At 12:00 PM 10/13/00 +0000, Marianne wrote:
> >Recent HB-ish films, say, post-Pulp
fiction
>I know I'm about to destroy my reputation entirely,
but I happened to
>watch Judge Dredd last night and was struck by how
very much influenced
>it is by HB-noirish classical movies. I hadn't
realised just how
>self-consciously "down these mean streets a
motorcyclist must fly"
>it was. Rather different from the original comic in
this.
I suspect it was influenced more by the first Batman movie
(first of the current series), which was influenced by "The
Dark Knight Returns" which was influenced by HB and noir
traditions.
>Yes, yes,
>confession mode: I enjoyed it a lot. I liked the
design, I loved the
>mugging...I committed quite a lot of ROFLOL-ing,
though not as much of
>the last as with Batman and Robin, which preceded it.
Argh! Another
>wasted evening!
There is nothing wrong with enjoying bad
movies--unintentional camp is a wonderful thing. But there is
a different type of "bad." For example, the recent Shadow
movie is bad (good) but Alien 3 is bad (horrible). JMHO, of
course.
Ray
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