Here is volume 2 of the 5 Minute Feature Film series, this time on Michael Oblowitz’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s This World, Then the Fireworks. The 5 Minute Feature Film series is where I take a full length movie and cut it down to 5 minutes in length, re-score it, but tell basically the same […]
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The 5 minute feature film, volume 2: This World, Then the Fireworks
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Tags: 1950's, 1990's, Adam Lippe, Billy Zane, Book Adaptation, Bouncin' Around, camp, Cliché, David Lynch, distribution problems, Django Reinhardt, drugs, DTV, EPK, film, film noir, Five minute feature, Frog, Gina Gershon, Hollywood, Jim Thompson, Joker, male nudity, Michael Oblowitz, morphine, movie review, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Norman Mailer, nudity, Out for a Kill, parody, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, revenge, ribbit, Richard Edson, Rue McClanahan, Sam Peckinpah, satire, serial killer, Seymour Cassel, Sheryl Lee, sociopath, Steven Seagal, Symphony Pathetique, Tchaikovsky, The Coen Brothers, The Foreigner, The Getaway, The Grifters, This World Then the Fireworks, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Trespass, vehicle, Will Patton, Youtube
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This World, Then the Fireworks
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
When you watch a movie, is there always a giveaway about how intentional a level of incompetence is? What I mean is, at what point does the appearance of satire or parody drift off into the area of just plain old dreadful? Unless you were in the director’s brain while he was on set, there’s […]
Tags: 1950's, 1990's, Adam Lippe, Billy Zane, Book Adaptation, camp, Cliché, David Lynch, distribution problems, drugs, DTV, film, film noir, Frog, Gina Gershon, Hollywood, Jim Thompson, Joker, male nudity, Michael Oblowitz, movie review, Norman Mailer, nudity, Out for a Kill, parody, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, revenge, ribbit, Richard Edson, Rue McClanahan, Sam Peckinpah, serial killer, Seymour Cassel, Sheryl Lee, sociopath, Steven Seagal, The Coen Brothers, The Foreigner, The Getaway, The Grifters, This World Then the Fireworks, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Will Patton
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The 5 minute feature film, volume 2: This World, Then the Fireworks
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Tags: 1950's, 1990's, Adam Lippe, Billy Zane, Book Adaptation, Bouncin' Around, camp, Cliché, David Lynch, distribution problems, Django Reinhardt, drugs, DTV, EPK, film, film noir, Five minute feature, Frog, Gina Gershon, Hollywood, Jim Thompson, Joker, male nudity, Michael Oblowitz, morphine, movie review, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Norman Mailer, nudity, Out for a Kill, parody, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, revenge, ribbit, Richard Edson, Rue McClanahan, Sam Peckinpah, satire, serial killer, Seymour Cassel, Sheryl Lee, sociopath, Steven Seagal, Symphony Pathetique, Tchaikovsky, The Coen Brothers, The Foreigner, The Getaway, The Grifters, This World Then the Fireworks, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Trespass, vehicle, Will Patton, Youtube
Posted in Comedy, Thriller | No Comments »
This World, Then the Fireworks
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
When you watch a movie, is there always a giveaway about how intentional a level of incompetence is? What I mean is, at what point does the appearance of satire or parody drift off into the area of just plain old dreadful? Unless you were in the director’s brain while he was on set, there’s […]
When you watch a movie, is there always a giveaway about how intentional a level of incompetence is? What I mean is, at what point does the appearance of satire or parody drift off into the area of just plain old dreadful? Unless you were in the director’s brain while he was on set, there’s […]
Tags: 1950's, 1990's, Adam Lippe, Billy Zane, Book Adaptation, camp, Cliché, David Lynch, distribution problems, drugs, DTV, film, film noir, Frog, Gina Gershon, Hollywood, Jim Thompson, Joker, male nudity, Michael Oblowitz, movie review, Norman Mailer, nudity, Out for a Kill, parody, R rated, RegrettableSincerity.com, revenge, ribbit, Richard Edson, Rue McClanahan, Sam Peckinpah, serial killer, Seymour Cassel, Sheryl Lee, sociopath, Steven Seagal, The Coen Brothers, The Foreigner, The Getaway, The Grifters, This World Then the Fireworks, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Will Patton
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Whenever there’s a genre parody or ode to a specific era of films, such as Black Dynamite’s mocking of Blaxploitation films or Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, the danger is that the film might fall into the trap of either being condescending without any particular insight, or so faithful that it becomes the very flawed thing it is emulating.
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Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
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