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So whether the references are painful or not, no apologies, it is the basis for the film.
I suck at gratuitous Boob references, so i'm just going to write a plainly flat (no pun intended) review.
It stumbles a few times into "Trek" convention and cliché--candy-colored space strippers never seem to go out of style, and I can already foresee snickering references to T'pol as "Seven of Vulcan"--but the ensemble looks strong, the characters are well-drawn, and one can already see hints that this particular crew will have to be more resourceful, in different ways, than those of earlier (later?)
There are constant references to assembly line production, where workers are treated as cogs in a machine, overseen by managers wielding clipboards, controlling how much hair the workers leave exposed, and firing workers (Stanley) who meet all criteria (as his supervisor says, are always on time, are hard workers, do good work) but who may in some unspecified future make a mistake.
As a film buff looking for all the small details and cross references etc in any movie I can assure anyone interested in film art that this piece amuses all the senses.
It was remade in 2000 as "Under Suspicion" and if you only want to see one version of the story (that's all it deserves, really), I recommend the latter one, with Hopkins' up-to-date direction and the more explicit references to plot points that the original could only hint at.
Seeing this as as adult allows one to catch the references that are way over the heads of the target audience - like the bit where Jimmy's grey witch wig is ripped off and Witch Hazel (Cass) sneers "I KNEW she had brown roots!".
Well, I'm pleased to report that most viewers should be well satisfied with the various knifings, shootings, impalements and other carnage that this film tastefully dishes out...not to mention the crypts, freaky dream sequence, rats and bats (and LOTS of 'em, too!), the drug references, a rape scene, the obligatory red herrings and, in the person of Ugo Pagliai, a hunky leading man for the female viewers.
The LDS references were frequent and heavy-handed.
In the end, however, the film really fell flat for me and besides the numerous references to the horrific event, The Great New Wonderful didn't need to have it as a backdrop.
Everything from the lame pop-culture references to the terrible forced accents was awful.
I honestly liked Nightmare On Elm Street 2, i think it was the appropriate sequel to the first one.It had that 80's aspect that for me somehow made it more enjoyable.It was so simple in a way because they were not trying to yet make Freddy Krueger a Dream Master, or a Psycho Dream dude who was psychologically ill and all this is just making the series into a confusing wreck.Here we have a simple plot that tries to explain some stuff, but not to much.I like all the references to the first one, i basically look for that in all sequels, i guess it makes me feel cool to say,"Oh i saw that happen, i actually saw what happened".Ill admit at times it was cheesy, and there were some really unnecessary parts to it, but i liked the film.Overall you might be one of many who hates this movie, but give it a chance if your a fan of the first one or a Freddy fan than you will give this film its props for that.
Pure technological historians will see quaint real work references to 70's bleeding edge technology and can appreciate the advances over the last 40 years.
Perhaps a little more bathroom humor, a huge helping of added gratuitous violence, a female slapping all the men around, some thinly-veiled pejorative references to drug and tobacco companies, considerable sexual depravity and a homosexual hero would have elevated Buckaroo Banzai to the level of a neo-classic, a la Pulp Fiction.
Bad references to the first film scattered throughout the early scenes don't help, nor does an uneven pacing, but it's well photographed in the desert, capturing the desolation and isolation of it, and the low budget sets (Ha!
A few pseudo-comic scenes, several references to old spanish TV programs and music hits (if you want to feel nostalgic with all that stuff you can watch a spanish TV documentary instead and that'll be surely better), and a surreal plot only understood by the people who made the film.
Also Grant makes references to himself in a typically funny scene.
And that's just it - compared to his other films this is just great fun: with Washington and Scott there's a young Halle Berry lookalike, Val Kilmer as Washington's link to the Torchwood-esquire setup he's got going, and that dude you'll inevitably recognise from a load of places, who acts as the in-joke machine (to a smirking Kilmer) with references to Airplane, the classic 'More cowbell' SNL sketch, and godknowswhatelse!
I loved all the references to the 20s and dialogue.
Fans of Elvis are sure the love this film with all of the Elvis references and a whole team of skydiving Elvis impersonators near the end of the film.
the star trek references got old after the 2nd jab.
Losing the direct Hitchcockian references, De Palma applies a harder, leaner style to the storytelling and creates a powerful work that is less fun than his later films, but no less compelling.
There are multiple pop culture references that may elude someone not familiar with German culture, but for me, it was a fine illustration that not all comedy must be sophisticated on the surface.
There are a lot of references the 80's, as well as Star Trek, pretty much exclusively The Original Series.
It is not filled with the latest pop culture references.
There are numerable references to other Poe stories to find and an impressive dream-sequence with a very nasty impaling.
Having recently read a book called "The Game" by Neil Strauss, where he makes numerous references to Top Gun, Magnolia and Jerry Maguire, I decided to watch this movie.
The references to pop culture are 1: over used 2: Poorly used 3: Irrelevant and not funny.
Filled with references glorifying evil, and an annoying soundtrack it's sure to rub hundreds the wrong way.
They've thrown in some jokes in the antique "Zucker"-style, references to the German TV, even an especially pointless one to "Silence of the lambs".
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