Does Hard Cash have hardcore action? A hardass protagonist? Hardly. We get not one, but two former major studio movie actors (Christian Slater and Val Kilmer) transplanted to the B movie hotspot of Bulgaria, once again trying to pass itself off as the United States. Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer appears in a key role.
#1 by T.C. on May 11, 2011 - 11:45 am
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Isn’t something like 40% of the U.S. over weight?
They can’t all have genetic problems, can they?
#2 by Elizabeth the Ferret on May 11, 2011 - 12:49 pm
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No, but some of them – like my wife, who is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen – have issues such as asthma. Very few people become overweight just because they like stuffing themselves with high colorie food. Depression, stress, and worry can all lead to being overweight.
#3 by El Santo on May 12, 2011 - 7:55 pm
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We have a hyperabundance of dirt-cheap, low-quality food, a ruthless postindustrial economy that encourages people to work ever longer hours at ever more sedentary jobs, and a long cultural tradition of recreational eating. If you wanted to design a society expressly to produce an obesity epidemic, you couldn’t do much better than the United States in the 21st century.
#4 by Elizabeth the Ferret on May 11, 2011 - 12:56 pm
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When you mentioned movies that didn’t mock little people, the first one that popped into my head was Willow. There is a bit where a little person gets barfed on by a baby for laughs, but that’s due to the character being a jerk rather than the actor being small.
I had to grin a bit at the part where you talked about how in a lot of movies, it at least seems like the actor playing the villain had fun. I took theater from my freshman through junior years of high school, and my favorite role in any of the plays we did was when I got cast as the villain. I was some sort of evil demon goddess living in an old radio. I got to capture and keep the souls of four teenage girls.
#5 by perletwo on May 11, 2011 - 2:24 pm
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I love movie cover art where three people are pictured, but only two are regarded as worth naming. In this case, it’s a fun little game of One of These Things Is Not Like the Others….