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But here Miike, in his first and only co-screen writing credit no less, proves that he can deliver the goods on a post-modern soup of mythical fantasy conventions, and with it boatload of CGI, creature-effects and make-up, and an epic battle that is more like a "festival" than something out of Lord of the Rings.
There's no way to confront 'Zabriskie Point' from a rational standpoint or attempt to describe it using words and
conventions
you'd use for other movies.
It follows the new
conventions
of modern horror, that is the movie within a movie, the well known actress running for her life in the first scene.
"Bread" very sharply skewers the
conventions
of horror movies in general and "Night of the Living Dead" in specific and is constantly inventive.
Like the Arabian Nights this film plays with storytelling
conventions
in order to make us feel that there's plot, plot and more plot: it opens with what appears to be the frame device of a blind man telling the story of his life, then plunges into a flashback which takes us right up to the blind man's present, where we discover that about half of the story is yet to come.
True Hollywood
conventions
used, like playing A list and VERY attractive actors as the 'heroes', such as Naomi Watts (Julia Cook - Ned Kelly's lover), Heath Ledger (Ned) and Orlando Bloom (Joe Byrne - Ned's right hand man), and unattractive (sorry Geoffrey Rush) actors play the drunken and corrupt Victorian Police Force.
He is suppose to go to
conventions
from other high tech companies and find out all the companies' plans.
If you leave away pretending you know or you care what Communism was about and how real Russians or Brits are, if you accept and are not hurt by the conventions, you can have fun with this film.
But this is a totally character and emotional based drama, bordering on melodrama (however, without the
conventions
that bog down lesser ones), and with the style in the finest path of the budding film-noir movement, Visconti creates a debut that's as involving as any other neo-realist film.
The director seems interested in taking apart some of the more tired cinematic
conventions.
But it's sad, because, for a show that was supposed to throw all
conventions
through the window, it surely was the most conventional of them all.
Rospo Pallenberg's Cutting Class is an attempt at sending up such conventions, but it's hard to poke fun at a genre that has already unintentionally turned to self parody, and the film winds up being virtually indistinguishable from the countless genuine films that it intends to mock.
The mise-en-scene was delightful, it was highly stylized and had real dreamy take on the horror
conventions.
Director Carl Reiner and lead actor Steve Martin instead actively embrace the clichés and
conventions
of the noir style, adding their own jokes, of course, but primarily drawing humour from the characters' deadpan reactions to ridiculous scenarios.
It's got the usual assortment of action movie clichés and
conventions.
This is a movie that follows a lot of the
conventions
of a zombie movie, the main difference being that instead of being dead, these flesh-eaters are alive, just taken over by a virus that turns them into deranged cannibals.
I can't believe that Bunuel was able to create such vividly bizarre sequences that laugh in the face of conventions, and still manage to contain all those random sequences in one film that kept my interest for an hour and forty five minutes.
And preach he did, to thousands in his Woman Thou Art Loosed
conventions
all across the country to sold out stadiums.
The movie does show its age and is limited by the
conventions
of time and place and technology of the time.
The themes and issues it raises are still very much relevant; sexual desire and frustration, the nature of desire, terrorism, the
conventions
within society that we accept.
"The Awful Truth" was a ground breaker in terms of some of the
conventions
that were used in screwball comedies of the thirties.
With that in mind, it still never fails to stupefy that in an industry of such excruciating rehashes, Hollywood can still churn out a film which exemplifies the above
conventions
and still manage to up the ante in terms of sheer lack of quality and coherence.
Precisely that, however, is the film's psychological downfall in the face of an audience which is - or which one would have assumed ought to be - as familiar by now with the
conventions
of this genre as it is with those of the mafia movie.
A genuine rarity, this one: a truly good, funny, even smart and respectful send-up of low-rent tacky'n'terrible cheesy backwoods-set teens-in-peril fright films that effectively pokes fun at assorted clichéd'n'contrived horror movie
conventions
without ever becoming the least bit cutesy or condescending towards its Grade B schlock picture subject matter.
The entire film seemed as though it was made up as he went along, and was pretty much a dull mishmash of gangster movie
conventions
and clichés.
Including the ability to produce music without knowledge of the standard
conventions
typically used.
Many American
conventions
are held up to the light in this movie.
His style eschews mainstream conventions, resulting in his films being perceived as nearly the antithesis of Hollywood's films, with which most people are familiar.
The first time I saw it, it threw me for a loop, because it violated so many of the
conventions
of intelligible moviemaking that I almost felt shell-shocked.
Ace is on a totally different planet and he couldn't care less for social
conventions
or politeness.
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