MOTD : Mysterious Skin
If there's anything movies nowadays don't have enough of it's people who enjoyed being molested as a kid. And also questionable southern accents.
Lucky for those who agree with the above statement there's Mysterious Skin, the latest by Gregg Araki whom I only know from "Doom Generation" which, of course caused millions of boys (and probably Marylin Manson) to love Rose McGowan and fear getting their nards removed by Neo-Nazis. I haven't seen it for years but at the time I remember being amused, though I was heavily into J-horror and Takeshi Miike so a head still talking after it was chopped off was no biggie.
The film follows two boys, one who is missing large gaps of his memory and one (Joseph Gordon-Levitt who maybe can do no wrong) who can't get over how awesome it was his little league coach molested him. To be fair the guy is like a supermolester with Atari and those multi-packs of little cereals but still...heebie jeebies. No memory boy thinks he was abducted by aliens and wants to figure out more about that, Mo' memory boy wants to pal around with now Hot'n'Legal Harriet the spy and turn a lot of rough tricks in his small town. For all you X-files fans I'm sad to say the story is much more gay sex and less UFOs (though there is one).
Woo fan trailers!
But, if you want to see the kid from 3rd Rock from The Sun get sucked off by the "Jump to conclusions mat" guy from Office Space...well man are you in luck. Or if you want to see the kid from 3rd Rock from the sun realize he'd prefer to be a top than a bottom...also the film for you. Basically if you ever got a gayrection watching 10 things I hate about you you'll do fine.
Okay, really I'm being an ass. It was a pretty good movie. At least half the plot was inventive and unexpected (though the other half was obvious as fuck) the rest was well shot and acted. Araki seems to have a bit of a floaty, dreamy, comicbookey style that I can get down with ...especially in a pretty harsh story like this. It made the ridiculous extremes a little more tolerable. Still not sure if the outcome is kind of homophobic...but who am I to judge?
Overall I'd say...definitely if it's on t.v. or if someone else is paying for the rental. Probably nothing you have to own or spend more than like three bucks for but you wont rue the loss of the hour and a half.
Oh and as a side-note after a one day reprieve, I was again treated to various forms of rape. What is it with internet uploaders and rape-movies?
Cam
P.S. The word "Gayrection" and all related merchandising is copyrighted Camerontime productions 2007 (C)
If there's anything movies nowadays don't have enough of it's people who enjoyed being molested as a kid. And also questionable southern accents.
Lucky for those who agree with the above statement there's Mysterious Skin, the latest by Gregg Araki whom I only know from "Doom Generation" which, of course caused millions of boys (and probably Marylin Manson) to love Rose McGowan and fear getting their nards removed by Neo-Nazis. I haven't seen it for years but at the time I remember being amused, though I was heavily into J-horror and Takeshi Miike so a head still talking after it was chopped off was no biggie.
The film follows two boys, one who is missing large gaps of his memory and one (Joseph Gordon-Levitt who maybe can do no wrong) who can't get over how awesome it was his little league coach molested him. To be fair the guy is like a supermolester with Atari and those multi-packs of little cereals but still...heebie jeebies. No memory boy thinks he was abducted by aliens and wants to figure out more about that, Mo' memory boy wants to pal around with now Hot'n'Legal Harriet the spy and turn a lot of rough tricks in his small town. For all you X-files fans I'm sad to say the story is much more gay sex and less UFOs (though there is one).
Woo fan trailers!
But, if you want to see the kid from 3rd Rock from The Sun get sucked off by the "Jump to conclusions mat" guy from Office Space...well man are you in luck. Or if you want to see the kid from 3rd Rock from the sun realize he'd prefer to be a top than a bottom...also the film for you. Basically if you ever got a gayrection watching 10 things I hate about you you'll do fine.
Okay, really I'm being an ass. It was a pretty good movie. At least half the plot was inventive and unexpected (though the other half was obvious as fuck) the rest was well shot and acted. Araki seems to have a bit of a floaty, dreamy, comicbookey style that I can get down with ...especially in a pretty harsh story like this. It made the ridiculous extremes a little more tolerable. Still not sure if the outcome is kind of homophobic...but who am I to judge?
Overall I'd say...definitely if it's on t.v. or if someone else is paying for the rental. Probably nothing you have to own or spend more than like three bucks for but you wont rue the loss of the hour and a half.
Oh and as a side-note after a one day reprieve, I was again treated to various forms of rape. What is it with internet uploaders and rape-movies?
Cam
P.S. The word "Gayrection" and all related merchandising is copyrighted Camerontime productions 2007 (C)
posted by Cam at 1:20 AM
1 Comments:
After spending the last half hour eating a potato and reading reviews on your blogs I have decided that you are my favourite reviewer.
I especially like your review of Jane magazine.
I've missed your blog and didn't even know it. Where have I been all these months?
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