So I went to go see the Productshop-hyped 9 songs at the Angelica last night. What a dumb fucking movie. By far the longest hour I've ever sat through. I checked my phone to see what time it was, like, 5 times throughout the movie? every 13 minutes or so, on average. Unacceptable.
It was just so boring. I didn't care about the characters. I didn't even really like the concert footage they shot. And I didn't get the Arctic thing at all. It was certainly explicit, and the music was good, but that wasn't even remotely enough to keep me entertained.
Even if the point was to have a vague relationship where the only the sex and music mattered, it still didn't work. I suppose one could pretend that they somehow connect with the characters, but there just wasn't anything there to relate to. You don't know anything about these people, except they like to go see music that was popular a year or two ago and they have lots of sex. And the guy somehow ended up working in the Arctic once the relationship was over. But you don't know or care why they are together, what they are like, what they do for a living, or what they are interested in. You are told they like good music because they listen to it and go to shows, but that felt completely tacked on and almost beside the point. They are the most empty, boring and unimaginative characters I have ever seen in a movie, and every aspect of their personalities you find out about seemed completely disconnected from the rest of their lives.
Jeez...I could go on forever about what was wrong with this movie, but what's the point. It's just a poorly told, slapped together excuse for the director to film graphic sex and gigs he liked. Do not waste your time.
off the see The Aristocrats then...
Posted by: jenny | July 29, 2005 at 10:46 AM
I'm sorry. :(
Posted by: Jason | July 29, 2005 at 08:39 PM
This was the only movie I have ever walked out of. Worst piece of boring shit ever.
Posted by: aa | July 30, 2005 at 03:33 PM