You have to hand it to a movie like this - what you hand it exactly I'm not entirely sure - but marketing old folk is a tough gig.
Who, or what, age demographic does 'Homebodies' appeal to? The Shirley MacLaine crowd? A Jack Lemmon audience?
There are certain scenes in this movie that remind me of 'Microwave Massacre.' Namely the part where the hardhat workers are sitting around eating that guy's wife on a sandwich and one of them is like, "Hey, what kind of meat is this? It sure is a tummy turn-on."
'Homebodies' starts out with Granny Clampett pampering before going out to shop. She leaves the building from either 'Enemy Territory' or 'Tenement.' Follow me? Basically, she lives in the bad part of town after all the oil money dried up in Beverly Hills.
Wasn't this where Janet Jackson filmed her "Alright" video?
Although it claims to have been filmed in Ohio, the place resembles The Bronx in the early 80's to me.
Granny Clampett wanders out and sets her sights on the gentrification a block across and can only dream. Approval or disapproval, I'm not sure?
Dilapidated buildings all around Clampett's residence force old folk to be shipped off to the mean streets of Kensington PA against their will.
The scene at the 7:42-minute mark is the show stealer in my opinion.
I think it's the same dude in MS .45 who gets shot in the head? But he is airlifted up about twenty floors by a crane and the wire snaps resulting in him falling back to earth and perishing. It is extremely well filmed. I doubt safe work practises would allow a man to do that in 2022. This scene is so well filmed that I've rewound it a third time and it warrants an automatic 10/10 right there! Good stuff. (The wire on the hoist was sabotaged we later learn. Way to go. As Little Mac would say, "Right on." The blind guy from Seinfeld, with the glasses that pinch, is the guilty party responsible.)
This isn't The People Vs Larry Flynt, or George Lucas - it's senior citizens Vs the construction workers for invading their crumby turf and forcing them out!
It's the geriatric oldies who are the heroes of this movie. They take a stand and refuse to relinquish their beloved homes, which are targeted by council officials, who want them all demolished & gone. Buildings and people.
With the government officials intimidating them into compliance they band together and form a death pact and murder the construction workers, in an attempt to delay the demolition.
Oh no, the boom mic at the 33:06-minute mark. One yard penalty. That's a blemish on your record, movie. There goes your 10/10.
A show of force sees everyone eventually moved on one morning but their love for the old building won't see the last of them in the area.
The poor old fuddy-duds are moved from The Bronx and are shipped off to the outer suburbs of The Projects and it's just this shoebox accommodation for palliative care victims waiting for the inevitable. (You'd be better off in a prison cell on Alcatraz.)
This eviction lady looks a lot like Samantha from 'Bewitched.' Whoever she was she just copped one through the stomach. They didn't miss her.
If Clint Eastwood had the energy, he should re-imagine this movie. Did Eastwood ever film a movie over on the East Coast?
Is that Mick from 'Rocky?'
These old-timers seem harmless, but they're straight up ruthless murderers.
Ed Gein would have been proud of this movie. I wonder?
Is that Richard from 'Keeping Up Appearances?'
Having killed Samantha, her dead body poses a problem for the gang so they must come up with a solution quick fast.
Granny Clampett is lost in NY in this car scene. I knew the cops would appear at one stage. This driving scene is a hoot.
Hating their new residence at The Projects, the gang return to The Bronx late one night and resettle like stubborn mules.
They're also common thieves, too. They steal a wheelchair from an old people's home as they require it to transport the dead body of Samantha.
Wheeling the dead body out in broad daylight, the objective is to get Samantha as far away as possible from the crime scene. Along the way they encounter a traffic cop, Clampett assaults a lady, then illegal dumping sees them drop Samantha in a moving freight train. Oh brother.
Guess what? They're now pulling a 'Lethal Weapon 3' and burying this man alive in cement. Cold hearted, man. But I still like this lot. They're good people.
They cover their tracks well and are pretty sharp for old-timers.
The funny thing is, no one would ever suspected them.
A wrecking ball is sabotaged to kill a guy in a portable toilet and by this time you get the point that they're all cold-blooded killers.
Unfortunately, inhouse fighting sees the gang turn on each other and they have a falling out and start bopping each other off.
For some reason Granny Clampett is singled out and escorted to her execution but keeps escaping.
This reminds me of George being chased by all the old people on mobility scooters in Seinfeld.
They're drowning her. Granny Clampett somehow survives the drowning and reappears at the end like the living dead. She's the star of the show. Or, that hoist scene is?
Good stuff.
Who, or what, age demographic does 'Homebodies' appeal to? The Shirley MacLaine crowd? A Jack Lemmon audience?
There are certain scenes in this movie that remind me of 'Microwave Massacre.' Namely the part where the hardhat workers are sitting around eating that guy's wife on a sandwich and one of them is like, "Hey, what kind of meat is this? It sure is a tummy turn-on."
'Homebodies' starts out with Granny Clampett pampering before going out to shop. She leaves the building from either 'Enemy Territory' or 'Tenement.' Follow me? Basically, she lives in the bad part of town after all the oil money dried up in Beverly Hills.
Wasn't this where Janet Jackson filmed her "Alright" video?
Although it claims to have been filmed in Ohio, the place resembles The Bronx in the early 80's to me.
Granny Clampett wanders out and sets her sights on the gentrification a block across and can only dream. Approval or disapproval, I'm not sure?
Dilapidated buildings all around Clampett's residence force old folk to be shipped off to the mean streets of Kensington PA against their will.
The scene at the 7:42-minute mark is the show stealer in my opinion.
I think it's the same dude in MS .45 who gets shot in the head? But he is airlifted up about twenty floors by a crane and the wire snaps resulting in him falling back to earth and perishing. It is extremely well filmed. I doubt safe work practises would allow a man to do that in 2022. This scene is so well filmed that I've rewound it a third time and it warrants an automatic 10/10 right there! Good stuff. (The wire on the hoist was sabotaged we later learn. Way to go. As Little Mac would say, "Right on." The blind guy from Seinfeld, with the glasses that pinch, is the guilty party responsible.)
This isn't The People Vs Larry Flynt, or George Lucas - it's senior citizens Vs the construction workers for invading their crumby turf and forcing them out!
It's the geriatric oldies who are the heroes of this movie. They take a stand and refuse to relinquish their beloved homes, which are targeted by council officials, who want them all demolished & gone. Buildings and people.
With the government officials intimidating them into compliance they band together and form a death pact and murder the construction workers, in an attempt to delay the demolition.
Oh no, the boom mic at the 33:06-minute mark. One yard penalty. That's a blemish on your record, movie. There goes your 10/10.
A show of force sees everyone eventually moved on one morning but their love for the old building won't see the last of them in the area.
The poor old fuddy-duds are moved from The Bronx and are shipped off to the outer suburbs of The Projects and it's just this shoebox accommodation for palliative care victims waiting for the inevitable. (You'd be better off in a prison cell on Alcatraz.)
This eviction lady looks a lot like Samantha from 'Bewitched.' Whoever she was she just copped one through the stomach. They didn't miss her.
If Clint Eastwood had the energy, he should re-imagine this movie. Did Eastwood ever film a movie over on the East Coast?
Is that Mick from 'Rocky?'
These old-timers seem harmless, but they're straight up ruthless murderers.
Ed Gein would have been proud of this movie. I wonder?
Is that Richard from 'Keeping Up Appearances?'
Having killed Samantha, her dead body poses a problem for the gang so they must come up with a solution quick fast.
Granny Clampett is lost in NY in this car scene. I knew the cops would appear at one stage. This driving scene is a hoot.
Hating their new residence at The Projects, the gang return to The Bronx late one night and resettle like stubborn mules.
They're also common thieves, too. They steal a wheelchair from an old people's home as they require it to transport the dead body of Samantha.
Wheeling the dead body out in broad daylight, the objective is to get Samantha as far away as possible from the crime scene. Along the way they encounter a traffic cop, Clampett assaults a lady, then illegal dumping sees them drop Samantha in a moving freight train. Oh brother.
Guess what? They're now pulling a 'Lethal Weapon 3' and burying this man alive in cement. Cold hearted, man. But I still like this lot. They're good people.
They cover their tracks well and are pretty sharp for old-timers.
The funny thing is, no one would ever suspected them.
A wrecking ball is sabotaged to kill a guy in a portable toilet and by this time you get the point that they're all cold-blooded killers.
Unfortunately, inhouse fighting sees the gang turn on each other and they have a falling out and start bopping each other off.
For some reason Granny Clampett is singled out and escorted to her execution but keeps escaping.
This reminds me of George being chased by all the old people on mobility scooters in Seinfeld.
They're drowning her. Granny Clampett somehow survives the drowning and reappears at the end like the living dead. She's the star of the show. Or, that hoist scene is?
Good stuff.