Firstly- thanks to Rhys for posting the first ever comment. After more than a year with this blog someone has finally commented and started to talk back to me!
My blog is being a bit weird and wont let me respond to comments so if you do post a comment then i will reply to it (if it's needed) in the next post or maybe i'll just create a post in response.
As you can see from the title, the next film that i watched was badlands. This was in colour and so a step towards the world that we live in now. I am a huge fan of Martin Sheen and i was kinda keen to see how he was when he was young...
The most important thing to say is that this film is weird. A fifteen year old girl and a guy of something older (probably 21) murder her father because he doesn't approve of their relationship and then a few other people as well. From one point of view you could say that it is a lovely romantic story about two people in love that will do anything to protect their love.... one the other hand you the people that would say that it is twisted and weird because she is only fifteen. I am one of those people because i don't believe that anything is worth killing for, which made this film very weird for me.
some of the scenery is quite lovely in this film, especially one of the houses they visit when pretending to be a plumber and co. I really liked the house, it kinda reminded me of the house from North by Northwest.
I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing and it is very much up to interpretation but a lot of this story is being told by the woman as the narrator and being British, I kinda struggled with her Texan accent and kinda developed a half -hearted and very tired attitude to it as it went on and so the two hour film started to feel like four hours instead. I think that it was just a personal thing, so don't let it put you off watching the film- there is no reason as to why you shouldn't watch the film, in it's own weird way it is a very good film and quite a moving and powerful one- just depends on your mentality.
Rhys- I totally understand your comment. It's really hard for me to appreciate black and white horror because it just doesn't have the same effect. There are some films such as The Artist and The Phantom Of The Opera that are fantastic as black and white but i don't think that Horror is one that should be put in that category. I guess it made it's money from everything that you have said but it is a very dated film.
My blog is being a bit weird and wont let me respond to comments so if you do post a comment then i will reply to it (if it's needed) in the next post or maybe i'll just create a post in response.
As you can see from the title, the next film that i watched was badlands. This was in colour and so a step towards the world that we live in now. I am a huge fan of Martin Sheen and i was kinda keen to see how he was when he was young...
The most important thing to say is that this film is weird. A fifteen year old girl and a guy of something older (probably 21) murder her father because he doesn't approve of their relationship and then a few other people as well. From one point of view you could say that it is a lovely romantic story about two people in love that will do anything to protect their love.... one the other hand you the people that would say that it is twisted and weird because she is only fifteen. I am one of those people because i don't believe that anything is worth killing for, which made this film very weird for me.
some of the scenery is quite lovely in this film, especially one of the houses they visit when pretending to be a plumber and co. I really liked the house, it kinda reminded me of the house from North by Northwest.
I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing and it is very much up to interpretation but a lot of this story is being told by the woman as the narrator and being British, I kinda struggled with her Texan accent and kinda developed a half -hearted and very tired attitude to it as it went on and so the two hour film started to feel like four hours instead. I think that it was just a personal thing, so don't let it put you off watching the film- there is no reason as to why you shouldn't watch the film, in it's own weird way it is a very good film and quite a moving and powerful one- just depends on your mentality.
Rhys- I totally understand your comment. It's really hard for me to appreciate black and white horror because it just doesn't have the same effect. There are some films such as The Artist and The Phantom Of The Opera that are fantastic as black and white but i don't think that Horror is one that should be put in that category. I guess it made it's money from everything that you have said but it is a very dated film.
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