No one is ever going to call The Car an original film, as it clearly rips off both Christine and Jawsi, but heck if I care. The Car pulls no punches when it comes to delivering us a killer car on the loose. The movie doesn't bother to go out of its way to provide any sort of reason why this car is terrorizing the small town, but frankly, it's what we don't know that works the best. This is really just a crazy evil coming out of nowhere to mess up your day. The Blu-ray release from Scream Factory does a wonderful job on delivering some solid video and audio, with the blaring car horn driving through your speakers in glorious 5.1 XXXX, but the features a bit on the light side. I'll go into more details, but first let's discuss the flick some …show more content…
First up, is a couple of cyclists with nowhere to run or hide, the car honks loudly, driving them both off the road. It's terrifying and frightening. Local town Chief Deputy Wade Parent (James Brolin) puts out a manhunt for the car, but it seems to appear and disappear so easily as if it was pure evil. Bodies start piling up and no one is safe from the black steel that is bearing down on them. Thus beings the carnage of The Car.
Personally, I love The Car. It doesn't bother you with backstory or why this car is here, it just is and that's what makes it so good. The movie also doesn't waste any time in getting to the good stuff and lead actor James Brolin is fantastic as the gruff, but kind Wade Parent. Some people will probably be bothered by the lack of exposition, and trust me when the end rolls around, you are given an exciting and explosive ending, however, any questions are still left hanging, but that's the point; pure evil can't be explained.
If Jaws made you scared of the water and Christine had you raising an eyebrow at your fancy used car, The Car will have you putting your bike and running shoes up for
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It's got a solid video presentation, with grain intact. I did notice some slight issues during certain night scenes, where the picture looked over processed, but it was nothing that stopped me from enjoying the flick. The audio is served up in two choices, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. I watched the flick in 5.1 and it was loud and clear, with no issues of having to strain to hear dialogue.
The features on the disc are a bit on the light side, but what we are given is a nice treat. You have a 9-minute interview with Director Elliot Silverstein, a 12-minute interview with Geraldine Keams, who played the super small role of a police office at the Station; and finally, you have a 10-minute interview with Melody Thomas Scott, who played the girl on the bike at the beginning of the film. None remain overly long or informative, but what you do get is appreciated. Rounding out the rest of the features is a Trailer, TV spot, Radio Spots and finally a pretty long 10 minute Still Gallery.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
NEW Mystery Of The Car – An Interview With Producer/Director Elliot Silverstein
NEW The Navajo Connection – An Interview With Actress Geraldine
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The vast majority of sound used in the film is non-diegetic, especially the musical ideas, which is
... While watching them I am able to learn more about the life an artist had before they became famous as well as their life while they were becoming more successful. These types of films also allow people to have a deeper understanding of the artist’s music. As we saw in the movie, Etta James had a personal connection to the song “ All I do is Cry”, which I would not have known without seeing this film. I think films like Cadillac records allow people to understand musicians a bit better because the audience can actually see what their life was like.
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For the Navajo, oral histories illuminate the way to uphold a fruitful, modern life. Unlike other native Athapaskan speaking groups, the Navajo are “exceptionally resilient” in the face of modernization through their high language retention (9). In preserving their language, the Navajo preserve the oral traditions that give them the “knowledge” to overcome the “manifestation of improper, disharmonious behavior” generated through Western influence (41). In retaining the knowledge given to them, the Navajo can use the social crisis of an epidemic and the political upheaval of relocation to reinforce understanding of Navajo values for both Navajo and non-Navajo alike. More comprehensively, through their traditional means of expressing grief and anger, the Navajo can fight injustices embroiled in the aftermath of uranium mining, and ultimately provide for the Navajo generations yet to come.
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In one particular scene, director was truly a great one, featuring special focus on his dad life and the Colorado River. It was so cool to highlights of the movie by one of his favorite poem written by his dad when he was born, the Important Place. Also, this film was a good length, not excessively long but long enough to tell the story. This is really important today there were no such unwanted scene in the film, which literary the most closely and accurately delivered. In my opinion, this film is forced to possess the characters of a great aspect, and turns to make for quite the adventurous. There was no special character encounter rather than his dad, learned something from the secret Colorado River. Another great aspect of the film was the special footage that were introduce in this film was an enjoyable aspect to be a good documentary film, and that’s how this film is different from the rest.
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On the TV show, The Movie Show, David Stratton described the film as a “bold and timely film about the stolen generations.” The film is so highly rated for its amazing plot, the well-used mise en scene and the film techniques including the camera work and sound.
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In fact, generally the special. effects are awesome, close to perfection even they also manage to. convey the massive scale of destruction exceptionally well. Without this fantastic leap in visual technology, I think the film would be. utterly dead.
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.
There are many positive things and negative things about the movie and the story. In the movie