not to be that thirsty bitch but i want to liquify rotoscope gta looking keanu reeves and inject him into my veins heroin-style

my first linklater movie ever & uh probably my last

EDIT: THAT'S A LIE I FORGOT ABOUT SCHOOL OF ROCK

EDIT 2: I WATCHED THE BEFORE TRILOGY & NOW WHOLEHEARTEDLY FORGIVE HIM FOR THIS MESS I'M SORRY RICHARD

the latin for “make” is “facere” which always reminds me of “fuckere” which is latin for “to fuck”. and i haven’t been getting SHIT in that department lately. 

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According to a quote from Asher's Review Anyone whom didn't like or can't appreciate this film are nothing but a bunch of shape shifting albino lizard bitches!

So I'm here to confess I AM nothing but a shape shifting albino lizard bitch! And shape shifting albino lizard bitches cannot live on style alone! We need things like flies, insects, grubs and other things of substance like CONTENT! Which in my opinion there was very little of as the film progressed!

It is amusing, dark and trippy! It simply didn't ring my chimes!

This movie intoxicating and wacky

That’s my review

Scanner? I barely know her!
And don't call me Darkly!

kill me

Perhaps the most indescribably evocative film ever made, functioning on both an emotive and formal level, it's a comedy until it stops being funny. Linklater's achievement is essentially unmatched in the medium of animation.

scavenger hunt #56

animated keanu is perhaps my new favourite thing

People who don't like - or can't appreciate - this film are nothing but a bunch of shape-shifting-albino-lizard-bitches!

"A Scanner Darkly" is about Bob Arctor, an undercover agent, who is on a mission to investigate groups involved in the drug trade. In the process, he becomes a drug addict and tries to protect his secret identity.

THIS. MOVIE. MELTS. YOUR. FUCKING. BRAIN.

The animation is great but it's seldom distracting, and I think Both "Waking Life" and this have awesome animation. The performances are also great, Keanu Reeves gave one of his best performances of the 2000s, Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr are very hilarious, and most of the cast are well-performed. The cinematography and editing are impressive. The writing in this movie is fun, the jokes and dialogue are incredible, and the characters are astonishing. And Linklater's directing is fantastic.

However, I have a couple of issues with this movie. The storytelling is extremely convoluted that I just used IMDb for the plot synopsis, and the storyline... well it's disappointing for me.

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Love the use of rotoscope to create a trippy sci-fi feel with a small budget. Reminds me a lot of Godard's Alphaville in the sense that it creates a "sci-fi world" with nothing, except this definitely comes out looking far better by using the stylistic technique.

In a lot of ways it also feels like Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, especially in how it starts off with the bugs.

Really interesting movie, and honestly, I could see myself coming back to it and appreciating it even more next time.

There’s a moment in this where Keanu Reeve’s character is having a bit of a moment and we are thrown in to his point of view as the objects around him distort and warp as reality becomes twisted before his eyes and it was in this moment that I was truly able to see how horrifying not being able to trust your own mind would really be.

‘’The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.’’
                                                            -Philip K. Dick

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

defo the best PKD adaptation

Possibly Linklater's most genius achievement, ironically an extremely faithful adaptation of a P.K. Dick short story. Ticks all the boxes for 'films Sam likes a lot' including

- Hard sci-fi
- Bizarre visual style
- Narrative ambiguity
- Enigmatic performances
- Alex Jones cameo out of nowhere

I wish this style of rotoscoping was more common, I feel like it emphasizes performances which are already good by drawing a weird kind of attention to little details in behaviour that otherwise would go unnoticed if viewed via live action. Plot-wise it would be missable (trainspotting if one of them was an undercover cop), but so stylised it's definitely worth absorbing.

Or if you don't care about that, worth watching to see Alex Jones get tasered and thrown in the back of a police van.

me: lol that dude with the megaphone looks like alex jones
[50 minutes later]
me: jesus christ that was alex jones.

In the two hours of mindfuck I just watched, I can’t even tell you what topped the list of mindfucks.

Uncanny valley vibes.

Got much better as it went on. The actors still covey really good performances despite being animated. The animation style was pretty good too. It looked really realistic but allowed for some more fantastical elements to exist. The ending tied everything together satisfyingly.

I was enormously giddy for all of ten seconds when there’s only a single degree of separation between Woody Harrelson and the band June of 44. All the non-June of 44 parts were pretty good too.

I still think of all the things Linklater has done, nothing else comes even close to the Before Trilogy. Not Boyhood, not Dazed and Confused, not School of Rock. This one is no exception to that. With the interesting cast and striking animation it’s probably worth of a watch, but still I somehow felt a bit disengaged.

Most people are not ok, and their slackin because the job ain’t done!
Fill’in up on the poison nut,
And getting down to the dawn.