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Way too much random unconnected crap that doesn't mean anything

posted 10 years ago by sknywhtboy88
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I like cryptic arty headtrip movies when they actually work. This does not work. Between his wierd visions of his family during the boat ride, the french girls, the scene with the woman that he screws after blacking out, the later scene where she apparently took his daughter because she wants a little girl because reasons. The random ass scene With the robot at epcot, THAT NEVER COMES UP AGAIN, what? The cat flu, the kid locking him in and him dying with a 'spooky' grin, then the guy who gives him the Buzz Lightyear pin, and then showing him with a totally random woman like she's his wife . NONE OF THIS CRAP RELATES TO THE REST. This is series of vignettes that don't mean jack and don't add up to anything. Nothing makes sense here, and you really have to force your imagination to try and find any meaning. That's not good storytelling, that's a splotch of paint on a canvas, that leaves you to your own devices to do all the work. Good cryptic storytelling meets you at least halfway.

[–] stazza 10 years ago

agreed. A+ for successful geurilla film making... pretty much D- for everything else...loose editing, irrellevant story connections, awkward audio, some forced music, lots of vomiting... the actors did pretty well considering... probably would make an AWESOME short film if the parts were tightened, connected, and went somewhere.

none of the crap related or resolved - but HAD POTENTIAL to go some interesting places, it just wasn't finished. Nothing deep to figure out, it just wasn't there.

[–] plumlogan 9 years ago

I got the impression is was intended to be surreal

[–] ijustwantedausername 8 years ago

Agreed. Though, I will say, I was half expecting it to end with him being decapatated and "the movie" be random crap going through his mind in the final minutes of brain activity.

Maybe if they went with family wanting one last happy day of vacation.
Minus sex while kids nap and the creeper subplot.
Meet emu lady and her kid in monorail.
Talk about princesses and fantasy.
Happy day until...girl goes missing.
One family's nightmare.
::crazy stuff happens::
Go back to crazy emu lady had her (keep her weird reasons and stuff).
Happy ending.

[–] lazarillo 8 years ago

Sometimes I think some movies need a dumb-ass disclaimer. Obviously, it's surreal. You could say your dreams don't "mean anything", but all kinds of people from Freud to Jung to the surrealists to, well, me would strongly disagree.

This movie is not that complicated. A frustrated married man with a harried wife bratty kids who has just lost his job, is vacationing in the surreal, nightmarish hell that is Disney World and has a mental breakdown. A lot of it sexual and involves the fact he badly wants to *bleep* a couple of giggling teenage French girls. All the ingredients are right there for this weird ass movie. I don't exactly know what "point" people are looking for here, but maybe check the top of your head. The folly is thinking movies always have to have some kind of "point".

Also, if YOU don't understand, say, Chinese algebra, that doesn't make it meaningless. So you don't understand it. Are you really in a position to say categorically that no one else does?

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