A review of the hard task of investigating graffatti and the efforts of the New York Traanity Authority and it’s now defunct in house police force in finding the culprits.
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July 25th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Wow,,, after watching this movie I was really impressed. The filming is great and the story line is fantastic. The plot isn’t all that realistic but the setting is. The soundtrack is a good fit for the film and the artwork is good. People interested in the underground artwork community will love this as well as serious writers.
Overall I was extremely satisfied with this film and would recommend it too most.
July 26th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Graffiti is fascinating stuff. The people who do it are artists. This movie, however, is garbage. Over-acted and force-fed with idiotic slang that is already dated, “Bomb the System” takes a fascinating subject and portrays it in a way that trivializes all the motivations and purpose behind graffiti. I can only assume that the stellar reviews this movie has gotten so far are from people with no first hand experience of the subject, the same way that “You Got Served” was praised for its accurate portrayal of the breakdancing subculture by an overweight housewife in Muncie, Indiana.
Avoid this steaming pile at all costs.
July 26th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
I went to `Bomb the System’ thinking it might tell us something about the lie of the graphic artists in New York City. I knew it is not documentary, and the film stars Mark Webber has worked with two of the today’s most eminent New Yorkers in the film industry (Woody Allen’s `Hollywood Ending’ and Al Pacino’s `People I Know’) And it has been more than 20 years since we saw `Wild Style,’ and it is time that we should see another work using graphic art as its theme, set in more contemporary situation.
But I was disappointed. OK, Mark Webber is good as the protagonist `Blest’ talented artist who has not yet decided his future plan — to go to college or to keep doing what he is doing with his friends and fellow artists. Blest tells us some rules about doing (illegal) murals, but the film actually showed me the inner world of the artists much less than I had expected.
The reason is simple. The story by first-time writer/director Adam Bhala Louch is so melodramatic and cliché-ridden that you can spot instantly where Louch borrowed things from somewhere else, like numerous police dramas made for TV. The love story is so feeble and the female characters (mother and girlfriend of Blest) are caricatures. And look at the white cop from vandal squad of NYPD, who keeps watching Blest. He is the worst example, a sociopath wearing a badge, ready to blackmail the prostitutes, and bully the weak. Even with the appearance of the real-life artist Lee Quinones as himself cannot save the film from the stale formulaic script.
I must say one thing about the visuals of the film. The camera captures the darkly-lit streets and the blocks surrounded by demolished buildings very well, and though it is regrettable that he overuses the now corny MTV styles, it should be admitted that Adam Bhala Louch stops that when the characters are supposed to say something serious about their way of living.
Still I cannot help thinking that this is a missed opportunity. `Bomb the System’ could have been a more thrilling and insightful film about art and life than what it is now. For the real-life artists, Giuliani’s efforts to eradicate graffiti must have had more significant meaning for their career as artist. Ignoring more immediate and complex issues surrounding the graphic artists, however, the film relies on the not-so-original idea that crime doesn’t pay. Maybe so, but just because doing graffiti is a crime doesn’t mean that the film needs a handgun and a violent cop.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:29 am
I really enjoyed the act of sitting down and watching this film.If you have a big enough screen (or sit close enough to the television) this film will take you on a fun visual and thematic roller coaster right of emotions and stimuli. I don’t know much about graffitti, but the main character and the visuals really drew me in. The story-line wasn’t shakespearian in complexity and originality, but it did what it was supposed to do (and I think bringing in aliens or a vast govermental conspiracy would have been a bit distracting anyway).
Even if you aren’t into the film at all, if you find the main actor as attractive as I do you might just as well go out and buy the film anyway:p
July 27th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Joe Rivera provides a great insight into both the good and bad old days of Graffiti, from the 1980’s thru 2000s. With lurid and fast paced narratives worthy of Mario Puzo or Donald Westlake, his stories read like adventure stories, with one difference: They are all true. Any fan of Graffiti, The New York City Subway System or New York City itself will find this book endlessly fascinating. Highly recommended.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:13 am
lol to those bums scared to chase me on the train tracks…mr.x 5×7 1 line prince … funny book nypd! google me: dyckman slim
July 28th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
This book is written terribly by an uneducated man, Joe Rivera is a joke to society that has spent his life chasing down kids painting, never man enough to stop real criminals. Now he wants to capitalize on his lack of manhood. Please do not support this man or anything he stands for.
July 29th, 2010 at 9:50 am
I have to admit I was quite disapointed with this book, I was hoping to find real nice pictures of exclusif peices as they suposedly took everything that was done in New York during does 20 years but the whole book actualy focuses on the author and his failing struggle to become a recognised detective. The “hot” stories about arrests can be summed up in one sentence : “We saw him, caught him and he either admited it or not but then was released”. Furthermore the little pictures that are in are either either uninteresting or already seen on the internet