But having rated it five stars, I'm not sure if I ever want to do this to myself again. It was my first time in the theater, and I forgot that on my previous viewing at home I paused a couple times (toilet break, water). In the theater, there is no escape, and I seriously contemplated fleeing a couple times, just because I found the film so effectively anxiety-inducing.
ERASERHEAD is a miracle of sound design, of no-budget imagination, of…
Perhaps you're like me, and haven't seen much Davies, but you've seen enough Loach and Leigh to feel like you've got the measure of things when it comes to British kitchen-sink miserablism, and autobiographical coming of age stories have no special appeal for you, and you saw THE HOUSE OF MIRTH sixteen years ago and it quickly faded into a miasma of costume dramas, bubbling between THE END OF THE AFFAIR and AN IDEAL HUSBAND and a passel of Austen…
Had me from the opening credit font. This movie rules and should sue whoever saddled it with that lame title. Hell, Fossil Frenzy would have been an improvement.
Plus, I now need to see Telly Savalas in everything. I have fond memories of him in Lisa and the Devil, but the way he just swoops in midway thru as if it's his movie is delectable.
2001: A Space Odyssey meets Demon Seed. You know, for kids!
And it is aimed at kids, but between its myriad bonkers elements, the synth-heaven soundtrack, and my newfound desire to get a job painting backgrounds in 80s Romanian animation, this hits so many of my aesthetic sweet spots that I don't care.
This 14-liter serving of content paste is more professionally assembled than the last one, and has slightly better percussion-driven music cues and colour design than the average content paste. Mmmmm, content paste! Eat your whole serving so you can fully appreciate the next serving of content paste!
