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Hardylane's rating
This could genuinely be one of the worst movies I've ever, ever seen. Jaw-droppingly, horrifying right-wing, with not one single redeeming feature. Compulsive viewing because... I just couldn't believe what I was seeing, and whether or not there was some kind of tongue-in-cheek satirical payoff... but there wasn't. Just a non-stop humourless onslaught against anything, or anyone, who opposes the extremist right- wing agenda of the likes of Palin, Limbaugh, Fox News, Ex-Pres Bush, Beck and the countless other neo-con idiots that are making American into a global laughing stock.
David Zucker is one of those bizarre Americans who transformed themselves, mutant-like, from a comedy satirist into a neo-con right- wing mouth-foaming bigot after the WTC attack.
Every single second of this movie is spent ripping anyone even remotely humanist or left-wing. It extols the virtues of "shoot first, ask questions later", in the name of its blind, moronic worship of the grand turgid, bloated monster that is right-wing America.
Freedom comes in one flavour, and with only one set of rules; do as we say, believe what we believe, or we'll shoot you.
I would have switched it off had I not been so frozen by it's stunning offensiveness.
This is a movie that makes the USA dumber just by existing.
Seriously, David Zucker, you've turned into one disgusting human being.
David Zucker is one of those bizarre Americans who transformed themselves, mutant-like, from a comedy satirist into a neo-con right- wing mouth-foaming bigot after the WTC attack.
Every single second of this movie is spent ripping anyone even remotely humanist or left-wing. It extols the virtues of "shoot first, ask questions later", in the name of its blind, moronic worship of the grand turgid, bloated monster that is right-wing America.
Freedom comes in one flavour, and with only one set of rules; do as we say, believe what we believe, or we'll shoot you.
I would have switched it off had I not been so frozen by it's stunning offensiveness.
This is a movie that makes the USA dumber just by existing.
Seriously, David Zucker, you've turned into one disgusting human being.
Having looked for this for ages, I was delighted to be able to see it through the magic of the Internet recently.
Like most people, I saw it when I was a child and it made a big impression.
On viewing it now, being much older, the experience was a little disappointing, as was to be expected.
The episodes had very little pace, and the programme makers took incredible liberties with the cliffhangers, often showing something at the start of the episode that wasn't there at the end of the previous one! Sky himself was still as eerie as I remembered, and the use of CSO on his eyes and hands was still effective.
It was a true Friends of the Earth parable, however, and, given that I'm not exactly a supporter of greenie, eco-friendly, anti-science bull, this grated on me.
Only one moment in the series sent a shiver up my spine... when Goodchild was going up the stairs, with the camera focused on his feet, and you saw his creepy cloak just kind of drop into shot, where it hadn't been before!... ooh! All in all, could have done with being 6 episode long instead of 7.
DVD release seems unlikely due to the fact that episodes 3 and 7 only exist in ropey off-air recordings from a domestic Philips 1500 VCR.
There's a definite reluctance to release material in low quality.
Catch it if you can, though, through other methods :)
Like most people, I saw it when I was a child and it made a big impression.
On viewing it now, being much older, the experience was a little disappointing, as was to be expected.
The episodes had very little pace, and the programme makers took incredible liberties with the cliffhangers, often showing something at the start of the episode that wasn't there at the end of the previous one! Sky himself was still as eerie as I remembered, and the use of CSO on his eyes and hands was still effective.
It was a true Friends of the Earth parable, however, and, given that I'm not exactly a supporter of greenie, eco-friendly, anti-science bull, this grated on me.
Only one moment in the series sent a shiver up my spine... when Goodchild was going up the stairs, with the camera focused on his feet, and you saw his creepy cloak just kind of drop into shot, where it hadn't been before!... ooh! All in all, could have done with being 6 episode long instead of 7.
DVD release seems unlikely due to the fact that episodes 3 and 7 only exist in ropey off-air recordings from a domestic Philips 1500 VCR.
There's a definite reluctance to release material in low quality.
Catch it if you can, though, through other methods :)
