+1/2 -- Stretching 15 Minutes of Fame, Literally

One for the Ages! | Heavy Metal Parking Lot

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	• Heavy Metal Parking Lot Film Baby, 2005 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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+1/2 -- Stretching 15 Minutes of Fame, Literally

While this is a fascinating flashback to the mid-80s, its scant 15 minutes provide only the briefest peek, and the then-neophyte filmmakers seem to have lucked into their best footage, rather than actually having created it. Their film (originally shot on video for broadcast on a local cable access channel) captures some terrific archetypes, but never draws out their subjects beyond surface level exclamations. Maybe that's all there was to capture, which would say something in itself, but it's hard to believe there wasn't a story behind each of the heavy metal fans at which the camera was pointed.

The DVD reissue fleshes out the original 15 minutes with many extras, including outtakes from the original shoot, the filmmakers' sequels, Monster Truck Parking Lot and Neil Diamond Parking Lot (neither of whose subjects have the juice of the original), contemporary interviews with several of the original film's metalheads, a tour through a long time metal fan's basement, and a video document of a disastrous screening at a club. The extras, particularly the contemporary interviews and basement tour, provide the heft the original film needs to translate to DVD.

It's easy to see why the original documentary has such ardent fans: it's a one-of-a-kind document that could only have been created on the fly. Traded as a video bootleg or viewed on the Internet, this would be properly framed as an illicit peek at an otherwise unseen subculture. But on DVD its length and depth (or lack of both) are disappointing; still, better 15 minutes of fame than none at all. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]

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One for the Ages!

Put it in the time capsule! Show it in the Smithsonian! Play it at your next soiree and get ALL tore up!

This twenty-minute epic is one of the GREAT capturings of the human condition, ever.

Watch HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT and remember when DUMB was confined to the fringe (and the parking lot), before it took over American culture entirely.

An accidental masterpiece.

Cheers.

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high school revisited

Really brought me back to the 80's (clothes, hair, etc.). Very interesting to "relive" those times and the heavy metal culture. Fun to watch. The only bad thing to say is that it was only about 20 minutes long . . . I thought it would be longer.

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Dude. Or let's put it another way: Duuuuuuuude!!!! The much-dubbed VHS sensation Heavy Metal Parking Lot has made it to DVD. In 1986 indie filmmakers John Heyn and Jeff Krulik wandered around a Maryland sports arena parking lot with a video camera, seeking to capture footage of Judas Priest fans in their native habitat. Among their muscle cars and between sips of Budweiser (in a just world, Anheuser Busch would have underwritten this documentary), the feather-haired followers of Priest put on a show rivaling any entertainment occurring inside the stadium that night. Bellowing and proselytizing their enthusiasm for all things related to leather-clad men with guitars, these fans are easy to laugh at for their drunken cluelessness, but are equally endearing for the way they represent rabid fandom in general. The DVD comes with spin-off parking lot documentaries featuring equally enthusiastic fans--of Neil Diamond and Harry Potter--and a "dub-o-vision" cut of the documentary replicating the experience of watching a 10th generation VHS copy. How metal is that? --Ryan Boudinot

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