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Summary: Finally got my DVD - it's nice! but one problem...
Review: I have eagerly awaited this film coming out on DVD for years. I finally got mine in (hooray!) and it's nice, the picture quality is good, sound is good, no extras but thats fine. One problem though... the image is ever so slightly "stretched" horizontally. It's listed on the box as 1.85.1 anamorphic widescreen, which it seems to be. It's very slight, you actually only notice it in about every third scene... but it is annoying! Anybody else notice this? Otherwise it's nice to finally have this on DVD, I'm happy to have it and it looks pretty good... I just wish they hadn't made the slight mistake with the formatting! I proably won't watch it as much...
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Summary: Non -stop laughs! A CLASSIC
Review: Written, directed, and produced by star, Paul Bartel, this is a "delicious" dark comedy co-starring Mary Warnonov about a broke couple(That sleep in seprate beds) who discover killing sex swingers is very profitable.As morbid as the plot sounds, it is actually one of the finniest films I have ever seen. and why this acclaimed cult film is not on DVD is beyond me.I don't want to give too much away here but if you enjoy dark comedy, you will love this movie. I still have my Betamax copy from 1983! I have seen in from rent in many private owned video rental stores. but I doubt you'll find it at commercial driven Blocbuster
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Summary: Been waiting forever for the DVD
Review: I have loved this movie since I first saw it in 1982. I had the opportuinity to meet Paul Bartel and was able to tell him what an incredible film this was. When my VHS tape broke I was devistated. Now this film will forever be in my library for future generations to see. If you love really dark comedy this is for you. From Swinging to "mother's fabulous 50's furniture" this movie is a hoot.
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Summary: Devents Are in the Eye of the Beholder
Review: What do you do when you want to finance your bed and breakfast but you dont have the money and your apartment building is filling up with swingers? Well you put an add in all the swingers magazines, try to hook your wife, and then kill her clients. And these are the moral people in the story. This is one incredbley strange but funny story about love, killing, swingers, locksmiths, wine, women, and how to serve people.
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Summary: A Classic, Twisted Movie
Review: Eating Raoul is one of those can't-describe-it-have-to-see-it movies. It's best to go in fresh. It's definitely a movie that one should see just to be culturally literate. It's not quite Sweeney Todd, but not Attack of the Killer Tomatoes either.
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Summary: So Long, Paul -- We'll Miss You
Review: Brilliant and twisted writer/director/actor Paul Bartel stepped on a rainbow several years ago; if nothing else, that means that the sequel for this film that he and Mary Woronov had been planning -- "Bland Ambition" -- will never happen.Bartel worked for Roger Corman (and various Corman alumni like Alan Arkush) a lot -- directing "Death Race 2000", appearing in such films as "Rock 'n' Roll High School". Corman was (in)famous for cheap but stylish exploitation films, but this film's concept and script were a bit too far out for even Corman -- and nobody else would touch the project either. So Paul and Mary did the film on their own, raising money from all sorts of friends and relatives, buying odds and ends of surplus film stock from studios (which shows in uneven image quality and colour balance) and shooting on weekends with pick-up crews whenever they could afford to rent equipment (leading to credits like "A Sister to the Director" and "Guest Electrician"). It's a hilarious black comedy in which Paul and Mary Bland -- innocents adrift in 1980s Los Angeles -- realise that they can make enough money to open "Paul & Mary's Country Kitchen", their dream restaurant, by luring singers in with a promise of Mary's abundant charms and despatching them, collecting their money before disposing of the bodies. (The weapon of choice is a cast-iron skillet, the use of which is signalled by a Warner Brothers-style "Boing!" sound effect.) Then they find themselves involved with shady locksmith Raoul (Robert Beltran); he expands their operation by fencing their victims' cars and by disposing of the bodies through a friend who works for a dog food company. (Shades of "The Corpse Grinders".) And he decides to move in on Mary. Both Paul and Mary are finding their horizons widening (without realising it) as they ply their new trade, and the resulting triangle is hilarious (unfortunately, its resolution and the result of a "Lady or the Tiger" style climax are telegraphed, unlike other plot twists...). Black comedy as dark as midnight, but not particularly offensive in execution -- most of the sex and violence is by implication, and even the language isn't *too* rude -- the "f" word does make a few appearances, but that's about it. Interesting cameos in this film -- Buck Henry as a sleazy bank manager, Hamilton Camp as a con man and director John Landis in an uncredited appearance i haven't yet spotted, and a friend insists he spotted one of the Ramones in the hilarious porn-store scene. Worth a look if your taste in comedy runs to the off-trail or black variety. (This film and others in which Bartel and Woronov appear together, and their obvious ease with each other and patent inter-personal chemistry led to rumours that they were or had been married -- rather like those Polaroid commercials with James Garner and Mariette Hartley years ago -- but they weren't)
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Summary: Eating Raoul
Review: Delicious black comedy about the Blands, a super-square couple who lure wealthy swingers to their apartment and kill them, which helps finance their dream restaurant. Sags a little here and there, but overall a bright, original, and hilarious satire.
I give the movie 5 stars!
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Summary: Brilliant, wicked, and funny
Review: but also lets try and get some action on the equally bizarre but fascinating 'Scenes from the class struggle in Beverly Hills' PB again and again Robert Beltrane in a great role.
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Summary: Non Stop Twisted Plot - Hilariously Ill!
Review: There has never been a movie made quite like Paul Bartel's "Eating Raoul". Scene after scene is filled with "Paul and Mary" worried why life is so unfair. They soon get revenge on the world as 'killers' that are simply doing what's right - and HOW they do it is unbelievably outrageous. No more hints, but this movie mocks hedonisitic territory that was so sacred in the early eighties, that you'll be glad "Paul and Mary" did the right thing. Bon appetite!
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Summary: Biting humor
Review: This educational Paul and Mary movie will Dominatrix the industry. You will be wiped into shape and learn many things about which wine goes with which meat, and the best way to plan for the future. This should be taught in economics classes where it would be electrifying. Produced by people with fertile minds and a limited budget this movie pans out and is not anything but FUNNY.
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