Oh HELL YES! If they can pull this off, it would be great. The trailers SO have the look and feel of a typical 70's "blaxploitation" flick.
I agree--although, I have to admit I'm a *little* worried now, only because in the theaters, even the film had that slightly foggy film quality I've come to associate with 70's movies (you know, TRUE grindhouse, rather than the "Hey, if we stick the same thread in the same strategic place for the whole goddamn movie, it'll be grindhouse!" effect that Planet Terror had going on), but when I tried to find the trailer on YouTube the film was crisp and clear. It's not a BIG deal, but the feel of the trailer was what really got me, you know?
We really don't have much in the way of "art house" theaters here or "limited run" theaters. They are mostly all owned by the major chains and they look at things like population density and "bang for the buck". It is showing in Atlanta and that is about all I know. "BD" didn't get a full national release like other films so they put it in places where it would at least have a prayer of making its money back. One of the nice things about the New York area IS that EVERYTHING shows up there at one point or the other.
We really don't have much in the way of "art house" theaters here or "limited run" theaters. They are mostly all owned by the major chains and they look at things like population density and "bang for the buck". It is showing in Atlanta and that is about all I know. "BD" didn't get a full national release like other films so they put it in places where it would at least have a prayer of making its money back.
I did not know that--I guess I thought that Black Dynamite was getting as wide a release as Grindhouse did. But come to think of it, did Grindhouse have a full run for that matter, or am I just taking it for granted that it did because I had no problem seeing it?
One of the nice things about the New York area IS that EVERYTHING shows up there at one point or the other.
This is true, and even if it's just a question of downtown versus midtown, it doesn't make THAT much of a difference travel-wise, it's all reachable by train. :)
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I agree--although, I have to admit I'm a *little* worried now, only because in the theaters, even the film had that slightly foggy film quality I've come to associate with 70's movies (you know, TRUE grindhouse, rather than the "Hey, if we stick the same thread in the same strategic place for the whole goddamn movie, it'll be grindhouse!" effect that Planet Terror had going on), but when I tried to find the trailer on YouTube the film was crisp and clear. It's not a BIG deal, but the feel of the trailer was what really got me, you know?
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I did not know that--I guess I thought that Black Dynamite was getting as wide a release as Grindhouse did. But come to think of it, did Grindhouse have a full run for that matter, or am I just taking it for granted that it did because I had no problem seeing it?
One of the nice things about the New York area IS that EVERYTHING shows up there at one point or the other.
This is true, and even if it's just a question of downtown versus midtown, it doesn't make THAT much of a difference travel-wise, it's all reachable by train. :)
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