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Baghead (2008)
Really boring...predictable. Good performance by Zissis and Muller
No, I wasn't expecting "IRON MAN" or "GET SMART", so put the hipster knives away, I don't need explosions or Megan Fox to enjoy a movie.
The movie starts interestingly enough, by mocking the indie film circuit "Q&A with the director". In what can, at best, be called a non-sequitur, they try to go to a club, only, moments later, to be at a Bennigan's like establishment where they decide to retreat to the mountains to write a script.
The overweight guy likes the cute girl, she likes him as a friend. The glossy lady think the girl is kind of boorish, and the cute girl thinks she's a bit over glossy. Mr. "TheMan" has sexual access to Ms. Glossy, but, unsurprisingly, the boorish girl has some desire for Mr. The Man, who will naturally feel contest between his desire to bang both the females and be loyal to his friend.
All of this is telegraphed within the first 5 minutes, and you kind of feel a bit of a No Exit vibe brewing, but with people who are slightly more familiar than strangers.
That notion goes nowhere and as they reach the cabin they proceed to fulfill that which has been already telegraphed in excruciatingly long, jittery-cam Mumblecore style.
I checked my email.
The curveball thrown into the mix is that the proposed script involves an anonymous slasher in the woods. As the movie trudges on, a bag-headed-slasher runs amok.
I think there's an element of "everyone in LA wants to be famous" lurking about in this movie somewhere, but it's too occulted by everything else to get through clearly.
Elise Muller does a great job being glossy the whole time through ( best touch, wearing her night-guard in the morning ) and Steve Zissis remains vulnerable and sweet throughout. I really liked Greta Gerwig in the SXSW spots she did 2 years ago, but I didn't see anything that wowed me. The other guy was pretty good too.
Forces of Nature (1999)
This movie is terrible
In the grand tradition of free-spirit-girl liberates tight-and-stuffy-guy in spite of his bourgeois values writ large, this movie is the Korean copy of the Japanese imitation of the American re- interpretation of the European re-make of the Enlightenment era original.
Stay away. Really, far away.
To say nothing of the K-mart capitalist bliss porn scenes where hanging out at K-mart is stated to be something approximating cool.
The acting is flat. The characters don't breathe (well maybe the cardboard version of air), the actors look like they're recovering from root canals. Sandra Bullock is neither cute nor sultry, she's the Platonic ideal of average and pretty. It's just a horrid, horrid film. Both of these have done much, much better in other movies and should definitely have had their agents pull the bail clause.