Six String Samurai was a fine piece of filmmaking. People have complained about the most inane things in regards to it, i.e. the whining of the Kid, or the poorly written dialogue, but neither are any worse than what you'll encounter in another action movie with ten times the budget of this film.
Locations were well chosen and well filmed, the colors were vivid and the lighting (almost) always appropriate. The camera stayed on Buddy and kept enough of him in frame to follow the action clearly, so we could see him kicking ass. Costumes also added a lot to the characters and the aesthetic of the film, especially those of Death, Buddy and the Kid. The editing kept the pace of the film in a good place, suitable for it's tone. Having the radio show in the background served as a good way to introduce scenes, the soundtrack itself added atmosphere but didn't detract from the images, and the music by the Red Elvises provided good stuff for fight scenes and otherwise.
Really my only problems with the film were little things, like when there are a number of lines of dialogue which were post-dubbed (most noticably when Buddy meets the Kid), or during a fight scene when the time of day suddenly changes for one shot...small flaws in the film. The dialogue is bad? So what! It mostly consists of cheesy one-liners but in their repetition those lines gain some legitimacy. If there had been serious dialogue for Six String Samurai it would have ruined the tone of the movie.
Six String Samurai is, when all is said and done, a film which was pretty well put together with an interesting premise. If the dialogue is bad, so is the dialogue to every other action movie that came out this summer.
Locations were well chosen and well filmed, the colors were vivid and the lighting (almost) always appropriate. The camera stayed on Buddy and kept enough of him in frame to follow the action clearly, so we could see him kicking ass. Costumes also added a lot to the characters and the aesthetic of the film, especially those of Death, Buddy and the Kid. The editing kept the pace of the film in a good place, suitable for it's tone. Having the radio show in the background served as a good way to introduce scenes, the soundtrack itself added atmosphere but didn't detract from the images, and the music by the Red Elvises provided good stuff for fight scenes and otherwise.
Really my only problems with the film were little things, like when there are a number of lines of dialogue which were post-dubbed (most noticably when Buddy meets the Kid), or during a fight scene when the time of day suddenly changes for one shot...small flaws in the film. The dialogue is bad? So what! It mostly consists of cheesy one-liners but in their repetition those lines gain some legitimacy. If there had been serious dialogue for Six String Samurai it would have ruined the tone of the movie.
Six String Samurai is, when all is said and done, a film which was pretty well put together with an interesting premise. If the dialogue is bad, so is the dialogue to every other action movie that came out this summer.