tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post7590826678923962430..comments2024-03-23T12:33:33.918-04:00Comments on Junta Juleil's Culture Shock: Film Review: CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980, Lucio Fulci)Sean Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-2639457838486443272014-11-22T01:39:59.711-05:002014-11-22T01:39:59.711-05:00Yes! It totally DOES defy reason! For instance, I ...Yes! It totally DOES defy reason! For instance, I swear I watched Zombi a good six times before I figured out that the doctor on the island wasn't the main gal's father. Somehow I always missed the part where the doctor plainly explains about the gal's father's death. Truly uncanny. There was an old George Carlin joke: "Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is? So you look again...and you still don't know the time! So you look a third time, and the guy next to you asks, 'what time is it?' And you say "I don't know!!" I don't know how he does it, but sometimes, Lucio Fulci can make David Lynch look like Ken Burns.Mike B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18002724434110207883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-74178892419411439892014-11-20T12:15:23.032-05:002014-11-20T12:15:23.032-05:00Mike,
Glad you enjoyed! We seem to be in agreem...Mike, <br /><br />Glad you enjoyed! We seem to be in agreement on good ole Lucio, whose nuttiness almost makes Argento and Bava seem sane. And to your book comparison ("you keep having to go back and reread things because you realize you just went through several pages and yet you can't recall any of what you just read") I would add that, even upon re-reading, it STILL doesn't make a lick of sense. It almost defies reason. If there's matter and antimatter, perhaps there are logic and anti-logic; and the films of Lucio Fulci must have been made in a dimension where anti-logic reigns supreme. I love it.Sean Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-28285894102048653822014-11-20T00:30:46.483-05:002014-11-20T00:30:46.483-05:00Oh yeah! I think you're really hitting the nai...Oh yeah! I think you're really hitting the nail on the head about Fulci here (or perhaps I should say nail through the eye, hey-o!). His whole thing is kind of undefinable, yet completely unique and instantly recognizable. His best movies, like this, Zombi, The Beyond, and oh-hell-yes Conquest, always exist somewhere between kinda good and kinda bad, occasionally unwatchable, yet you don't stop watching them. It's like reading a book by an author that you're certain that you like, but you keep having to go back and reread things because you realize you just went through several pages and yet you can't recall any of what you just read. And I love how he can have special effects, in the same movie, that can range from really cheap looking, to terrifyingly gross, to legitimately impressive surrealism. I always sing Fulci's praises, but I think it might just be that I'm simply glad that his movies exist. Here's to an extended Halloween, and to Fulci, for keepin' it weird!Mike B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18002724434110207883noreply@blogger.com