disgusting, overrated, pointless
... View MoreI think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
... View MoreExcellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
... View MoreIt really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
... View MoreThomas Edison is credited as the director of this piece, but that's probably a record-keeping error, confusing the Edison company with its owner. They'll get around to correcting it one of these days, maybe. As for this movie, it looks like the unedited version of the piece as, for the first ninety seconds or so, we watch trick riders do various things, including what looks like falling off the bike just offscreen. Apparently all of those rather simple examples of, to the modern eye, dull performance pieces were elaborately staged and carefully edited -- just not in any style of editing that makes sense to the modern eye.The final thirty seconds shows a loop which the cyclist is supposed to ride so fast that centrifugal force will keep him on the bike while he is riding upside down. The fact that all we get to see is someone trotting down the ramp is mildly amusing.
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