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Blueberry/Renegade

post #1 of 7
8/4/05 at 10:06pm
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Ok, discovered this flick released in the US, DTV, as Renegade.

Does anyone know if there is a Region 1 SE on the way, even if you have to get it from Canada, like the Brotherhood of the Wolf?

I've only seen about 30 mins of it so far, but it's gorgeous, and I'd like some behind the scenes features....
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post #2 of 7
8/4/05 at 11:16pm
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Originally Posted by Masked Muppet
Ok, discovered this flick released in the US, DTV, as Renegade.

Does anyone know if there is a Region 1 SE on the way, even if you have to get it from Canada, like the Brotherhood of the Wolf?

I've only seen about 30 mins of it so far, but it's gorgeous, and I'd like some behind the scenes features....

I remember hearing about this flick a while back, when it was still Blueberry, but for whatever reason it was dumped straight to video and retitled. It's mostly a great movie, a couple of little clunky things but overall very original, though it futures a beautiful rip-off of "2001", a great sort-of mind warp thing. Considering how little faith there was in this, I don't imagine it ever receiving any sort of special treatment, unless it gains a big following.
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post #3 of 7
8/5/05 at 3:24am
Good to see some love for this. It's far from perfect but for a big-budget flm (for France!) it's bold, daring and relies on original visuals to tell its non-formulaic story. It's in the tradition of films like 2001 and Hulk without which big-budget cinema would be even duller.
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post #4 of 7
8/5/05 at 10:36am
It's pretty awful, actually. It may be handsomely shot, but that doesn't detract from a woeful narrative over-packed with dire, sophomoric hallucinary diversions whose purpose seems to a) convince you it's a spiritual cousin to 2001 and b) to distract you from the absense of dramatic weight, decent characterisation and un-embarrassing performances (cf: Eddie Izzard, Madsen and Julliette "Labia !" Lewis)

If all you ask from film is wild experimentation, then go ahead. Like Is say, it's pretty to look at. But as narrative genre cinema, all its protestations - in the guise of supposedly meaningful runimations on the cosmos - can't hide the fact that its not half as innovative or profound as its makers seem to think it is behind their dull cloud of mushrooms and hash smoke.
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post #5 of 7
8/5/05 at 11:36am
Sadly, everytime I see the title "Blueberry", all I can think of is the silly Lita Ford song of the same name.
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post #6 of 7
8/5/05 at 11:36am
Oh yeah, the story itself is pretty crappy, and there are lots of cheesy moments, but if more big-budget films were as visually abstract we'd get more interesting films. It's good to see special-effects put to such use, again like in Hulk. Also, to see any film try to faithfully depict the visual effects of psychedelic drugs is a good thing in my book, and Blueberry is the biggest film that's ever done it, and on that level it is a complete success - it carries across the ritualistic and mind-numbing and life-changing aspects of drugs very well. The hallucinations are the subject of the film, not the story itself.
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post #7 of 7
8/5/05 at 1:06pm
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Originally Posted by El Topo
Oh yeah, the story itself is pretty crappy, and there are lots of cheesy moments, but if more big-budget films were as visually abstract we'd get more interesting films. It's good to see special-effects put to such use, again like in Hulk.
Only if the special effects serve the story. Like Hulk. Not here where it's just indulgent nonsense that bares little meaning to the story. The final scene is about as deep as Tron.

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Also, to see any film try to faithfully depict the visual effects of psychedelic drugs is a good thing in my book, and Blueberry is the biggest film that's ever done it, and on that level it is a complete success - it carries across the ritualistic and mind-numbing and life-changing aspects of drugs very well. The hallucinations are the subject of the film, not the story itself.
Why ? So drop outs can snigger to themselves about how cool and edgy the picture is ? It's hardly visionary or particularly cutting edge filmmaking and appears to be the sole gimmick on which the picture relies. Requiem For A Dream or Fear & Loathing... do a far better job of wranlging the almost unquantifiable experience of drug use without having to resort to a panifully juvenile "gee whizz" kalidascopic mess to get that across. They use cinematic techniques and storytelling.
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