Saturday, May 18, 2024

Movie review - "Gas" (1970) **

 Thoughts

- Corman off the leash - no point in AIP changing the ending because it's all mad

- it hates bikers and jocks - Corman doesn't like these people, they're all bad-  it's not anti youth just anti fascist youth

- it likes the free spirited young kids

- Robert Corf scores hot women including a sex scene like The Trip

- there's rape and rape jokes

- it has black characters but Corman feels uneasy with them and any miscegenation is dispensed with

- the sadness/dramatic issues inherit in the concept are ignored

- the hippy commune is sympathetically depicted

- some lines are genuinely hilarious and it looks good (lots of extras) but it's a mess

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