Review of The Last Days of Disco

I gotta say out front, I had LOW expectations for this film. I had heard nothing good, rumors from friends left me discouraged, so I decided to wait for video. Well I just finished wasting my 2 bucks and 2 hours, and found that low expectation don't necessarily save a film. The story idea is simple, so simple in fact that it isn't even present. Trying to describe this film is like trying do describe Seinfeld: It's about nothing. The whole film is dialogue and background so unevenly pieced together, that I was having trouble figuring out who was who (since most of the male actors are so much alike in personality and appearance) and also because the film started out slow, denying me a chance to get know and care about the characters. And when you don't care...what's the points of watching. In fact the only emotion any of these people inspired in me were dislike. The guys were snobby, wannabe intellectuals who babbled lines they seemed to write before they left home. And the conversations they have were supposed to ignite dislike or at least distrust in the female characters but this doesn't happen. They fall for the guy, although this really doesn't matter because there is no right guy. They're all Ivy League yuppy scum miscreants lacking charm and wit.

So all in all this film fails as a love story, cuz no one falls in love.

And as a social study, because were viewing an era of history known as disco, where the characters don't really love disco. They either love the fact that thay can get into a club or that they are in fact part of the disco era. They're living a lie.

And finally as a good movie in general, because it commits the cardinal sin: It's boring. It expects me to care about characters I hate, and thus I hated this film.