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Evil Bong 420 (2015)
Downhill
This franchise is a downwards slope. First movie is the best and with the second being decent and the third being the last bastion of what I consider a watchable weird film.
Wheres bachman? Or the nerd? Why are they intertwining the series with ginger dead man which admittedly is funny, for the first 10 seconds. Calling ginger dead man a "laughable threat" would be short of the mark. Where are the analogies about the weed industry, like the grandpa representing the black market and the nurse representing big pharma. Where are the character building moment? Somehow i couldn't care less about any character.
All this has been replaced with the "shock" value of a killer cookie and every second shot. I cant decide which ones worse. This one for its lack of a plot or ginger dead man vs evil bong for spending 1/3 of the movie recapping the origin stories of both franchises.
I will be watching high-5 and the subsequent movies because i have hope that the magic of the first 3 can somewhat be touched upon and i do hope gingerdead man gets phased out (considering how this movie ended he will atleast be in the next). Bring the original cast back. (Bachman, jock, nerd, grandpa) Sydneys hot and she pulls off her drama role of the ginger dead man franchise well but the evil bong is alot more funny and interesting.
Naqoyqatsi (2002)
Too many negative reviews
I have read reviews of this film and most of them seem to be negative. After being presented to Baraka in film class, I soon discovered the Qatsi trilogy (Ron Fricke being the director of Baraka and editor of Koyaanisqatsi).
Many people who have watched Naqoyqatsi are disappointed because the film doesn't deliver what they expect/want. What people seem to want is another Koyaanisqatsi and I believe that is the driving factor behind these negative reviews.
This film is different. It's images are fast, they are not slow like its previous counterparts. The meaning behind some images are even more vague and hard to decipher than the other two but are easier to tie meaning to.
The film seems to have a strong pull on the concept that we are drowning within a sea of information (Beginning sequence with the numbers and the fade to the ocean) and that we are more attached to 'order' as is technology (Olympic ribbon dancer juxtaposed within a Grid). The film is more obvious but that's because it can't be helped. Technology is just recent an can't be represented through natural landscapes as the other two did. Therefore people feel like their being spoon fed what they already know, but that's because their not digging deeper. The film is visually abstract and looks great. The editing is insanely complex and it's a shame it's not getting the credit it deserves