Suicide Room (2011)

This is a rather strange request of a review that I recently received. This would not be the first foreign film I’ve reviewed, in fact my first review is of a foreign film called the Boss of It All. This film Suicide Room, aka Sala samobójców, is in great contrast from my experience from The Boss of it All.

The subject matter is fairly obvious from the title alone, and as slow as the pacing in this film is, it definitely took a rather mature look into suicide. Though the whole internet immersion aspect is more modern. Likewise, I somewhat expected this film to take a similar approach to other films where so much as a mention of a book suddenly means that the rest of the movie is centered on that book or taking quotes from that book. However, the mention of Hamlet served more of background to sell the point that the main character Dominik is from a prestigious family who expects nothing by brilliance from Dominik. At first, I was wondering what the film summary meant by “After suffering extreme humiliation at school”, because I could not see anything that would suggest that in the beginning. In all fairness, I have seen few films that would actually work up to the humiliation. Why do foreign films seem to get that it helps more to actually get to know the character before a said event which changes them better than American films? Though, most foreign films would probably never make it to American audiences without having proven themselves first.

So what’s this “extreme humiliation”? Gay shaming. That pretty much captures the whole issue. Okay, not really, but Gay shaming seems to be such a common theme of kids who are bullied in American films. Plus, call me an ignorant American all you want, but you just don’t expect so much of this from France. Especially given they’re considered one of the most LGBT friendly countries. My sources will be listed below, and yes, I took a lot at wikipedia first. Though, this McDonalds commercial might suggest that there’s still quite some room for confusion. I have a link below, yet I’m not so sold on how “real” it really is. Since there’s another version with a very similar tone, yet ends off with a line like “come as you are”. I’ll have that one linked with my other resources.

French McDonald’s Commercial

So most times than not, the gay shaming in most films are usually centered on superficial traits that really don’t have anything to do with any form of sexuality at all. Strangely enough, this one takes a similar approach to KickAss where the basis of the assumption is more about an interaction forced onto the character or at least believed to be. In KissAss’s case it was the apposed mugging that involved the removal of his clothing, and in Dominik’s case it involved a strange judo position that just involved questionable frontal grinding until Dominik had been brought to cum. Then the same kid who brought him to cum in the judo practice commence to cyberbully him. If you’re thinking to yourself, why is the kid who’s harassing him so immune to it, but Dominik is the center of a shit storm of targeted messages. So, excuse me if I’m not completely sold on the character Dominik despite his clearly confusing display with kissing a statue is gay. Though I don’t know that the film ever intended to say that anyways. Especially considering that the ending hows that he clearly has at least romantic attraction toward a female character. What, did the film just want to play that just didn’t meet the right one card? Or is it that the character jumped to it as a release of tension from who he use to call friends insisting that he is. Sure he kissed a guy in order to see two girls kiss, while drinking with that said group of friends.

I’m not even going to be the one to say that if this was a movie clearly intended for gays, or focused on a gay character it’s clearly not for me. The demographics of those who reported being gay or lesbian might be only 1.6 % within the United States, they do deserve a media that actually tries to reach out to them. It’s pretty much expected of me to say that I’m not interested in seeing a movie that’s focused on a gay couple. Hell, most of the time, I don’t even care for films featuring hetero- sexual romances. (I’m sure that I could get to that at some other time.)  I don’t really think that this population is necessarily under-represented right now, but I really don’t think they could do with continual complaining about whenever their sexuality happens to be represented in a film. Though, either Dominik is actually unaddressed as falling into a different category in terms of spectrums or so forth, the character is genuinely confused himself and frustrated to the point of acting out, or this is clearly one of those “meet the right one” stories.

But what about the actual “suicide room”? Well, I would say that it’s an interesting concept, but it’s really not. If anything, it serves more as an interpretive internet interaction with new found friends who are set to kill themselves for the injustices within their lives. The concept of the Suicide Room makes about as much sense as the chat room. It visualizes for use in a game like atmosphere. Apparently this game like atmosphere is actually expected to be much like an actual online video game, but I don’t even know if there is a signal one out there that allows nearly as many functions as this game allows, much less absolutely free to play. Though, the world works like I said as a plot point in looking at the feelings of Dominik as he’s trying to make sense of the crashing down world around himself struggling to find purpose in so much as the smallest things and investing all of that into online friend who support him in a time of psychological torment. Outside, Dominik is clearly acting out toward parents who are only expect results out of him despite his mental and physiological well-being, and partly so that they could use him to maintain status. Though it’s clear that his friends intend to only manipulate him to their own end, but by doing so, have been forced to face their actions in driving him to commit suicide himself.

I personally didn’t care for his film, but it’s far from a horrible film. I appreciate the effort involved in presenting a character driven to escapism of the internet due to the feeling of reality turning against him. Not much of this relates to me. Honestly, I’m finding the one lesson that I can learn from this is that putting a review off for two days of a movie that I really don’t care to watch again is not such a great idea when topped with consuming much of other media content and drinking Double English Ale. If there’s one thing to be taken from this. I’m not drinking Double English Ale or any variant of which ever again in my life. As promised, I have the links just below.

Wikipedia LGBT rights in France

Most gay friendly countries

McDonald’s “come as you are” Commercial

Wikipedia orientation demographics

 

Highlander The Source (2007)

The final of a long lived collection of movies and tv series starting in the late 80’s. The Highlander The Source the music video, I mean, The Highlander The Source the early 2000s superhero movie. Wait a minute, that’s not quite right either. However, watching the movie for myself made that too difficult to tell. I honestly thought that I would have far better to say about a movie that I personally enjoyed for so for the sake that it was laughable. Though at that time I was a young teen.

There’s so much wrong with this movie for the sake that none of the characters are actually developed any further than generalizations, the locations despite apparently being in possibly the modern world if not an apocalyptic setting of that said world is never revealed, wholes segments of the movie would break off into a music video that I’m surprised to not see anyone with a mic, the villain is an example of why Voldo from Soul Calibur will never get a movie about him, The Highlander is most definitely not the Highlander, and the basis of the movie hardly matches up with the rest of the series or even tries or leads toward the resolution in a respect full manner.

More about the villain, think about any character that likes to take anything you say sexually or otherwise perverse. Maybe you just have a friend who’s like that. In that case I am personally sorry for you. I remember laughing at the Guardian because of how strange the very way he talks sounded and the silly over the top gesture, but I begin to remember that that’s just how being a teenage is like. You find just about anything about sex humorous than it just starts to feel overused I guess. Now you can get on me about watching a rated R film at too young of an age for it, but I think a movie that would clearly serve teens yet is rated R is more of a let down. Though I have it on good authority that I would not be the only teen who just shrug at an R rating like it’s nothing. Plus we all know it’s only rated R so that the protagonist could have his mandatory sex scene with his new female companion. Something that I’m sure we would sorely miss if they happen to make one movie that goes without.There is an interesting twist with the Guardian that I will go into later.

First off, I know this is the 2000s, but not every male protagonist needs to be rocking the buzz cut. Could you image if Thor suddenly decided he needed a really short hair cut. Plus, if this is a matter of the protagonist modernizing with the civilization, then why wouldn’t he have done before? Likewise, his character changes severely from any of the Highlander movies for this. Where MacLeod had been caring and often sentimental toward his lost loved ones. Though the fact that talking about his long dead wife somehow lead to a sex scene in the first movie, I could be wrong about that.

The story insists that it’s about life rather than death, which is kind of a major contrast toward the past Highlander films where each resolution involved him breaking away from a peaceful life into a violent resolution of a problem. Though not once until the end does this plot device come up without sounding like his ex-wife is dissing him for not being able to reproduce. Oh, did I forget to mention that. Yeah, this time his past wife is still alive enough to have that she broke up with him because the strange downfall that Immortals are sterile. Though she’s somehow the way toward the path.

So alas we hit the resolution or at least the final portion of the film. In everyone movie past, “There can be only one.” has become a very popular phrase first express by a sociopathic immortal set on killing other Immortals so to absorb their life force without much explanation why. Personally my first thought would be that this is merely the ravings of a homicidal maniac justifying his killing sprees with a nonsensical slogan, however movies following up to that have insisted that, although varying as to what being only one actually means, “there can be only one” is commonly accepted by Immortals. This film attaches a whole different meaning to that than you must kill everyone else onto meaning to be the one to enter the source of the immortality to begin with and somehow become mortal by doing so. This begs so many questions when the Immortal somehow become more mortal and weak as they approach the source of their Immortality, yet regain it when within close proximity of that same source, then to lose all of it by entering the source depending on who it accepts. Now the Guardian is actually the last one who actually became the last remaining Immortal who manage to kill the Guardian. The twist is that killing is not the solution. How the hell do we get to that when every other time killing had been the solution when the protagonist’s hand has been forced. Plus there’s nothing to point at this version of Highlander would feel so merciful, and is just the “want nothing to do with it, yet goes along with it anyways” trope. Ultimately, nobody forced his hand to truly choose. I really feel like this movie could have sparred us the exposition dump at the end of this movie by make the character choices actually make sense in relation to this resolution.

Why am I in such a bad movie mood lately? I honestly hoped for the best of this film and yet it sucked. I’m not satisfied with solely say that this movie did poorly by not delivering so well on what could actually make this an interesting movie. I say that the reviser is the culprit here. Yeah, I could blame the writer, but this is clearly a first edit of an idea that only needed a good looking over to improve the quality greatly. I somehow doubt that the writer never thought to bring this movie script up to someone to look over thinking that this would be the best script ever. Though, I could be wrong and the writer acted overly protective against any form of criticism. However, I feel that whoever had been asked to revise felt too scared of hurting the writer’s feelings about saying anything negative about the script and just gave the thumbs up insisting that there’s nothing wrong with it. I see this done with Creative Writing majors as well. A little word of advise to take from this. Go to some one who will actually criticize you and give constructive pointers. If all they say is that it’s all shit or have absolutely no interest in what you are writing than you have the wrong kind of reviser. Likewise wrong if the reviser only ever gives you thumbs up on everything you write. I know it can be hard to find someone who actually breaks out the red/blue ink, but damnit, it needs to be done, and this film is the pinnacle of that need.

The Matrix Trilogy (1999,2003)

Yes, this is yet another Mock Review, but honestly, I would hope I still do a good enough job looking over movies without more of an objective means of hunting up pieces of major significant through the films rather than simply trying to rate them on their quality. On that note, I’m squeezing the Matrix Trilogy into one review. Why am I doing this? Is it because I see the trilogy as one big movie? No. Fair from it, despite this, I hope to look at the whole trilogy, but try to go over what insight that I can actually give that you cannot simply pull out of the Nostalgia Critic or Film Theory seeing how both of those fiends have torn at it, and still did excellent jobs while doing so, but clearly Rotten Tomatoes’ 73% rating of The Matrix Reload, well renowned as the most hated by fans,  has shown that I can’t rely so much on other reviewers to cover everything. Though, I still enjoy Film Theory’s concept that Agent Smith is The One, and it would explain the hell out of the trilogy given that they take the time to actually cap that snippet into the series.

The Matrix (1999)

This is the first of the Wachowski brothers’ projects while I could still correctly enough call them the Wachowski brothers. I would have probably covered that the once known as Laurence Wachowski has revealed that she is transgender and goes by the name of Lana Wachowski now. The fact that this movie had been a part of my childhood is probably proof in itself that I am a 90’s baby. When this movie came out into theaters it immediate struck accord with a large enough audience through intense actions scenes a shit ton of kodak camera’s for slow-mo effects and inspired many philosophies discussed within the movie pertaining to the Matrix as a false reality much like Maya is to Hinduism to a certain degree. However, the original alone focused far too much on the messiah imagery and in order to keep those intense actions scenes the lease bit plausible left a bumpy path of plot holes making any hopes of continuing the series while producing continually satisfying films a difficult journey. The basis of this film’s storyline pretty much capstones what everyone will remember from past 90s actions movies being a strange combination of “the new guy” story, and “criminal zero to salvation” story. I’m not going to criticize “the new guy” storyline too much since it typically makes sense to introduce a strangeness of a whole new world or reality being revealed onto us and using the character as an intermediary to better explore this strange new world much like Alice in Wonderland. In fact, that’s best defines this story, Alice in Wonderland. The movie really does little to make this analogy the lease bit obscure, in about the same way as explaining that Neo is the One. The White Rabbit, Mouse, and even the scene with the mirror where Neo wakes up from the Matrix is straight out of Alice in Wonderland. It’s no wonder with the popularity of this film that so many remakes and re-imaging of Alice in Wonderland has followed. However, this goes back to the whole leaving trails of plot holes so that they could shove in just as many intense scene as possible thing. This movie only served to be the most talked about movie of its time. It drops in philosophies without much explanation nor exploration into their inner meanings or how they could possibly become related toward everyday life. Unless the message is that I should go around shooting members of law enforcement convinced that they are somehow entrapping me to their pseudo-reality. I somehow every much doubt that.

Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Oh, the aforementioned over-rated film of the Matrix trilogy that serves as nothing more than a bridge-episode as I’ve mentioned in my SAW III review. First off, the first Matrix had a nice finish to it, and functioned more so as a philosophical introductory course without much exploration to what those philosophies even mean. This movie surprised me that Rotten Tomatoes. NO! That IMDb as well thought this movie was still serviceable at a 7 out of 10 range. Aside from having to endure awkward orgy scenes in a dystopian world that would make you think you’re looking at a 2010s teen fiction movie, This movie only brought the audience nothing more than what the fans have already talked about. First off, after introducing so many philosophies with endless speeches you’d think that there would be more exploration of those philosophies or even where did those beliefs come from and what might they mean to a society constantly under threat of annihilation. Likewise, now that we are finally introduced to the city Zion only mentioned in the first matrix without much more explanation than that’s where Tank and Bozo is from, they might have the movie take place in that city to give more of an idea of what all the resistance is fighting to protect. Rather this film leaving even more plot holes all over the place to make the road even rougher for anyone to fix, breaking off to unnecessary side quests after side quests, turning actions scenes into exports for exposition dumps and inserting little teasers about where the plot would be going for the third movie. I can understand why there might be some significance in asking why programs that are helping the human resistance are helping the human resistance to begin with might make sense at first glance. However, the resistance has been working with these AI’s who have continued helping them for a long time. generations long. You’d think at some point that they would have managed some intel about that already. The worst part about the plots holes they have left is that so many of them are simply and easy to fix that it would take next to no effort at all. Case and point, the scene where Neo exits a door to end up in the Himalayas and never so much as once thinks to turn back. Why? I mean, I guess it would make sense if the machines also managed to block off the way back with some firewall or force-shield, but none of the sort is so much as suggested. Even with that in mind, Seeing how we left off with Neo breaking the Matrix so that he’s as impervious to harm and limitations as superman, this little thing would mean absolutely nothing to him. Then there’s the final problem that this film might not attract past Matrix fans, Neo had to obtain his power and the threats in the past truly meant either his life or death. Now, He’s superman. Nothing means anything to him the moment he’s in the matrix.  I really don’t know how much more I would like to go on about this. This film is well known for the introduction of The Core who takes long winded speaks to a whole new level with SAT words that not even the SAT would expect you to know. For Those of us who could make out what he had been saying, this is a rather intriguing scene, otherwise it’s like you just got dumped into an advanced Philosophies class already 7 chapters into a book. You would have know idea where he had been coming from, nor what he had been hinting at. Though, I personally always wanted to see a parody of this scene that just stuck a giant donut in his place. Would rainbow sprinkles be too much you thing?

Matrix Revelations (2003)

The first issue that comes to mind with this movie is that, well the first two issues that comes to mind with this movie are that, this movies is clearly where all the actual effort is placed seeing how both of the sequels have been clearly made far too close toward one another to possess much effort in both of them, and that this film would rely on the audience wanting to watch Matrix Reload to actually get the full picture. There are still other issues with the movie, yet I find the complaints against it clearly visualizing Neo as the messiah as the most absurd. Of course they’re going to go that direction. They have been going that direction with The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. Why would anyone think at this point that expect that would somehow change? This movie clearly suffered from the load of plot holes left by its prior brethren, but I think the sudden increase load of character introduced as if we should already know them from the video games made off of the first movie really harmed this movie. Likewise, the sudden introduction of giant military grade weapons where pilots would cruise around in order to shot up at swarms of machines came out of no where. Matrix Reload tried too much to look like the lone sequel that focused far too much on an already explored medium of the series called the matrix than where the hell would this seemingly technologically screwed population could possibly possess these giant machines. You know what, why am I even questioning an obvious marketing ploy for new action figures. First the revenue from movie watchers than the revenue from merchandise.

To wrap this look over of the trilogy up, I still enjoyed myself with the trilogy while I was quite a bit younger. However, with rumors about potential expansions upon The Matrix Trilogy going around, I feel I should reconsider that mark of approval. If they could manage to create enjoyable sequels than I would be fully behind that, yet the fact that there’s a rumored Matrix 4 and 5 being disgusted. I fear that these sequels would not add much more than what the last sequels had to offer. This really didn’t turn out to be such a positive mock review, but I can’t simply give the mark of approval to every film with an idea, I guess.

Inside Out (2015)

PIXAR DID IT RIGHT. That fact that Pixar could make a good movie isn’t necessarily in question right now. I also cannot lie, I’ve been having high expectations for Inside Out and the movie met them through and through. Now, yes Pixar is already famous and not exactly a small company either. They even had their fair share of milking profitable movies with sequels after sequels on Toy Story, Tarzan and even a Monster Uni to follow Monster Inc. Now, despite all the positive reviews that Inside Out has receive, I remained in question of whether or not the movie could stand to those standard since as sad as it is to say, a lot of reviewers are thumps up whores. They will very willingly project a positive review on a horrible movie such as Dreamwork’s Home. Maybe they just know how to get out of watching a movie that they know will be bad. Or perhaps they fear giving a negative review ever now and then might scare people away from their reviews. Regardless, I wish to discuss where Inside Out triumph over Home.

Both of course are children films so the expectations are lowered by most people upon that accord. I feel that this has only allowed a crutch for lazy writing and needs to be addressed. To start with, I loved Inside Out in about the same way that I loved watching Arthur as a kid on pbs. Instead of avoiding personable hardships by either drowning them with pop music or party breakouts, Arthur like Inside Out places the audience in the character’s shoes by giving them a look into how the said character feels and allows for a real connection of the characters and a genuine acceptance of their personable importance. As far as comedy goes, I feel that I agree with Lanipator (member of TeamFourStar and producer of Yu Yu Hakusho abridged) that the comedy is made to go along with the storyline rather than a distraction from the story. I do however disagree with him on one account. In Lanipator’s Movie Vlog posted on his own channel, Lanipator states that the set perimeters of the movie’s mechanics have been broken when Joy can suddenly retrack on the sadness of the memories in order to view them from the Sad point and the Joyful point when she couldn’t earlier. I can understand what Lanipator means by that, and I am happy to see that he didn’t feel that it was so much as a breaker of the story due to the amount of strong points that would counteract it. I will state that it is fair to say that Joy sudden possessing the ability to retrack and play through like that is sudden and not so well explained. Up to that point it is hinted that although Sadness and Joy act as almost complete opposites, joy and sadness can work together or even have sadness lead toward happiness rather it was only a matter of accepting that you fell sad and to allow yourself the time to embrace that emotion as yours. That the moment that Joy possessed this ability, she herself felt overwhelmed with sadness more a moment and proceeded to vent that allowing herself to let out the stress. I could be wrong and possibly protecting bad writing, but even if that’s the case, I feel safe to fall back on Lanipator’s statement that the movie is strong storywise enough to not dwell on that mistake. As for Home… Let just say that it’s only about being HAP-HAP-HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HOW DARE YOU FEEL ANYTHING ELSE JUST FEEL HAP-HAP HAPPY! [allow for break for breathing.]

I don’t mean that I hate movies that are about being happy, just when it’s about being not except feeling happy. I tire so much of films with flimsy detail to story or disregard to message that I feared that this was the future of cinema. Nothing but shit movies because people cannot afford to accept Realism as anything more than Pessimism. That’s the concept I would like to press on right now. Realism. For those of you who paid attention to your High School English Class probably remember that Realism is form of literature made popular in the 1930s or more specifically the Great Depression while movies projected nothing except Escapism. John Steinbeck is a famous example for his book of Mice and Men portraying two people who desperately look for work with dreams of owning their own land some day. I recommend reading the book yourself if you haven’t, but the idea of Realism is fiction used as a reflection of reality. This wasn’t actually a new concept for that time period, Edgar Allan Poe in his late years of Gothic Fiction also served as a strong proponent of that idea in more of a cruel some manner. However, a reflection of reality wasn’t originally his ideal either and nor did it need to revolve around grisly works or depressing attitudes. In fact, Miguel De Cervantes, a Spanish Satirist writer during the Spanish Inquisition era and writer of Don Quijote De La Mancha, coined the concept that fiction is indeed lies but lies that can be used to tell the truth. To me, the main two prospects that makes up fiction are fantasy and reflection/perspective.Some works are almost completely reflection/perspective such as Political Cartoons while others are almost completely fantasy such as story week pornography. You very well may differ in preference, but I like a somewhat medium mixture of fantasy and reflection leaning more toward the reflection side of things. I’m more for message that’s presented well toward the audience than material that’s clearly meant to pander but there are weaknesses toward that statement. None of which I care to discuss at this moment. (Okay Parody mostly.)

All and all, the story followed a young girl whose family moved and the sudden change has taken her off guard and rather than accepting and admitting that the whole is a major change for her, she struggles to make it nothing but joyful. However, her struggle to adapt to the sudden change has left her in a state of fear, anger and disgust. I feel that the use of personifying the characteristics opened the audience to what’s going on in her head to follow a shift in attitude. The movies deals with a real life issue that any kid could be dealing with and tells them it’s okay to be sad. Sadness will not only keep leading into more sadness. It’s a natural part to who we are.

Idiocracy (2006)

It’s been a while since I’ve done a mocked review. That’s no mistake. Aside from SAW films, I’ve been watching X-Files after X-Files, gaming and editing/producing videos which rely on this and that. I’ve not produced much of anything in terms of value, but works really takes up a lot of that time for that extra effort. Too, I think that I wanted to wait on actually typing another one. Well, the tradition continues with another comedy called Idiocracy, this of which is a satire. 20th century Fox always know how to make me laugh by distributing content that obviously goes against their news broadcasting politically. Don’t get me wrong,

writer Mike Judge with Judgemental Films did a good job with this. However, I couldn’t help but notice a very Democratic perspective on the story.

At first, it’s left to the imagination that it could be unrelated to American politics or at least on more neutral ground. Depending on how you feel about IQ tests. Due to the ability of low scorers to reproduce by pure mistake to an extensive amount while those scoring higher IQs struggle to actually produce an offspring. The overall results in rewarding the idiots, I guess, through Darwinism. The story starts us with a man, of average attribute around the board, who is told that he has to move from a very inactive job. Sadly, the guy cannot dodge this as he’s talked into going into a hibernated sleep to awaken within a year. Seeing how the military couldn’t find a woman with a similar set as himself within the military. They find a prostitute off of an Upgrayedd (spelled exactly like that, they even broke it down). I have to say, she doesn’t appear to behave so intellectually as the guy Joe. However, the fact that he couldn’t catch onto her heavy hints of her actually occupation, I feel that the two match a little more closely than I figured. Well, there’s a mistake and the project is sweep leaving the two in hibernation for 500 years to awaken to a dystopian future. Why must every future be a dystopian? Dystopia is such a versitile genre that’s already worped into loosing all meaning. Part of that is because a dystopia is easier to write. someone might ask, “How do I make a story about a strong teenage girl that people can relate to yet goes through some struggle that others feel they can’t do?” and the answer is often the same “Oh, I know, Dystopia. Why even bother relating it to anything. Just make it a dystopia. Social issues actually related to modern society. Nope. Just a Dystopia. Actually have a dystopia reflect personal virtues and values and pushed to the extremes? Nope, let’s just make it a dystopia. People will be too busy jacking off at the fact that a strong female character is presented to even care about the setting.” As you can tell, I’m not such a big fan of the new dystopian teen fiction pieces that seems to hit the theaters by storm. With that aside, I can say that I approve to the message seen in what this dystopian is used to reflect. I also enjoyed a touch of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine reference. Hell the whole thing feels like a Time Machine reference without the seclusive intelligent people.

About that reference, Joe has found that the people no longer speaks the English language as he remembered it. In fact, this felt like a hint of democratic party bashing republican demographics by having the speak be some blend of Hillbilly, redneck and valley girl. There’s also a disturbing change in Starbucks policy, and really how Starbucks is used in general. It turns out that generations going by brought on a hypersexualized civilization. Personally this could either be seen as a cautious tale of paying attention to things that should matter over excessive vocalization of sexual urges or an offense toward people by relating an individuals obsession with sex toward intelligence. Eh, now that I got that out there, the chances that could offend someone without being backed up firmly doesn’t sound like such a big issue. It’s established as an obsession, and really any obsession is going to cause short-comings in other areas of oneself. Hell, this could be a message of stupidity caused by an obsession with sex, since that seems to be such a big message in this movie. Regarding the bashing of the republican party being bashed, the survival of truck rally which are normally associated with the republican party may have something to do with that, but I think Fox news strutting a shirtless muscular anchorman and a large breasted anchor woman who makes an effort to show as much as possible might be a massive hint. I guess somethings never change. The highlight is very special, seeing how they presented a fabricated description of the events in a childish manner, and heavy opinionated at that. I don’t know that anyone could do a better job at showing what I see whenever someone tries to make me watch FOX news any better.

I still recommend this movie, and wonder why they didn’t join other news networks into the mix as well. Hopefully the FOX news thing doesn’t discourage anyone. I’m still trying to figure out if 20th century FOX simply hates FOX news or likes trolling them. Please comment.

Kung Pow: Enter The Fist

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, digital insertion spoof

By NekoTheLazyGamer

In this particular case, I’m going over “The Chosen Edition” of Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. The content is rated PG-13 for reasons that you would apparently need a magnifying glass to read. In this case, “for comic violence, crude and sexual humor”. The 2002 movie incorporates the same graphical insertion of characters used in Forest Gump. This innovation doesn’t count for much on its own, but there’s that other part spoofs. To answer what is a spoof, pretty much a parody or taking of any story to reshape in a comical manner would best describe it. Kung Pow really isn’t made for anyone who might feel sensitive to say eyeballs sticking to the end of a guy’s fingers with him screaming until blood starts to burst out from the side of his neck. It’s not a common site in the movie, but it’s what they mean by crude humor. I do not doubt you might notice other parody writers more specifically on YouTube take inspiration from this. The obvious is YouTube Poop’s taking of scenes from a movie and rearranging them so to form comedic retellings of the same story. Seeing how Kung Pow actually takes from a 70s Hung Kung film and digitally inserts the director. I happen to be a fan of the work as a simple enjoyment. It’s a film that rewards those who pays attention to careful detail which I appreciate. Some watch it and might not notice that the master has his students saying lines like “sexual preferences are our own business” and “one of us is wearing a push-up bra” while preforming stances. The great and powerful evil Betty is a noteable individual for his quirkiness in strange selections for battle music such as “baby’s got back” and “can’t touch this”, which is a feat that I feel Lanipator added onto his Yu Yu Hakusho abridged series. Other qualities and traits I notice about Betty seems to influence other abridged anime parody producers such as Lanipator, LittleKuriboh and TeamFourStar; yet it’s not certain that these individual actually saw the movie. Betty’s clear uncertainty in why he actually does anything for bad and overtaken into taunting seems to be a common trait in spoof villains. The film contains some content that can be questionably animal cruelty, if the cow didn’t like so horribly CGI. Specially, one would punching at the cow’s utters and even milking the cow until it’s severely dehydrated.

I give this film the dark goofy horse award. This film dapples in some really dark humor that’s not likely to be so popular yet in such a goofy way.

The Boss of it All, Reverse Parody

NekoTheLazyGamer

Without a doubt, this was what I found to be the most unique form of comedy I’ve ever seen. I would say that it fits the genre as well as a screwdriver in place of a nail. There’s no universal concept of humor, true. However, there is a core principle of comedy that forms a diving line between comedy and psychological.

Take the rawest form of comedy for example, slapstick. We see a character put through a ton of agony and misery without feeling anything for the character. That’s the core principle to comedy, the creation of irregularity void of emotional connection. This doesn’t have to be sadistic by nature, solely abnormal or irregular, so long as we maintain some distance. The film itself doesn’t need to be void of emotional connection only the comedy in which we are intended to laugh at. This is why I question whether or not this film appropriately falls under the category, because although to face what we laughed at. That being the psychological perspective.

Since the very start the film breaks the four wall to appear distant from the course of events. Yet, the pacing is slow versus how a comedy is meant to run. Despite the narrator’s assurance that the film’s nothing more than a comedy, it’s clear the film takes a different direction overtime. Yes, the film has funny parts at the start, since “the boss of it all” has been introduced to his employees see him for the first time.

As the story unfolds, there’s a realization of Kristopher’s role. Those comical moment the audience laughed start to shed a new light and an understanding. Like the film intend to take a darker tone to a light-hearted medium. I don’t know that there’s a word for this, but reverse-parody comes to mind. By definition, a parody is a form of comedy that take a lighter tone on what would be a more serious matter, or a lighter take  on a more serious story/genre. The reason I refer to The Boss Of It All as a reverse-parody, the film sets up as to poke fun at comedy, it takes a more sincere and emotional connection to the character who revealed little to nothing about themselves.

That’s what I mean that this is the strangest form of comedy to me, because it’s not detached. It appears detached at the beginning, yet focuses on understanding the circumstances and consequences as they proceed. It’s almost like the director intended the audience to question how we look at comedy, in fact I’m willing to bet on that.

Not a picture perfect film, I felt there was a scene or so that could have been dealt without a sex scene for example. I too feel the false advertisement ought to count against it. To claim this as a comedy feels out-of-play as thought-provoking as it is. Just take a look at the cover, nothing about the cover would imply any intention to be taken seriously. I would almost expect something like office space.

The amount of jump-cuts also bothered me. I have yet to see how jump-cuts wouldn’t feel distracting or out of place. I can’t say the film left me dissatisfied. I have nothing against the content, but it would feel difficult to tell someone to go watch this film. Right-fully so. If I were to tell someone what to expect from it, and showed them the DVD, I would likely get a funny look for it. Part of my issue is the conclusion, it simply left me awestruck in a horrid way, and left such a bad taste. I grant this the Screwdriver-Nail Award, because the film contains ounces of comedy but simple doesn’t fit.