Schitzo
Since: May, 2009
05/27/2011 00:00:00
This thing didn't make me laugh in the first twenty minutes, I'm not giving it the satisfaction of finishing it.
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A So Bad It's Good masterpiece
A heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki.
Now typically, when watching a So Bad Its Good flick, the Narm is only enough to keep me entertained for about the first twenty minutes or so. There are a few exceptions, however. This is one of them.
It has all the ingredients to make a great Cult Classic. Imagine, if you will, Pulp Fiction crossed over with A Clockwork Orange and maybe a little Scott Pilgrim. Sounds good, right? Now mix that with a little bit of My Immortal. It's kinda like that.
Amy is a completely unsympathetic Jerk Ass bordering on Jerk Sue and a failed attempt at a Deadpan Snarker, Jordan is Too Dumb To Live, and Xavier tries too hard to be cool. If that weren't enough, Darkness Induced Audience Apathy kicks in about two minutes in preventing any of these characters from being even close to sympathetic (Except maybe Jordan only because he's Frank).
Amy is probably my favorite. Rose Mc Gowan has one facial expression, and delivers absolutely every one of her lines in a Valley-Girl-From-Hell Dull Surprise. Amy's lines are peppered with lovely Cluster F Bombs and super lame insults including "He was an anus-face!", "Look, you fucking chunky pumpkinhead!" and "If bullshit were music, you'd be a big brass band!". She treats everyone like complete shit and even has some Eboby-esque wangsting ("Oh my God. If i don't find my skull lighter, I'll, like, slit my wrists.").
Oh, and speaking of hell, the whole film is peppered with super subtle symbolism, such as every single thing they purchase at a store coming out to $6.66, the hotel's address being 666, them staying in room 6 (there's three of them) and numerous instances of the word "hell" popping up.
It's like an attempt at mimmicking Quentin Tarantino whilst making a statement about glorifying violence that falls flat on it's face in every department. And it's hilarious.
It's one of the few So Bad Its Good movies that keeps me entertained all the way through, and I would definitely recommend it. It's hilarious, sometimes (albeit rarely) intentionally, but it's mostly the movie's crappy attempts at Dead Baby Comedy that make it so delicious.