It's 2019 and I know Robert Meyer Burnett only from his YouTube videos where he examines everything sci-fi and geeky and I decide now! Now it's the moment to watch Free Enterprise, the only movie he wrote and directed, from 20 years ago. I can't remember where I got it and why, but I will watch it tonight. And it was a treat. Not a cinematic masterpiece by any measure, but it felt really personal. It's a low budget movie about geeks trying to reconcile the real world with their personal passions. William Shatner plays a fantastic role as a completely misunderstood person who is no one's captain, but just an actor with his own problems and social awkwardness. Seeing him spouting thespian quotes at women who treat him like a freak was both hilarious and oh so sad. It reminded me of The Gamers, another criminally underrated movie that I like and focuses on D&D rather than Star Trek.
Bottom line: this is a pathologically geeky film. Even if it features that mythical girl who is both beautiful and likes comics and movies, I doubt that this movie will appeal to anyone but male fanboys who collect stuff in their rooms or watch movies and dedicate their worship to some actor or franchise. Yet it is a film that explores real people, as implausibly good looking as they are, and their very human needs of connecting and finding their "one person audience". I liked it!
Bottom line: this is a pathologically geeky film. Even if it features that mythical girl who is both beautiful and likes comics and movies, I doubt that this movie will appeal to anyone but male fanboys who collect stuff in their rooms or watch movies and dedicate their worship to some actor or franchise. Yet it is a film that explores real people, as implausibly good looking as they are, and their very human needs of connecting and finding their "one person audience". I liked it!