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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.253.77
Posted on Monday, August 08, 2011 - 11:51 pm:   

Like, wow... It's like someone put Deadbeat at Dawn, Bronx Warriors, The Exterminator, Street Trash & Turkey Shoot in a blender and made an Exploitation smoothie. Fifty times better than the rather average Machete, and it actually looks exactly like it was made in 1983. Not in a faux homage kind of way, but as if it actually was made then - the lighting, the soundtrack, the pacing, the performances, are all spot on.

Oh, man, I loved this one...
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Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey)
Username: Darren_o_godfrey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 207.200.116.133
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 02:07 am:   

At the risk of killing your thread, Zed:

Gotta say,

I must see this.
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Mark West (Mark_west)
Username: Mark_west

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.43.168.103
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 04:05 am:   

Saw it last night and really enjoyed it and Gary's spot on, it looks like a relic from back in the 80s! Great stuff!
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 07:36 am:   

Why is it we tend to think contemporary movies are great, merely by managing to look spot-on like cheap crap produced in previous eras?

Not saying that's the case here, but... IS that a factor?... if so, I think it's totally invalid as to any film's real artistic value.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.207.87
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 09:23 am:   

Super 8 is another example. Do those days feel happier to us, is this us trying desperately to get back there?
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.207.87
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 09:24 am:   

Clawing, choking back tears...
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.207.87
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 09:25 am:   

And how will these films age? Cinema's never really done this before. It's like those book covers that look old. One time that would have been frowned on, artistically, seen as over sentimental.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.156.210.82
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 10:00 am:   

Craig, to answer your question: we don't. Well, I don't. The fact that the film emulated exactly a certain era in exploitation filmmaking was gravy. It stands alone as a cracking OTT vigilante comedy-horror-thriller.

And the film has no artistic value whatsoever - it's just a stupid balls-to-the-wall rollercoaster ride.

Also, that "cheap crap" produced in the 80s was better and more imaginative than anything Hollywood's been throwing at us for years.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.207.87
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 03:41 pm:   

TBH I think Craig was probably just wondering about that current fad, hoping the film wasn't just style over substance.
But no doubt he'll speak for himself. :-)
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 04:18 pm:   

That's pretty much it, Tony. Zed, I was just sort of musing aloud about how we're all sometimes dazzled by films that are doing no more than perfectly mocking a previous form. I admit that half the reason why I greatly liked FAR FROM HEAVEN, was because it was so perfectly mimicking your standard 1950's Hollywood release... then I wonder, the film having sort of vanished from my mind mostly, if that's all about it that was anything worth noting, really....
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.26.56
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 05:07 pm:   

Craig, surely Far from Heaven doesn't mimic a "standard Hollywood release". It's a variation on the very rich Sirk film All that Heaven Allows, although Todd Haynes also cites another remarkable film, The Reckless Moment, as an influence. I thought all three films very considerable.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 05:29 pm:   

I did greatly love that film, Ramsey, I was just second-guessing why I might have loved it - I'll have to watch it again.

I've not seen either of those two movies, sadly. I have to get a hold of THE RECKLESS MOMENT, however - Joan Bennet's one of my favorite actresses, and I thought the remake THE DEEP END a fantastic film!

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