tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post3556262167299082020..comments2024-03-28T22:30:49.378-11:00Comments on Kinemalogue: Code PinkHunter Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-36181114665288123362016-07-25T14:08:12.641-11:002016-07-25T14:08:12.641-11:00Damn! Honestly, that explains it all a whole lot ...Damn! Honestly, that explains it all a whole lot better. That's an annihilating combination of movies to try to sneak your comparatively expensive horror flick through.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-67863144035772970332016-07-25T06:01:48.743-11:002016-07-25T06:01:48.743-11:00The Blob was great, good review. One comment in y...The Blob was great, good review. One comment in your review states:<br /><br />"And then... it flopped. 1980s audiences were strange and fickle beasts, to be sure. But perhaps the sheer oversaturation (and cultural devaluation) of blood-and-gore cinema had something to do with it."<br /><br />The Blob's opening weekend was up against some stiff competition in the theaters:<br /><br />- Tom Cruise's Cocktail in its second weekend.<br />- Who Frame Roger Rabbit still going strong a month into its run.<br />- Die Hard in its third week.<br />- Eddie Murphy's Coming to America, also a month into its very strong run.<br />- A Fish Called Wanda in its third week.<br />- Midnight Run in its second week.<br />- Tom Hanks Big almost two months into its massive run. <br /><br />All in all theater goers had a lot of choice at that time and the Blob. Not to say your not correct that blood & gore movies may have just fizzled out their attention span, but that opening weekend still had a lot of popular movies going for it.<br /><br /><br />Movie Loverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00320194496044431251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-17508309957416417232016-07-23T15:08:20.225-11:002016-07-23T15:08:20.225-11:00Also, I am now fully up-to-date on Beware! The Blo...Also, I am now fully up-to-date on Beware! The Blob.<br /><br />Harumph.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-87026147789595836602016-07-23T15:06:48.029-11:002016-07-23T15:06:48.029-11:00I just don't understand the impulse when it co...I just don't understand the impulse when it comes to make every movie-within-a-movie (or TV-show-within-a-TV-show) so preposterously bad. Garden Tool Massacre is kind of funny, but when you throw an obvious parody (with obvious jokes) into your movie, and treat it like this is what the people in your movie actually like, it just undermines the reality you're trying to create.<br /><br />I do recognize that this is the kind of thing that bothers me all out of proportion to the actual sin, but it's just that they do it virtually every time a piece of media has to show up in another piece of media.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-85722536394514297342016-07-22T19:27:06.992-11:002016-07-22T19:27:06.992-11:00God, I love the Blobs.
While I kind of dig Garden...God, I love the Blobs.<br /><br />While I kind of dig Garden Tool Massacre for best signifying my love-hate relationship with the slasher genre, I do see your point there. Honestly, it's been so long since I've seen this one that maybe I'll have swung around next time I watch it. Which will be soon, because your double feature has lit a flame under me.<br /><br />I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more Blob. Also, I checked my shelf and it turns out I own TWO copies of the original '58 Blob. Now, how did that happen?Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399713449347559869noreply@blogger.com