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Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: _rich_ on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
Saw this yrs ago.  If you run with the literati then seeing this is most phun you will have for some time.  The comments & puns flowed as no river ever has.  See it w/a crowd.  You may need to touch the hem of the zuite suite before you die laffing.
May ghod have mercy.  This should be a Fandom requirement for membership as well as knowing the secret hand shake.

Illitarati for the Church of Bob. SubGenui in absentia.

_rich_


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Randall Frost on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
When I came across your review of "Greaser's Palace," I had to pull over and leave a comment. First and fore, most people have never heard of the movie, and you have to go to old-school, hole-in-the-wall video stores to find it.

If you're ever in Duluth, Minnesota, you have to check out "8th Street Video on 9th Street." Okay, so it's pretty much a house carved open and packed with video shelves, but they have everything ever committed to tape. The owner will actually size you up and saddle you with a movie of his choosing: "Here. You need to watch this." Weird? Sure. But never dull. "Greaser's Palace" was one of the videos he insisted I watch, and I loved every bizarre bit of it! MASH fans will recognize Alan Arbus ("Jessy") as psychiatrist Sidney Freedman. Kudos for and trying (and doing a good job) to explain this film to the B-Movie nation!


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Michelle on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I just got this movie from netflix.  Hysterical review of an hysterical movie, however you left out the fact that most of the few lines of dialogue spoken in this movie are gross discriptions of sex acts.  Pretty weird, you know, for a movie about religion.  Anyway I kind of disagree (I can't totally disagree because who knows?) about Greaser representing the Catholic Church.  I thought this was more a psychological representation of the coming of Christ.  And speaking of the coming of Christ wasn't Cholera the devil because she "tempted" Him in the desert?  Save your flower...  


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on February 17, 2001, 07:23:21 PM
Another one to add to my must see list. Especially if it as unintentionally funny as the plot synopsis is intentionally funny. I have not laughed so hard in years.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Phantom 187 on February 18, 2001, 02:13:34 AM
Where do you come up with this !@#$?


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: DJ MEAN on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Well, I did not think it was possible, but I have witnessed an even stranger role for Herve Villachez than that of his role as King Fausto in "The Forbidden Zone".  Greasers Palace is a must see.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Kurt on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
As Andrew pointed out, this doesn't even begin to cover the nuttiness of the whole thing.  Like the fact that the outhouse on the third floor has a chute out the bottom, and every time the old man goes in it people stand under the chute staring up expectantly in what is obviously the "splash zone."

The first picture in the gallery, by the way, is the scene I would have been choosing as a video clip.  The cowboy is visiting Mrs. Palmer and her five daughters while fondling a wooden Indian.  He eventually gets so into the act that he falls backwards over the wall (never slowing down).  Sick stuff.



Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Michael the law student on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Kurt tends towards understatement, the cowboy is not fondling the statue, the cowboy is not gently caressing the statue. The cowboy...is BRUTALIZING the statue. It was undoubtedly the single most disturbing thing ever committed to celluloid (worse even than the famed "call the police" episode of Ren and Stimpy)

It should also be noted that the nekkid, horse riding indian (hailed by Andrew during BFest as the saving grace of the film) is none other than Toni "Oh Mickey, you're so fine you're so fine you blow my mind" Basil



Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: James Henson on February 21, 2001, 04:38:05 PM
After reviewing the sample mpg, I have got to watch this film. This has to be one of the most bizarre and must see films I have ever heard about. Right up there with Plan Nine from Outer Space!


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Josh on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I can crawl again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greaser's PalACE is the funniest movie ever made period.
See it or die a miserable life.
Put a rope around the son of a b***h!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Pete on September 01, 2001, 07:32:56 PM
The extreme right will condemn this a blasphemy; the extreme left will condemn this as trivial and silly. Well who the heck made them creator? This is as weird as they come and I loved it. I think the more you know about the bible the more you will appreciate (or hate) this movie. It’s great, worth the 90 minutes!


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: on October 12, 2001, 04:19:49 AM
Have you ever seen El Topo? Cause this movie looks like some kinda cheapo parody of that...


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Kelly on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Any M*A*S*H fans out there??  'Cuz if there are, you'll recognize Jessy as the recurring character Dr. Sidney Freeman, the low-key psychiatrist.  I suspected it was him when I listened to the clips, then I saw the pics you've got -- Hi Sidney!!  What happened, got too many head cases??


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: TervGirl on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I saw this movie at a film festival upon it's release in the early '70s. I LOVED IT !!!! Have been telling people about it for years (all attribute it to my own insanity....)Now I have actually found a place to get it and show it MYSELF to all the non-believers and infidels....redemption is at hand!!....................................IF YOU FEEL_ YOU"RE HEALED>>>AMEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: No Nukes on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Robert Downey, Sr. directed it. Figures.

I have "Putney Swopes", which was also made by him but is a bit harder to find. It's a comedy about a TV ad agency run by black people, and apparently caused quite a stir back when it was released. The ad spoofs are painfully unfunny and lame, but the movie itself is pretty watchable. Maybe Andrew should review it sometime.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Gregg S on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
I first saw this movie back in 1990 and it has been my favorite ever since.  As stated earlier...the reviewer has completely understated how bizzare it is.

If you watch this movie, you will either hate it with a passion or love, love, love it!

I suggest finding it...if you can.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Steve S. on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Saw this movie when it came out and didn't understand it any better then, but it is truly entertaining.  I must study the Bible when I get a minute. Is stingeree a Biblical term? Found the film at Netflix.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Jadeh on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Bravo regularly shows this movie. I didn't recognize it from it's title unti lI saw the picture of Jessy.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Alex Dominguez on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
Ya saw it on Bravo few years ago and was hooked. I realy like the abstract plot, that in my view pays homage to the
magic and fresh outlook that Christ gave to all the backward
people in the holy land.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Toby on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I taped greasers from the independent film channel years ago and made the guys at the shop watch it recently.  Laugh is an understatement.  Will have to get dvd for permanent video library. Another great flic is "Strozek" about a mans tough life in the US after leaving Berlin, subtitled but pretty damn funny.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: mkhall on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I just finished watching this without benefit of your review ahead of time. You get major kudos for stringing together a quasi-plausible interpretation of the film, and making it funny as hell. I enjoyed the film, in a "what did I just do to my higher brain functions?" kind of way; your review let me know I'm not alone.


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Nathan on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
The following is a dead straight, true story about how I met my wife and this movie.

OK, the year is 1973 and I am a Physics student in Atlanta. Beard, broke, no money.  A single, hairy, dateless male was in fact de facto at Georgia Tech where females were under 10% of the populace. Today, there are lots of female students, but many of them are also single and hairy.

Back to 1973. I was (as per ususal) dead broke. Hanging around the Commons in AREA III we could see guys dropping off/picking up dates one Friday night. I saw a very cute girl driving up who I had seen earlier and (as it was 11:15). Easy to recognize as there were about five girsl who fit this description.  I bet another dateless loser colleague that she would not kiss her date good night. One dollar. Unfamiliar with dating rituals, said loser assumed that girls always kissed their dates good night. Purely a theoretical observation on his part. He accepted my wager and lost. In a confident mood, I said "double or nothing she will go out with me." "When?" he asks. "Now" I say and he accepts again. To our mutual surprise, she does accept; I get my two dollars and we head over to the midnight movie. hard for modern man to imagine but the Midnight Movie cost a dollar. The movie was "Greaser's Palace" (with, as I recall, "Bambi meets Godzilla" as an opening pre-movie). I am glad she didn't want popcorn as I was broke.

It was a weird movie for sure. No reviews can quite prepare you for it. But if you are still reading it isn;t because you wanted movie insights, but rather to hear the rest of my story. We later married (1976), had six children and are in the "living happily ever after" format. You know, big house in the burbs, nice cars and vacations in Europe.

A few years ago, one of my daughters sent me the DVD. I decided to see it again before any of my kids (or sposal unit) watched it. This is not a movie for my kids. Not for me or my wife either. Maybe it is for you. But it served its purpose.



Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: Rick on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Saw the film on HBO, it seems like a century ago and have been quoting lines ever since.  A personal must see movie at least once a year just to stay grounded in it.  My favorite line is The Holy Ghost confronting GTF with the lament of every non-favored sibling, "You'll never know what I can do because you never give me the chance."  Instead of "Seaweedhead" I've always heard it as "See, Weedhead".  That makes more sense to me but I suppose I'd have to have access to the script in order to resolve what goes against popular interpretation. Don't miss this one.  


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on February 24, 2006, 11:34:04 AM
You seemed a bit confused by Jessy, the Jesus satire, suffering from stigmata.  I think the purpose of that scene is that when he tried to do positive things to entertain people (card tricks, singing and dancing, water to wine, etc.) nobody cared.  But when he starts screaming and bleeding, everybody applauds.  The point is that to most Christians, the greatest thing Jesus ever did was to DIE.  Not all the love and peace crap.  


Title: Greasers Palace
Post by: raymonAnderson on July 26, 2006, 10:37:38 AM
Did you notice when God killed someone they stayed dead.


Title: Re: Greasers Palace
Post by: CarlosPC on February 02, 2007, 01:09:20 AM
Quote from:  link=topic=111782.msg115813#msg115813 date=1002878389
Have you ever seen El Topo? Cause this movie looks like some kinda cheapo parody of that...

YES! It reminded me of El Topo many times. Oh God we all are losing our souls!!!  :wink:


Title: Re: Greasers Palace
Post by: Petey Wheatstraw on July 06, 2007, 01:29:48 AM
A good companion piece to William Blatty's Ninth Configuration with Stacey Keach. Though a less cerebral exploration of religion. Bizarre humor, apologetics and random madness. Plus it's hard to ignore the Vietnam war connection between Ninth Config. and Alan Arbus' charachter on MASH.

My favorite Sidney Friedman line from MASH:
Ladies and gentlemen take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.


Title: Re: Greasers Palace
Post by: JoshieB on November 07, 2009, 03:57:19 AM
I'm watching this movie right now on the Turner Classic Movie channel in Vancouver, BC.  The guy just humped the statue.  You have no idea how relieved I am to find a forum that discusses this thing.  (Not that I'm recommending it -- in fact I'm about to pack it in -- but it is totally bizarre.)  Note that the guy who plays Jesse is also in "Putney Swope."


Title: Re: Greasers Palace
Post by: Rev. Powell on January 07, 2010, 03:56:00 PM
I can't agree with all your allegorical interpretations of the movie, Andrew, but man did you hit the nail on the head (so to speak) with the identity of "The Pioneer Woman."  Notice who nails Jesse to the cross at the end; it's fairly controversial when you think about it.

A very bizarre and subtly clever movie.  I liked it but wasn't overwhelmed by it when I first saw it years ago on Bravo, but I appreciated it much more on a second viewing, understanding going in that it was a comedy.  

It's a real shame that this has gone out of print on DVD.  I hope someone rectifies this situation soon.


Title: Re: Greasers Palace
Post by: Steven on July 20, 2010, 12:57:32 AM
Greaser = Caeser/Rome.


Title: Re: Greasers Palace
Post by: Drew on August 25, 2010, 09:37:45 AM
I first came across the movie when it was first released, and I was captivated, horrified, and somehow comforted. While the religious symbolism is obvious, I think it spoke to me on an even more fundamental level, about how close is the human animal to chaos and how the structure of belief systems fails us. It fit my view of the world
No, this isn't great art, nor am I a great thinker, but I get this movie out every five or ten years to look at it and see where it takes me. I share it cautiously.