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Post by neferetus on Dec 2, 2007 12:51:01 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on Dec 2, 2007 12:51:40 GMT -5
 Overseas DVD cover. |
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Post by neferetus on Dec 2, 2007 12:53:51 GMT -5
I was just at Walmart this morning and they have BAD GIRLS in the $5.00 bin. For that price, it's worth adding to your collection.
If you cannot find it, let me know and I'll just go back and buy it, then mail it to any interested party.
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Post by neferetus on Dec 2, 2007 13:33:03 GMT -5
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 2, 2007 19:45:18 GMT -5
Never did like that movie....
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Post by seguin on Dec 2, 2007 22:25:39 GMT -5
Nef, the overseas DVD cover is a Danish cover! Funny coincidence! It says at the bottom: It was a dangerous time to be a woman - but the right time to find (your) friends.
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Post by neferetus on Dec 2, 2007 22:35:30 GMT -5
Never did like that movie.... Beats the hell out of GANG OF ROSES. See review below: Gang of Roses (2003) "Mama said there'd be days like this." - Chastity (Lil' Kim) Review By: Rich Rosell Published: February 18, 2004 Stars: Monica Calhoun, Stacey Dash, Lisaraye, Marie Matiko, Lil' Kim Other Stars: Bobby Brown, Charity Hill, Jean Claude LaMarre, Glenn Plummer, Brian 'Skinny B' Lewis, Louis Mandylor, Macy Gray, Ted Lange, Mario Van Peebles Director: Jean Claude Lamarre MPAA Rating: R for some sexual content Run Time: 01h:33m:28s Release Date: January 27, 2004 UPC: 043396036505 Genre: western DVD ReviewAccording to writer/director Jean Claude LaMarre, Gang of Roses is "hip-hop meets the Old West" and that simple, high concept description should really tell you all you need to know about this film. The story elements should be more than a little familiar to anyone who has ever seen a western (a band of nasty outlaws is targeted for revenge by the sister of someone they murdered), and the only major surface difference is that the film has a distinctly urban appeal, from casting on through to the score. The Rose Gang, as we learn during an opening title crawl, were a notorious group of female bank robbers who prowled the West during the time of Billy The Kid, and after a string of robberies, the gang disappeared suddenly, vanishing into obscurity. That is, of course, until the sister of former Rose Gang-er Rachel (Monica Calhoun) is murdered by a rugged band of gold-hungry desperadoes who have taken over the town of Flatridge. This call for vengeance prompts the old "get the band back together" situation, with Rachel tracking down her old posse to unite for one final stab at frontier justice. As you can see from the cover art, the Rose Gang conveniently consists of five beautiful women (Calhoun, Stacey Dash, Lisaraye, Marie Matiko, and rapper Lil' Kim), all of whom wear their own brand of specially color-coded leathery duds, which I guess is supposed to make them more easily identifiable as characters. It's a rather simplistic move, but when you have snappy-dressed pretty girls acting tough and shooting bad guys, there doesn't really need to be much else pulled up from the creative well. To be fair, LaMarre isn't doing anything less one-dimensional in Gang of Roses than 1,000 other westerns have done in the past, and tweaking things with a hip-hop flavor is just new window-dressing for more of the same old same old genre stuff. The problem is that the film seems to be played way too seriously for its own good, and I got the impression that LaMarre wasn't necessarily trying to make a campy western. Or was he? I couldn't tell if all of the eye-squinting, one-liners, and twitchy trigger fingers were nudge-nudge jokes or simply required elements, and as a viewer you're left wondering whether you are laughing at something that was meant to be intentionally funny or not. The fun stuff, which includes bad guys who are led by psychotic Left Eye (a comically hammy Bobby "Mr. Whitney Houston" Brown), and his scene-stealing murderous lesbian sidekick Suzie (Charity Hill) are sandwiched between endless scenes of pretty girls furrowing their brows and riding horses. The macho posturing has the dramatic depth of the acting in a music video, but similar to what I mentioned earlier, the same kind of stiff bravado swagger has been a genre staple for decades, so LaMarre hasn't necessarily lowered the bar any here. He just hasn't improved on it. It's odd that Gang of Roses has been issued an R-rating, given that the majority of its violence occurs largely off-screen (except for things like stuntmen falling from balconies), and the so-called "sexual content" seems similarly tame. Maybe it's a street credibility issue just to get an R, but if LaMarre had made his film grittier it may have looked less like simply a group of well-dressed babes wandering through an immaculately clean western movie set. The thing is, I can see something like Gang of Roses working better as a syndicated series (the weekly adventures of pretty girls in leather with guns righting wrongs in the hip-hoppy Old West) than as a standalone film. |
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Post by neferetus on Dec 2, 2007 22:58:08 GMT -5
Nef, the overseas DVD cover is a Danish cover! Funny coincidence! It says at the bottom: It was a dangerous time to be a woman - but the right time to find (your) friends. Well, what a coincidence, Hans. Have you ever seen the film? If nothing else, it will give you a nice glimpse of Alamo Village. |
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Post by neferetus on Dec 2, 2007 23:36:11 GMT -5
 You can see how they even try to rip off BAD GIRLS with the cover art. |
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Post by seguin on Dec 2, 2007 23:43:28 GMT -5
Nef, the overseas DVD cover is a Danish cover! Funny coincidence! It says at the bottom: It was a dangerous time to be a woman - but the right time to find (your) friends. Well, what a coincidence, Hans. Have you ever seen the film? If nothing else, it will give you a nice glimpse of Alamo Village. No, I have´nt seen it, but since Alamo Village is in it, I´ll keep an eye out for it. It´s bound to be on TV again sooner or later.. |
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