Post by Sneaky Hobo on Mar 13, 2008 5:09:32 GMT -5
All I have to say is wow. The movie starts of being 'ok', as in the type of 'ok' you get when when you mix Hi-C with Barq's. Mediocre, but none-the-less attention grabbing. Though, the movie fails to keep it's grasp, as it becomes a literal 45 degree drop. The more I watched this movie, the more I wept.
The first thing that made me think, was how they associated Hippies with Anarchists. Sure, they're alike, but Anarchists aren't afraid of using violence, etc. Another thing I noted is how Straight-Edge they made the whole philosophy seem. BEFORE drugs, everything was fine. AFTER drugs, they all became a bunch of tweekers; not like the man that smiles at his blank TV screen, but the dog that got hit by a car and may or may not be either dead or in a coma. [That reminds me, this movie ALSO follows the whole 'good friendly character dying by overdose/in sleep' shpeal. Fun.]
Another point that comes off as odd is the Nihilist character in this movie. "I don't believe in anything, not even Nihilism." Sadly, that wasn't the cheesiest line in the movie. You can tell he's an Asshat from the beginning, purely by the first line he says. Instantly, you tell where this movie goes.
It has its laughes and cries and yadayadayada... but after watching less than half of this very very very stretched out movie, your brain ticks a little bit faster, reaching for a distant memory... What is this Memory?
Fight Club. To be brutally honest, This movie is a horribly made, horribly drawn-out fight club with an Anarchist & Nihilist-esk twist to it, minus the whole mind-fuck thing. About three-fourths the way into the movie, you're crying. Not over the best-friend, not over the way John Black fucked everything up, but at how horrible and cliche the way it's going to end in failure.
I give this a mild 2.8 out of 10
The first thing that made me think, was how they associated Hippies with Anarchists. Sure, they're alike, but Anarchists aren't afraid of using violence, etc. Another thing I noted is how Straight-Edge they made the whole philosophy seem. BEFORE drugs, everything was fine. AFTER drugs, they all became a bunch of tweekers; not like the man that smiles at his blank TV screen, but the dog that got hit by a car and may or may not be either dead or in a coma. [That reminds me, this movie ALSO follows the whole 'good friendly character dying by overdose/in sleep' shpeal. Fun.]
Another point that comes off as odd is the Nihilist character in this movie. "I don't believe in anything, not even Nihilism." Sadly, that wasn't the cheesiest line in the movie. You can tell he's an Asshat from the beginning, purely by the first line he says. Instantly, you tell where this movie goes.
It has its laughes and cries and yadayadayada... but after watching less than half of this very very very stretched out movie, your brain ticks a little bit faster, reaching for a distant memory... What is this Memory?
Fight Club. To be brutally honest, This movie is a horribly made, horribly drawn-out fight club with an Anarchist & Nihilist-esk twist to it, minus the whole mind-fuck thing. About three-fourths the way into the movie, you're crying. Not over the best-friend, not over the way John Black fucked everything up, but at how horrible and cliche the way it's going to end in failure.
I give this a mild 2.8 out of 10
