Review of The Crazies (1973) by Greg A — 18 Nov 2011

Fuck this movie! It took 25 minutes to get interesting in the form of someone losing their shit, the rest of the time it is the boring command center sequences going over the same shit again and again and then finally we get to the one interesting group of "survivors" in the movie. They are the one redeemable thing about this movie, I grow to care for them and then they go insane or "crazy" if you will in their own unique ways. The girls get overly nice, one guy starts making out with his daughter not knowing what he is even doing (it's so nasty and so wrong). The overly ugly member of the group who looks a bit like a gargoyle becomes overly paranoid and then devolves into a state of constantly forgetting everything. This shit is super interesting yet its downplayed with these army scenes and those boring to death command center scenes. What the command center scenes really reminded me of were the oval office scenes in Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space. Important men of power rambling on over-sized walkie-talkies about impending doom and how to control the situation.

Was I entertained? For a tenth of the movie I was engaged, the rest of the nine tenths was trying really hard to make me feel so uncomfortable and bored that its like the movie didn't want to be watched by me.