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mine.
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OTHER
CRAP:
Catch
the deluxe
version of
Other Crap in
real time,
with all the
bells and
whistles, here.
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Zombie
1979
Olga Karlatos
  
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True
Love and Chaos
(1997)
Johnny's
comments:
Back to
the archive, where I've
come back with the 1997
road movie True Love and
Chaos, a film I
distinctly remember
being very confused and
pissed off about.
Basically a road movie
where Mimi (Miranda
Otto) is heading to
Perth without her
boyfriend Hanif (Naveen
Andrews) until he and
his friend Dean (Noah
Taylor) rob Dean's drug
dealing brother Jerry
(Ben Mendelsohn) and
need to get away fast.
So, they tag along for
the ride. Then at their
first stop, Mimi meets
drunken beardo Morris
(Hugo Weaving) and has
an instant connection to
him, but he's an erratic
character. Eventually
they let him join the
trip, but his presence
causes friction between
Mimi and Hanif and with
Jerry following them,
it's all going to
explode in Perth.
Perfect cast, perfect
time but fuck me that
second half of the film
is a disaster, not as
confusing as I remember
it to be, but still
terrible beyond belief.
The 'connection' between
Mimi and Morris is an
all-time howler that
ruins the film
completely, not because
of what it is, but
because it so
unbelievable. Made by
the co-writer of Love
and Other Catastrophes
(wondering whether that
film holds up, in 1996
that was the "coolest
film eva", haven't seen
it in over a decade),
this had some of the
right ingredients (that
cast, do I need to say
it was perfect again?
Also, Miranda Otto c.
1996-1998 = perfect),
but that second half.
Woof!
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