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I know it's a year or two old but .. Cecil B. Demented

rizla mission

14:20 / 12.03.02

Bought it on video yesterday.

Fuck me, what a great film!

Talk of it, if you will..

[ 12-03-2002: Message edited by: Rizla Year Zero ]

videodrome

14:31 / 12.03.02

Er, thought it was a bit crap, actually.

Liked the idea, but I have a difficult time with movies about movies, and as CBD went on, it wore really thin for me.

It just seemed kinda...pathetic, really. I mean, Waters didn't really manage to change the world, did he? It's all well and good to make a big joke film about destroying the mainstream and how those that attempt to do so invariably end up corrupted, etc., but...

I know that to some extent, I'm missing Water's point. I think it was meant to be taken a lot more lightly than I read it, but I can't help my own reaction to the film.

I will, however, try to refrain from going all goggy over Alicia Witt. At least in public.

rizla mission

14:52 / 12.03.02

quote:Originally posted by videodrome:
Er, thought it was a bit crap, actually.

Well, in the spirit of the film, that gives me license to shout at you a lot and shoot you a bit!

I loved the way it wore thin - the script could have been written in the pub in half an hour - it's brilliant! Utterly chaotic, thoughtless madness made with about 90% loony energy and crazed momentum for every 10% of common sense and film making savvy..

I mean, obviously as a film about revolutionary change it's ideology has more holes than a golf course .. but who the fuck cares when it's so much fun?

(and anyway, don't critics keep telling us that Water's films are deliberately shallow?)

I just loved it .. it reminded me of 'Kill Your Boyfriend' and of 'Mars Attacks!' and of Robert Rankin books and of .. everything good and right in the world, basically.

videodrome

15:20 / 12.03.02

I guess I just didn't have that much fun watching it. Waht it really needed was a guy in a trenchcoat with a saugage tied to his dick. In every scene.

Jackie Susann

20:52 / 12.03.02

Yeah, I thought it was pretty slight. A couple of years ago Waters was boasting that films like There's Something About Mary were influenced and to some extent made possible by his work, which might be true, but that's no reason to turn around and imitate it. Some of it is very good, but it holds together even worse than the early plotless messes.

ill tonic

09:47 / 13.03.02

quote: the script could have been written in the pub in half an hour

Uh-huh.

quote: ... thoughtless madness made with about 90% loony energy and crazed momentum for every 10% of common sense and film making savvy..

And that's why it sucks.

[ 13-03-2002: Message edited by: nightguard ]

The Monkey

09:47 / 13.03.02

I was under the impression that an inherent part of the mockery was the flimsiness of the plot and the revolutionary stance, that it wsa a lambasting of indy-movie posturing at the same time that it critiqued Hollywood.

Cherry Bomb

09:47 / 13.03.02

Demented FOR-EVAH!!!!

I actually thought it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it. I didn't change my life but it made some good points, and it was kind of a light-hearted romp, Waters-style.

ill tonic

23:35 / 13.03.02

quote: I was under the impression that an inherent part of the mockery was the flimsiness of the plot and the revolutionary stance, that it wsa a lambasting of indy-movie posturing at the same time that it critiqued Hollywood.

Nonetheless, that fact still doesn't save this flick from being crap.

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