My girlfriend and I watched the original version of Manos last night (the director's cut-- so that we could see Hal Warren's vision in its pristine glory) and yes, it was lousy filmmaking. The actors had to keep moving before someone made furniture out of them. The editing was poor. The fights and killing scenes were ludicruously bad (the "wives" massaging Torgo to death made me laugh for whole minutes).
Still, I can't say I hated this movie. It was lame and laughable, but harmless. It didn't alternately bore me and p**s me off the way _Ringmaster_ and _Armageddon_ did. Highly paid entertainment executives and writers who made six, seven, and eight figure salaries produced those steaming piles of offal. They should have known better. Sure it was stupid, but given the source, what did you expect? Besides, it wasn't obnoxious, loud, and, (because it was so easy to laugh at its absurdities), it held my interest.
So, yeah, it was bad. I've seen worse.
Still, I can't say I hated this movie. It was lame and laughable, but harmless. It didn't alternately bore me and p**s me off the way _Ringmaster_ and _Armageddon_ did. Highly paid entertainment executives and writers who made six, seven, and eight figure salaries produced those steaming piles of offal. They should have known better. Sure it was stupid, but given the source, what did you expect? Besides, it wasn't obnoxious, loud, and, (because it was so easy to laugh at its absurdities), it held my interest.
So, yeah, it was bad. I've seen worse.