TSP2002: Adaptation.
Adaptation.. Spike Jonze. 2002.
The first two thirds of this film are extremely entertaining. Metafictional tomfoolery to the max. And then, in the last third, it turns into a normal American action movie, and it’s incredibly boring. Which is a metafictional thing, too, because within the film, Kaufman is advised that people only remember the ending, so the ending of the film should be kick-ass. But like I kinda mentioned with The Protagonists, purposefully boring pastiche is still boring.
You should really stop watching this film after fifty minutes. In that case, this would be the rating:
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TSP2002: Teknolust
Teknolust. Lynn Hershman-Leeson. 2002.
This is a very amusing film. There’s a lot about it I liked. So I really feel bad about this roll of the die:
Edit: I’ve now watched the commentary track, and I feel even worse about the die.
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TSP2001: Vanilla Sky
Vanilla Sky. Cameron Crowe. 2001.
This film is so much worse than The Beach that I regret giving The Beach a ⚀. But I don’t have a die with a skull and crossbones, so it’ll have to do. THIS IS AWFUL!!!?!1!!!
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TSP2001: The Deep End
The Deep End. Scott McGehee. 2001.
This started off as a run-of-the-mill spiralling-into-complications film, but then it took a more original turn.
It’s weird seeing films from this area, though. Cell phone usage was prevalent, but script writers didn’t want to acknowledge that, because it makes all the traditional “person who can’t be reached” plot lines irrelevant. So instead of coming up with new plot points, they doubled don’t on the unreachability through exotic means. I remember Buffy episodes where Spike just couldn’t get his to work, so he’d throw them out the car window, and so on. In this one, they have one person be out on a military carrier which is… “out of range”… Yeah, yeah.
A couple years later, the writers just gave up on all those plots and came up with new ones that allowed everybody to be within reach of everybody else all the time.
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