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Unnecessary and Unaccidental

posted 17 years ago by mattyreed
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I test screened this movie at Vancouver Film School and all I can say is I was forced into watch this complete waste of time as per credits for the writing programme. It's dark and yes complex from the veteran Bassai, but why make this movie? It's about this alcoholic white mechanic praying on east-side aboriginals to drink themselves into oblivion and in doing so murderers them. Yes this happens, and I'm just as angry about it, but the way this movie captures the world....is just so unoriginal and bleak....forcing us into every vancouver east-side scene with the dark synth sounds and paranoia that are just all too common in every stab at the subject..... I really don't know why Carl Bassai has an envolpe with telefilm and how he still gets these pictures into festivals, but unforunately he's here to stay to devliver us despressing *beep* over and over and over again.... all in true form of Canadian film...either upbeat and lite for happy films or pretenious and artsey for dark subject matter.....so don't see this movie.... I think it beats the already dead horse of explaining how BAD the downtown eastside and in doing so delivers a movie that somehow tries to educate people on that fact. So stop making your depressing movies Carl and try learning the guitar go start an Emo career, so I can be more dissiluusioned that you exist as a Western Canada creative entity.

[–] geobucks 15 years ago

Hmm,mattyreed....
Did you get turned down for a junior birdwoman internship with Bassai?
I will watch this movie and form my own opinion. It may be good or bad or somewhere in between, but I will never let an opinionated turd, with what appears a secret agenda like you, try to dictate what I should watch. I hope none of you do either. You did not post a review, just a stupid rant.

[–] geobucks 15 years ago

Oh, sorry, Matthew Harrison Reed. Having read your ridiculous bio, you are more than the idiot I thought. Gawd, why doesn't Vancouver have mandatory birth control for the feeble minded?

[–] mattyreed 15 years ago

*beep*

Thanks for the upbeat reply for a comment a year and a half old. You have every right you see this movie if you like. I would try and pry it from your hands at the rental store if I knew what you looked like but I would rather give you a backhanded bitchslap making me lose the ten minutes of my life to read and respond to your childish non-sequitur insults. As far as policing the imdb boards, you have the integrity of a hall monitor.

I do not have a junior birdwoman internship....whatever that is, and thers no secret agenda... I just hated the movie and everything else this filmmaker has done. Nothing against Bassai, I just don't like looking at the filmic world as being half empty of vomitus.

So calm down budday... that's the beauty of these boards... people can say or disprove anything they want. Truly, the illusion of power.

and I'm from Victoria... and finally your insults to the handicapped, me not being one, are to accept them, not throw their fetuses into dumpsters.

[–] raventhom 10 years ago

Your negativity, sounds more like something you don't want to face, so it's easier to turn a blind eye to.
Your prerogative, but I am happy that most will decide for themselves.
It's not an easy film to watch, but it is completely worth while. Tantoo Cardinal is, as always, fantastic.