I couldn't stop talking about this movie for at least an hour after seeing it with 6 of my friends. There's a quality that the movie has that made me laugh uproariously at how awkward the entire movie was. My friend and I were in tears, and we kept cheering for the actors throughout the movie.
That being said, the movie is notoriously bad. The special FX birds and gore were an afterthought, the sound was either muddled or rerecorded ADR in a studio with different actors, some of the shots went on for way too long, the direction of the actors was jarring and made the characters feel creepy towards each other, the plot is an abomination, and every step these characters take, you're screaming at them as the audience, "what are you doing?!" The main blonde actress has been interviewed about the film where she explained that the director would often run out of money and call them back to shoot scenes randomly.
I had a great time watching it, though. My 5-stars I'm giving this goes towards the quality of the experience watching the movie. It's not a good movie, but it's a great cult movie with a misguided, heartfelt message that only the director can understand. And that's fine. Lost Highway and El Topo were confusing to me, yet those movies remain cult classics. Maybe it's the fact we were watching a couple older John Waters films beforehand, but EVERYONE who has streaming video and is on the internet today in 2012 has had to have at least heard the legend this movie has behind it. I think it's worth upgrading the stars on the film to get more of a reputation for how insane this movie is instead of focussing on the lowered quality of the production.
That being said, the movie is notoriously bad. The special FX birds and gore were an afterthought, the sound was either muddled or rerecorded ADR in a studio with different actors, some of the shots went on for way too long, the direction of the actors was jarring and made the characters feel creepy towards each other, the plot is an abomination, and every step these characters take, you're screaming at them as the audience, "what are you doing?!" The main blonde actress has been interviewed about the film where she explained that the director would often run out of money and call them back to shoot scenes randomly.
I had a great time watching it, though. My 5-stars I'm giving this goes towards the quality of the experience watching the movie. It's not a good movie, but it's a great cult movie with a misguided, heartfelt message that only the director can understand. And that's fine. Lost Highway and El Topo were confusing to me, yet those movies remain cult classics. Maybe it's the fact we were watching a couple older John Waters films beforehand, but EVERYONE who has streaming video and is on the internet today in 2012 has had to have at least heard the legend this movie has behind it. I think it's worth upgrading the stars on the film to get more of a reputation for how insane this movie is instead of focussing on the lowered quality of the production.