March 18, 2010
Must Download Internet Movies: Ricky-Oh!
Ricky-Oh, The Story Of Ricky, is without a doubt one of the strangest, weirdest and most surreal films ever created. It is really just plain nuts. It’s hard to believe that some crazy filmmakers even went out there with this idea and said “Yeah let’s make this movie instead of just joking around about it!” It was based on the equally surreal comic book by the same title. The resulting movie belongs on the list of top cult download internet movies. It’s funny, surprising, shocking and ridiculous, and whether or not you wind up enjoying it, you’ll certainly never forget it.
The movie follows Ricky, a young martial artist who winds up in prison. Within the prison, there are four gang leaders who all use their own styles of martial arts. Ricky takes it upon himself to take these thugs down, to strange results.
The movie is violent. Incredibly, surprisingly, wildly violent. However, it’s so incredibly violent that it just doesn’t really feel real in the end. It feels more like a cartoon. Or rather, maybe like a nightmare you might have about a cartoon. To give an example, one fight scene ends with a bad guy trying to strangle Ricky Oh with his own lower intestine. Yeah, it gets that ridiculous.
You could be grossed out by this scene, but you’ll probably be too busy laughing and scratching your head to really be shocked or disturbed, and this isn’t even the most bizarre scene of the film.
A later fight scene has a villain transforming into a giant monster. By giant monster, we really mean “A stuntman in a really, really, really bad costume”. You can practically see the zipper on the back of this thing. In another movie, the fakeness of the special effects might have been a problem. In Ricky-Oh, it’s a big part of the charm.
The story actually has a heart, believe it or not, under all the violence and silliness. It’s about human dignity and empathy, it’s about fighting for your rights as an individual and treating other human beings with respect… It’s also about throwing guys into meat grinders because they’re transforming into giant monsters and trying to eat you, but the heart of the movie is really that it’s all about the human dignity that Ricky-Oh fights so aggressively for.
Of course, the violence and weirdness is why it’s a big cult hit, but that’s sort of its angle: Use something silly to get everyone’s attention and then teach them something about life while they’re actually listening to you.
And still, the ending is actually somewhat uplifting and positive. In a movie full of surprises, the optimistic ending may well be the biggest surprise of all. That’s really the appeal of the film. It grosses you out, it makes you laugh, it shows you some weird stuff you’ve never seen before and will never see again, and then somehow in the course of the events, it’s actually gripped your heart and you actually care about the characters.
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