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Re: Just saw "The Devil's Rejects" by Jeff Fries 03/01/2006, 5:29am PST
Mischief Maker wrote:

Maybe there's an assload of winking references in here that I missed because I'm not a huge slasher fan but I'll be damned if I can figure out why this movie was such a big deal. Is it just because "house of 1000 corpses" was really really awful that people were struck dumb by the mere competence Rob Zombie put on display here?


What competence? He still has no idea what he's doing. The one improvement is that this film has an ending. Otherwise he doesn't know what he wants besides what influences he would like to define his style (like how he wrote in a character solely to explain how he named the Rejects after Groucho Marx characters). There's no tone; one second you're supposed to identify with the killers, the next you're supposed to be terrified of them. The dialogue is a series of lame one-liners intended to be colorful but reads like the letters Joe Bob Briggs would get from people who wanted to be a funny yokel like him.

Fussbett wrote:


I don't get the Clockwork Orange comparison though, other than the characters being jerks.


I think he means how the message is that law enforcement is more evil than serial killing.
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Just saw "The Devil's Rejects" by Mischief Maker 02/28/2006, 5:57pm PST NEW
    Next you're going to say winks and nods couldn't carry Kill Bill NT by Sonny Chiba 02/28/2006, 8:51pm PST NEW
    Re: Just saw "The Devil's Rejects" by Fussbett 03/01/2006, 12:46am PST NEW
    Re: Just saw "The Devil's Rejects" by Jeff Fries 03/01/2006, 5:29am PST NEW
        Re: Just saw "The Devil's Rejects" by Mischief Maker 03/01/2006, 5:32pm PST NEW
            Re: Just saw "The Devil's Rejects" by Quentin Beck 03/01/2006, 7:19pm PST NEW
            Wait, I was supposed to feel sorry for them? by Entropy Stew 03/01/2006, 9:29pm PST NEW
 
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