Gutterballs (2008)
1/10
F#@&ing unwatchable
15 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
And I paid extra for the 2-disc edition, with "over 40 hours" of extras!

Never in my life have I complained about bad language in a movie. Gutterballs is a 96-minute merciless onslought, where every character (and there are quite a few) talks exactly the same. One emotion is expressed. And that emotion is: Hostility. My only guess is that boozed-up frat boys wrote all the dialogue. To make matters even more unbearable, dialogue is poorly recorded, people incessantly talk over each other, and the music is often mixed too loud! And that's just the technical stuff. Movie itself is rape-revenge, set in a bowling alley, with really no story to speak of.

I watched the much-ballyhooed (by the filmmakers, anyway) "Pin-etration" extended cut, where they insert hardcore sex to the proceedings. SPOILER: 50% of the anatomy is fake. Adding graphic close-ups to an inordinately long and violent rape scene seemed, well, misguided and wrong. I mean, this movie has nothing going for it. Gorehounds might like the excessive blood, but you've got to suffer.

Maybe I'm being too hard on this POS.

Extras: On the outtakes disc (which seems to be comprised of everything they filmed), worth checking out is Part 15. Real rough day at work for that guy (that's sarcasm). BTW, all the audio is out of sync this chapter. Guess no one wanted to sit through 40 hours of outtakes for quality control.
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