Rex Reed's Head Explodes
Submitted by jim on Wed, 09/29/2004 - 08:58
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What could be more fun than watching Rex Reed's head spin around, fly up in the air, and explode like a meaty M16 "Jumping Jack" mine:
And so I § Huckabees [sic] may not be the worst movie ever made, depending on how you feel about such hollow, juvenile and superficial trash as Brewster McCloud, Hudson Hawk, Punch-Drunk Love, Mulholland Drive, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost Highway, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses and … well, as they said in Hollywood during the McCarthy witch hunts, "the list goes on."
The egomaniacal young director-producer-writer David O. Russell is a member of the new group of anarchists that includes Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, freaky Todd Solondz and the dismally overrated non-writer Charlie Kaufman, who wins critical praise for writing incoherent movies about why he can’t write coherent movies.
Never listen to a man that can't be bothered to get the character encoding right. I wonder where His Rexness would fall on this list? « via Movie City News »
Never mind that Rex Reed doesn't know jack about film. Never mind that he lost his sense of perspective long ago. Never mind that he still has to live with the fact that he himself starred in one of the worst excuses for a film ever made ("Myra Breckenridge").
What I want to know is, what in hell's bells is "Hudson Hawk" doing milling about with the other films Reed disses? It's not even close in tone or content or style or... well, anything.
So, in other words, I [heart] Huckabees is going to be freakin' awesome. I hope I can make a movie one day that could be mentioned in the same breath as Punch-Drunk, Mulholland Dr., and Malkovich.
And to say Eternal Sunshine is hollow, juvenile (!) and superficial (!!) is... mind-boggling, to say the least.
And what on earth does "anarchists" mean in this context?
I have no idea. I'm still picking little pieces of ol' Rex's brains out of my hair hours later. It always pays to be in the other room when somebody's head explodes. They just don't make a good shampoo for these situations.
Jim, you just told everyone not to listen to me anymore. Grrrr... :-)
Not at all - you got it right eventually. :-)
Wow, that dude is pissed. And all he really proves is that he has poor taste in movies.