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Post by lordrockinhood on Oct 23, 2008 12:27:23 GMT -5
^^^ It's been playing in the West Village here for a few weeks but I haven't made it down there yet... the reviews here haven't been so positive, but something tells me this is one of those review-proof masterpieces!
Opens next week? I saw it last night. I believe it's going around from city to city, and only showing in one place at a time. It was in the middle of a three-day run here in Madison.
As much as my friends & I love the Flaming Lips, we all seemed confused and/or underwhelmed by the film. I think I learned more about the plot from reading about it online beforehand than I did from actually seeing the movie. Character development wasn't the greatest, either. I kept expecting Tom Servo to pop up in the bottom corner and start mocking it...
All I can tell about the plot after seeing it is: - there's an Earth colony on Mars, and some inhabitants are developing space madness - there's a baby due to be born on Christmas - Santa (?) dies; Martian Wayne shows up and never says a word - I didn't know you could show vaginas in an R-rated film
After an hour or so with plenty of trippy visuals and little to advance the plot/characters, the dialogue finally started focusing on Martian Wayne's nature/reason for being there. I had been hoping they'd sew everything together in the end with some deep statement about life, the cosmos, whatever - some message to make sense of it all. But that didn't happen either.
Maybe I didn't enjoy enough corn and booze before the show. Maybe it's better viewed with something a bit stronger than that (which would explain why my brother raved about seeing it at Bonnaroo while I was underwhelmed last night.)
I don't regret paying eight bucks to see it, but I definitely wouldn't pay to go see it again. Paying to see it once was enough for me, but I don't think I'll have the urge to re-watch it until/unless it's available on Netflix.
I saw a bit of it at Roo but didn't hang out too long.
Kdogg is right about it being ripe for MST3K, especially given their history with Santa Claus Conquers the Maritans. (Featuring the classic carol, "A Patrick Swayze Christmas" )
Glad you all checked it out already. The stuff I saw said the 28th. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but sounds like I might save my $8 and wait for on-line viewing.