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Cinematography: Well, it seems like they never knew which ISO film stock to use so they put all different kinds of film in a bag and played trick or treat!
my favorite film would have to be trainspotting, and lock stock blew me away.
The scenes in the mental hospital add nothing new to the stock stereotype, and the ending is telegraphed a mile away.
The football (complete with stock footage of England's National Team in action) and essence of the atmosphere stay true to the intended settings' accuracy and makes for a great opportunity to play off the characters via their differing interest in the British National Sport ensuring that the characters brim with a level of anticipation of each others' next direction that mirrors the results of the team they barrack for, the 3 Lions of England.
Also, there is an excellent degrading of the film stock which chills the mind if you like faded greys and yellows as I do.
That is until he meets young Holly, a naive scientist who puts stock in his theory.
The film is an odd- well at least odd for the mainstream- mix of drama, stock footage and evangelism.
The packaging claims that the film was 'Shot on location on six continents' and I guess that is technically correct- of course the stock footage was shot by _someone else_-- seems a little misleading for a film destined for the Christian market.
I've always been a big fan of cult films that expose some sort of cool and/or intriguing sub-culture whether it's rhyme battling in 8 MILE, heroin addiction in TRAINSPOTTING, or even fraudulent stock trading in BOILER ROOM.
It all starts off with some stock footage of planets and then of Egypt.
Anything other than close-ups of the actors is either stock footage from other movies or government films.
If it weren't for the busty blonde this film stock would have better served as toilet paper for death row inmates.
The saloon brawl is the best part of the film and was many times used as stock footage.
The revelation that the hero is independently wealthy (evidently, at the age of 12, he invested in Microsoft stock) also warrants a few good guffaws.
Best part has to be when Murphy goes through his stock pick notes that have been doodled on my his daughter - "this stock is gonna drop its pants because they have a poopy diaper...........".
It looks like the only reason they dressed the hero in that ridiculous white dandy suit was so he would match the guy in the stock footage, which looks like it was lifted from some silent jungle adventure movie.
Alas, the DVD appears to have been mastered from either very poor stock, or from a VHS tape.
My favorite scenes include stock footage of a plane taking off (when in fact the plane should be landing), using a caged bird as a projectile, throwing a woman by her breast, and don't even get me started on the ending... Just amazingly awful.
The stock home video footage of the lead characters as children was an overused device, eliciting feelings of boredom as opposed to the sentiment it is intended to evoke.
They re-used scenes multiple times and used some cheap stock footage to fill in some time.
This awful flick offers little scope for screenwriter Ed Wood's unique, uh, "talents," being mostly made up of boring stock footage.
This low-budget, brightly-colored film is more interested in the lives that would soon be affected by the riots than in the aftermath of the violence--and so we get stock characters like the naive blond cowboy, the underworld group controlling the club, the straight-seeming activists for a Homosexual Alliance, and lots and lots of drag queens.
Only Roger Corman could get the most out of a rented dinghy, access to a small area of swamp and New Orleans stock footage.
What with US army personnel parading around London in uniform before the US had entered the war; the stock footage of the 1970s era London Ambulance rushing the agent to the hospital; the "military" DC3 in civilian paint scheme; the Rolls driving around with headlights full on in the blackout; the "French Port" with lights blazing, also in the blackout; the "Social Club" in London that had both male and female members; the two "heroes" jumping out of the aircraft without a jump-master; and... Well, I could go on and on but I think you get the point.
The premise is stock standard enough that a brainless monkey should be able to make a movie around it, but the script is so unbelievable, and oddly structured (moments of grainy flashback flicker sporadically through the plot, gradually advancing an all too obvious and predictable back story), with characters introduced in tossed-off, sitcom-ish scenes, never to reappear again, that its hard to get through more than a scene or two without groaning.
After Nasa stock footage, recycled Roger Corman space FX (BATTLE BENEATH THE STARS...again!) and an incomprehensible collage from various Corman productions, then the "story" begins.
What about the stock option story?
Made entirely in California with oodles of stock footage set in Africa, I found the film quasi-authentic.
It's got fuzzy, washed out sepia tinted photography that resists any attempt by the viewers' eyes to pull pleasure and satisfaction out of the film stock.
British cinema is capable of outstanding work - sadly this sorry fare makes the UK a laughing stock.
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