One of my favorite pastimes is movies. I have a membership with Blockbuster’s version of Netflix and my girlfriend and I watch a couple of movies a week when we have the time. One movie I just found out about is Al Pacino’s 1985 megaflop Revolution. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this movie. It’s directed by Hugh Hudson, who directed Chariots of Fire, and it’s about the Revolutionary War. Picturing Pacino during the Revolution is flat out hilarious. It’s like John Wayne as Genghis Khan. It’s just ridiculous. Here’s the trailer…
Just marvel at the spender of this cinematic achievement. I can’t find this movie on DVD. It’s possible it never has come out on DVD. Vincent Camby of the New York Times called the movie “a mess, but one that’s so giddily misguided that it’s sometimes a good deal of fun for all of the wrong reasons.” It’s for that very fact I have to see this film. It’s the MST3K fan in me. It’s curious that Hugh Hudson’s Wikipedia page has its own section on Revolution. It’s typical for a bomb like this to have excuses. I wonder if Hudson himself wrote that the movie was rushed out, and the new director’s cut is a “masterpiece.” Hello… it has Al Pacino in it! Did Hudson edit him out of the movie? Supposedly, the re-edited version of the movie is going to come out. I can’t wait to see it. It certainly cannot be worse than Mel Gibson’s The Patriot.
revolution revisited
Last December I wrote about the movie Revolution staring Al Pacino as a fur trapper who gets caught up in the American Revolution. The movie was a colossal box-office disappointment and had never been released on DVD until this year….