09-28-2016, 11:26 PM
A 16-year-old girl goes to Hollywood to make a name for herself. "I'm not as helpless as I look," she tells a new acquaintance.
Yeah, well...
Lots of gratuitous claddity, glacial pacing, poor shot choices, and then you have Keanu in a small role as a motel manager that goes absolutely nowhere. Why'd he bother?
Elle Fanning (younger sister of Dakota) plays the lead. She's supposed to be stunning beyond belief, but I found her very plain and just couldn't believe all the attention she was getting in roomfuls of gorgeous chicks.
Cliched and uninspired to the point of being unwatchable ... for the first hour and a half.
The last half-hour turned wildly surreal and inventive and had a great soundtrack. Well worth watching, if there's a way to avoid the first hour-and-a-half.
Refn needs to re-cut this to a half-hour short, after he buys a fucking vowel for his last name. I mean, Refn? How do you even pronounce that?
No wonder he can't compose a decent movie.
Yeah, well...
Lots of gratuitous claddity, glacial pacing, poor shot choices, and then you have Keanu in a small role as a motel manager that goes absolutely nowhere. Why'd he bother?
Elle Fanning (younger sister of Dakota) plays the lead. She's supposed to be stunning beyond belief, but I found her very plain and just couldn't believe all the attention she was getting in roomfuls of gorgeous chicks.
Cliched and uninspired to the point of being unwatchable ... for the first hour and a half.
The last half-hour turned wildly surreal and inventive and had a great soundtrack. Well worth watching, if there's a way to avoid the first hour-and-a-half.
Refn needs to re-cut this to a half-hour short, after he buys a fucking vowel for his last name. I mean, Refn? How do you even pronounce that?
No wonder he can't compose a decent movie.