How Low Can I Go?
You know what? Things have been hard lately, for a variety of reasons.
Reasons which kept me up last night, so I got up out of bed and went downstairs to make a huge cup of tea. ‘Cause nothing says solving problems like a hot, caffeinated beverage with milk and sugar.
Sat down in front of the TV. Of course, nothing to watch, because, hello, it was 3 in the morning. So I clicked on The Last Dragon, a movie I’d seen back in the ’80s heyday of Prince and his coterie.
And I am hoping that watching that, last night, at 3 in the morning, is the lowest I will ever go.
Cases in point:
1. The two leads each have only one name: Vanity and Taimak.
2. William H. Macy plays a sleazy promoter-type.
3. The “Shogun of Harlem” is named Sho’Nuff.
4. Debarge.
5. The full title of the film is “Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon.”
6. I saw this movie IN THE THEATER when it came out.
7. The hero is obsessed with kung fu, and eats popcorn with chopsticks.
8. Vanity’s
shoulder pads are bigger than my head.
9. Oh, lord: A remake of the movie is currently in the works, with Samuel L. Jackson assuming the role of Sho’nuff.
10. It was 3 in the morning! I was watching a cheesy kung fu movie from the ’80s! With Prince’s ex (apparently, Prince originally wanted her name to be Vagina. Yeesh!)
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April 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Yep, you were pretty low but that movie was hot when it came out. I saw it in the theater too probably on the first weekend. I thought Taimak was the cutest thing ever with his shag haircut. But really you’re not the lowest. Samuel is for doing the remake.