Saturday, May 15, 2004

WILD IN THE STREETS (1968)

Entertaining? Definitely. The idea of a 22 year-old rock star getting elected president and putting everyone over 30 in camps for some reason really appeals to me. How about a remake, Hollywood? :)
Technically any good? For a bad B-Movie produced in part by Shelley Winters it was pretty solid. The only parts that stood out as bad on a tech level would have to be every scene with Winters past the first 15 minutes and the lousy croud/protest scenes which were clearly just stock news footage of anti-Vietnam war protests.
How did I feel as the credits rolled? Very satisfied, indeed. Despite the flaws, the film has quite a few really interesting ideas about society.
Final Rating? RTV (Definitely worth checking out if you're at all unhappy about the way the USGov is run these days--alas this isn't on DVD as I type this--so if you get a chance to see it on the big screen, SEE IT!)

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