Man, what?

[thebitterguy]

Okay, as joke concepts, a slasher movie where a zombie Ronald Reagan comes back and murders hippies (and being released on April 20) may be kind of amusing, but does anyone know if The Tripper ever got released?

Or is this just what David Arquette does with his wife's money?

Comments

[frabjousdave.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember reviews from a limited release. If my memory is correct, the reviews were kind of lukewarm, not especially negative but definitely not positive.

He was trying to promote the film at last year's Comic Con, but he was so high that he left the video in one of those pedal-cabs, and he kept cracking up and rambling at the Q&A.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, it's looking like a bit of a trainwreck. The Rotten Tomatoes reviews are not particularly positive.

I think he's learned a vital lesson: drug movies shouldn't be made under the influence of actual drugs.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

It got a limited release...about what you'd expect. It was always destined for video.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

You don't say....

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I DO say. And my word is law.

Well, in Palmer, Massachusetts. But it's a start.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Well, first Palmer, then the rest of Mass (you'll have to get rid of the Kennedys to have true power,but hey) and then, America... and the World!!!!!!

Or something.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

The Kennedys will be easy; I'll just let them have Cape Cod in exchange for being my puppet rulers.

Really, once I get control of New England, the rest of the world is easy. All I'll have to do is offer the rednecks free Bud Light and satillite TV and the South is mine. I'll use the rednecks as my invading force to crush California under my heel. And then I control the largest army in the world.

As a note of graciousness to our host, Canada will be spared any military action. In fact, I plan to relocate the capital of the world to Toronto. It's a nice clean city.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Mmm, you're going to need more than Bud Light to get the rednecks; I suggest some BBQ to go along with it. And make sure their army has Monster Truck Humvees.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Don't Humvees technically qualify as monster trucks already? They're ugly enough.

[bandersnitch.livejournal.com]

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2007/04/doug_reviews_the_tripper.html

My Movie Blog partners were actually invited to the red carpet release of this film. He seems to have liked it an awful lot.

It was most certainly a limited release.

[thebitterguy]

Sounds like he did.

Did you get my thing? Was it horribly inappropriate?

[bandersnitch.livejournal.com]

I didnt get your thing. I was looking for it though.

Oh god this sounds inappropriate. lol

email it directly to me. rodney at linkmedia.ca

[thebitterguy]

I posted it here: http://thebitterguy.livejournal.com/831559.html

You should be the only person able to see it. I also sent a slightly updated version to your email. It might have gotten caught in your spam filter.

[bandersnitch.livejournal.com]

done and posted

Feel free to pimp out the site to everyone you know. We want to generate a LOT of buzz around this site.

I apparently never sent the final bit of it

[thebitterguy]

Rodney, can you edit in this conclusion to the whole thing?
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Of course, the point of this whole thing was that there's way more drama in dysfunction than happiness, but on a show with an ensemble this big, that degree of parental dysfunction is almost enough to make someone despair for the future of the father/child bond.

So, this Father’s day, take a moment to give your dad a hug, or a card, or a call. Just don't take a stranger to strangle them.