Saturday, July 21, 2007
EDGED OUT
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
Fucked up kids and clueless, mostly absent parents.
One of the kids kills his girlfriend; "dunno why".
The rest look at her body and then generally avoid feeling.
I just looked it up.
As a social document, it is pretty pessimistic.
As a film, it is interesting but not so much.
I liked seeing the young Keanu Reeves for the wrong, non-artistic reasons.
Crispin Glover gives a wild performance as an uppers freak.
As usual, Dennis Hopper shows up as the only stable adult the kids have to go to.
That is how fucked up they are.
I am so over Dennis Hopper but this was 20 years ago, although I think I was over him then too.
There is an incredibly annoying 12 year old in this picture also doing a 12 year old's impersonation of a thug. He is a nasty little bastard and I hope I never see him again.
It also has Ione Skye (Leitch) who was John Cusack's girl in Say Anything. She is annoying too.
I guess this is going to get a 2 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
