TheFearmakers
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Everyone is saying (on older reviews) that THE OSBOURNES needs streaming, and here it is, the day after Ozzy Osbourne died, and it's on Amazon... has been a few weeks actually...
It's fun to watch, kind of like a rock star Munsters, and the kids are funny and offbeat and Sharon is the perfect b-word wife who has a heart of gold...
But there's a sad element watching, because it's been known since 2023 that Ozzy has had Parkinsons, which killed him...
But he was diagnosed in 2003, which means he had it during this show, and, well, it really shows... and you can see it in his gait, which, originally, when this came out, it was as if Ozzy did too many drugs, and people laughed about how he moved around...
But he IS funny, a kind of Peter Sellers quality within combined with a Columbo, hiding a true genius that helped invent a brand of music called Heavy Metal...
So watching this is fun and addicting like reality shows are supposed to be, but also sad knowing what's known, and seeing what's completely obvious now.
It's fun to watch, kind of like a rock star Munsters, and the kids are funny and offbeat and Sharon is the perfect b-word wife who has a heart of gold...
But there's a sad element watching, because it's been known since 2023 that Ozzy has had Parkinsons, which killed him...
But he was diagnosed in 2003, which means he had it during this show, and, well, it really shows... and you can see it in his gait, which, originally, when this came out, it was as if Ozzy did too many drugs, and people laughed about how he moved around...
But he IS funny, a kind of Peter Sellers quality within combined with a Columbo, hiding a true genius that helped invent a brand of music called Heavy Metal...
So watching this is fun and addicting like reality shows are supposed to be, but also sad knowing what's known, and seeing what's completely obvious now.
Heavy Metal was invented outright by Black Sabbath, a band named after a horror film, and the two are inseparable, since metal is to music what horror is to cinema... so it's a kind of double-whammy irony that Ozzy Osbourne would play a preacher preaching against devil-culture back-masked music in the 1980's horror-exploitation TRICK OR TRICK...
Which is really yet another bully sub-genre entry, going all the way back to REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and more recent, THE KARATE KID... the picked-on boy just happens to be partnered with the most gorgeous girl in school, making Lisa Orgolini another Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Shue, and one of the film's many problems...
How can you feel sorry for underdog Marc Price when he's immediately synced up with a magazine model? The fan-favorite FAMILY TIES geek plays a metal-fanatic high-schooler obsessed with a dead rock star, haunted by his phantom providing back-masking instructions to kill his/their enemies...
Ozzy's cameo is quickly viewed on television, preaching against himself, basically, as the fictional Sammi Curr (played by Solid Gold dancer Tony Fields) is more or less Osbourne, whose actual image appears in the introduction of Price's favorite metal bands/artists...
And like AMERICAN GRAFFITI that starred this feature's director Charles Martin Smith, the youngster's in cahoots with an affable disc-jockey, providing Gene Simmons a genuine acting role (like Michael Crichton's RUNAWAY) instead of a tongue-in-cheek/blink-or-miss cameo...
With an ingrown soundtrack by the rock/metal hybrid FASTWAY as if they were the avenging singer, TRICK OR TRICK doesn't do justice to the kind of body-count slasher movies it's celebrating, or the maligned heavy metal youth culture -- who finally had the chance to effectively blend both their favorite genre of music and movies together.
Which is really yet another bully sub-genre entry, going all the way back to REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and more recent, THE KARATE KID... the picked-on boy just happens to be partnered with the most gorgeous girl in school, making Lisa Orgolini another Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Shue, and one of the film's many problems...
How can you feel sorry for underdog Marc Price when he's immediately synced up with a magazine model? The fan-favorite FAMILY TIES geek plays a metal-fanatic high-schooler obsessed with a dead rock star, haunted by his phantom providing back-masking instructions to kill his/their enemies...
Ozzy's cameo is quickly viewed on television, preaching against himself, basically, as the fictional Sammi Curr (played by Solid Gold dancer Tony Fields) is more or less Osbourne, whose actual image appears in the introduction of Price's favorite metal bands/artists...
And like AMERICAN GRAFFITI that starred this feature's director Charles Martin Smith, the youngster's in cahoots with an affable disc-jockey, providing Gene Simmons a genuine acting role (like Michael Crichton's RUNAWAY) instead of a tongue-in-cheek/blink-or-miss cameo...
With an ingrown soundtrack by the rock/metal hybrid FASTWAY as if they were the avenging singer, TRICK OR TRICK doesn't do justice to the kind of body-count slasher movies it's celebrating, or the maligned heavy metal youth culture -- who finally had the chance to effectively blend both their favorite genre of music and movies together.
In THE SURVIVORS, Robin Williams and Walter Matthau make a pretty good team. And while this comedy isn't hilarious, it's very entertaining...
The first half, anyway, where both unlucky losers lose their income... one his fancy job, the other his grungy gas station... and deal with a string of things-go-wrong-situations highlighted by a greasy spoon diner robbery that just might've inspired Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION...
Cut to another familiar scene where Robin Williams, in the passenger's side of Matthau's car, points a safety-off handgun at the film's edgy third-tier character, a sitting duck (albeit not a vulnerable one) in the back seat who's a plot in itself: Jerry Reed plays the diner's holdup man who also claims to be a hired assassin and wants the only witness... Matthau... dead... or so he says...
It's Reed's character who turns the tables as Robin Williams goes from downbeat average guy to a gun crazy, hyperactive survivalist. And Matthau's THE BAD NEWS BEARS director Michael Ritchie, an eclectic filmmaker that always remains unpredictable and spontaneous, mixes comedy with various pockets of tension while it's all a sort of lightly humorous adventure...
Ultimately leading to a remote, snowy outpost led by a guru scam-artist who predicts the world will soon go belly-up. At this point, THE SURVIVORS can hardly stand on its own legs, becoming a sort of parody within a parody about militant nitwits... too banal to seem realistic... instead of what had been a character-driven buddy picture that really clicked...
And it ain't all men; Matthau's daughter, the sweet and natural Kristen Vigard, stays for the long-haul, keeping up with the two multi-talented comic-actors (who can also shift gears into dramatic roles); and cute cult starlet Annie McEnroe is Williams's girlfriend, who winds up feeling like the audience after losing her man to the device of the film's title - that was much better when symbolic than literal.
The first half, anyway, where both unlucky losers lose their income... one his fancy job, the other his grungy gas station... and deal with a string of things-go-wrong-situations highlighted by a greasy spoon diner robbery that just might've inspired Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION...
Cut to another familiar scene where Robin Williams, in the passenger's side of Matthau's car, points a safety-off handgun at the film's edgy third-tier character, a sitting duck (albeit not a vulnerable one) in the back seat who's a plot in itself: Jerry Reed plays the diner's holdup man who also claims to be a hired assassin and wants the only witness... Matthau... dead... or so he says...
It's Reed's character who turns the tables as Robin Williams goes from downbeat average guy to a gun crazy, hyperactive survivalist. And Matthau's THE BAD NEWS BEARS director Michael Ritchie, an eclectic filmmaker that always remains unpredictable and spontaneous, mixes comedy with various pockets of tension while it's all a sort of lightly humorous adventure...
Ultimately leading to a remote, snowy outpost led by a guru scam-artist who predicts the world will soon go belly-up. At this point, THE SURVIVORS can hardly stand on its own legs, becoming a sort of parody within a parody about militant nitwits... too banal to seem realistic... instead of what had been a character-driven buddy picture that really clicked...
And it ain't all men; Matthau's daughter, the sweet and natural Kristen Vigard, stays for the long-haul, keeping up with the two multi-talented comic-actors (who can also shift gears into dramatic roles); and cute cult starlet Annie McEnroe is Williams's girlfriend, who winds up feeling like the audience after losing her man to the device of the film's title - that was much better when symbolic than literal.
