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- Apr 26, 2023
A bit of backstory to this one. Basically if Apocalypse now didn't destroy his finances and Heaven's gate didn't destory New Hollywood, this was FFC's next big film. Unfortunately for him a lot of bad shit happened so it took a long time to finally make this film. Its completely shit, the plot is absurd and is clearly written by someone inspired by the ford admin and NYC chaos at the time and never bothered updating anything about the fucking film. The "debauchery" scenes are literally close to PG tier, the film takes place in a time where cell phones and computers obviously never existed. The stuff its talking about is so hilariously out of date its almost like watching a movie in a difference language.
The "live action" element was a waste of time and involved a live actor saying a line that is so leading you can't do something silly with it, even without someone saying the line you can tell what was asked.
Adam Driver's character is a NYC big shot real estate guy who fucked over some people in lower income housing and non-citizen types, he is almost assassinated and the courts constantly harass him on bullshit charges, but because the script was written in the late 1970s, FFC doesn't realize how he's blatantly a Trump-expy even down to the "greatest lover i ever had" style headlines in newspapers
Shia Labouef is the main antagonist and gets the poor and non-citizens to do riots that ingulf the city, he's constantly jealous and snippy and cross-dresses as well as has incestuous sex, which again gives the hilarious implications that FFC clearly didn't think through. I wouldn't call it a great film by any strech, it clearly would have been if it came out in 1978, but it didn't.
The film literally shows off moving walkways like you see at any airport or on the Jetsons and acts like its a massive accomplishment, same with the rest of its silly tech. People routinely quote literature despite also saying culture is getting dumbed down, which is another big tell its a movie from another time and place. its a movie that pretends its talking big when its so hilariously out of date that it feels like a joke most of the time. To the point that if you see it in theaters people will be laughing and not at things the director meant for people to laugh at. Its a shitty movie from a shitty man.
What isn't absurdly regressive is just dumb, the lines are closer to neil breen than Godfather-esque and everything from the characters clothes and hairstyles to drugs of choice and dialogue screams nothing was updated about this film in fucking almost a half century. Which does make its obsession with Rome almost feel like a commentary except it still tries to act like its the modern day, if FFC intentionally made it a period piece it might have tricked people into liking it but its the earnest, super serious dramas of the 1970s in almost every aspect, not even allowing for a comic relief character. Its so full of itself in a way so bizarre to modern eyes, its no wonder people are treating it on par with Rocky Horror or The Room. When people whine about no one being earnest anymore strap them to a chair and force them to watch this movie on repeat, its a $100 million dollar monument to why we left that shit in the way way past.
The narrator and pledge and quotes beg for a parody. its seriously a film that screams "movie night laughs" in a way that you usually only see from Indie films. Only someone like Null could earnestly love this film. its awful
The "live action" element was a waste of time and involved a live actor saying a line that is so leading you can't do something silly with it, even without someone saying the line you can tell what was asked.
Adam Driver's character is a NYC big shot real estate guy who fucked over some people in lower income housing and non-citizen types, he is almost assassinated and the courts constantly harass him on bullshit charges, but because the script was written in the late 1970s, FFC doesn't realize how he's blatantly a Trump-expy even down to the "greatest lover i ever had" style headlines in newspapers
Shia Labouef is the main antagonist and gets the poor and non-citizens to do riots that ingulf the city, he's constantly jealous and snippy and cross-dresses as well as has incestuous sex, which again gives the hilarious implications that FFC clearly didn't think through. I wouldn't call it a great film by any strech, it clearly would have been if it came out in 1978, but it didn't.
The film literally shows off moving walkways like you see at any airport or on the Jetsons and acts like its a massive accomplishment, same with the rest of its silly tech. People routinely quote literature despite also saying culture is getting dumbed down, which is another big tell its a movie from another time and place. its a movie that pretends its talking big when its so hilariously out of date that it feels like a joke most of the time. To the point that if you see it in theaters people will be laughing and not at things the director meant for people to laugh at. Its a shitty movie from a shitty man.
What isn't absurdly regressive is just dumb, the lines are closer to neil breen than Godfather-esque and everything from the characters clothes and hairstyles to drugs of choice and dialogue screams nothing was updated about this film in fucking almost a half century. Which does make its obsession with Rome almost feel like a commentary except it still tries to act like its the modern day, if FFC intentionally made it a period piece it might have tricked people into liking it but its the earnest, super serious dramas of the 1970s in almost every aspect, not even allowing for a comic relief character. Its so full of itself in a way so bizarre to modern eyes, its no wonder people are treating it on par with Rocky Horror or The Room. When people whine about no one being earnest anymore strap them to a chair and force them to watch this movie on repeat, its a $100 million dollar monument to why we left that shit in the way way past.
The narrator and pledge and quotes beg for a parody. its seriously a film that screams "movie night laughs" in a way that you usually only see from Indie films. Only someone like Null could earnestly love this film. its awful
