jamie-62802 Review of Singles

Singles (1992)

Worth watching for the cameos and wealth of talent, but less than the sum of its parts overall

[6/10 · 7 January 2020]

I came across this title after seeing the Noah baumbach movie 'Kicking and screaming', which I think is a much better movie overall. While the seatle grunge scene this movie depicts and a wealth of acting talent, I found it hard to focus on the narrative it was a bit wishy washy. And the answering phone for the prehistoric dating game looked dated! this film hasnt aged well in a lot of places ,and the wooden acting by the lead couple (not Fonda/Dillon who add a comic element to things, the breast surgery brought on by his porn collection is priceless, and I did feel like i was the surgeon lol telling her not to go ahead. When Dillon mentions Belguim as a grunge hotspot it is ironic, subtle humour, and more of a european style of filmaking that American directors were adapting to over this period. Didnt know what chris cornell looked liked until after the film so for the cameos from pearl jam and alice in chains aswell worth watching this movie alone. It does well to identify cultural traits around modern singledom which are more universal themes so in this respect the film hasnt aged. Overall it tries to hard to be natural but entertaining in places but hard to focus on narrative, which was almost akin but not as much to Slacker by R Linklater, had to keep rewinding. Oh and watch out for the nearly guy from Back to the future, Erick stolz , unrecognisable as a clown!