The Last Movie You Watched

[Rev. Rye]

I recently discovered that some Deep Hurting Project-level films that I haven't covered yet are back on streaming. So, the Deep Hurting Project is back, even if it's only for a few weeks. The first one I'm going to watch for this particular fit is Can't Stop the Music, a biopic and origin story for the Village People. And it's only available in Canada, so, as far as Tubi's concerned, I'm currently in Toronto.

• This record store's just named "Sheet Music?"
  
• Gee, I wonder if that construction worker's going to come back... in this movie about the origins of the Village People.
  
• San... Cisco... Fran? Well, someone fucked that up.
  
  
  
• You know, for a movie about gay icons, there's a lot of focus on beautiful woman who seem to not be wearing bras. In absolute fairness, only the cowboy and the Native were actually gay IRL, but still.
  
• Goddam, they could afford to just have some Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow, and Betty Grable impersonators in the window.
  
• New York is the city of music? What about Nashville? Or Manchester?
  
• So, they just have this Puerto Rican guy hanging around in a Native American war bonnet? Well, technically, since the guy's Puerto Rican, I can't use the typical "Stupid Fucking White Man" clip, but it's still fucking cringe because he's not actually a real Indian.
  
• Handling a root canal is actually pretty easy. Just ask for nitrous during the surgery, and have either Love's Forever Changes
  
• Why is everybody just having these electrical glitches like Dr. Manhattan's trying to achieve a physical form?
  
• Shouldn't a demo sound like a real record? That depends, are you Pete Townshend? Or are you a record label that decides that just releasing a demo's easier than releasing a fully polished track?
  
• You know, the funny thing is that, even when they're comparing their plan to one of those old Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney musicals, and the construction worker's talking about how he likes them, IRL, he was the exact opposite, saying:
  

  When I first read the script, I threw it across the room. I though it was a piece of crap. It read like one of those stupid old Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney pictures. We didn't believe in the movie, but no one would listen to us! You can only go on for so long being a joke.

• The construction worker's singing a song that's mostly just the lyrics "I love you to death" while surrounded with scantily-clad women in red. I'm starting to think that this movie's really squeamish about associating themselves with LGBT culture.
  
• Also, Caitlyn Jenner's in this movie, back from when she was still pretending to be a Dude. Fortunately, despite earlier reports, she does not play herself, but a lawyer named Ron White. Thanks for making me an easy out of having to deadname her. So, if you see me name-drop Redneck comedians, that's why.
  
• What the fuck was Granny's plan? Pretend to get hit by a bike, force a cake onto some guy at gunpoint, and then ride away on the bike that ran you over?
  
• The indignities the Native Americans suffered in Roots? That's black people, not Indians!
  
• How many fucking headdresses does Felipe have? And why is Jeff Foxworthy here the only guy who thinks that his habit is weird?
  
• Yes, it's a terrible day when America's top model gives it all up. Especially when there won't be a competition for the next top model until 2003.
  
• Huh. They just had everything they needed ready. They already knew how to do the song, and they even had a backing track ready. They even found a way to way to isolate themselves from all the ambient noise around New York Ci- Who the fuck am I kidding? This is obviously on a set.
  
• ... This guy's a talented composer... And yet Arthur Russell languished in obscurity for decades, only to achieve fame after his death.
  
  
  
• Huh, Bill Engvall has two personalities. Presumably one's male and the other's female?
  
• And now we've got a random GI, and a leatherman. I wonder if they're going to
  
• Why is Alice Cooper eating the phone cord?
  
• Well, that's what I expect from a big disco musical: a straight performance of "Danny Boy." 
  
• Huh. It took them 75 minutes to do a song I recognise. 
  
• ... I think I saw some cock in this PG movie. 
  
• You know, cock aside, the version in this movie would probably make a better music video for "YMCA" than the actual music video they made for the song. At least we actually get to see inside the Y.
  
  
  
• Hmm. "Liberation" sounds pretty based. I wonder if this is just supposed to be about gay rights without actually mentioning gayness.
  
• You like some sangria? Put a little acid in it and I'm sold!
  
• $20 bucks a head for 2,000 people, plus what you make at the bar? That sounds more like revenue than profit.
  
• Milk commercial intro. So generic that they don't have a brand name for th-- Are those kid versions of the Village People? 
  
• If that won't sell milk,nothing will. I mean, could you imagine a huge hit milk commercial that hinges on knowing early American history or something like that?
  

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And the other two movies in this particular fit:

1. Adventures of Pluto Nash
   
2. Megamind vs the Doom Syndicate
   

I'm inclined towards covering the latter first.