For the ending of the ICM 2000's Challenge,I got in the mood of viewing a flick that would be short and sweet. Looking down a DVD shelf,I found a flick I don't even remember picking up! Which led to me getting set to meet my frenemy.
View on the film:
Making one final thrust after this with An Evening with Stephen Lynch before retiring, former "Adult" film director Gregory Dark and future American Horror Story cinematographer Gavin Kelly show a skill at making the most on very small budget, with wide-shots at the back of the video shop display how confined the location is. Whilst the Jerry Springer references were already dated at the time, Dark freshens the movie up with weird turns into gory murder and a park bench in heaven.
Keeping the first half low-key, the Black Comedy from Robert Dean Klein's script flows best when in the limited surroundings of the video store,thanks to the macabre one-liners of Mr. Jack being used to make the situation worse. Losing the setting for the second half, Klein becomes unfocused over where to take the dark comedy, with the incise in madness from Jack & Stephen Miller appearing in sudden bursts. Only appearing in half the movie, Zach Galifianakis gives the stand out performance as Bucky, with his awkward,dead-pan manner setting Jack and Miller on the path of becoming frenemy's
View on the film:
Making one final thrust after this with An Evening with Stephen Lynch before retiring, former "Adult" film director Gregory Dark and future American Horror Story cinematographer Gavin Kelly show a skill at making the most on very small budget, with wide-shots at the back of the video shop display how confined the location is. Whilst the Jerry Springer references were already dated at the time, Dark freshens the movie up with weird turns into gory murder and a park bench in heaven.
Keeping the first half low-key, the Black Comedy from Robert Dean Klein's script flows best when in the limited surroundings of the video store,thanks to the macabre one-liners of Mr. Jack being used to make the situation worse. Losing the setting for the second half, Klein becomes unfocused over where to take the dark comedy, with the incise in madness from Jack & Stephen Miller appearing in sudden bursts. Only appearing in half the movie, Zach Galifianakis gives the stand out performance as Bucky, with his awkward,dead-pan manner setting Jack and Miller on the path of becoming frenemy's