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post #1 of 14
9/19/02 at 4:40am
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Watching this for the first time.

Without a doubt, one of the most stylisticaly FUCKED UP flicks out there.
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post #2 of 14
9/19/02 at 9:09am
Definitly a fucked movie.
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post #3 of 14
9/19/02 at 9:09am
Forgot to add an up in there
Definitly a fucked up movie.
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post #4 of 14
8/13/03 at 4:19am
Just watched half of this on HBO for the first time. I'm probably going to get ripped a new one for this, but couldn't make it through the whole movie. Not to say that it was bad; I actually enjoyed a lot of it. But the editing and the sheer lunacy was too much for my poor brain. It was like getting kicked repeatedly in the eyeballs.

I hear that it's a classic, however. Someone, anyone, make me want to finish the movie.
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post #5 of 14
8/13/03 at 12:13pm
Oliver Stone was on some serious shit when he filmed this.
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post #6 of 14
8/13/03 at 3:15pm
I agree with the Llama. Some of the shit in this movie is so crazy, it's funny and slightly enjoyable(like Woody, and Tommy Lee Jones), but it's so fucked up, that I actually felt like my IQ dropped just from watching half of it. Didn't even make it all the way through.
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post #7 of 14
8/13/03 at 3:33pm
I think Rob Zombie really wanted House of 1000 Corpses to be a sequel to Natural Born Killers (I'm kiding)
...after all the styles were identical. Flash cuts abound, and every other shot through a color filter.

But for it's time it was a good movie, that still holds up pretty well.
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post #8 of 14
8/13/03 at 3:46pm
I love the structure of the thing. Starts off BAM!BAM!BAM! and keeps going until they get caught. Then, from the time they end up in prison, it's like this slow rumble building and building. Everything is relatively calm and quiet, but you can just feel the tension, like a rubber band being pulled too tight. And then, when you feel like you can't take it anymore, BAM! All hell breaks loose! Bloodbath and carnage and chaos! I think Stone was trying to make some kind of socially conscious film, and he utterly failed at that, but as an exploitation/splatter flick it's just amazing. I love Mallory dancing to "The Way I Walk" in the beginning, I love the evil cop screaming "Drop the fucking gun or I swear to God I'll cut her fucking tits off!", I love the horrifically inappropriate Rodney Dangerfield performance (god, that shit gives me the wiggins just thinking about it). I dunno, I just giggle hysterically through the whole movie.
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post #9 of 14
8/13/03 at 4:30pm
Quote:
Dragon Ma:
Oliver Stone was on some serious shit when he filmed this.
I remember reading somewhere that he went location scouting for the film while on acid...
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post #10 of 14
8/13/03 at 4:37pm
I don't claim to know what Stone was trying to do with this, but I know it was a damned intriguing movie. Try watching it in 10-15 bites. That should help stem the sensory overload.
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post #11 of 14
8/13/03 at 4:58pm
The first time I saw NBK, I felt overwhelmed. It was dizzying and disorienting, which seemed to me to be exactly what Stone was going for. Fucked up just about sums it up. Upon repeated viewings I have grown to love this film in all of it's over-the-top glory.

"Meat-man cocksucker!"
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post #12 of 14
8/13/03 at 4:58pm
Hands down my Worst Film Of All Time. If you'r going to make a satire of something, you have to be careful not to start taking yourself seriously. I can't stand this film, and I love when Stone is on (JFK is a classic in my book).

Excrement.
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post #13 of 14
8/14/03 at 2:41pm
Obviously, NBK divides people. I know that makes me interested in seeing a film. I have the same reaction to it as Z-Man, and in fact, I think it's superior to anything else Stone has directed. Strangely, I really hated the director's cut.
But Llamarama, consider that the kick-in-the-eyeballs you saw was the exposition--if you have enough interest to sit through half a story about those characters, just imagine how weird and gripping the climax will be.
Alternatively, if the idea of "the same, but more" sounds bad to you, don't bother.
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post #14 of 14
12/27/10 at 2:56pm
So... it was nice to see Balthazar Getty get got-ty.

Is 'ambitious' the right term for this?

Between the random spotlight usage in every scene to the poorly designed anime edits, I think there's failure written all over. The eighteen different film formats used was an interesting concept, but it just became irritating after awhile. There was nothing really to like here. Maybe that was the point?

I love the guy, but Robert Downey's Australian accent was awful. I read the character was originally American, but Downey was shadowing an Australian TV personality in preparation for the role, and they decided to utilize that. It doesn't work. I think I would have liked him a lot more if he played it legit.

Tom Sizemore is enjoyable sleazy but it's become clear that's just the way he really is. Tommy Lee Jones was unknowingly prepping for Two Face.

In the end, the film's central message of our TV culture becoming a unhealthy threat to society was spot-on accurate, but this movie was a threat to my eyeballs.
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