Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Lights! Camera! Vomit! 10 Great Up-Chucks
posted @5:33 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Today's guest list editor BARRY LLOYD has done my heart good with this very sharp-eyed and sharp-witted celebration of an oft-neglected gross bodily area of cinemagoing 'taste'. Isn't it good that movies can help us celebrate an experience in life we tend to forget (or repress all memory of) until such time as we once again must face the unforgiving white porcelain... if indeed we are so lucky as to have white porcelain close to hand...
Lights, camera, vomit!, by Barry Lloyd
1: Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life
Mr Creosote deserves top billing for having two lines to associate with the whole thing: “Better? Better get a bucket” and the "wafer thin" after-dinner mint...
2: The Exorcist
The first one that most people think of, but not a popular choice with we curried pea soup lovers.
3: The Witches of Eastwick
Well, if you have to vomit up something at least make it something different.
4: Meet The Feebles
See why Peter Jackson got the LOTR trilogy. Although is a puppet vomiting really acting? And in the same vein see below.
5: Team America: World Police
Certainly a lengthy puke but the question remains about puppets. Still I guess if they can have sex...
6: The Sixth Sense
Ghost Girl would rate higher but she's dead. Surely dead vomiting is nothing compared to upchuck among the living?
7: Stand By Me
The chance to see the whole "build up" to the chuck up. Not for the pie lover.
8: The Wedding Singer
Adam Sandler's performance is notable for his poor sense of direction.
9: 21 Grams
Surely the best acting performance by a great actor. Three graphic vomits in one movie. Oscar, Oscar.
10: Husbands
John Cassavetes somehow ennobles on screen vomiting, thus making a mockery of the genre. Still he also manages to make it kind of funny.
Comments
Having mentioned Peter Jackson's earlier work, a noble mention must surely go to Bad Taste. not only is there a protracted vomiting sequence, the bowl is then passed round the attendant throng for each to have a taste. This includes one of our undercover heroes. Unbeknownst to him, his vomit drinking exploits are watched by his hiding partner. When the pair are reunited the first challenges the second to guess what he had to do to which the second replies: "errrr, d'ya have to drink a bowl 'o' chuck?"
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