Bad acting, Bad sound effects, and bad special effects… yet very good
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Martin
messin18 — 19 years ago(November 06, 2006 09:27 PM)
Just got done watching this dvd. First there HAS to be an unrated cut of this!? The movie feels like it's missing large chunks. Some of the flow isn't very good either. Like the part of the movie where he's on the train to get away from his cousin's town. That entire 20 minutes of footage seems to flow poorly and seems to be missing footage. I also never really understood the scenes they showed of the women comeing out of the market getting harassed by the black guys.
The ending is also VERY abrupt.
Despite the poor sound effects, bad acting, and bad special effects i actually still really enjoyed this movie. All of the kill's are very creepy and uniquely scary. Romero has yet to dissapoint me (well other than land of the dead) -
horror_inf3ction — 19 years ago(November 09, 2006 01:01 PM)
The original cut of the film is supposed to be around 2 hours and 45 minutes. From what I have heard, that footage is lost though. So, there will probably never be a different cut of the film coming out.
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wvq2 — 16 years ago(February 13, 2010 03:10 AM)
Concerning the acting. I think this is one of those movies where the "bad acting" really works in the movie's favor. None of the actors has much charisma, and a lot of the acting seems, for lack of a better word, flat. Yet it seems better acting wouldn't really work in this context. The people are dull and boringbut they're supposed to be dull and boring. They're lonely, sad, alienated, bored people stuck in a decaying city. I'm not sure they should be any more compelling to watch.
And I guess I think the same thing about the sluggish pacing for much of the film's middle hour. Aside from the one extended scene of violence in that middle section, it doesn't really seem that much is happening. But, then again, not much is happening in Martin's life or surroundings; so the narrative reflects that. Martin is bored, and we're bored too. (Which, naturally, makes the violence that much more excitingat least it breaks up the monotony and gives us something to look forward to.)
Oh, and about the women getting harrassed outside the market. The most obvious reason that's in the movie is that the movie is, in part, about white flight from the city to the suburbs and fear about what America's former industrial cities were becoming. The kind of white ethnic working-class neighborhood in which Martin lives was slowly going out of existence at the time this movie was made, and that's a big theme here. (Note that most of the neighborhood is older people, and that the other young people around him are leaving since the environment has little to offer them.) The women getting harrassed underlines the extent to which white working-class people like Martin are starting to feel less secure in the city as control of it is being passed to the (largely minority) poor. It looks to people like Martin and Cuda that the city is slowly turning into one huge, dangerous slum, and that they're caught between that world and the suburban middle-class world to which Martin delivers groceries (probably to people who have been leaving the neighborhood around Cuda's store but still retain some loyalty to him). -
thecultofhorror — 16 years ago(February 20, 2010 01:04 PM)
The acting wasn't bad it was a lot of real people acting real. Amplas (Martin) did a great job, his complex character had a bit of Holden Caulfield in him.
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