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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Oh, not the Carpenter
Movie is piece of crap. To start of with, its full of goofs right from the beginning.I can close my eyes to "They gave him pencil, without precautions of him suicide", but "Lighting Flash comes up in the closed room" is just intolerable, especially for such director as John Carpenter.
Okay, what did i expected from that movie? I thought that was from the period when John grew up, and made horror about insanity and hallucinations.
He didn't grew up.In fact, he became stupider.Movie starts of protagonist in asylum, telling how he ended up here. Sheesh, just like in 50s, really? And here he using cheap tricks to "convince" us how "Insane" he is.Look! I am insane, that must mean something, are you intrigued yet?
But then what, after flashback to the past again cheap tricks to prove how cool he is as a detective.(YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!)
Then we meet that editor woman.Styles or something.Again shitty stereotype of stony bitch, that become flat in danger.Blah blah blah.
Then something happens, it ends.Look, i made the movie. I didn't actually watched it to the end, but i guess i know what would be.
Three.
American Hot Wax (1978)
Movie exists
The thing is about movies like that, that they always give illusion of being good.The only people to give review of this are the only people who actually bothered to see it, and mostly liked it due to ... air pressure anomaly of some sort.
To start of, this is that kind of "Mess around" movie, which is basically around nothing, that kind of movie where you can without haste go to WC if you will, and loose nothing. A man, who is named Alan Freed in credits, goes around everywhere and talking to people.Yes just like that, goes talking to people from the beginning until the end.There would be never a second of silence in this movie, so as distinctive talk too.Maybe its that particular recording i seen, but boommick must have been attached to a camera.Speaking about that, camera work is inventive as in morning news.Corner shot, corner shot, back shot, oh a shot from upstairs, genius. Okay now for less technical details. While i liked the man who played Alan Freed as an actor, i didn't liked him as a man who played Alan Freed in this movie.He has a charisma and naturality, but he is not Alan Freed, and not Alan Freed in this movie. The characters.Check - we have characters.A composer girl, Buddy Holly fan boy and a vocal group.Yes and i am the walrus.As much as this statement impresses you, as much as those character develop.They just exist, and thats all.We have here a scene with a girl who doesn't want to go to the college, and conversation with her parents.Oh wait, it never existed.Because actually i don't have any memories in my mind to connect this to anything. The whole movie is just like a big deleted scene.Or like a canceled TV- pilot that managed to finish its own plot line even before starting the series.EVEN BEFORE STARTING THE PILOT. That kind of movie that gives illusions.See it has a few "features" that are not actually bad, in fact they taking you imagination the whole movie just to keep you busy.And while you think about them, the movie is over, and your judgment is based on them.(That explains overwhelmingly positive reviews in here).We got Jerry Lee and Chuckie, boy who says "Buddy Holly is alive" and a bum playing Little Richard on trash bins.When you swimming the ocean of dullness, you can notice every minor water circle that appears.While there are greater movies that are ocean of awesomeness, you see every minor water circle of flaws, which is one of paradoxes of human being. The verdict.The movie exists.Imagine you driving a car to work and thinking about making a movie about Alan Freed for a few seconds.While HAR-HAR, that movie exists, and it exists with all ideas you came up with for those few seconds.Thats the only purpose of this movie i see. Why am i even writing this: barely 100 people saw that movie, excluding all who parted in making.I don't know how about extras, if they never were told the name of this movie, probably they wouldn't be able to find it anywhere. This movie isn't kind of movie where people wear ugly masks and throwing stupid lines, i mean grade z movie: This is a movie you expect to be good, but it just annoys you on technical way.Its not like you got punch in a balls, rather then you got continuously got bitten by mosquitoes for 2 hours. I give it three, okay? Just because I'm in good mood. And respect to Alan Freed.