Filmmaker: Dark Departure Movies, Speedway Video
Published in PW Torch, Icon Magazine, Sound on Sight, Reel Time, Behold Florida
Twenty years ago I thought cinema had reached a new low. Irreverence has a limit, and it had been forgotten to volume. Will Ferrell was funnier in his SNL days, anyway, right? And who even is that random fourth guy they cast alongside Steve Carrell and David Koechner? “Anchorman” is horribly dumb, and I was angry about it. Christina Applegate - and this glorious soundtrack - should be nowhere near such an insult to culture! Now, spontaneously revisiting what has…
Astonishingly poor after its predecessor was astonishingly fun despite appearances. That it’s been spackled together from multiple reshoots glares through as it struggles to force Amber Heard’s floating head to be taken as seriously as Dolph Lundgren’s expository stratagem deliveries. How no one punched up the relentlessly juvenile script to begin with is a wonder. Wan can’t be blamed; he was clearly too busy surpassing his usual quota of sudden explosion interrupts. Perhaps it was all too much sweeping aside…
All I wanted from this - and I am on record - was to be introduced to Stellan Skarsgård’s character ass-first. So I’m certainly not displeased there. I’m not sure how many were asking for something even weirder than Lynch’s film, though, much less something that’s all somber set-up and zero payoff. “On the Silver Globe” features a much more worthwhile desolate sci-fi aesthetic, and being unfinished delivers about as much of an ending.
Here’s more of a journal entry than a review, because… I think I finally appreciate this? As a kid I was overly sensitive to tertiary trifles in library-rented Disney tapes and the like. For example I needed to be consoled the first time I saw Arthur ditch the amorous squirrel in an ultimately throwaway scene from “The Sword in the Stone”. From the curious oysters to the exclusive flowers, “Alice” is so full of such fleeting plights that it never…