I like bad movies. In fact, I'm still trying to get AFI to show Eckes vs Sever in their next film festival. I own Aztec Mummy vs the Robot Monster. What you call "hell", I call "entertainment"...
Dolemite is a very very bad movie. I've narrowed down its problems to the acting, directing, writing and cinematography.
Most of the cast in this movie are non-actors and it shows. Most of the cast members mumble their lines as if on a Thorazine binge. Some of the lines were meant to be spoken with great feeling which makes it all the more hilarious when they are said with the same flat mien as one would have ordering a MacDonald's breakfast. The few competent actors in this movie just make the rest of the cast look even worse. Who do I blame? The director, of course! You can tell this movie had a director or the actors would've just wandered off the lot during filming and gone about their lives; however, none of the acting seems to be directed. Maybe the director just gave up after seeing the...
...writing. Odd when the drugged monotone of a narrated flashback matches the exact dialog after the flashback. And, a warden letting a man out of prison to find who framed him is essentially a plot built from Ad Libs during a car ride. Bad bad writing. But, at least you have the...
Cinematography... Oh forget it...
This is a jaw-droppingly bad movie. I'm not saying that anyone should avoid it. Historically, it is worth watching because the seventies were an interesting time for grind-house movies...
Dolemite is a very very bad movie. I've narrowed down its problems to the acting, directing, writing and cinematography.
Most of the cast in this movie are non-actors and it shows. Most of the cast members mumble their lines as if on a Thorazine binge. Some of the lines were meant to be spoken with great feeling which makes it all the more hilarious when they are said with the same flat mien as one would have ordering a MacDonald's breakfast. The few competent actors in this movie just make the rest of the cast look even worse. Who do I blame? The director, of course! You can tell this movie had a director or the actors would've just wandered off the lot during filming and gone about their lives; however, none of the acting seems to be directed. Maybe the director just gave up after seeing the...
...writing. Odd when the drugged monotone of a narrated flashback matches the exact dialog after the flashback. And, a warden letting a man out of prison to find who framed him is essentially a plot built from Ad Libs during a car ride. Bad bad writing. But, at least you have the...
Cinematography... Oh forget it...
This is a jaw-droppingly bad movie. I'm not saying that anyone should avoid it. Historically, it is worth watching because the seventies were an interesting time for grind-house movies...