Brimshack
02-17-2005, 03:58 AM
I'm often amused at the descriptions that they put on the videos of foreign flicks, not too mention the imagery itself.
Take this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302253764/qid=1108612399/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1702010-2090360?v=glance&s=video&n=507846
It's actually a documentary about an historian. To look at the movie cover, you would think it was porn.
Or this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000DZ3CJ/qid=1108612535/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1702010-2090360?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846
...an absolutely brillint movie about politics in Cuba, but the main character is gay, which is used primarily as a political value in the storyline. But to read the blurb on the back of the video, the movie is like a racier version of Will and Grace.
I keep thinking I've seen other gambits like this, but these are the only two examples I can think of. It makes sense I guess, just to sell the films, but I have to admit it makes me a little queezy to think that some of the finest films I can think of are packaged and presented as Hollywood kitch.
Take this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302253764/qid=1108612399/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1702010-2090360?v=glance&s=video&n=507846
It's actually a documentary about an historian. To look at the movie cover, you would think it was porn.
Or this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000DZ3CJ/qid=1108612535/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1702010-2090360?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846
...an absolutely brillint movie about politics in Cuba, but the main character is gay, which is used primarily as a political value in the storyline. But to read the blurb on the back of the video, the movie is like a racier version of Will and Grace.
I keep thinking I've seen other gambits like this, but these are the only two examples I can think of. It makes sense I guess, just to sell the films, but I have to admit it makes me a little queezy to think that some of the finest films I can think of are packaged and presented as Hollywood kitch.