2010 Directed by Quentin Dupieux
A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.
Thomas F. Duffy David Bowe Stephen Spinella Roxane Mesquida Jack Plotnick Wings Hauser Ethan Cohn Charley Koontz Daniel Quinn Devin Brochu Hayley Holmes Haley Ramm Cecelia Antoinette Remy Thorne Tara Jean O'Brien Pete Dicecco James Parks Courtenay Taylor Blake Robbins Michael Ross Gaspard Augé Pedro Winter
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Film #17 of 'It's June Jim, but not as we know it.'
The first 30 minutes or so I really felt that this was going to be my kind of weird. I loved the bizareness of the opening and the subsequent monologue. The first babysteps of the killer tyre were wonderful, but somewhere in the back of my mind a small voice was already starting to whisper things about this being too thin a concept for a full movie. I hate that voice because it's usually right.
An homage to 'No reason'. Starting your film by saying that it will have reason doesn't really give you the right to make it an unnecessarily boring one, devoid of any creativity or…
29/31: inanimate killer object
I love movies about inanimate killer objects, they are literally one of my favorite sub-genres so I was expecting to like this more than I did and it was decent, but nothing as great as I was hoping for. I think my biggest issue is that it just wasn’t as crazy as I was hoping it would be. It’s very meta, like really really extra meta, almost too meta, and it comes off as a bit pretentious and the thing is, I just feel like if your name is Quentin Dupieux that maybe you should be making a concerted effort to not make a movie that seems pretentious? I mean, right?
Parts of this…
Sort of a nice concept but completely wears thin and pops after about 30 minutes. This thing is not the awesome piece of genre fare that it could've been. Would've worked great as a short. Seriously, the novelty of watching a tire shake for a second and then seeing a head explode starts to really lose its lustre after the 15th take. Boring boring boring.
"Absolutely no reason." -That Guy at the Beginning,
Stop talking!!!!!
The scenes featuring a tire going around the countryside learning to love murder are, quite frankly, some of the most amazing scenes I have seen in film... they are funny and ridiculous and creative. Because of this movie I had a fever, and the only prescription was even more tire scenes but instead we got lots of scenes with people talking and I really didn't like the talking after the first ten minutes or so of the film. Going super meta is harder than it looks and when meta fails it tends to fail hard for me. So I'm conflicted, I in fact laughed out loud at multiple parts of…
Film #13 in Driver’s December Death Penalty AKA The December Project , which is part of Cinebro's The December Challenge. 1 month, 100 movies.
85 minutes
"Ladies, gentlemen, the film you are about to see today is an homage to the "no reason" - that most powerful element of style." - Lieutenant Chad
This is probably the oddest re-watch I've ever had. While my friend kept looking across at me, baffled, I just kept telling him that he was never going to get it, and that he should just stop asking questions and enjoy it for what it was. He calmed down, but didn't enjoy it at all. Personally, I loved it.
In fact, I love every inch of this.…
THIS IS EXACTLY MY KIND OF DUMB FUCKING MOVIE
move over tarantino there's a new quentin in town.... quentin dupieux...
Sick of the same ole same ole, well maybe its time to cleanse your movie palate with something totally off the wall! This flick is the answer to all that ails you! Its irreverent, quirky, original and it's so out there it will reinvigorate your movie watching soul!
I love the subtle and not so subtle tongue in cheek commentaries on the film industry and it's audience!
Robert's (Tire) effervescent personality and wide range of acting skills should have won him an Oscar! ;)
I'm all for absurdity, but I don't think I've ever seen a movie so actively hate anyone fool enough to watch it.
Rubber tries to be about something stupid but really about something more, yet whatever that 'more' is just feels like an empty and general meta-ness that kind of touches on spectatorship without saying much about it.
However I really liked the individual scenes. I felt like it was all pretty pointless but the parts worked
I’m ashamed it took me so long to get around to watching Rubber, and had I realised the director Quentin Dupieux’s alter ego was Mr Oizo, and that it was an absurdist meta-satire of film and audience expectations, it wouldn’t have taken nearly as long.
Dupieux takes on the role of not only director, but writer, cinematographer and editor, and also contributes to the score. It’s a Shane Carruth level of auteurism, and whilst the two men’s styles couldn’t be more dramatically different, Dupieux has instantly catapulted his work onto my must-watch list with this feature. It’s simply confident and accomplished in every department.
Rubber won’t be everybody’s cup of tea, but I would highly recommend it to fans of the absurdist work of Luis Buñuel, Yorgos Lanthimos and some of the output of Adult Swim. It’s a fantastically funny commentary on the substance of movie narrative and content and how it is consumed.
Film # 5/30 of Scavenger Hunt 4!
Task # 19 A Film About Inanimate Objects Killing Humans!
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Following one of the most random pre credit openings I've ever seen, a lonely tyre with psychokinetic powers wakes up in the desert one morning and decides to go on a murderous rampage. A little unsteady on his tread to start with, he soon gets the hang of the whole rolling malarkey and sets off on his mission to watch the world burn.
A character states at the very beginning that some of the biggest films in history have no reason for some of the decisions they make, why was E.T. brown? why don't characters use the bathroom in The Texas Chainsaw…
