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Re: Track the Films You Watch (2008)
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Non-love for the truly classic "Texas Chain Saw Massacre"?! Surely a sign of the apocalypse to come.
The twisted atmosphere, the dread that drenches every scene like a poisonous olde London smog, the feeling of impending doom, the perfectly designed sets, the blackly comic/perfectly honed Family dynamic, the superbly constructed shock scenes. Hell, the utterly sadistic, brutal, stunningly acted/edited/filmed/directed 'dinner' scene alone makes this an Exploitation cinema masterwork. |
We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. Like I said, with acting and direction so horribly bad, it certainly didn't give me any sense of dread, except dreading having to sit through the rest of this mess. And I'll just say that I agree that the 10 minutes of non-stop screaming and associated laughter constitutes "stunningly acted" and that 5 minutes of laughably bad closeups of an eye constitutes "stunningly edited/filmed/directed", but only if you mean "stunningly bad". Obviously, you and I have very different ideas of what good acting and direction is.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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