This movie features an army of well-armed, leather clad Filipinas with shaved heads. If you know me, you know that alone qualifies this as one of the greatest movies of this or any generation. Everyone is all crowing about Citizen Kane all the time, but to those people I ask 1) have you ever even seen Citizen Kane; and 2) did it feature even a single well-armed, leather clad Filipina with a shaved head? It didn’t, did it? So stop calling it the greatest film of all time. And since W is War is Filipino trash cinema, it’s not satisfied with just cute women with shaved heads, even though that was enough for me. W is War is the sort of movie that just keeps giving and giving. Cartoonish villains in capes, dune buggies, motorcycles shaped like sharks, massive shootouts, dudes in leather pants, exploding huts, sloppy kungfu fights, scenes shot from between the legs of hairy men wearing yellow Speedos — truly W is War is the movie that has something for everyone, and plenty of it.
#1 by Bryan on January 28, 2012 - 7:52 am
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This may be the finest movie review intro ever.
(BTW, I have seen Citizen Kane, but I really want to see this one, too!)
#2 by Mr. Rational on January 31, 2012 - 1:41 am
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Keith has this habit of finding these wonderfully obscure oddities from corners of the globe I never would have thought about mining for entertainment five years ago…and then ratcheting my desire to see the movie up from 0 to “MUST BUY NOW! OMG WHERE’S MY CREDIT CARD!” in the space of a single review.
Like it needed to be said…but here’s another one like that.
#3 by KeithA on January 31, 2012 - 3:03 pm
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Thanks. We really have our eye on the obscure corners of the world for 2012, so hopefully we’ll continue to stoke the fires, no matter how much VHS it means we have to buy from a guy in a back alley stall in Mumbai