You know what might make an interesting frat house slasher movie? If they incorporated reverse gentrification instead of just the standard “rich bitches.” Imagine a sorority struggling to find funding, and as the economy dips further, so does the state of their house. They can’t afford a caretaker, they can’t even pay for clean water, […]
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Sorority Row
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Tags: Adam Lippe, Amy Holden Jones, anorexia, bald, baldish, Briana Evigan, Burger King, cameo, Carrie Fisher, cell phone, formula, Friday the 13th, gentrification, Leah Pipes, Marcus Nispel, movie review, nudity, poverty, Prom Night, R rated, rape, RegrettableSincerity.com, Rumer Willis, Scream, sequel, serial killer, series, sex, Slasher, sorority, Sorority House Massacre, Stewart Hendler, Terror Train, The Burning, The House on Sorority Row, The Seven Dwarfs, The Slumber Party Massacre, The Wonder Years, therapist, thin, whisper, Winnie Cooper
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Whiteout
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Do you ever wonder what goes on during meetings about theatrical release dates for movies? Well, I know you don’t, but just whose idea was it to open the violent 3 hour exploitation pastiche/parody Grindhouse on Easter weekend? “We have an opening in April; do we have anything to fill it?” “Which weekend?” “Easter.” “Hmmm. […]
Tags: 30 Days of Night, 9/11, A Sound of Thunder, Adam Lippe, ADR, Alien, Antarctica, April, Baby Geniuses, Canada, Candian tax breaks, CGI, church, dead bodies, Death Proof, diamonds, Disclosure, distribution problems, Donald Sutherland, Easter, Elie Samaha, exploitation, FBI, Gabriel Macht, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Gore, Grindhouse, Harvey Weinstein, Howard Hawks, I Know What You Did Last Summer, jellybeans, Jesus, Joel Silver, John Carpenter, Kate Beckinsale, movie review, nuclear weapons, parody, pastiche, Peter Hyams, plane crash, Planet Terror, Quebec, Quentin Tarantino, R rated, Ray Bradbury, RegrettableSincerity.com, Robert Rodriguez, Russia, Scooby Doo, serial killer, shelf, snow, Star Trek, Stuart Baird, Swordfish, Tango and Cash, The Passion of the Christ, The Thing, Tom Skerritt, TV ads, US Marshalls, vampire, Virus, Warner Brothers, winter, Zombie
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Sorority Row
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Tags: Adam Lippe, Amy Holden Jones, anorexia, bald, baldish, Briana Evigan, Burger King, cameo, Carrie Fisher, cell phone, formula, Friday the 13th, gentrification, Leah Pipes, Marcus Nispel, movie review, nudity, poverty, Prom Night, R rated, rape, RegrettableSincerity.com, Rumer Willis, Scream, sequel, serial killer, series, sex, Slasher, sorority, Sorority House Massacre, Stewart Hendler, Terror Train, The Burning, The House on Sorority Row, The Seven Dwarfs, The Slumber Party Massacre, The Wonder Years, therapist, thin, whisper, Winnie Cooper
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Whiteout
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Do you ever wonder what goes on during meetings about theatrical release dates for movies? Well, I know you don’t, but just whose idea was it to open the violent 3 hour exploitation pastiche/parody Grindhouse on Easter weekend? “We have an opening in April; do we have anything to fill it?” “Which weekend?” “Easter.” “Hmmm. […]
Do you ever wonder what goes on during meetings about theatrical release dates for movies? Well, I know you don’t, but just whose idea was it to open the violent 3 hour exploitation pastiche/parody Grindhouse on Easter weekend? “We have an opening in April; do we have anything to fill it?” “Which weekend?” “Easter.” “Hmmm. […]
Tags: 30 Days of Night, 9/11, A Sound of Thunder, Adam Lippe, ADR, Alien, Antarctica, April, Baby Geniuses, Canada, Candian tax breaks, CGI, church, dead bodies, Death Proof, diamonds, Disclosure, distribution problems, Donald Sutherland, Easter, Elie Samaha, exploitation, FBI, Gabriel Macht, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Gore, Grindhouse, Harvey Weinstein, Howard Hawks, I Know What You Did Last Summer, jellybeans, Jesus, Joel Silver, John Carpenter, Kate Beckinsale, movie review, nuclear weapons, parody, pastiche, Peter Hyams, plane crash, Planet Terror, Quebec, Quentin Tarantino, R rated, Ray Bradbury, RegrettableSincerity.com, Robert Rodriguez, Russia, Scooby Doo, serial killer, shelf, snow, Star Trek, Stuart Baird, Swordfish, Tango and Cash, The Passion of the Christ, The Thing, Tom Skerritt, TV ads, US Marshalls, vampire, Virus, Warner Brothers, winter, Zombie
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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.
Black Dynamite has nothing new to say about Blaxploitation films, it just does a decent job of copying what an inept [...]
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On Cold Fish:
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.”
Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.