Heavy Metal Parking Lot
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Movie Reviews of Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Movie Review: I mistakenly got the VHS when I wanted the DVD. my bad.
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't have a VHS and I don't know anyone who does. don't make the same mistake I did.Movie Review: Here's a clip from the Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RSCLS808CA613 Movie Review: One for the Ages!
Summary: 5 Stars
Put it in the time capsule! Show it in the Smithsonian! Play it at your next soiree and get ALL tore up!
This twenty-minute epic is one of the GREAT capturings of the human condition, ever.
Watch HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT and remember when DUMB was confined to the fringe (and the parking lot), before it took over American culture entirely.
An accidental masterpiece.
Cheers.
Movie Review: +1/2 -- Stretching 15 Minutes of Fame, Literally
Summary: 3 Stars
While this is a fascinating flashback to the mid-80s, its scant 15 minutes provide only the briefest peek, and the then-neophyte filmmakers seem to have lucked into their best footage, rather than actually having created it. Their film (originally shot on video for broadcast on a local cable access channel) captures some terrific archetypes, but never draws out their subjects beyond surface level exclamations. Maybe that's all there was to capture, which would say something in itself, but it's hard to believe there wasn't a story behind each of the heavy metal fans at which the camera was pointed.
The DVD reissue fleshes out the original 15 minutes with many extras, including outtakes from the original shoot, the filmmakers' sequels, Monster Truck Parking Lot and Neil Diamond Parking Lot (neither of whose subjects have the juice of the original), contemporary interviews with several of the original film's metalheads, a tour through a long time metal fan's basement, and a video document of a disastrous screening at a club. The extras, particularly the contemporary interviews and basement tour, provide the heft the original film needs to translate to DVD.
It's easy to see why the original documentary has such ardent fans: it's a one-of-a-kind document that could only have been created on the fly. Traded as a video bootleg or viewed on the Internet, this would be properly framed as an illicit peek at an otherwise unseen subculture. But on DVD its length and depth (or lack of both) are disappointing; still, better 15 minutes of fame than none at all. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [?2008 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]
Movie Review: high school revisited
Summary: 5 Stars
Really brought me back to the 80's (clothes, hair, etc.). Very interesting to "relive" those times and the heavy metal culture. Fun to watch. The only bad thing to say is that it was only about 20 minutes long . . . I thought it would be longer.