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What's with the silly film scratch filter?


I greatly enjoyed this short for the most part, but I thought the inclusion of the goofy "film scratch lines" filter all through it cheapened it a lot. Not only was it unconvincingly handled and felt phony and clearly post-added like if someone had ran the video through Windows Movie Maker to add the filter, but I don't get the point of trying to "vintage-ize" it since otherwise the animation style is the same generic Anime stuff we see in a lot of the DCAU releases, which screams 2010. It even has CGI touches! If the style had been a throwback to the aesthetics of 1970s cartoons, I could have understood it, but all its use here tells me is that someone loved Rodriguez-Tarantino's Grindhouse a bit too much.

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That's because it's not a throwback to 1970s cartoon features, it's a throwback to 1970s grindhouse FILMS.

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In any case, it looked like a bad Windows Movie Maker job. To me at least.

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Specifically, it was an homage to the original Dirty Harry from 1971; a murder in a swimming pool, the tall, lean, tough cop showing up to investigate, even the opening theme music are all very reminiscent of Dirty Harry...




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