Even though the cast and crew are making a lark of a movie, Hasebe never lets it collapse under the weight of its own self-awareness. He understands that the best spoof of the campy spy film of the 1960s also has to be a very enjoyable spy film, and Black Tight Killers doesn’t forget to entertain. Kobayashi, as usual, throws himself into the role’s physical aspects with gusto, and he and the girls who make up the black tight squad get to have frequent fights with fists, feet, guns, bamboo bazookas, and of course more mundane weapons like killer albums and ninja chewing gum. The whole thing is light, frothy, and totally ridiculous. Black Tight Killers looks like some scamp replaced the crew’s cameras with kaleidoscopes
#1 by Blake on June 15, 2010 - 6:11 am
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Hmm…from the looks of the review and all of the screenshots, it looks like my dreams were filmed for this movie.
#2 by KeithA on June 15, 2010 - 12:54 pm
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That’s pretty much how I felt watching it
#3 by Braineater on June 16, 2010 - 2:45 pm
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Flying 78rpm records could do some serious damage whether they’ve been sharpened or not. From the screenshots, though, those appear to be 45’s.
I don’t think 78’s have ever, ever been cool. Sharpened Edison wax cylinders would stand a better chance of being cool than 78’s. Not that I know anything at all about “cool”.
#4 by El Santo on June 16, 2010 - 6:28 pm
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There’s a stratum of music geekery for which there’s nothing in the world cooler than original 20’s-vintage recordings of old, black sad-sacks from the deep, deep South singing the blues. Those guys spend a fortune on 78’s.
As for the records depicted in the screenshot, yeah– definitely 45’s. 78’s were typically ten inches in diameter (as opposed to twelve inches for LPs and seven inches for 45’s), and they always had small holes in the center. The big holes in post-1950 singles were an artifact of jukebox design; if I understand correctly, the records were housed on long, horizontal spindles when not in use, and those spindles had to be much thicker than the center post of a standard turntable in order to support the records’ aggregate weight.
#5 by Blake on June 16, 2010 - 8:36 pm
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I watched the trailer for it just now. It gave me the same feeling of giddiness that I got when I saw the trailer for “The Super Stooges”. I take it that this film delivers more than that one?