Valeyard
Retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
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Whoa. I have to check that out. It could be some quality awkward unintentional humor.
Speaking of:
--River's Edge was a movie I'd wanted to see for a while now for a lot of reasons. Based on the reviews of the time, it not only doesn't hold up but is the direct opposite of what people were saying. Dennis Hopper is great, Daniel Roebuck should have broken out based on his performance, and Keanu isn't even really that bad. It even has a random Taylor Negron appearance! But, and I say this as someone who enjoys the hell out of the guy, Crispin Glover ruins this movie. He's absolutely hilarious as only he can be, making him 100% wrong for the role, and his performance needs to be seen because it just is from something else entirely. As a movie itself the writing isn't very good, the characters are all awful, there's some laughably bad moments straight out of stuff like Bully, and the movie can't decide what tone it wants. It feels like something David Lynch could've made perfectly, though, because it has moments where the tone feels very Lynch to me. But man. Hopper as a paranoid murderer on the run with one leg in love with a sex doll, though, is wonderful.
--Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a masterpiece no one talks about. I get it, it's one of the most bleak and darkest things you can find, but Rooker is awesome and it hits all the notes better than you could hope. Not many movies make me feel that level of gross, and lord knows I've seen movies that make the subject matter infinitely more fucked up, but the performance and tone of the whole thing is what makes it. By far the most unlikely prequel Mallrats has.
--So there's True Grit in 1969 (one of my lifelong favorites), its sequel Rooster Cogburn in 1976, and then True Grit in 2010. No one talks about the 1978 TV movie sequel True Grit: A Further Adventure starring Warren Oates. This is extremely justified and I feel an asshole for finally watching it after all these years.
Speaking of:
--River's Edge was a movie I'd wanted to see for a while now for a lot of reasons. Based on the reviews of the time, it not only doesn't hold up but is the direct opposite of what people were saying. Dennis Hopper is great, Daniel Roebuck should have broken out based on his performance, and Keanu isn't even really that bad. It even has a random Taylor Negron appearance! But, and I say this as someone who enjoys the hell out of the guy, Crispin Glover ruins this movie. He's absolutely hilarious as only he can be, making him 100% wrong for the role, and his performance needs to be seen because it just is from something else entirely. As a movie itself the writing isn't very good, the characters are all awful, there's some laughably bad moments straight out of stuff like Bully, and the movie can't decide what tone it wants. It feels like something David Lynch could've made perfectly, though, because it has moments where the tone feels very Lynch to me. But man. Hopper as a paranoid murderer on the run with one leg in love with a sex doll, though, is wonderful.
--Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a masterpiece no one talks about. I get it, it's one of the most bleak and darkest things you can find, but Rooker is awesome and it hits all the notes better than you could hope. Not many movies make me feel that level of gross, and lord knows I've seen movies that make the subject matter infinitely more fucked up, but the performance and tone of the whole thing is what makes it. By far the most unlikely prequel Mallrats has.
--So there's True Grit in 1969 (one of my lifelong favorites), its sequel Rooster Cogburn in 1976, and then True Grit in 2010. No one talks about the 1978 TV movie sequel True Grit: A Further Adventure starring Warren Oates. This is extremely justified and I feel an asshole for finally watching it after all these years.
