 | MOVIE #1,390 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 02.22.24 So there’s a lot to unpack here for what I am officially dubbing a “lost film.” I couldn’t find this one anywhere, on legal channels or illegal ones. It’s not available for sale in physical media either. This is labeled a “Sketch comedy in the tradition of Kentucky Fried Movie. Several TV commercials and movie parodies, sex, politics and crazy-humor sketches” and is the only feature credit for writer-director Jason Bunch, whose only other notes on IMDB list him as the cinematographer on a six-minute video short from 2008 and one episode of documentary TV series called Colorado Experience (2013). I did watch the Blunt Movie trailer three times to better understand this forgotten entry in James Hong’s massive filmography. |
When you search for it on DVD, the only results are for a 1987 TV movie called Blunt: The Fourth Man starring Anthony Hopkins and a documentary on the English musician, James Blunt (oh and a random Turkish film)…
There are five short clips from the movie on the director’s personal YouTube page, featuring a slew of the notable names in the cast — a veritable murderer’s row…
— and here’s evidence that James Hong did indeed appear in this thing…
That's... not good, but it's certainly bad in an interesting way, perhaps. (IDK might be grasping at straws here.)
After not uploading anything to that page in a decade, Bunch has returned to post a reworked version of the Blue Velvet trailer featuring Lana Del Rey’s cover of the titular song, and “an imagined live duet of Unchained Melody by Elvis Presley and Lana Del Rey” in the last month. This is neither here nor there, and essentially useless information, but I find it FASCINATING. What do you do after completing your one and only feature film but get really into Lana Del Rey and media mashups. Makes sense.
Obviously, from the small sampling available online, this film seems very cheap and very bad. But, at least conceptually, there’s a few ideas that made me chuckle alongside moments of complete incoherency. I don’t know if it’s well-executed, but I can get behind the idea of two actors wearing ridiculously large George Bush and George W. Bush masks reenacting the opening scene of Pulp Fiction…
This flick also features Pat Morita in the role of Mr. Miyami (definitely not his character from Karate Kid, I’m guessing)...
The funniest part of the YouTube comments on the trailer are the plethora of people wondering how Morita acted in a movie eight years after his death…
Well, this movie was filmed sometime around 2004-2005 and it took that long to get the funding to finish this masterpiece for release on 4/20/13 (nice)… only to have it completely vanish again another ten years later. (It’s actually one of a whopping sixteen posthumous credits for Mr. Miyami).
In general, this ‘type’ of movie is not my bag. I haven’t seen Kentucky Fried Movie (which, yeah, I SHOULD watch, at this point), but the 'skit/sketch and fake commercial' genre of feature filmmaking is a tough sell (the only entry in this vague genre that I’ve seen is The Groove Tube, which is painfully unfunny for the most part). But still, I’m putting out the call on the off-chance that some wayward reader has a copy of this they’d like to share: hmu.
As is protocol for my critiques of “lost films,” I will be awarding this a perfect score of 10/10. Because there’s always perfection in the true unknowing, and this is something that I have to believe in.
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Sketch comedy in the tradition of "Kentucky Fried Movie". Several TV commercial and movie parodies, sex, politics and crazy-humor sketches. It was released on April 20, 2013.
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