05-21-2021, 12:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2021, 08:03 AM by Drunk Monk.)
WTH? This popped up on my Netflix queue and I was like hmmm, Keanu? Momoa? Carrey? I should check it out.
It’s a brutal film - violent, arid, desolate, dirty, post-apocalyptic, and cannibalistic. It kept hinting at a political metaphor about poverty or illegal aliens or Texas or cults or something, but I couldn’t grok it. It didn’t work for me. I couldn’t settle into its graphic representations and missed its point entirely.
Carrey was unrecognizable, to his credit. Keanu was cool - a good cameo from him even though his character felt underdeveloped. Momoa never wore a shirt. Why would he for this? Suki’s arm effect was convincing.
At one point, I was reminded of when a certain DOOM brother (who will remain unarmed unless he puts himself) complainer that too much amputee porn was cut off just below the knee implying that the knee was just folded back. I’m not even sure how the conversation got there but it left me with regrets.
At another point, the Keanu rave, I started thinking how it reminded me of several late night tweaked sound systems that I’ve attended at festivals. You get a lot of weird thoughts at those and it occurred to me that this might just all be a story conceived at such a gathering (the lsd was a major tell). Take it from ol’ dm - only a select few can pull a Hunter S. Thompson and write well when high. Writing in that state can be useful but not for a whole damn movie. I did enjoy the lysergic twist, even if it was a bit cliche.
No sword fights. I’d only DOOM recommend this to cf (who’s already seen it obvs) & Ed (who hardly comes round here no mo).
It’s a brutal film - violent, arid, desolate, dirty, post-apocalyptic, and cannibalistic. It kept hinting at a political metaphor about poverty or illegal aliens or Texas or cults or something, but I couldn’t grok it. It didn’t work for me. I couldn’t settle into its graphic representations and missed its point entirely.
Carrey was unrecognizable, to his credit. Keanu was cool - a good cameo from him even though his character felt underdeveloped. Momoa never wore a shirt. Why would he for this? Suki’s arm effect was convincing.
At one point, I was reminded of when a certain DOOM brother (who will remain unarmed unless he puts himself) complainer that too much amputee porn was cut off just below the knee implying that the knee was just folded back. I’m not even sure how the conversation got there but it left me with regrets.
At another point, the Keanu rave, I started thinking how it reminded me of several late night tweaked sound systems that I’ve attended at festivals. You get a lot of weird thoughts at those and it occurred to me that this might just all be a story conceived at such a gathering (the lsd was a major tell). Take it from ol’ dm - only a select few can pull a Hunter S. Thompson and write well when high. Writing in that state can be useful but not for a whole damn movie. I did enjoy the lysergic twist, even if it was a bit cliche.
No sword fights. I’d only DOOM recommend this to cf (who’s already seen it obvs) & Ed (who hardly comes round here no mo).
Shadow boxing the apocalypse