I swear I don’t know what’s scarier, dying or getting old. Directors like Romero know exactly how to tap into that fear. I wonder if there are any modern directors with that same fearlessness.
Getting old. Death is the end of pain and sensation. Nothing to fear from nothingness. Getting old and possibly losing who you are. That's absolutely terrifying. One of my Grandpa's had dementia for 5 years at the end. It hurt everyone in the family not just him. He was fine. He didn't remember. Death at least your loved ones remember you as you (depending of course).
I had been looking for this movie for years. My Dad was an extra in the movie representing the Spy wearing Ray-Ban glasses typical of it's time. Now he is retired and it is just interesting to compare how ageism is still happening today as we fade out of existence.
Since watching it a couple weeks ago, I've seen a lot of scathing reviews of this and I really feel like too many people went in expecting something on par with the Dead trilogy. Anyone who's seen more than just those from Romero would know that it fits right in with his other output from the time, namely The Crazies and Season of the Witch. Also, comparing it to other PSAs produced at the time, it punches way higher than it really needed to. I can't help but view it under the lens of the crappy tapes I had to sit through back in school because the teacher had a headache or something. I feel like this would have definitely been something that stuck with me. Perhaps most interestingly to me is seeing it and realizing that this laid the groundwork for the guerilla filming he would later do on Dawn, which just further explains how that turned out as good as it did. Favorite Romero: As truly outstanding all 3 of the first Dead trilogy are, my favorite will always be Creepshow. Every single part of that movie coalesces into a truly wonderful whole that I find infinitely rewatchable. Just typing this out means I'm probably going to pop it in again, even though I just watched not too long ago.
Romero: Absolutely, I'll make a PSA about ageism for you. Lutheran Church: And it'll be church-appropriate, right? Romero: [smiles] Lutheran Church: It'll be church-appropriate, right???????
@@LaurasBookBlog The Lutherans handed Romero the script and told him what they wanted, so I doubt they were unhappy with it. It was just a commercial job for him, he didn't give a shit about it. He never once mentioned it in any interviews.
My favorite thing about the early works of Romero is to play "Spot The Romero Regulars" i.e. Michael Gornick at 6:23, the cinematographer for "Dawn Of The Dead" as well as a few others, etc etc.
I live only two miles from where the amusement park once stood. It's a shopping plaza now, but so cool to see what it used to look like in a Romero movie!
It's not an amazing movie or anything, but The Amusement Park is the first movie to make me genuinely unsettled in a long time. Sometimes I don't need subtlety; the obvious imagery presented clearly worked so well in this case. It doesn't all succeed, but stuff like the fortune teller scene felt so overwhelming and honest that it was hard not to be affected by it.
This theme really is coming up a lot! I found that 'I Care A Lot' movie about elder care to be utterly terrifying, and just look at Britney, how easily it can happen to someone. I really feel that any good horror deals with a loss of control or autonomy. So I'll be looking this one up on Shudder 😄
I watched this just last night and it was a very sad film and I had to take care of my grandma as a kid so this was very deep and very deep for me personally, it gives me lynch vibes
George Romeros best movie! A devastating indictment of societies treatment of old people never let's up til the end made for peanuts with one real actor. In the introduction he says you'll feel the movie so true you feel the pain the actor goes though. Tough to watch not for the weak minded. For Romero and movie lovers who like a commentary on societies problems. MASTERPIECE!!!
It is unfair to put land of the dead in the same level as his pre amusement park work, his older metaphors were subtle enough because they were never intentional, he never intended to make a commentary on anything with his first movies, but in land of the dead his intent was clumsily explicit and the results were incredibly annoying and obvious.
I absolutely do not consider LotD on the same level - I was just merely stating that any allegorically minded output - whether intentional or otherwise - was extremely obvious
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I swear I don’t know what’s scarier, dying or getting old. Directors like Romero know exactly how to tap into that fear. I wonder if there are any modern directors with that same fearlessness.
Imo, absolutely getting old is scarier. At least in American culture, the elderly are shelved, thrown aside, disrespected, and unloved.
Getting old. Death is the end of pain and sensation. Nothing to fear from nothingness. Getting old and possibly losing who you are. That's absolutely terrifying. One of my Grandpa's had dementia for 5 years at the end. It hurt everyone in the family not just him. He was fine. He didn't remember. Death at least your loved ones remember you as you (depending of course).
I love Romero's lack of subtlety. It's an old-fashioned working class cinematic voice. He's blunt.
Never heard of this, thank you.
"I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards" - Rick Dagless M.D.
"I'm one of the few author's who's written more books than they've read"
YES
It was Garth Marengi who said that. Rick Dagless was his character.
I had been looking for this movie for years. My Dad was an extra in the movie representing the Spy wearing Ray-Ban glasses typical of it's time. Now he is retired and it is just interesting to compare how ageism is still happening today as we fade out of existence.
Since watching it a couple weeks ago, I've seen a lot of scathing reviews of this and I really feel like too many people went in expecting something on par with the Dead trilogy. Anyone who's seen more than just those from Romero would know that it fits right in with his other output from the time, namely The Crazies and Season of the Witch. Also, comparing it to other PSAs produced at the time, it punches way higher than it really needed to. I can't help but view it under the lens of the crappy tapes I had to sit through back in school because the teacher had a headache or something. I feel like this would have definitely been something that stuck with me. Perhaps most interestingly to me is seeing it and realizing that this laid the groundwork for the guerilla filming he would later do on Dawn, which just further explains how that turned out as good as it did.
Favorite Romero: As truly outstanding all 3 of the first Dead trilogy are, my favorite will always be Creepshow. Every single part of that movie coalesces into a truly wonderful whole that I find infinitely rewatchable. Just typing this out means I'm probably going to pop it in again, even though I just watched not too long ago.
Perfectly put. I think if Romero made a sex-ed tape...well... there'd be way less prom night hook ups
It's just a commercial PSA he did for the Lutheran Church. Even Romero's widow admitted he had no interest in the film.
Romero: Absolutely, I'll make a PSA about ageism for you.
Lutheran Church: And it'll be church-appropriate, right?
Romero: [smiles]
Lutheran Church: It'll be church-appropriate, right???????
"George...Jesus didn't ask you to go that hard"
@@inframeout [muffled sounds of Jesus braiding a whip in the background]
@@LaurasBookBlog The Lutherans handed Romero the script and told him what they wanted, so I doubt they were unhappy with it. It was just a commercial job for him, he didn't give a shit about it. He never once mentioned it in any interviews.
The cinematographer was actually S. William Hinzman who played the cemetery Ghoul in Night of the Living Dead.
My favorite thing about the early works of Romero is to play "Spot The Romero Regulars" i.e. Michael Gornick at 6:23, the cinematographer for "Dawn Of The Dead" as well as a few others, etc etc.
I live only two miles from where the amusement park once stood. It's a shopping plaza now, but so cool to see what it used to look like in a Romero movie!
The optimistic version of Maazel has Dr. Logan vibes. This is easily one of the best of Romero's works, with my favorite being Day of the Dead.
It's not an amazing movie or anything, but The Amusement Park is the first movie to make me genuinely unsettled in a long time. Sometimes I don't need subtlety; the obvious imagery presented clearly worked so well in this case. It doesn't all succeed, but stuff like the fortune teller scene felt so overwhelming and honest that it was hard not to be affected by it.
Absolutely. It shook me precisely because of his universally applicable it all is to just about anyone in earth
As the US and other parts of the world enter an age of elderly/mental health crises... this feels incredible relevant.
This theme really is coming up a lot! I found that 'I Care A Lot' movie about elder care to be utterly terrifying, and just look at Britney, how easily it can happen to someone. I really feel that any good horror deals with a loss of control or autonomy. So I'll be looking this one up on Shudder 😄
Looks fascinating. The background story kinda reminds me of Ed Wood and The Church of Beverly Hills.
There are uncanny similarities for sure
I watched this just last night and it was a very sad film and I had to take care of my grandma as a kid so this was very deep and very deep for me personally, it gives me lynch vibes
It's absolutely got a kinship with Lynch
George Romeros best movie! A devastating indictment of societies treatment of old people never let's up til the end made for peanuts with one real actor. In the introduction he says you'll feel the movie so true you feel the pain the actor goes though. Tough to watch not for the weak minded. For Romero and movie lovers who like a commentary on societies problems. MASTERPIECE!!!
This movie was actually a crazy watch
This is a now closed park outside Pittsburgh called west view park. All of us went there every year for our school picnics.
I wonder how spooky it looks now
9:22 and About Schmidt.
Good Video as always
You forgot to mention all of the low shots of all the hot ass on display through the film.
When it comes to movies about getting older I have a soft spot for About Schmidt.
And do you really wear blazers?
If an occasion calls for it - I've been known to don a nice tweed jacket
It is unfair to put land of the dead in the same level as his pre amusement park work, his older metaphors were subtle enough because they were never intentional, he never intended to make a commentary on anything with his first movies, but in land of the dead his intent was clumsily explicit and the results were incredibly annoying and obvious.
I absolutely do not consider LotD on the same level - I was just merely stating that any allegorically minded output - whether intentional or otherwise - was extremely obvious
Where would you place something like The Crazies? It was made the same year as The Amusement Park, and it's a VERY obvious Vietnam War allegory.
I actually like "The Crazies" a great deal - even if I don't think it manages to escape it's financial and narrative limitations.
@@LaurasBookBlog Not sure, but it does feel like an older romero movie, so the metaphor is better integrated at the very least.
@@inframeout Yeah, but you can have obvious metaphors that work, I think that could be a subject for a video actually.
george romero is the guy from black ops
You ain't wrong
That's a park that takes height check seriously.
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