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Being a Russian myself, sometimes it's hard for me to get the reference jokes about American TV personalities or celebrities.
The robots are actually called "replicants", a reference to Dicks Blade Runner(several visual allusions to the film can be found as well) and the bad guy is a psychotic gay mayor obsessed with limiting procreation through use of a compulsory drug for "heterosexual love is fleeting, and homosexual love is eternal"....martial arts fights ensue, a first for the dead or alive films.
Particular reference to Fred Willard and Jim Piddock as a rattling pair of TV commentators.
The uncivilized Mature lusts for the colonel's wife, giving the film an interesting and even dark subplot which goes so far as to reference coveting another man's wife at one point by James Whitmore who plays Mature's older and wiser mountain man father figure.
I have a strong feeling that what you think of this film will strongly depend on your frame of reference.
Some to the drug traffic, or the fight is no reference either farmer and worker, or wing guerrilla and to the kidnapping political.
There is a reference to Ma beating Birdie Hicks for first prize at the fair for her quilt, an import scene in The Egg and I.
I have commented on other Colombian films before, and I agree that Colombian movies tend to have a similar scheme, and always try to make reference to the average vulgar people,especially trying to make jokes out of the continuous cursing.
In some scenes in the Rain People, Francis Ford Coppola's precursor to his hey-day of the seventies, there is the mark of a similar situation to 1969's Easy Rider, but not exactly in the same reference frame.
The term is a reference to kind of broad catch-all, rather than a true Genre of Film.
One obvious reference is 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' where the new home was bought with oil money, not having been won in a contest.
Beneath the doctor's castle, they find Frankenstein's Monster buried in mud (this is apparently a reference to the previous movie in the Frankenstein series).
This is basically a reference to those classic film noir detective stories and movies of the 40s, except it's animated and involves the Matrix.
I think the film makes a subtile reference to rouge of Kieslowski, as the whole atmosphere gives me a feeling of red.
But as the movie started, it showed that this guy does have talent, I mean, is the best actor of the HP trio, for reference, have you seen Emma Watson trying to act?
Take note during the climax of the reference to Orson Welles' War Of the Worlds broadcast.
While Kelsey Grammar is obviously a gifted actor (reference 'Frasier', this movie) the supporting actors/actress play their roles quite well.
I located a reference to the movie on the web.
I really liked the touch of his daughters reference to him as being her Robin Hood.
Some moron who read or saw some reference to angels coming to Earth, decided to disregard what he'd heard about the offspring of humans and angels being larger than normal humans.
The idea was showing how deep down can human kind fall, but in reference to the characters not the film-maker.
As a result the antagonist, James Macarthur, makes reference to the Judo when he offers an excuse for why he, a state champion wrestler was so easily defeated.
The best scene is a graphic broom handle masturbation followed by some painful man-rape... Surely, "I Spit on Your Corpse, I P!ss on Your Grave" was intended as an unofficial sequel to "I Spit on Your Grave" - based on, mainly the title, and a reference the main character gives - suggesting her mother was Camille Keaton.
It does reference the Tooms case which is some nice continuation from the previous episode.
And why very little reference to the original show and characters?
I bought this DVD without any previous reference but the names of John Huston, Raquel Welch, Mae West and Farrah Fawcett on its cover.
You've gotta see it to believe it--and she looks like one of the Bugaloos (an obscure, but fitting reference).
This movie was disjointed...it gave no background about his life, no historical context, and nothing about his great writings (except a brief, passing reference to "The Cost of Discipleship" by a colleague at the beginning of the movie.)
Other than the brief recitation of lines from the end of James Joyce's "Ulysses", and an interesting visual reference to the end of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal," I found it a poor attempt to meld symbolic elements and moods immortalized in films like "Last Year at Marianbad" and "Un Chien Andalou."
There were sly reference such as 'they paved paradise to put up a parking lot'.
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