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Raving (2007)
amazingly bad
This is an historically interesting short-- it might be the very worst short ever made. Julia Styles should be quite angry with her manager and/or agent for not stopping her from doing this piece of monkey feces.
She should also thank her celebrity for getting this piece of garbage noticed. I think she was on Regis and Kelly this morning hawking it. She explained that the work was based on an experience she had walking around New York City, where someone came up to her crying asking for money to get home. (She, not being very smart, believed this classic con, and gave the girl a bunch of cash.-- wow.) That's essentially the story for this short. I would tell you the rest but I would fall asleep doing so, or I might become injured mentally, in recapping how poor the acting, writing and directing is in this piece.
The Dark Backward (1991)
Brilliant Social Commentary and Unique Cinematic Vision
This movie is one of my favs. It is brilliantly written, flawlessly acted, with an impressive cast, (name one other movie that has Rob Lowe, Wayne Newton AND Lara Flynn Skeleton ALL together??), and is uniquely comic, tragic and perfectly arched. Marty Mohl is a perfect protagonist, his jokes are brilliant, and his experience in the filthiest world imaginable is fascinating. Everything is owned by Blumps, or some variant thereof. Everyone is dirty and sweaty. After a while, you start thinking that his job as a garbage collector is equivalent to any other non-dirty job in our society, relatively speaking. flawless, I tells ya, flawless.