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Addicted to Fresno (2015)
dug it
Natasha lyonne's performance shines as a clunky lesbian hotel maid in Fresno while sex addicted sister played by a dead eyed judy greer drives the plot. aubrey plazas role is a secondary to the secondary plot, but shes believable and hilarious. the writing is a bit what you'd expect from a film like this and the plot has a couple holes and questionable moments. some huge secondary players in the cast, molly shannon, michael hitchcock, ron livingston.
the problem w the film is judy greer's character is so shitty from the beginning and her arc is so unfulfilling for the viewer. i think shes a tremendous actress i just think her character was so written that shes unrelateable.
Natasha lyonne was great, so was greer. i went in cold w no idea what the story was about and watched the whole thing. check it out!
Knock Knock (2015)
If you love yourself don't see this film.
SPOILERS ABOUND. FULL MOVIE COMMENTARY BELOW.
5 minutes into this movie I knew something was up. This movie uses tired clichés as a vehicle to progress the story. I am not going to list them but most of the details I list are clichés in some way. I am going to give you a brief rundown as I saw it so that you can avoid the mistake I made.
For starters, it has product placing from Volvo and Apple right from the get go.
Keanu's acting was bad, but his family's was way worse. The movie opens with the wife and Keanu having some quality private time, which is busted up by the kids who rush in to wish dad a happy Father's Day. Their interactions are just awful and Keanu acts circles around all of them, which is really saying something. Him running around yelling monster was more convincing than every other action his family had combined. His wife is not likable, apparently they haven't had sex in three weeks, don't think she really cares about that either. Just wants to go to the beach with her kids. But the movie isn't really about his family, they are only really in it for 10-15 minutes. The movie is about Keanu's interactions with two young girls who knock on his door in the middle of a rainstorm on the following night.
When we are introduced to Keanu he is nursing a recent shoulder surgery he underwent when he injured himself chivalrously helping what his wife describes as a young attractive woman. The movie subtly drops this 'hint' like a 20 lb bowling ball in your lap. "Oh, well I guess Keanu has a penchant for helping young women out and getting in trouble for it, I wonder what this movie is about. I hope it is like the Matrix! (its not)" His shoulder injury is probably the main reason why he was unable to physically defend himself against these women, one of whom disables him with a fork to the shoulder. The movie doesn't really show a lot of Keanu grabbing his shoulder or wincing about the pain. It is an afterthought when you are wondering why he is getting completely dominated by two young women whose combined weight is probably less than his: "oh...yeah. the shoulder." Come on, Keanu, Bruce Willis walked on glass in Die Hard, you can handle two high heel wearing sorority girls.
These girls knock on his door and ask to use his computer to contact a friend so that they can figure out the address they need to be at. The girls look like trashy party rats, makeup all jacked from the rain, totally soaked wearing skimpy clothes. A fast talking brunette American and her petite Spanish blonde. Keanu lets them in, they use his apple brand mobile tablet device, Keanu calls an Uber for them, the Uber takes 2 hours. In the time in which they wait for the Uber the girls are running through the house trying to get closer to Keanu by engaging him in conversation and flirtatious banter. They eventually corner him and just as the Uber is arriving, they take his pants off in the bathroom, give him oral sex and he succumbs to their siren's song. He bones them both, finds them still there in the morning, gets angry, then drives them home. They come back, he doesn't detect them, and the American bashes him in the head with one of his wife's art pieces. They tie him up, torture him, kill his wife's assistant, destroy all of his wife's artwork, bury him up to his neck in the back yard, and let him live, buried up to his neck in the back yard, the house a total mess. The end.
It is so bizarre; at one point the wife's assistant comes to pick up the giant statue she made to bring it to an art exhibit. He detects that they're doing something weird when the statue is messed up, he finds Keanu tied up, then actually leaves him there to go see what the girls are doing to the statue. The American had pickpocketed the assistant's inhaler when she cleverly saw he had used it when he got all worked up when he first saw what they had done with the art. He sees them bashing it with some hammers, has an asthma attack or something, the girls play monkey in the middle with his inhaler, he trips and bashes his head on the corner of the statue. Dead.
So just to recap, Keanu helps these girls, succumbs to their temptation, they hold him hostage, kill his wife's assistant, destroy all his most valued possessions and then they leave. That's it. Don't see it, there is very little to take away from this movie.
Windsor Drive (2015)
3/10. Terrible acting and insulting/unintelligent editing directing and music.
I watched this movie cold and thought I had downloaded a corrupt file. This movie is insulting in the delivery of its premise to the viewer. There is no subtlety in the delivery of plot points. The kids in my 8th grade theater class had better more innovative directing styles. The music at many points was erratic and completely out of place. There were a couple of actors in this film that sounded like they belonged in a porno, or on cable access. Overall the main actor was convincing as a mentally ill aspiring actor but his portrayal of protagonist was lacking in depth.
This is not a normal film and will likely not appeal to majority of potential viewers, but that doesn't mean it is a bad film. It is a bad film because the director is either inexperienced, unorganized or underfunded. The production of an above average film school project with the editing of a 10th grade film assignment and the acting of a 5th grade thanksgiving play does not make a good indie film, even if you dress a few characters up in tweed and have a lot of quick cuts.
delete delete delete this film will have you wondering more about its choices in production than its own substance. also, it is labeled as a thriller but the only twist is completely obvious from the get.