Bones (New Line Platinum Series)

Buy This Item Bones (New Line Platinum Series)  List Price: $14.98  Available from Amazon  $13.49  on 12-7-2008     Features Actors: Snoop Dogg Directors: Ernest Dickerson Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Language: English Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number of discs: 1 Rating: Studio: New Line Home Video DVD Release Date: June 1, 2004 Run Time: 92 minutes Average Customer Review:   48 Reviews 5 star:  (13) 4 star:  (11) 3 star:  (8) 2 star:  (8) 1 star:  (8) See all 48 customer reviews...   (48 customer reviews) Reader Reviews This review is from: Bones (2001) (VHS Tape) I watched this film in Osaka, Japan at a small theater with only three audiences (including me). Though I admit I enjoyed watching it, there are lots of complaints about this one; I can hear loud BOOs all around. Yes, I understand, this is not for everybody's idea of enjoying a scary night because the film is NOT what it was expected to be. Black dog with eyes shining red? And that is supposed to be reincarnation of Jimmy Bones, long dead in a cellar, played by Snoop Dogg? It sounds like a bad joke, but wait! I believe there are some misunderstanding among us, so let's set the record straight. "Bones" is a horror flick, but not prefectly so. First of all, at some points the film might possibly scare you, you don't have to take everything so seriously. Look at how "Bones" starts -- it shows a diapidated house that exactly looks like a skull. Now you should know what "Bones" is all about -- it is done with tongue-in-cheek attitude. And with a pre-credit sequence that is fairly scary, the film jumps back into the time of 1979 (!), when the neighborhood was still lively with Afro-American kids, and there comes Snoop Doggs' hustler Jimmy Bones, with a big diamond ring and a switchblade knife, his girlfriend being Pam Grier, goddess of blaxploitaion films that flourished in the 1970s. Wow. The film then goes on, unfolding the two stories that finally joins in the end; four young actors who are going to redecorate the haunted house as a night club, and the fate of Jimmy Bones. Thanks to its tightly-knit script, "Bones" succeeds not to fall into a predictable development, even though close at the ending it looks still muddled. There are lots of blood, nightmare, worms (alive) falling from up above, flying knives and talking heads made by CGIs, and Snoop Dogg's Jimmy Bones' revenge story and Pam Grier as a medium who uses supernatural power. Too much? Sure, it is. Laughable? Maybe. But never dull. To me, "Bones" is interesting because it reminds me of 70s Afro-American pictures. Pam Grier, who as far as I remember never played the role of mother, is great in this rather confusing heap of horror and twisted humor, and as her daughter Bianca Lawson ("Dawson's Creek") is also good. Snoop Dogg cuts a nice figure as the title role, but his screen time is not as long as his fans might want it to be. But most interesting thing is the presence of director Ernest Dickerson, whose outstanding career as a photographer of Spike Lee's films should be known to all of us. His original styles (fast-editing, slanted picture, etc) are also shown here, but I find it intriguing that his taste as a movie fan has much influenced "Bones." Bunches of zombies, worms, and so on -- these "bad taste" elements are, of course, his answer to Dario Argento and Italian horror school, and as this Italia maestro often sacrifices the plot in order to create his unique (too Unique) styles, so Dickerson half-jokingly shows off his love of genre with a help from good production design, and ridiculously overblown direction. So, this is a horror film, but is a kind of homage to European ones, or blaxploitaion flims such as, most notably, "J.D.'s Revenge" which some part of the story resembles. Trashy fun, you say, but fun anyway.  Comment | Permalink |  function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)

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