Sunday, December 04, 2005

What if... Volume II

...or, You Lost Me at Eating While Peeing.

Time travel movie #2, Freedom Deep, has been deep sixed. I made it through 43 minutes of this crap, but only by fast forwarding through large chunks. There's no dialogue and the film is clearly the creation of a frustrated music video director. (Either that, or he really wanted to make "The Wall.") It's Australian, and usually I'm a big fan of Australian indie film. This, however, blows.

Freedom Creep? Freedom Bleak? Oh, forget it.
This movie's too dismal to try to be funny.


It's the story of a neglected kid who finds inspiration in the music of Kurt Cobain, and, after a journey where he runs away from home and is adopted by a fringey gay couple, he eventually becomes a prophet after some apocalyptic war in the early 21st century. (All I know is, the world is one big desert by 2018.) Kurt Cobain's ghost plays a role in the film, but I couldn't be bothered to watch that far in. I was too grossed out by the kid's hideous, drooling father who pees into a bedpan under the dining room table while eating Mum's nasty-looking stew.

I'm off to try Movie #3, which, god help me, features Gavin McLeod and Hal Linden. No, it's not old. It's from 2002. A time travel movie from 2002 with Cap't Steubing and Barney Miller. This will be quite something...

2 comments:

Claire said...

Wow these sound really awful. Is this what you get when you let netflix choose by genre?

Merujo said...

The last two movies popped up as "you might be interested in..." when I added TimeQuest (my brother's recommendation) to my queue. Man, they blew...