substitute 4

i watched this movie from the start to the finish. i will not apologize. i think it was on one of the hbos around 4am.

you know how video game reviewers always make a crack when a game uses nazis as the villain? it is a little overdone. but they are as black and white a villain as one can hope for in a human being. all that hate and intolerance and anger... it doesn't make any sense how people like that can actually exist, but hey, then i don't have to feel bad slaughtering them by the dozens with my gatling gun or whatnot. movies do it too. i'm sure y'all can name a popular trilogy featuring a hatted whippy archaeology professor (how the hell is that spelled) pitted against an army of the bastards.

substitute 4 brought an ingenious modern twist to that tired old nazi villain approach with the use of neo-nazis. bam! that got me by surprise. the final showdown consists of the evil colonel (that makes me angry. why isn't it kernel?) in charge of the military academy charging at the fair-minded substitute teacher with a cavalry saber while his newly enlightened students gun him down. his last words? "RACIAL PURITY!" and after he finally slumps to the ground and does not get back up, the substitute gazes up at the american flag, billowing in the wind.

the movie was made tolerable (heh) by angie everheart and a barmaid being all topless for various sex scenes. although angie seems to have matured, much like a wine that's getting too old.

the main thing that made me want to post was that the neo-nazis within the school were all in a special company called "the werewolves." doesn't that seem strange? for a sect fanatical about staying pure, they pick as the name of their company a human that is cursed to change into an animal with the full moon. and the curse is transferred by bite, which suggests impurity. i'd think. shouldn't they have picked something white?