in summation: nothing is going right, nobody cares about your dreams, and you will get killed by bank of america. but there's a place for every oddball.
Oct 17, 2024
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Written and directed by Charlie Day, his first credit as director. What appears to be just another gang gang romp ends up being a surprisingly sophisticated and watchable film. Charlie Day plays a character called Latte Pronto who says no more than five words the whole film. It's not a silent film, but Charlie Day is largely silent. So the tribute to Charlie Chaplin can't be ignored, nor can the Lynchian critique of Los Angeles and the New Wave-inflected pacing and edit. It's billed as a comedy, but that's almost a Shakespearean category here. Some of the shots are way more beautiful than a movie directed by Charlie Day needed to be. It feels the only authentic Hollywood products these days are the movies about making movies (forgive me, but I thought Babylon was OK until they obviously started running out of ideas...) and in the case of Fool's Paradise, there's a really engrossing postmodern thing happening stylistically: time has collapsed. Ken Jeong plays a desperate never-was; Kate Beckinsale, hotter than ever, sells her character exactly too much. A pretty vicious George Lopez dig turns out to be (according to the credits) a hint to an easter egg.
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itβs stupid and perfect and lowkey one of the greatest movies of all time. itβs fun !! itβs california! weβre surfing and skydiving and robbing banks! what more can you ask for!!
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Emilio Esteves in an endlessly quotable 80s movie for surburban white punks. Think SLC punk with the absurdism cranked up. A great time with friends.
Regular fucking people man.
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