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Kid 90 (2021)
It Just Somehow Works
Years ago, young Hollywood actress Soleil Moon Frye documented life: through film, audio, teenage girl scrapbooks filled with diary entries about teen beat romeos.
With all the footage, she is able to skillfully uncover a lost travelogue of 1990 Hollywood: the excess, throwaway parties, the lost moments of "isn't this fun so why I am so alone.
What works is Frye's willingness to show the vacuousness of a long period of her life and contrast it with the evolved spunky Punky she's become: still connected with some of the same Hollywood lotharios ( who have always matured and can reflect on the time capsule of young hollywood 1990s.
Self-indulgent and actressy: you better believe it but the journey is real, sometimes heartbreaking, and most importantly, genuine.
The Boys in the Band (2020)
Remember Gus Van Sant Remade Psycho?
School play quality vanity piece woth nothing new to say after William Friedkin's intimate film triumph.
Set as a "period piece" the actors pretend they are the actors from the original film.
Nothing visually daring, tepid performances that read like a high school performance of Our Town.
See the 1970 original.
The Abyss (1989)
Watch a Jacques Cousteau Rerun Instead
James Cameron is so generic.
No wonder all the actors on this film hated him. Synopsis: sone underwater crew is exploring the deep blue sea. It goes on and on and on. The story is unintelligible. Ed Harris is in it and clearly miserable. He's not even trying to act anything but wanting to survive and go back home.
All the actors look like they are being tortured for free hours while doing nothing underwater
101 Rent Boys (2000)
We Don't Want Any Details
Not really a documentary. Maybe I'm a traditionalist, but it seems documentaries should hold the mirror up to the human experience for more than 2-3 minutes a subject.
Why invest in someone to reveal their true selves when it might be more commercial to ask for 100+ men to reveal short,, snappy stories that defines their lives as gay sex workers?
Oh, we will pay 50 bucks for your time too
It's easy to tell s good story for five minutes-and it's clever marketing. Our Editing will be snappy and fun.
It's harder to focus in on a few stories and really take your time talking to some men who might really want you to listen for awhile.