SlidePocket 707 Posted July 18, 2016 Following one of the recent episodes when HDTGM covered The Avengers (1998), I need to bring up another bad film that Uma Thurman had made which came out around the same time as Pulp Fiction. It is Gus Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues! Â The film shows Thurman born with huge thumbs which allows her to hitchhike across the country and strange things happen around her. This has got to be one of the most bad-weird films out there and this is Van Sant's worst film outside of the Psycho remake. Besides Thurman, it's got a huge ensemble cast (John Hurt, Keanu Reeves, Rain Phoenix, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Sean Young, Angie Dickinson, Crispin Glover, Roseanne Barr, Carol Kane, Buck Henry, Heather Graham, Ed Begley Jr.) with almost all of them appearing and disappearing very quickly. I think it's time I would bring this to the forefront in case anyone remembers it. Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbA6Nkb8e8 Share this post Link to post
NathanGordon 1096 Posted July 18, 2016 It's a case of a beloved novel not quite making the transition to screen; I think a lot of things that work on the page don't work when filmed, and I honestly don't see why this story (or any of Tom Robinson's) needed to be a movie in the first place. I'm not sure that Gus Van Sant was the right director for this project either; he works best with smaller realist fables. Â That said, there's some lovely images, and parts when Robinson's hippy humor is effectively translated. Uma Thurman is young and beautiful, so there's that. Share this post Link to post
