Let me understand - a horrible actress is playing an actress who's greater than Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway and Jane Fonda? And Joe Spinell is some kind of genius actor because he embodies the loser he looks like? Add some really horrible 80's rock and this get 5.4 stars? No. I'm sorry. No.
This movie is sad. Grindhouse is grindhouse. Grindhouse doesn't win awards in Cannea. Attempting to con the viewer into believing Jana Bates is anything more than a scream queen (and don't get me wrong, I love scream queens) might make this movie some kind of self-referential meta-statement...if you're in junior high school, on planet Earth, however, cloying doesn't being to cover it. The constant references to Hinkley and global violence doesn't add weight. It makes it more laughable. Put in a dose of "taxi driver saves enough money to fly to Cannes, stay in a decent place *in town*, builds an elaborate shrine to his stalkee AND has time to spare" Not to mention how this out of shape schlub with man-boobs can hang by his fingers from a balcony.
Naturally, there's a Scooby-Doo twist at the end...BUT IT'S NOT REAL EITHER!
The actual ending just insults the viewer making the 84mins pointless. There's no good reason for it other than to make stoners go "duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude...."
2 stars because it's really not worth it.
(PS - I'm not sure there's a single scene where Vinny isn't sweating.)
This movie is sad. Grindhouse is grindhouse. Grindhouse doesn't win awards in Cannea. Attempting to con the viewer into believing Jana Bates is anything more than a scream queen (and don't get me wrong, I love scream queens) might make this movie some kind of self-referential meta-statement...if you're in junior high school, on planet Earth, however, cloying doesn't being to cover it. The constant references to Hinkley and global violence doesn't add weight. It makes it more laughable. Put in a dose of "taxi driver saves enough money to fly to Cannes, stay in a decent place *in town*, builds an elaborate shrine to his stalkee AND has time to spare" Not to mention how this out of shape schlub with man-boobs can hang by his fingers from a balcony.
Naturally, there's a Scooby-Doo twist at the end...BUT IT'S NOT REAL EITHER!
The actual ending just insults the viewer making the 84mins pointless. There's no good reason for it other than to make stoners go "duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude...."
2 stars because it's really not worth it.
(PS - I'm not sure there's a single scene where Vinny isn't sweating.)