now it's Alexandra Gizela Blue.
posted by KokuRyu at 6:19 PM on July 20, 2007

Kansas … shit; I'm still only in Kansas. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now … waiting for a mission … getting softer; every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute the Wicked Witch squats in the bush, she gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
posted by Aloysius Bear at 6:22 PM on July 20, 2007

I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce.

*gloats*

Aside from that, the big question is whether or not you can still play The Dark Side of the Moon over the top of the movie.
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:24 PM on July 20, 2007

There was a map of the Northern Territory on the wall of my apartment in Munchkin County and some nights, coming back late to the Emerald City, I'd lie out on my Queenslander and look at it, too tired to do anything more than just get my ruby slippers off. That map was a marvel, especially now that it wasn't real anymore.
posted by KokuRyu at 6:26 PM on July 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Well... We live in the age of the mashup, so I suppose it's inevitable. After all, Tarantino's entire career has been this, except that he's mashing up, say 150 films instead of 2 or 3...

But I am saddened by the lack of the desire to tell original stories that aren't essentially fan fiction on drugs.
posted by MythMaker at 6:38 PM on July 20, 2007

This Wizard guy? He's wacko, man! He's worse than crazy. He's evil. It's fuckin' pagan idolatry. Look around you. Shit! He's loco... I ain't afraid of all them fuckin' curtains and flames and shit. I used to think if I died in an evil place, then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to Heaven. But now? Fuck! I mean, I don't care where it goes, as long as it ain't here. So whaddya wanna do? I'll kill the fuck.
posted by geoff. at 6:41 PM on July 20, 2007

I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with the Tinman and the Lion. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a munchkin village to kill the children. We left the camp after we had killed all the children, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every little arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a ruby... a ruby bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were flying monkeys... trained primates. These monkeys who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those flying monkeys our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have monkeys who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
posted by blue_beetle at 6:45 PM on July 20, 2007 [4 favorites]

or something like that...
posted by blue_beetle at 6:46 PM on July 20, 2007

OK, I think we've taken this as far as it can go.
posted by Aloysius Bear at 6:47 PM on July 20, 2007

Somewhere up the Nung River
Monkeys fly, and the PBR Streetgang
Sails like a lullaby...
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:11 PM on July 20, 2007

Also, points to KokoRyu for rocking the Herr.
posted by adamgreenfield at 8:12 PM on July 20, 2007

ummmmmm.....NO.
posted by photoslob at 8:36 PM on July 20, 2007

I AM THE GREAT AN BENIFICENT KURTZ!!!
posted by Devils Rancher at 9:14 PM on July 20, 2007

Please people, I need to consume a product. Could someone perhaps suggest something?
posted by pompomtom at 9:30 PM on July 20, 2007

Looks as if they're expending serious energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of children's fiction out of the shallow grave where, um...
posted by QuietDesperation at 11:25 PM on July 20, 2007

Chocolypse Now
posted by malevolent at 1:24 AM on July 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

People always used to say that mass access to broadcast media would lead to the blooming of a thousand flowers. In fact, all it does is make you realise how most people really aren't talented at all.
posted by rhymer at 2:03 AM on July 21, 2007

My guess is that Ewan Telford is a pseudonym for whoever made this film.

Both disturbing in their lack of anything.
posted by humannaire at 4:14 AM on July 21, 2007

I think this is cool.
posted by MarshallPoe at 6:52 AM on July 21, 2007