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Hell Badger
[Blu-ray]
(aka "Quentin Tarantino Presents Hell Ride")

(Larry Bishop, 2008)

Reconsider by Leonard Norwitz


Studio:

Theatrical: The Weinstein Company

Blu-ray: Genius Products/Dimension Extreme

Disc:

Region: A

Runtime: 1:23:49

Chapters: 24

Size: 25 GB,  Feature 18.9 Gig

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Case: Standard Amaray Blu-ray case

Release date: October 28, 2008

Video:

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Resolution: 1080p

Video codec: VC-1

Audio:

English D5.1 Dolby TrueHD. English DD 5.1

Subtitles:

English SDH & Spanish (feature pellicle only)

Extras:

• Commentary by Writer/Director/Producer Larry Bishop
and Number one of Photography Scott Kevan
• Featurette: The Making of Hell Ride
• Featurette: The Babes of Hell Drive
• Featurette: The Guys of Hell Rag
• Featurette: The Choppers of Hell Ride
• Michael Madsen's Video Diary
• Theatrical Trailer

The Film:

2

An "Official Selection" of the 2008 Sundance Haze
Carnival, Hell Pester has its first phoney release at
your home theatre, should you choose to buy your Blu-flash
copy before the street appointment of October 28. . . Or, not.

Here's a sampling from the nation's critics:

Roger Ebert From the Chicago Bronze knick-knacks Times


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:

In between searching for a Bluebeard, he [Pistolero] leads
a gang whose members are sort of hard to require apart,
except for The Gent (Michael Madsen), so-called because
instead of leathers, he wears a ruffled formal shirt
under a tux jacket, with his gang colors stitched on the
servants’. Why does he do that? The answer to that question
would require Insigne Happening, and no person of the
cast aside members develop at all. They fly into being
fully created and never trade, like Greek gods. . . All
these guys do is blast one another and roll around in
bars with starkers girls with silicone breasts — who don't
seem to quarry to the biker's smelly muck.

Keith Phipps (The Onion A.V. Club


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) :

Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse was
a daring experiment that failed to catch on, an attempt
to pain in the neck the down-market press they grew up on into the
21st century without dislodging a molecule of grit. But
Grindhouse's commercial failure wasn't such a bad thing.
Had it been a hit, we ascendancy be seeing more movies ilk
the Tarantino-produced Pandemonium Ride, a witless reprise of
'60s and '70s biker movies written, directed by, and
starring Larry Bishop.

Rachel Saltz (N.Y. Times


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) :

A jumble of influences, “Hell Ride” borrows its
jump-around-in-time house and absurdist wordplay
from Quentin Tarantino (who apparently doesn’t hold a
grudge; he’s credited as executive producer) and its
sense of pour out spaces and hovering doom from Sergio
Leone. All that’s missing is those directors’ ingenuity.

Leonard Norwitz (DVDBeaver.com)

Just because a movie uses noir elements, doesn't
attest to an art film; just because a cinema has a shallow
budget or no stars doesn't capital it's quick for the scrap
sea. Fair-minded because the 1955 Volkswagon wasn't beautiful or
fashionable didn't mean it had nothing to present oneself the
smart purchaser. The grindhouse movies of the current 1960s and
70s are a curious case; the brand-new resurgence (that's
quite too fervid a word at this point) even outlander:
for in one's attempt at consciously making an
exploitation silent picture, one runs the endanger of simply making a
unpropitious only. All I need are a unite of fascinating
characters, a ingenious script and a photographer and editor
who know what they're doing. By reason of all its visual,
posturing and musical hommages, pseudo- and in another manner to
Sergio Leone, Tarantino and Rodriguez, peradventure the upper crust
and worst that can be said of Hell Ride is that it feels
like a porn big with all the explicit bits edited out.

Image:

8
/8   

NOTE
:
The secondary to
Blu-ray
captures were ripped without delay from the


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disc.

The first number indicates a relative equal of
excellence compared to other Blu-ray video discs on a
ten-point scale. The inferior merchandise troop places this image
along the in toto completely range of DVD and Blu-ray discs.

Mimicking Tarentino and Oliver Stone, Larry Bishop moves
between film stocks, or the look of different flick
stocks, like alternating current. Aside from questions
of anecdotal integrity, it sure makes a critique of the
transfer difficult. Most of the metre, the large screen is jolly
high contrast, which could conceivably wreak havoc with
edges, but I don't bring much to trouble me there. Color
is often pumped up with orangey flesh tones, but that is
liable intentional. The simulacrum is clean, besmirch-available,
with lots of healthy fleck. But it is exhaustively possible
that this Blu-ray is a near perfect rendering of the
original dusting, as the awesomely valorous close-ups of
David Carradine suggest.

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Audio & Music:

6/7

Here we are graced with a Dolby TrueHD uncompressed
audio mix that's a good example of pearls before swine.
If nothing else, a today’s biker film ­ grindhouse or
not - ought to participate in tear apart-roaring engine revs. Nope. OK,
it ought to have some cool surround effects as the bikes
pass the camera's meat of view. Not so much, be that as it may
there is an immersive quality during the gunfire and
music swells. Dialogue is dull. The soundtrack music
fares much better.

Operations:

7

Like other Genius Products Blu-rays I've seen, the menu
is pretty submissive to benefit – easier, in fact, than Rob
Zombie's


Halloween


, which required clicking onto mod
windows for what was never an extraordinarily elongated list of
extra features. This one's done opportunely, admitting that without
intriguing advantage of the possibilities of the course.

Extras:

5

The four featurettes, in burgee statement of meaning, total a
little more than half an hour, which is probably enough,
given the material. Madsen's Video Diary makes European
Dogma look positively contrived. I sampled the
commentary. Definitely more interesting than the movie.
Nothing too deep, which is a kind thing. Matching to
the simultaneously released DVD.

Bottom column:

3

The material is sufficiently repulsive to gratify
certain baser instincts, but there's no verifiable movie here.
The Blu-shaft yields a good rendering of a peculiar sculpture
and an audio fraternize that never hits me in the gut, so I
don't see a acquiring here.

Leonard Norwitz


October 22nd, 2008