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by streetrw » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:53 pm
One of my pet phrases is "I'd rather take my eye out with a cake fork than watch that again". Well, if I'd had a cake fork in the Odeon while this was on, I wouldn't be typing now.
Seriously, this was bloody atrocious. It's only the fact that I was in the middle of a row that stopped me walking out - which I've never done in 24 years of cinemagoing, even during Adam Mason films, Troma films, AUSTIN POWERS 2 and (insert PG-13 remake here). And I refuse, absolutely refuse, to believe REPO: THE GENETIC OPERA was not good enough to make the cut when this one got through (hell, you showed Guy Maddin's Dracula picture!). And ROGUE - I know Alan Jones said it didn't qualify because it was "already available on DVD in too many territories", but it isn't out here and he does say that it "really does deserve to be seen on the big screen" (quotes from his blog on 20th July). I'd far rather have seen either of those films. I'd rather have seen AUSTIN POWERS 2 again. Twice.
One of the problems is that this is referencing something that the UK is not that familiar with - the Drive-In. To a certain extent it's the same with Grindhouse, but those are just plain better films. The scratched film thing got annoying fairly quickly in Death Proof and it's really irritating here; it's particularly silly on something that is obviously not even shot on film in the first place - I don't know whether Grindhouse was shot on film or HD but at least it looks like film. And QT didn't break up the "action" with ad breaks. It's just terrible and I've no idea why it was there.
I'm not accepting budget limitations as an excuse for bad films either - The Evil Dead, Night Of The Living Dead and a dozen other low-budget classics managed. If you can't afford to make a zombie movie, then you don't make one. You make something else or you gather more money together. What you can't do is make a bad movie and then plead a special case for it because you only had $250 and change.
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streetrw on Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.