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So I wasn't the only one...

posted 19 years ago by Bitter_Almonds
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Who saw this movie and thought it completely sucked. I had it confused with another writing movie called Dreams Don't Die (from 1982). This one is weak in every sense of the word. I was mainly interested for the writing and tagging aspects of it and it surprises me nobody in the production dept. bothered to have a real writer take care of the wall pieces or at least consult someone who actually knows how to draw!

Watta complete waste. Stick to Beat Street or even Lost Angels (starring one them Beastie Boys).

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[–] peej115 18 years ago

You mean you didnt like when he was applying the finishing touches to his burner in the tunnel with his fingers and a sand-blaster?If anything watch this film for Robert Urich's performance.Quite how he didn't recieve an academy award nomination i'll never know...breathtaking.Long live Turk 182!!

[–] BigRich 18 years ago

He use a big stencil to apply his burner. But hey, he had less than 12 minutes to do it, and he still had time left over to do finger paints.

This movie was cool.

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[–] sanbg2 18 years ago

You're missing the point.

The kid wasn't playing a tagger or an artist as such.

He was basically a slacker who finally found purpose in helping his brother with these signs.

It's not like he was a professional. It shouldn't have looked professional.

“Well, my days of not takin' you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”

[–] YouKnowMyName68 17 years ago

'Professional?' That's the thing, all of the NYC writers and taggers were self-taught and/or put their own ideas about the idea of art. You're using a wrong term for this, sanbg2.

[–] YouKnowMyName68 17 years ago

Yeah, I was in my teens and 'Subway Art' had been published about a year or two ago and so that book finally revealed to everyone what was going on in New York city for so many years invented by kids....KIDS.... on the NYC subway systems since the mid60s and for some poster to take this away and say they didn't need someone of that culture from which the people who decided to make a movie that knowingly kind of takes it's cue from this is why I saw it as contrived and dismissed it. I tried to watch it but it's just so damn 'made up', I mean that's my response to it.

[–] Jumper021 17 years ago

The English language is also an art form. You should brush up on it, I had a hard time understanding what your point was.

[–] bacci-1 13 years ago

Yes, the English language is an art form, but the use of punctuations is mandatory...'Nuff Said.

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