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Nebs
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Crimewave
CrimewaveQuote: Crimewave is a 1985 comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, an unusual slapstick mix of film noir, black comedy and several eras, starring Reed Birney, Paul L. Smith, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Bruce Campbell, and Sheree J. Wilson. It was his first studio film following the success of The Evil Dead. The film is also known as The XYZ Murders in some parts of the world, although it was first shown to a public in a sneak preview with the title Broken Hearts And Noses.
The Three Stooges inspired script was written by Raimi along with Joel and Ethan Coen (whom the director formerly met during post production of The Evil Dead) and contains a prison named Hudsucker. The brothers would go on to make the film The Hudsucker Proxy with Raimi and Campbell. The name also appears in their 1987 film Raising Arizona. Elements of Crimewave were also re-used by frequent Raimi collaborator Josh Becker for the movie Lunatics: A Love Story, as well as by Raimi himself in Spider-Man and its sequels. Much of the film's comedy derives from the combination of surprises with traditional, explicitly familiar gags.
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21641 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: Crimewave
Despite Raimi disowning the film this movie is hard to find, but very bizarre/ yet brilliant at times. You can see studio intervention in the fact that the lead actor is completely misplaced and seemed written for Bruce Cambell, but overall if your a fan of Sam Raimi or odd comedies, its pretty funny at times, especially in Brion James and Paul Smith and Bruce Cambell's role and some typical great Raimi trademarks.
Solid B
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Thu May 28, 2009 9:41 pm |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21641 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: Crimewave
_________________Chippy wrote: As always, fuck Thegun. Chippy wrote: I want to live vicariously through you, Thegun!
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 23781 Location: Classified
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Re: Crimewave
I enjoyed the first twenty or so minutes but it gets old fast. Reading all the bits about studio interference makes sense. Campbell would have been such a better lead. Still, you can see the ingredients for the futures of both Raimi and the Coens and that alone makes it worth watching, even though the movie itself isn't very good.
5/10
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