remember the infamous landfill of atari ET games? and the subsecuent crash of the video game industry? everyone was making shitty games about shitty whatever those days.
Each one is made from the remains of a real turtle.
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The commercial for it was a little excessive right? Like the kid doesn’t get a high score so some guy kicks the shit out of his dog
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Lemme preface this with this: I hit my “looking for the gnarliest thing I can find” phase a little before streaming was a huge thing, and right before a bunch of this old stuff was starting to get reprints. When I found this in the glass case at my local record store, I jumped at the opportunity to finally see it. Paid $80 for it. Gotta say – it’s an important film, and I’m glad I’ve seen it, but I wish I didn’t own it.
Now with years behind me I feel like I can be fairly objective, but this is definitely *my* feelings on the whole thing so take this with a grain of salt: the film is good, it pushed a lot of creative boundaries and cinematically brought something very new to the table. The music is good. The meta aspects of the film were also pretty neat and had a TREMENDOUS influence on The Blair Witch Project (the actors had to disappear for a year and they had to hunt them down when Deodato was brought up on obscenity charges).
The film itself is very mean-spirited, both in the treatment of the characters as well as the actors and native extras (they’re put in a hut that was actually on fire – none were hurt). Deodato pressured the lead actress to have sex with the lead guy for realism to a completely inappropriate degree and it fucked her up for a while.
But far and above all that: the animal death is just inexcusable. No movie is worth the life of an animal (I have beef with Andrei Rublev about this too), but not only that – THE ANIMAL DEATH HAS ABOSLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STORY. Animal death sold tickets at that point, so it’s just kinda thrown in there for no reason whatsoever. Deodato decided killing a handful of animals (some arguably rather sentient) was worth the boost in notoriety.
What’s interesting is that the film is trying to offer a (rather hamfisted) version of “who are the real savages?” and Deodato, in the making of the film, is by far the biggest savage of them all.
Dude is a huge piece of shit. Art demands a sense of personal accountability.
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You can’t believe it because it’s not real!
The turtle mission in this game was my favorite
remember the infamous landfill of atari ET games? and the subsecuent crash of the video game industry? everyone was making shitty games about shitty whatever those days.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983)
AVGN in shambles
Each one is made from the remains of a real turtle.
The commercial for it was a little excessive right? Like the kid doesn’t get a high score so some guy kicks the shit out of his dog
Lemme preface this with this: I hit my “looking for the gnarliest thing I can find” phase a little before streaming was a huge thing, and right before a bunch of this old stuff was starting to get reprints. When I found this in the glass case at my local record store, I jumped at the opportunity to finally see it. Paid $80 for it. Gotta say – it’s an important film, and I’m glad I’ve seen it, but I wish I didn’t own it.
Now with years behind me I feel like I can be fairly objective, but this is definitely *my* feelings on the whole thing so take this with a grain of salt: the film is good, it pushed a lot of creative boundaries and cinematically brought something very new to the table. The music is good. The meta aspects of the film were also pretty neat and had a TREMENDOUS influence on The Blair Witch Project (the actors had to disappear for a year and they had to hunt them down when Deodato was brought up on obscenity charges).
The film itself is very mean-spirited, both in the treatment of the characters as well as the actors and native extras (they’re put in a hut that was actually on fire – none were hurt). Deodato pressured the lead actress to have sex with the lead guy for realism to a completely inappropriate degree and it fucked her up for a while.
But far and above all that: the animal death is just inexcusable. No movie is worth the life of an animal (I have beef with Andrei Rublev about this too), but not only that – THE ANIMAL DEATH HAS ABOSLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STORY. Animal death sold tickets at that point, so it’s just kinda thrown in there for no reason whatsoever. Deodato decided killing a handful of animals (some arguably rather sentient) was worth the boost in notoriety.
What’s interesting is that the film is trying to offer a (rather hamfisted) version of “who are the real savages?” and Deodato, in the making of the film, is by far the biggest savage of them all.
Dude is a huge piece of shit. Art demands a sense of personal accountability.
Fuck Ruggero Deodato.