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List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $21.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Color • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 23 April, 1999 DVD Release : 30 August, 2005 |
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So Wrong They're Right description So Wrong They're Right takes an affectionate look at "those stubborn visionaries who’ve kept 8-track alive." Russ Forster and Dan Sutherland (8-Track Mind) traveled the country to speak with collectors of all stripes: writers, musicians, students--even some eccentrics who could give the film fanatics of Cinemania a run for their money. The cities they hit include Chicago, Dallas, and New York. So Wrong has a vintage look that befits its subject matter. Title cards are used to bolster Forster's narration and color film stock, which alternates with black and white, has been treated to appear striated and faded. On the downside, the audio sometimes comes across as "vintage" in ways that may not have been intentional, as when the synch-sound is off or when background noise threatens to overwhelm the foreground. That said, the dialogue is audible throughout and much of it is as amusing as it is informative. --Kathleen C. Fennessy |
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| This documentary charts the road trip of its two filmmakers as they vist a number of collectors and connoiseurs of the defunct 8-track cartridge audio format. There are several problems with the film. None of the 8-track collectors interviewed ever really convey to the audience why they are so obsessively passionate about the 8-track format. Back in the '70s when I was a budding audiophile and regularly read audio magazines, I learned that the 8-track was considered the worst of the formats then available for audio quality. None of the collectors here adduce any information to the contrary and a number of them talk about other drawbacks to the format. So why do they love them? We never really find out.
It would have been intersting to see an overview of the history of the 8-track, with some information on its engineering, especially with some interviews with some surviving company execs or audio critics of the time, but that's not here. What we're left with is a bunch of episodes with some mildly eccentric characters, none of them too interesting, some completely uninteresting. The film itself is cheaply made, with sound that is sometimes out of sync with the images. Somehow I find that appropriate to the subject matter. It's almost as if someone had found an old 8-track cartridge in a thrift store, played it and discovered it contained this film. |
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