A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee. The townspeople are hostile to the outsiders at first, but seem to accept them once they've killed a couple of people. After a while, a mysterious man named Dade arrives, who seems to have unpleasant business to settle with the robbers. A free-for-all shoot-em-up ensues. Cox doesn't go for the obvious jokes in this bizarre send-up of the spaghetti Western, Peckinpah-esque genre. I believe it's just incredibly funny even if you don't know who the players are. In any case, what's appealing to me is the over-the-top visuals and violence while the jokes regarding the idiom itself aren't the usual "stinking badges" or eyes looking around ones. Instead Cox has fun with the strange aggressive sexual tension of the idiom and the amorality it tried to represent. the perfect movie for…well, a house full of overeducated, underemployed guys drinking Colt 45 bullet oys and singing the Weiner-Kid song with joy and abandon. Maybe just the gestalt of the whole enterprise: Elvis Costello, Sy Richardson, The Pogues, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Joe Strummer, Courtney Love… "What the HECK is going on here?!?" "Lets make that Weiner Kid sing his song….Wanna?" "I don't know what love is…..BANG"<br/><br/>yes.
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