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Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 06:58:40 PMFunny, looking through film lists & criticisms promising obscure/unknown/forgotten or movies you've never heard of, yet I've already seen every last livin' one of 'em..............
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Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:30:52 PMIn honor of the Carradine family, whose scion Robert passed away this week, I submit for your (dis)approval
BIGFOOT (1970):
I've often written of my love for and fear of giant cryptohominids, yet had never watched this, which preceded LEGEND OF BOGGY by 3-4 years and seems to be (by all accounts) a larger and starrier production than Charles B. Pierce's scrappy pseudo-doc classic. Perhaps my early encounter w/ Roger Ebert's scathing half-star (or maybe no-star?) review had discouraged me... but I often disagreed w/ Ebert on matters of critical assessment. Five minutes into BIGFOOT I was pretty sure this was another such case where Ebert's distaste for low-budget exploitation had bent his nose improportionately out of joint. After all, BIGFOOT's early minutes establish that it has all of the following elements:
* John Carradine in a top-billed role, already onscreen and participating w/ other actors
in the very first scene!;
* Not one or even two Bigfeet but six credited actors as a whole mob of Bigfeet! 
; and
* An enormous ensemble cast presumably playing victims and/or adversaries of the aforementioned feet.
How many movies, I ask you, feature Carradine actually at the center of the action? And how many incorporate half a dozen sasquatches and dozens of human characters instead of merely like 5 or something? For that matter, how many movies have the chutzpah to expose the cryptid conspiracy to abduct and mate with human women??????? Not many, I tell you! But BIGFOOT does!
.......
But that's all that can be said for BIGFOOT. Sigh.
Yes, there are half a dozen sasquatches and technically most of them "appear" in a handful of shots simultaneously. Alas, BIGFOOT is replete w/ inadequate day-for-night cinematography that renders most of the "onscreen" bigfoot action largely impossible to visually process.
As unwatchable DFN goes, it ain't quite as bad as OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES but it positively hamstrings one's ability to appreciate the multi-sasquatch shenanigans. The whole "mating with human women" thing never really pans out onscreen in any case.
Carradine was a gifted orator who provided immeasurable value to many no-budget genre films....... provided they got him in for one whole day of sobriety or a couple of mornings before happy hour. BIGFOOT may well have taxed Carradine to the extent of his usefulness. He climbs steep mountainsides, wields a shotgun, and is pursued and even briefly accosted by the 'Feet. That's more action than you get to see Carradine participate in during most of his flicks. But there are also moments in BIGFOOT where Carradine seems to slightly muff a line reading - like, he pronounces one word incorrectly or something - and you'd figure most movies would do a retake and then use the better take. Per BIGFOOT, one must presume they only got one take -or- the take they used was John's best.
Robert Mitchum's brother John and son Chris co-star - John good-naturedly as Carradine's comedy-relief sidekick and Chris sonambulistically as a motorcyclist who appears mildly inconvenienced at worst when his hot girlfriend is abducted by BF. The large "gang" of "bikers" to which Chris belongs wear spotless windbreakers and mostly look like they'd be intimidated by Robert Reed and the other Wildcats from that 1974 flick, let along a pack of 'squatches. The huge supporting cast does get more character development than they would in most such monster movies, to absolutely no entertaining avail. Ebert was right, BIGFOOT is a pretty rotten movie, by '70 standards or by today's.
1/5 But the main Bigfoot does get kneecapped and gutblasted by shotguns at the end, and that's worth at least 1 star in my book.
BIGFOOT (1970):
I've often written of my love for and fear of giant cryptohominids, yet had never watched this, which preceded LEGEND OF BOGGY by 3-4 years and seems to be (by all accounts) a larger and starrier production than Charles B. Pierce's scrappy pseudo-doc classic. Perhaps my early encounter w/ Roger Ebert's scathing half-star (or maybe no-star?) review had discouraged me... but I often disagreed w/ Ebert on matters of critical assessment. Five minutes into BIGFOOT I was pretty sure this was another such case where Ebert's distaste for low-budget exploitation had bent his nose improportionately out of joint. After all, BIGFOOT's early minutes establish that it has all of the following elements:
* John Carradine in a top-billed role, already onscreen and participating w/ other actors
in the very first scene!;* Not one or even two Bigfeet but six credited actors as a whole mob of Bigfeet!
; and* An enormous ensemble cast presumably playing victims and/or adversaries of the aforementioned feet.
How many movies, I ask you, feature Carradine actually at the center of the action? And how many incorporate half a dozen sasquatches and dozens of human characters instead of merely like 5 or something? For that matter, how many movies have the chutzpah to expose the cryptid conspiracy to abduct and mate with human women??????? Not many, I tell you! But BIGFOOT does!
.......
But that's all that can be said for BIGFOOT. Sigh.
Yes, there are half a dozen sasquatches and technically most of them "appear" in a handful of shots simultaneously. Alas, BIGFOOT is replete w/ inadequate day-for-night cinematography that renders most of the "onscreen" bigfoot action largely impossible to visually process.
As unwatchable DFN goes, it ain't quite as bad as OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES but it positively hamstrings one's ability to appreciate the multi-sasquatch shenanigans. The whole "mating with human women" thing never really pans out onscreen in any case.Carradine was a gifted orator who provided immeasurable value to many no-budget genre films....... provided they got him in for one whole day of sobriety or a couple of mornings before happy hour. BIGFOOT may well have taxed Carradine to the extent of his usefulness. He climbs steep mountainsides, wields a shotgun, and is pursued and even briefly accosted by the 'Feet. That's more action than you get to see Carradine participate in during most of his flicks. But there are also moments in BIGFOOT where Carradine seems to slightly muff a line reading - like, he pronounces one word incorrectly or something - and you'd figure most movies would do a retake and then use the better take. Per BIGFOOT, one must presume they only got one take -or- the take they used was John's best.
Robert Mitchum's brother John and son Chris co-star - John good-naturedly as Carradine's comedy-relief sidekick and Chris sonambulistically as a motorcyclist who appears mildly inconvenienced at worst when his hot girlfriend is abducted by BF. The large "gang" of "bikers" to which Chris belongs wear spotless windbreakers and mostly look like they'd be intimidated by Robert Reed and the other Wildcats from that 1974 flick, let along a pack of 'squatches. The huge supporting cast does get more character development than they would in most such monster movies, to absolutely no entertaining avail. Ebert was right, BIGFOOT is a pretty rotten movie, by '70 standards or by today's.
1/5 But the main Bigfoot does get kneecapped and gutblasted by shotguns at the end, and that's worth at least 1 star in my book.
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Television / Re: What TV Shows Are you Watc...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:18:41 PMOkay, watched the S4 finale of "Industry" last night. The acting remains stellar. Kit Harrington, a relative lightweight as Jon Snow on GoT, could probably get an Emmy nom for his work this season and particularly in this episode. The two female leads are also terrific in the finale (honestly the acting from the supporting cast and bit players has been most impressive previously this season).
At last the grand design of S4 seems clear to me. "Industry" is doing narrative mosaic - constructed of many tiny snapshots that often seem random or unrelated yet ultimately combine to produce a big picture. That big picture gets briefly, eloquently annunciated once or twice in the finale, but no one stops and dwells upon it for the viewer's sake. "Industry" is clearly written by smart people for an attentive and thoughtful audience, and very few accommodations are made for the lazy.
However if there was previously any doubt that the one female lead is intentionally based upon Ghislane Maxwell (which has been a distinct possibility though seemingly an eccentric hunch at best), last night's episode puts those to rest!
At last the grand design of S4 seems clear to me. "Industry" is doing narrative mosaic - constructed of many tiny snapshots that often seem random or unrelated yet ultimately combine to produce a big picture. That big picture gets briefly, eloquently annunciated once or twice in the finale, but no one stops and dwells upon it for the viewer's sake. "Industry" is clearly written by smart people for an attentive and thoughtful audience, and very few accommodations are made for the lazy.
However if there was previously any doubt that the one female lead is intentionally based upon Ghislane Maxwell (which has been a distinct possibility though seemingly an eccentric hunch at best), last night's episode puts those to rest!
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Unsolved Archives / Re: Film about MAN-EATING RECL...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 12:04:17 PMI'd like to nominate J.D. Vance to star as himself in the reboot.
