Your girl Diablo is all over the board for me. Some of her stuff I liked and others came off as ...what's the female equivalent of a hardo? A try-hard perhaps. Having said that, I'll give this a shot purely off of your review. You had me at castration, bro. You had me at castration.
80s touchstones, Diablo Cody, blah, blah, blah, cheesy songs, yadda, yadda, a dead guy castrates a living guy and uses his sewed-on reanimated penis to deflower the protagonist, pop culture nostalgia, yeah, ye- wait what was that last thing?
It’s a bummer that this didn’t end up good. I, too, like Diablo Cody and have a soft spot for Zelda Williams. The promotional hype for this movie I’d read (mainly a Rolling Stone article) made it seem less like the typical “hey, remember the 80’s? Neon, Ronald Reagan, Huey Lewis!” And more of an attempt to do the kind of classic Tim Burton 80’s movie.
My best case scenario for LF was something akin to the Holdovers: a movie anchored firmly in the past that isn’t self-consciously nostalgic but uses that anchor to create a film that isn’t typical now but was then.
It’s a bummer because this sounds like the second wholly original film with a modest (but not tiny) budget that has been mid (along with the creator).
"The promotional hype for this movie I’d read (mainly a Rolling Stone article) made it seem less like the typical “hey, remember the 80’s? Neon, Ronald Reagan, Huey Lewis!” And more of an attempt to do the kind of classic Tim Burton 80’s movie. "
The thing they're actually trying to pull off is too complex to fit into an homage, which i think is the central issue here. They spent too much time thinking about the references and not enough clarifying the actual story. Which is a bummer, because I do think there was something here.
"...Cole Sprouse, formerly of The Suite Life of Zach and Cody and its spinoffs, in the even crucialer role of the dead guy, still kind of has the stink of Disney on him (I didn’t know who he was until I looked him up, but I could sense it). " As someone who grew up watching The Suite Life in the 2000s that was unnecessarily rude. The fact that you've trashed on my boy, Cole, like that despite not seeing a single second of any of his work (besides Lisa Frankenstein) just shows you're credibility and only discredited his talent simply because he and his brother, Dylan, used to work at Disney. I get feeling nostalgia baiting is annoying, but implying that an actor must be bad because of their other work THAT YOU'VE NEVER WATCHED is wierd. Like I hate the Twilight movies, but that doesn't mean I hate the cast or think they must be bad actors. How about you actually watch The Suite Life, Big Daddy, Five Feet Apart, or any other title before coming off as a Disney-hating-wierdo.🤨
I always think of Cole Sprouse as one of the twins who played the little boy in Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy; it’s the sort of random trivia that just burrows in deeper the more I try to forget it.
Im glad you pointed out that Stranger Things isnt real 80s indulgence (that would probably Apple TV’s Physical with Rose Byrne). This movie i too only saw because of Diablo Cody’s name but i thought it had enough of Jennifer’s Body nihilism to be entertaining all around and have not been hit with 80s nolstagia enough to be sick of it. Even the soundtrack i thought morphed into specific-enough “college rock” that was to Lisa’s taste more than trying to hit the full 80s synth top 40 cheese. I’d agree that Zelda Williams is no visionary but I enjoyed the attempt at a goth romance fever dream even if it was a bit of a hastily-scribbled English class assignment writ large.
“In 1986 you would come home from school, eat a snack, jump on your bike and ride around all day looking for adventure.”
I was born in 1986 and you could do that when I was a kid too. The summer from my childhood that I romanticize the most, the summer of 1994 after I finished second grade (which, hilariously enough, kicked off with my 8th birthday party where all the adults ended up watching the OJ Bronco Chase) is so great in part because of the construction of the neighborhood behind the one I grew up in. They dug out all the foundations and made a massive dirt hill that I rode my bike on daily.
Because of everyone's (mostly irrational) fears that they're going to get hit by cars and kidnapped and sold into slavery. As a parent I want to be different but there are so many areas where you can't really fight society.
Your girl Diablo is all over the board for me. Some of her stuff I liked and others came off as ...what's the female equivalent of a hardo? A try-hard perhaps. Having said that, I'll give this a shot purely off of your review. You had me at castration, bro. You had me at castration.
80s touchstones, Diablo Cody, blah, blah, blah, cheesy songs, yadda, yadda, a dead guy castrates a living guy and uses his sewed-on reanimated penis to deflower the protagonist, pop culture nostalgia, yeah, ye- wait what was that last thing?
Pop culture nostalgia?
No, the thing before that...
Vince drove past Belmont Memorial Park as he had many times before on his way to the hot pepper specialty store.
This time, though, activity in the cemetery made him look. A man was vigorously, if inefficiently, digging up a grave.
Vince squinted. Was that?
Laremy noticed Vince's car and stopped, waving with both hands, shouting something. Vince rolled down his window.
"Hey! Did you know they've got spare dicks here you can just take?!"
Was 1984 era Madonna a popular look in 1989 with high school kids? Definitely not late 80s goth.
It’s a bummer that this didn’t end up good. I, too, like Diablo Cody and have a soft spot for Zelda Williams. The promotional hype for this movie I’d read (mainly a Rolling Stone article) made it seem less like the typical “hey, remember the 80’s? Neon, Ronald Reagan, Huey Lewis!” And more of an attempt to do the kind of classic Tim Burton 80’s movie.
My best case scenario for LF was something akin to the Holdovers: a movie anchored firmly in the past that isn’t self-consciously nostalgic but uses that anchor to create a film that isn’t typical now but was then.
It’s a bummer because this sounds like the second wholly original film with a modest (but not tiny) budget that has been mid (along with the creator).
"The promotional hype for this movie I’d read (mainly a Rolling Stone article) made it seem less like the typical “hey, remember the 80’s? Neon, Ronald Reagan, Huey Lewis!” And more of an attempt to do the kind of classic Tim Burton 80’s movie. "
The thing they're actually trying to pull off is too complex to fit into an homage, which i think is the central issue here. They spent too much time thinking about the references and not enough clarifying the actual story. Which is a bummer, because I do think there was something here.
"...Cole Sprouse, formerly of The Suite Life of Zach and Cody and its spinoffs, in the even crucialer role of the dead guy, still kind of has the stink of Disney on him (I didn’t know who he was until I looked him up, but I could sense it). " As someone who grew up watching The Suite Life in the 2000s that was unnecessarily rude. The fact that you've trashed on my boy, Cole, like that despite not seeing a single second of any of his work (besides Lisa Frankenstein) just shows you're credibility and only discredited his talent simply because he and his brother, Dylan, used to work at Disney. I get feeling nostalgia baiting is annoying, but implying that an actor must be bad because of their other work THAT YOU'VE NEVER WATCHED is wierd. Like I hate the Twilight movies, but that doesn't mean I hate the cast or think they must be bad actors. How about you actually watch The Suite Life, Big Daddy, Five Feet Apart, or any other title before coming off as a Disney-hating-wierdo.🤨
I always think of Cole Sprouse as one of the twins who played the little boy in Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy; it’s the sort of random trivia that just burrows in deeper the more I try to forget it.
Im glad you pointed out that Stranger Things isnt real 80s indulgence (that would probably Apple TV’s Physical with Rose Byrne). This movie i too only saw because of Diablo Cody’s name but i thought it had enough of Jennifer’s Body nihilism to be entertaining all around and have not been hit with 80s nolstagia enough to be sick of it. Even the soundtrack i thought morphed into specific-enough “college rock” that was to Lisa’s taste more than trying to hit the full 80s synth top 40 cheese. I’d agree that Zelda Williams is no visionary but I enjoyed the attempt at a goth romance fever dream even if it was a bit of a hastily-scribbled English class assignment writ large.
“In 1986 you would come home from school, eat a snack, jump on your bike and ride around all day looking for adventure.”
I was born in 1986 and you could do that when I was a kid too. The summer from my childhood that I romanticize the most, the summer of 1994 after I finished second grade (which, hilariously enough, kicked off with my 8th birthday party where all the adults ended up watching the OJ Bronco Chase) is so great in part because of the construction of the neighborhood behind the one I grew up in. They dug out all the foundations and made a massive dirt hill that I rode my bike on daily.
I don’t see why kids couldn’t do the same today.
Because of everyone's (mostly irrational) fears that they're going to get hit by cars and kidnapped and sold into slavery. As a parent I want to be different but there are so many areas where you can't really fight society.