I know I'm not the only person who liked this film. I watched it for the first time with a couple of friends and we all enjoyed it. It's funny because it's honest and realistic (to an extent at least). It pokes fun at a lot of the scumbags operating in Hollywood and the whole moviemaking business. I don't see how you could not understand at least half of the humor if you are at all familiar with the way media and the film industry operate. If you want to be strictly entertained in a sophomoric way by typical Hollywood drivel, then avoid this movie. But for movie buffs who understand the industry along with the art, I highly recommend this film.
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Highlander: Endgame
(2000)
It stinks
24 February 2001
I'm sorry people but this film sucked away 90 minutes of my life that I'll never get back. The acting didn't even live up to the TV sires. The story took very hurky-jerky jumps that offer up nothing at all to the storyline or character development (the worst of which is the Irish bandit scene, just an excuse for one more sword fight). Endgame ignores various things from any version of the Highlander myth we've yet scene but then incorporates whatever is dramaticly appropriate from any of them. When symbolic imagery makes an appearance, it isn't an artistic device whispering into your ear; it's more like a golf club to the side of the head. I could go on but I don't want to waste any more time on this film. I'm not saying that I expect action movies like this one to be high art, but I do expect any film to follow the general rules of good film making and good story telling.
Histeria!
(1998–2000)
A good blend of education and humour
17 August 2000
This show tried, and sometimes succeeded, to mix humour and history in a way that would make kinds want to learn. While this show may be a bit above the audience it was aimed at, it is in fact a very entertaining, and historically accurate show.
Liquid Sky
(1982)
I've seen worse movies
12 August 2000
Warning: Spoilers
I love strange movies. Peter Jackson, David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, and Ingmar Bergman are some of the best when it comes to groundbreaking and thought provoking film. I understand that Liquid Sky is an experimental arthouse film from the early 80's and a lot of things were different then. Maybe I'm missing something because I've never lived in a big city or because I'm just a few years older than the film itself or because I've never done heroine but this film did nothing for me. The only possible symbolic meaning I can come up with is maybe the HIV epidemic. People dying because of heroine and sex seems to fit with that, but it's still reaching for a point. The score is minimalist to a fault, sounding like a monkey with a Casio. The acting isn't horrible, considering that most of these people were probably still in art/film school at the time. The storyline and character development were both paper thin at best. There are some visually stunning moments; it's safe to say that a good editor could trim the film down from 2 hours into an almost interesting 4 minute music video.
For those of you who care about spoilers, stop reading now. This movie showcases deviant sex and drugs, sort of like Train Spotting. But if Liquid Sky contains social commentary of the same level of that present in Train Spotting it was lost on me. I think '82 is a bit too late to be holding onto the fun/swinging attitude of the 70's disco era, especially since this film focuses on the post-punk Glam underground. It doesn't seem to say that drug use and casual sex are good times or bad ideas, it's just indifferent to it all. Margaret isn't a symbol for feminine freedom. She is raped more than once through the course of the one day the film covers, then she starts using sex as a weapon, and ends up in a codependent relationship with a pie plate on her roof. She gets used by men, she gets used by women, and she even gets used by small furry creatures from alpha centauri. And a little consistency would have helped. The first couple of people die from shards of glass in their heads. Then they start disappearing in a cloud of static. Then the German guy gets a knife to the back. And almost everyone is seen through that cheesy monochrome filter just before they die, but Adrian isn't, she just disappears.
Liquid Sky is a decent effort that doesn't take itself too seriously, but still ends up falling flat. You can make Kool-Aid with sewer water, but it's still going to be sewer water. The only reason I watched it all the way through is because it cost me $4 to rent it and I didn't want to waste money. There are better movies for a visual trip (Fantasia), better movies done on a very small budget (Clerks, El Mariachi), better movies for a dose of the strange (virtually anything by Lynch or David Cronenberg), and better movies for campy fun (Bad Taste, Cemetery Man). It's possible to find worse movies than Liquid Sky, but you've got to dig pretty far to find the cream of the crap like Pod People and Alien Dead and Brain Damage.
For those of you who care about spoilers, stop reading now. This movie showcases deviant sex and drugs, sort of like Train Spotting. But if Liquid Sky contains social commentary of the same level of that present in Train Spotting it was lost on me. I think '82 is a bit too late to be holding onto the fun/swinging attitude of the 70's disco era, especially since this film focuses on the post-punk Glam underground. It doesn't seem to say that drug use and casual sex are good times or bad ideas, it's just indifferent to it all. Margaret isn't a symbol for feminine freedom. She is raped more than once through the course of the one day the film covers, then she starts using sex as a weapon, and ends up in a codependent relationship with a pie plate on her roof. She gets used by men, she gets used by women, and she even gets used by small furry creatures from alpha centauri. And a little consistency would have helped. The first couple of people die from shards of glass in their heads. Then they start disappearing in a cloud of static. Then the German guy gets a knife to the back. And almost everyone is seen through that cheesy monochrome filter just before they die, but Adrian isn't, she just disappears.
Liquid Sky is a decent effort that doesn't take itself too seriously, but still ends up falling flat. You can make Kool-Aid with sewer water, but it's still going to be sewer water. The only reason I watched it all the way through is because it cost me $4 to rent it and I didn't want to waste money. There are better movies for a visual trip (Fantasia), better movies done on a very small budget (Clerks, El Mariachi), better movies for a dose of the strange (virtually anything by Lynch or David Cronenberg), and better movies for campy fun (Bad Taste, Cemetery Man). It's possible to find worse movies than Liquid Sky, but you've got to dig pretty far to find the cream of the crap like Pod People and Alien Dead and Brain Damage.
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