If you look at the writing credits first, you'll know about what to expect. Much like The Interview, it's trying to be as offensive as possible, and it often succeeds. Some of it is laugh-out-loud funny, and other parts are just too try-hard. It's amusing to have a Pixar-looking movie be as raunchy as this, but for me... I think I'd rather forego the cartoony smiles and bright songs for more grit. There's some occasional grit in Sausage Party, but I wanted more.
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Where the Day Takes You 1992
This hit a little different on this viewing than the first viewing. Even though I still love the concept and the cast (the giving amazing early 90’s cast, I should say) and some of the execution, it just feels so Hollywood. Imagine this movie directed by [insert any fringe filmmaker here] and think about how cool it would be then.
I picked this out to show my girlfriend because I thought something that was riffing on similar themes as a project she’s germinating would be inspirational, but I’m not sure it had quite that effect.
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The Rules of Attraction 2002
In high school I read American Psycho, on the recommendation of a woman in Connecticut I met in an AOL chatroom when I was 13 and thought I was in love with. I was thrilled by the book for all the wrong reasons, knowing so little about affluence and the elements of the 1980's that it was satirizing, just enjoying the graphic descriptions of murder and the absurdity of chapters about Huey Lewis and such. I would later, after a…
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