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Mope (2019)
About as funny as 'Requiem for a Dream.' Includes boderline non-consensual sex scene, and brutal violence
A helpful warning for anyone finding this in the "Comedy" section of a streaming service like I did.
As a drama, this is movie has a lot of promise, and a strong directorial debut, but I'd definitely consider it a drama with comedic moments, and not a comedy. Overall this is about as comedic as Requiem for a Dream, with a similar descent into the personal hell of the characters that never turns around.
Without giving spoilers, I wanted to include that one of the sex scenes contains graphic non-consensual moments, with the woman visibly upset. I'm leaving this as a very generic description so people can know what they're getting into when watching this movie.
I love movies with dark material, and don't want to dissuade anyone from watching this, I just want to put a warning out there in the reviews for anyone coming into this expecting it to be a comedy, so people know what they're getting into.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
If you love Hedwig, Rocky Horror, or Neil Gaiman...
A punk sci-fi alien sex comedy might not be for everyone, and that's ok.
Yet for lovers of intelligent sci-fi mixed with experimental cinema, this movie dances like the sex pistols running through Bowie's "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Apparently based on a Neil Gaiman short story, the director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch stamps his punk musical feel onto Neil Gaiman's wonderfully thought out premise, and a cross cultural love story between aliens and punks entertainingly spews forth.
Frankly, I loved it. Elle Fanning's adorable portrayal of naively transgressing from a controlling alien culture into 1977's punk world highlights the nature of punk's original anarchistic push against our own cultural norms
I think time will prove critics wrong as this definitively un-hollywood take on punk and imagined alien culture clash elevates from the mass of easy critique into the status of cult classic.
Swinging Safari (2018)
Hilariously painful and accurate depiction of the pre-mandatory seatbelt era
The 70s.
Fondue, Beaches, and the Sexual Revolution aftermath.
Enjoy being brought back to a simpler time of 8mm film childhood fun, and watch it mercifully and lovingly roasted with uncanny accuracy.
Swinging Safari is a hilarious painfully depiction of the decade before mandatory seatbelt laws, when toys had small unsafe parts, and people wanted to emulate Evil Knievel and experiment sexually.
Stephen Elliott's irrepressibly absurd tour of everything 70's charges straight through 3 neighboring families interpersonal relations while seemingly intersecting all the hilarious earmarks of 70's culture.
With a little intelligence it's easy to follow the dark comedic narrative. And if you like biting comedy, safely ignore the few negative reviews here that simply aren't sharp enough to follow the overarching narrative tying this loving homage to the 70s together.