ReadingPhilly wrote:I don't click on his stuff but I had to chuckle when I saw him referred to as "one of the best baseball writers out there".

A few summers ago, I sat down on my sofa, cranked up the Netflix box and selected a film called Hobo With a Shotgun.

Hobo With a Shotgun is based on a trailer in the style of the Grindhouse revival popularized by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez back in the late 2000s, and is without question the most bizarre, senselessly violent movie I've ever seen in my life. The plot is essentially the same as you've seen in Road House and a thousand Westerns, in which a stranger enters a town of good folk who've been run down by a corrupt, vicious criminal boss, and wins over the hearts and minds of the locals en route to restoring justice. The interloper in this case is the titular hobo, played by legendary Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, who, true enough, has a shotgun.

Highlights in the violence include a prostitute having her arm severed with a lawn mower shield, then using her exposed forearm bone to stab her assailant to death. More than once we see a person's head placed through a manhole cover, then a length of barbed wire tied around their neck, the other end tied to the back of a motor vehicle. The driver then drives away, using the barbed wire to decapitate the poor bastard in the road.

It's the most confusing, disturbing, ugly, awful thing I've ever seen on film, and it's kind of like tonight's Sixers game.

td11 wrote:indeed, last night's game felt so much like watching several men get violently beheaded in the road, artistically speaking