
The transfer on this disc is not bad, but keep in kind that there are decent sized chunks of it that play out as the videotaped footage from the hostage situation. I was reminded how old this film is by the way that that video quality looks in comparison to today's glut of found footage video movies. It's fun to look back on what "video" used to look like.
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Crap, I should mention that movie's story centers around a mob boss named Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) who is released from the looney bin and conveys to his people that he is not mentally fit to be running things any more and attempts to bring in a replacement for himself (Larry Bishop). Vic's return is greeted with some conflicted points of view from the other rival criminals that are lurking about town and things get a little bit bloody.
The movie was quite poorly received when it came out. Infamously, Roger Ebert gave it a zero star review and said this about it:
"Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.... Mad Dog Time should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor."
That is nearly the harshest thing I've ever seen written about a movie in print and it sets up some up some pretty epic expectations for badness. If you check this one out, I doubt you'll hate it as much as Ebert did. Is it a bit of a self-indulgent mess? Sure it is, but it is clearly the vision of one guy and a passion project and I always seem to find things of interest in that type of film. I think that maybe the fact that Larry Bishop put himself in the movie makes the whole affair an easier for critics to get a bead on him. That and the fact that he is the writer and director and he has made a film that is not necessarily structurally conventional. Some may interpret that as him not knowing what he's doing. I can't comment on that specifically. but I do think that it is certainly worth judging for yourself.
MAD DOG TIME can be purchased on Blu-ray here:
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The movie was quite poorly received when it came out. Infamously, Roger Ebert gave it a zero star review and said this about it:
"Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.... Mad Dog Time should be cut into free ukulele picks for the poor."
That is nearly the harshest thing I've ever seen written about a movie in print and it sets up some up some pretty epic expectations for badness. If you check this one out, I doubt you'll hate it as much as Ebert did. Is it a bit of a self-indulgent mess? Sure it is, but it is clearly the vision of one guy and a passion project and I always seem to find things of interest in that type of film. I think that maybe the fact that Larry Bishop put himself in the movie makes the whole affair an easier for critics to get a bead on him. That and the fact that he is the writer and director and he has made a film that is not necessarily structurally conventional. Some may interpret that as him not knowing what he's doing. I can't comment on that specifically. but I do think that it is certainly worth judging for yourself.
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