Synopsis
Invite a few friends over to watch the end of the world!
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
1970 Directed by Roger Corman
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
Gas-s-s-s-s, Gas-s-s-s !, Gas-s-s-s! - Fu necessario distruggere il mondo per poterlo salvare, G.A.S.S. oder Es war notwendig, die Welt zu vernichten, um sie zu retten, Batismo Fatal, 加油, 가스, Gas-s-s-s, Plyn aneb Bylo nutné svět zničit, aby mohl být zachráněn
opening 3rd feels as rich & funny/intricate as pynchon but then like every other hippie movie it turns into a bunch of guys in army helmets riding around in dune buggies
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Another Corman film with an intriguing, though rather cliched, premise that unfortunately fails to capitalize on and do anything fascinating with it. On paper, the concept of a society dominated by youngsters following a cataclysmic catastrophe that wipes everyone above a certain age allows for a plethora of fantastic possibilities, but you won't find them here.
If I'm being really honest, I wasn't bored either. Something about the bad acting is amusing, and the hazy moments and music at the beginning are great. Unfortunately, as I noted at the beginning, the writing fails to capitalize on this idea and feels disjointed. At first, it feels like something out of an…
Cheerleader [gesturing to a little person who has just appeared from a manhole]: "That's The Mole. He never talks."
The Mole: "Hi everybody!"
Lars Nilsen described this as "like Zabriskie Point directed by Moe Howard" in his introduction. I would have also accepted "like a Cracked Magazine* send-up of Weekend."
*funny, because Alfred E. Newman makes a cameo in Gas-s-s-s, but let's be honest, MAD was a bit sharper and funnier than anything in this. Cracked was still pretty funny, though.
This was evidently snatched away from Roger Corman (how are you going to take a movie away from Roger Corman, AIP execs? Come on) and recut to the point that Corman disowned the released version, and watching it that kind of makes sense. It starts out with an incredible comic energy and genuine satirical edge and devolves into a sort of shapeless anti-something-or-other blob (or cloud, if you will) that probably would have benefited from having one guy in control of the ship the whole time. Which might be ironic, given the themes of the movie, or it might just be the way the world is.
Roger Corman enters the 70s with a semi-post-apocalyptic New Hollywood anti-authority hippie satire that goes from being geniunely funny to ultimately pointless.
Being pointless may either be the whole purpse because it would fit the movie's whole mentality or come from the fact that AIP didn't give Corman the final cut, which lead to him finally leaving the company.
Many scenes feel a lot like 70s Corman movies that would follow this - the especially the spirit that Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000), Allan Arkush (Rock 'N' Roll High School) and Joe Dante (Hollywood Boulevard) would pick up on soon.
The performances are fun and everybody seems to have a good time. Next to a young Talia Shire and Bud…
What started as a decent politically-charged satire turned into a wasteland of on-the-nose and poorly dated shlock. Once you get past the twenty minute mark, the lack of substance shows. You might get a good gag every ten/fifteen minutes, but it's just boring. It's another one of those "really smart" satires I love so much. Let's move on guys.
Ass-s-s
I liked the opening sequence! Very cool!
Me when a doctor screams and complains that a pregnant woman doesn't want to have the baby. Great joke.
idk if those movie was supposed to be racist and misogynistic and generally pretty prejudiced, or if it was just supposed to be ~political commentary~ but either way, the execution was questionable. a review I read said that this wasn't the director's cut, it was done by someone else, and I think it might've made more sense if one person's vision had been followed. introductions to new characters and settings are either right when we meet them, too late, confusing and vague, or nonexistent. they never even say what they're doing or why they're doing it! and there's very little context for us to use to assume any intentions they might have.
I think... its a poorly made film, but…
Corman's apocalyptic satire is very well imagined if the comedy gets uncertain as it goes along. There's a solid George Armitage script somewhere and as often the case Corman movies about youth culture benefit for a certain affectionate but distant curiosity. His mixed track record with acting does costs something in something like this. The post production was trouble enough it probably pay a part on his setting on his own a couple years later. Still, enough of Armitage bite and Corman's touch hit it and their mix is productive.
You’d think a movie about a post-apocalyptic dystopia created when a poisonous gas kills everyone over 25 would’ve been more widely rediscovered in the era of the so-called “Boomer remover,” though of course here it’s the Boomers who inherit the earth. This is a mess (they seemingly didn’t even have the money for blank rounds, so the shootouts rely entirely on sound effects), but admirably commits to Simpsons-level joke density. (“The sound of the ‘60s? A gunshot!”) Kind of refreshing to see a movie that feels like its whole budget somehow went into the script.
Imagine if all the rival gangs in the Mad Max universe just dropped acid and talked out their differences.
According to Netflix, I've seen this before, which is kind of crazy, in that it's super memorable, and crazy audacious.