Flypaper

Rating:
Summary: LOTUS LAND.......
Review: AHA!! Yet another California documentary . . . this one surpasses "Magnolia", "Mulholland Drive" as well as "Memento" = one or other brilliant 'suit' should combine all of these for the ULTIMATE Calofrnia experience - this one's IS the best!

OK. so, "Don't Look Now" still holds one of the best 'intimate' scenes - BUT this one adds rattlesnakes' - now that's something.

A very funny look at scum in local L.A. today - and very apt - [check out the neighbor nextdoor] - and it does say quite a lot about non-involvement - that final scene between Ms. Douglas and - this stage - much disfigured paramour - puts 'Salo' to shame!

The 'Knife in Skull' sequence? See that one .... one of many in this very, very original movie.

Line up to work with KLAUS HOCH - this guy's beyond Spielberg!
Just think what he could have done with "A.I."

AND what a soundtrack!

[Could be retitled "The Smell of $$$"]

Rating:
Summary: A slice of cake, not of life.
Review: Flypaper is more a compilation of about four different stories that are tenuously related than it is a single plot. (Magnolia comes to mind as a recent movie with the same format... And other than the LA locale, that is the extent of the movies' similarities.) I must admit, my expectations for this movie were relatively low, but ten minutes into it I was hooked. This movie is NOT profound. There are no deeper truths, and there have certainly been more important movies in the history of cinema, but this wasn't meant to be important. It is a slice of cake... The previous reviewer described it well saying you watch it in disbelief: from a hard-to-watch scene where Dot (Lucy Liu) cuts off her heel to escape from a shackle to a man having perhaps the Worst Day Ever (involving being left handcuffed to a bed, beaten up, shot, and losing an ear, with all but the first being unintentional)... Even at that, though, it's not just a stream of incoherant images. Perhaps that's what this movie does best: takes (nearly) unimaginable circumstances (from the rattlesnake-pit love scene to the hitchhiker with the knife in his skull) and make them seem like (nearly) logical plot progressions. The most likeable characters in the movie are Lucy Liu's methlab chemist and James Wilder's snake-fetishist, but most of the characters are quite flat and undifferentiated. Strangely, though, (and this was surprising to me) I didn't care!... I don't think this is the sort of film that will stand up to numerous viewings (not to me, anyway), but is definitely worth seeing once.

Rating:
Summary: Damp stupid movie
Review: I bought this DVD mainly because of the 2 - 3 mins naked scene of lucy liu and also the good reviews given by the previous owners. Damp stupid story line and a stupid kidnapper having shot and also knife in his head but running around not dead.

Rating:
Summary: Worth A Look--Or Two
Review: I sat down and starting watching this movie. At first I was unimpressed, but as you start to understand this movie, you begin to see that it is made to be stupid funny. I laughed the entire movie in disbelief of what was happening. I was dragged in by this movie, and now I encourage everyone to sit down and watch this movie's stupidity.

Rating:
Summary: Worth A Look--Or Two
Review: I sat down and starting watching this movie. At first I was unimpressed, but as you start to understand this movie, you begin to see that it is made to be stupid funny. I laughed the entire movie in disbelief of what was happening. I was dragged in by this movie, and now I encourage everyone to sit down and watch this movie's stupidity.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: I thought the humor in Flypaper was better than Pulp Fiction. The humor in Pulp Fiction is somewhat pretentious, the humor in Flypaper is humor for the sake of humor, which is always the better humor. The acting in Flypaper was a little better too.

Rating:
Summary: Pulp Fiction-esque . . . Without the Pulp
Review: Well, "Flypaper" is another "Pulp Fiction" wannabe--a little more funny, a little less bloody, which is probably the best thing about the movie. That and John McGinley's cartoonish reduction from human being to Wile E. Coyote (the funniest bit is when he plummets into the street from a moving ambulance . . . watch carefully to see a shoe pop off.) With a series of overlapping storylines--none of which is particularly compelling--the movie is less a narrative and more a teenager's intoxicated Saturday night romp from one adventure to another. The cast is quite capable, and even cable TV junk-movie favorite Craig Sheffer manages to turn in a decent performance, though Lucy Liu and "Ferris Bueller"'s Jeffrey Lewis are particularly engaging in smaller bits. Of course, the movie also benefits from a lack of Quentin Tarantino, as well as the wonderfully dependable Robert Loggia. There is no ultra-hip soundtrack (a truly cheesy techno track is about all we get), and other than getting to see Ms. Liu nude, there's no real point to the sex scenes, meaning that the "adultness" of the movie seems gratuitous. Still, I've seen worse ("Body of Evidence"), meaning that the movie is worth a look rented from the library or seen on cable.

Rating:
Summary: Pulp Fiction-esque . . . Without the Pulp
Review: Well, "Flypaper" is another "Pulp Fiction" wannabe--a little more funny, a little less bloody, which is probably the best thing about the movie. That and John McGinley's cartoonish reduction from human being to Wile E. Coyote (the funniest bit is when he plummets into the street from a moving ambulance . . . watch carefully to see a shoe pop off.) With a series of overlapping storylines--none of which is particularly compelling--the movie is less a narrative and more a teenager's intoxicated Saturday night romp from one adventure to another. The cast is quite capable, and even cable TV junk-movie favorite Craig Sheffer manages to turn in a decent performance, though Lucy Liu and "Ferris Bueller"'s Jeffrey Lewis are particularly engaging in smaller bits. Of course, the movie also benefits from a lack of Quentin Tarantino, as well as the wonderfully dependable Robert Loggia. There is no ultra-hip soundtrack (a truly cheesy techno track is about all we get), and other than getting to see Ms. Liu nude, there's no real point to the sex scenes, meaning that the "adultness" of the movie seems gratuitous. Still, I've seen worse ("Body of Evidence"), meaning that the movie is worth a look rented from the library or seen on cable.

Rating:
Summary: LOTUS LAND.......
Review: Wow.. I saw this film again recently... How bad can a movie be? I'll admit there are a few moments that had me laughing, but the the overall effect of the film is to dull the sense, kill the mind, and sap the fun right out of the room.