… one too many times./I tripped over the Ottoman/until I lost my mind.”
And that curiously-appropriate Dead Milkmen lyric brings me to Badi, the “Turkish E.T.”, one of the most appalling attempts at family entertainment I’ve ever had to suffer through.
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#1 by KeithA on March 3, 2008 - 10:45 am
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Seriously? They actually shot the dog? Maybe the stories my grandpa used to tell me about Turkish soldiers making necklaces out of the ears of German soldiers — living or dead — were true.
#2 by PCachu on March 3, 2008 - 10:57 am
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“…if I saw something like that wobbling toward me, my first impulse would be to grab a paper towel and clean it up.”
That’s a little out of sequence. First, the shotgun; then, the paper towel.
#3 by Braineater on March 3, 2008 - 3:49 pm
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Keith — They didn’t actually shoot the dog on-camera. They show the guy in uniform pointing the gun as though he’s just done the deed (aiming directly at the camera, I might add), and then they show the dog lying in a sad little heap. We then get to watch as they scoop up the body and put it in a truck. The animal is clearly dead.
I suppose there’s always the chance that the dog in question is a similar-looking but different dog from the one we saw playing with Ali — not that this improves things much — but there’s no way I’m going back to watch it again to find out.
#4 by El Santo on March 3, 2008 - 8:29 pm
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“Maybe the stories my grandpa used to tell me about Turkish soldiers making necklaces out of the ears of German soldiers — living or dead — were true.”
Dog-shooting aside, your grandpa was definitely full of it. The Turks tied their foreign policy into an ungodly series of knots in an effort to stay the hell out of World War II, getting involved only in February of 1945, when the US, Great Britain, and the USSR made declaring war on Germany a condition of becoming a founding member of the United Nations. And by that time, the battle front was so far from Anatolia that no Turkish soldier ever fired a shot.
#5 by lyzard on March 3, 2008 - 8:40 pm
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And in WWI, they were way too busy shooting at us!
#6 by KeithA on March 4, 2008 - 12:19 am
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Whatever, Santo. Next you’re going to tell me he was fibbing when he talked about how, because that yardbird Truman shorted them on rations, American soldiers had to run across fields — while being shot at by Germans — and catch bugs in their mouth if they wanted to eat.
#7 by The Rev. D.D. on March 4, 2008 - 7:28 am
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Maybe the dog just died of natural causes during filming, and they thought they had to explain why it was no longer in the film, so they added the bizarre, sudden shooting.
I know, I know, but let me have this little fantasy. I do not want to think about the probable reality because it makes me very unhappy.
A shame they’d throw something like that into what otherwise sounds like a wacky, insane experience. Kind of like the headless turkey in Blood Freak.
#8 by Ed on March 4, 2008 - 10:58 am
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Maybe it’s just a sign that I’ve seen too many bad movies, but damn if that alien doesn’t look a bit like the one from Meatballs II.