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RepoMan-The Genetic Opera
Topic Started: Mar 8 2009, 12:27 PM (345 Views)
Pixellated
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Jeffk38uk,Mar 11 2009
02:05 PM
.....dude, its just a film, not a documentary or a historical recreation.

If you're going to borrow from history to create a style, you've got to do it right. The comic bits did it alright, I guess, and the release poster is good as well. I'm still disappointed.

Bioshock got it very right though (despite using typefaces that were just imitations of 1920s type, rather than using the originals), and received a lot of praise for it. The aesthetic was researched a lot more than expected, and it added so much.
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Well it's not like I wasn't disappointed by it either you know. I already outlined my problems with it before, I just didn't think the style was that bad though or over the top.
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I think Ed said it best earlier in the thread-it's pure Branston Pickle. Either like it or loathe it, with very little middle ground.
I've nailed my colours to the mast clearly, and can see this becoming a cult thing.
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HunteRS,Mar 11 2009
02:36 PM
I think Ed said it best earlier in the thread-it's pure Branston Pickle. Either like it or loathe it, with very little middle ground.
I've nailed my colours to the mast clearly, and can see this becoming a cult thing.

Kinda already has given this apparently came out last august and on bluray last september.
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Pix, you're just not going to get much response with these crazy graphic-designer rants. No more than I tend to get for pointing out terrible homonym and spelling failure. For instance, while you're pointing out that that newspaper uses Impact headlines (which, yes, some newspapers, or "newspapers", do), I'm more concerned with the fact that it appears to have misspelled the word "feud".

I think the problem with this film is likely that it just wants so badly to be a "cult classic"... it even threw it on its posters. That's just dumb to me. That's like starting a band and proclaiming right away that it'll be an "underground sensation". Cult classics aren't MADE to be cult classics, and they certainly don't become one on the proclamations of some critic! There's no such thing as an "instant cult classic". Films develop into them after being rejected by the mainstream, but slowly adopted by a devoted fanbase. This film appears (and disclaimer, I have not actually seen it) to be a cookie-cutter version of what some entrepreneur who saw a quarter of Rocky Horror once imagined a financially-successful "cult classic" would look like. Creepy people! Catchy songs! Terrible plot! Z-list socialite actress!

Again, maybe this is more a judgement on the marketing people, but the whole thing reeks of cynical low-budget DVD-cash-in. Someone sat down and said, "okay, let's make a cult classic!". That's not how you do a real cult classic.
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RedFox, that sums things up fairly well, nobody really goes out intending to make a cult film (with the possible exceptions of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and Big Trouble in Little China), they just sort of... happen!

Actually, about the marketing, I did hear that the film was more than a bit of a flop at the box office simply because the studio didn't care for it, they didn't bother properly releasing or promoting it, they were too busy promoting the hell out of Disaster Movie (for fuck's sake!)!
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