You May As Well Give In To ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readSep 3, 2010

BALK: Everything is going to disappear up its own asshole, isn’t it?
Choire: wtf
BALK: I feel bad for Rutger Hauer.
Choire: Oh he made his bed.
BALK: That is true. And he was warned!
BALK: “Nick Randall is played by Rutger Hauer, who will run his career into the ground by taking more such roles. Mr. Hauer, who is Dutch, has improved his American accent to the point where it sounds innocuously flat and seems to be emanating from somewhere other than his body, but in any case there is little for him to say. He is required mostly to shoot and sneer, and he does this in a wearily one-note way. ‘He’s the best there is at a job he hates,; say the posters for this film. If he doesn’t care, why should we?”
Choire: HAHAHAHA
BALK: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/16/movies/screen-a-tv-spinoff-wanted-dead-or-alive.html
BALK: 1987, dude.
Choire: Still, this will do very well. after “Machete” rules the box office this weekend.
Choire: Regarding which
Choire: CAN’T FUCKING WAIT
BALK: I pre-ordered!

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