Reviews

About four years ago, I was surfing the internet looking for all different sorts of new music to listen to, and I found a dodgy looking forum from the early 2000's talking about Gary Wilson's "You Think You Really Know Me" album. Never hearing his name before, I was a blank slate when it came to his music, and I needed to hear it for myself. His 1976 album (by the same name as the documentary) caught me completely off guard, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Exploring other albums and songs he put out in the 2000's as well, I became a fan of his work. This movie shows you the proper ins and outs of his claim to fame, and shows you the history of his life and how he came through and disappeared for nearly 30 years without anyone getting ahold of him. Quite an interesting documentary, and I'd give it a watch. Being a person who has known him before watching the movie, it intrigued me to watch it based on knowing his music. Being a person who has no clue who Gary Wilson is would probably think its a neat and gripping story.

You know, whenever somebody brings up Adam Sandler, they talk about how unfunny his movies are, the blatant product placement, the horrible plots, just incompetent screenwriting and all of the above. Hearing about Grown Ups since it came out, I've always gathered from people that it was a stupid Adam Sandler comedy movie, but it wasn't too bad. I didn't expect this movie to be this outrageously redundant. The scenes in this movie where it's just the main characters just saying joke after joke and all of them laughing makes this movie barely even watchable to the slightest degree. This movie is what I would possibly call the lowest percentile of movie for only the most lackluster audience imaginable.

Yes, there is car and food product placement. Yes, there are countless unfunny jokes. Yes, Rob Schneider plays a hippie stereotype. Yes, the movie starts out as them when they were kids. This is definitely a Happy Madison Productions title, and it doesn't fear away from it one bit. Absolutely awful.

Being in a world filled with predictable cinema, you might want to peek your head around the corner of art house and foreign films you've never heard of before. This film being as disturbing and strange as it is, is probably one of the most iconic and original movies I've seen in a long while. Harmony Korine being the oddball director he's known to be could be a little unforgiving to some peoples comprehension, and that's a negative trait if I've ever seen one. Gummo being as well known to people as "that very weird movie that you probably could go without watching", I would give it a chance. If you don't like this movie, I completely understand why. But it goes without saying that you should at least give it a shot.