{"id":4133,"date":"2010-02-19T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2010-02-19T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T09:46:11","slug":"when-classic-movies-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/when-classic-movies-go-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"When Classic Movies Go Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night, I saw the film Blow-Up<\/strong> for the first time. What a piece of shit!<\/p>\n

Don’t you hate it when a movie you’re supposed to revere turns out to be crap? Blow-Up is the boringest most pointless movie I’ve seen in years. \u00a0 I know it’s a landmark movie of the 60’s but seen today, it’s just ponderous and stilted. David Hemmings<\/strong> can’t act to save his life and never changes out of his bright white jeans. After an hour of nothingness, all I wanted was a different pair of pants.<\/p>\n

In the end, David Hemmings comes upom a group of mimes<\/strong> and pretends to return an imaginary ball to them. The End. Fuck! Reading the reviews now, I wonder if everyone was too high on acid to figure out what a stupid bad movie it was.<\/p>\n

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Black Dynamite<\/strong>, on the other hand, is delightful! It’s a loving homage to blaxploitation films, just funny enough to provoke laughs without devolving into a winking satire. \u00a0 When a sexy lounge singer tells Black Dynamite “I get off in about 15 minutes,” he answers “I know you do, baby.” My husband and I are still having fun saying, “I can dig it.”<\/p>\n

Much more entertaining than a Beatle-haired photographer sulking around his apartment or staring into space. One review of Blow-Up explained that it was about meaninglessness. I think that’s just a euphemism for “Huh?”<\/p>\n

What classic or cult films have failed to live up to your expectations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"