Never Has a Movie Been More Literally Titled
Trade News | September 18, 2008 | Comments (6)
As the regular readers know, Dustin, Ted and I went to Sundance last year. We saw quite a few movies. Sleeper Dealers was the worst of the bunch. Each of us literally fell asleep at some point during the flick (and not, as we would later learn, even at or about the same time) because the movie was trite, rote and fucking bad. Dustin hates SciFi to begin with, so he wasn’t inclined to like this flick anyways, but Ted and I don’t suffer from such poor prejudices and we still agreed it was ass.
And yet, it won an award for the best mother fucking screenplay. Fuck. Off.
The site where I found this trailer says you may like it if you dug Primer and Pi. If I ever meet this particular writer for Latino Review, I am going to punch him in the throat.
If you don’t believe me, check the trailer — you think this looks bad? Fucking Shakespearean compared to the full deal….
Comments
Posted by: Robert at September 18, 2008 11:33 AM
It looks like an interesting concept shoveled so tightly into an immigration/migrant worker debate sack that it's no longer a fresh idea. Humans only allowed to work if they connect to robots that have the power to control their action? Interesting. Locking up migrant workers from Mexico, thereby preventing them from seeing their families even if most of their wages are going to said families that are only freer because they can walk around without fear of prosecution for being in another country illegally? Ugh.
Yeah, I see why this won screenplay at Sundance. Politically driven science fiction in a foreign language touching on a hot button issue? No mystery. It made the voters feel important and worldly.