{"id":997,"date":"2011-11-29T21:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=997"},"modified":"2011-11-29T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:11:34","slug":"the-muppets-movie-meets-the-human-centipede-now-that-aint-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/29\/the-muppets-movie-meets-the-human-centipede-now-that-aint-right\/","title":{"rendered":""The Muppets Movie" Meets "The Human Centipede": Now That Ain't Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the title for this post should be “The Muppets Movie<\/em> cleanses the horror of The Human Centipede<\/em>,” but oh well. These two happened to be the films I saw this weekend: The Muppets Movie<\/em> at a local cineplex, where the real fun of the (silly, sweet) movie experience was watching how totally engrossed my daughter was in it, and later seeing The Human Centipede<\/em> on Netflix. One of my students recommended it, which should have been a warning. And I actually really knew nothing about it, except that it’s a “cult” film, which often means a good thing: Dead Man<\/em> and The Big Lebowski<\/em> are both considered cult films, and both are great. The Human Centipede<\/em>? Seriously disgusting, odd, disturbing, awful, and so over-the-top it makes one shake one’s head and say, as Hank Hill often says in King of the Hill<\/em>, “That ain’t right.” My students have since informed me there’s a sequel, and plans for another. If it’s any indication of my “rating,” I won’t watch the sequel. I don’t want to give it all away by describing it in detail, but suffice to say it’s a British-Dutch horror film, with one memorable mad-scientist dude named Dieter. It was banned in Britain. I can see why. By the end I wanted to rush back and rewatch Amy Adams in The Muppets Smalltown one more time, just to remind myself there’s some goodness left in the world.
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