I watched this film a few months back, and thought it was one of the best guerrilla-filmmaking movies I had ever seen - though I have seen very few. The other day I watched Glenn Danzig's directorial-debut film "Verotika" and I felt compelled to re-watch this film to witness how an underground film should be made. Now there's Glenn Danzig, a 67 year old successful musician, with a desire to create a film for the past three decades, make a disastrously horrible film that is "Verotika." And here with "Misfits of the Profane" there is Halle Capone, a young filmmaker with a passion as equal to Glenn Danzig's, but with a brain, heart, and soul. I see a bright future for Halle Capone. Someone in Hollywood give this person a big budget project, and avoid giving a dime to deluded wannabe filmmakers like Glenn Danzig.
Reviews
3 Reviews
Misfits of the Profane
(2020)
Great direction, great script, and interesting characters
2 March 2020
Snitch
(I) (2013)
Surprised how much I enjoyed it.
27 April 2014
To be honest I thought this film would be a "should've-been-straight-to-video" type of movie, but I decided to take a chance with it and, damn, was I shocked it kept me interested until the credits started rolling. I haven't been a big fan of Dwayne Johnson as a film star, but he's surely trying his hardest to prove people like me otherwise.
The story immediately pulled me in and at some points I wanted more to happen in it, for it to make a sort of political statement on the frailties of the drug war, but all that kind of stuff considered, the filmmakers didn't bother with it, being that it more focused on the father-son relationship. Themes like that in films keep me intrigued and interested no matter how criticized the films are.
The screenplay could have been better, and the film as a whole could have been more in depth, but that wasn't the point.
The story immediately pulled me in and at some points I wanted more to happen in it, for it to make a sort of political statement on the frailties of the drug war, but all that kind of stuff considered, the filmmakers didn't bother with it, being that it more focused on the father-son relationship. Themes like that in films keep me intrigued and interested no matter how criticized the films are.
The screenplay could have been better, and the film as a whole could have been more in depth, but that wasn't the point.
The Rum Diary
(2011)
Wish it showed the beauty of the book.
17 October 2013
I loved the book, but this movie sort of let me down; it was more of a tribute to the man Hunter S. Thompson rather than his talent as a writer. Thompson wanted to write good fiction before he became one of the best known journalists in America. There were lines in the movie that weren't in the book but based on interviews Thompson did in real life. I mean, if you want to do a biographical film then write an original script rather than taking a work of fiction and entwining it with the real life figure. I wanted to see Paul Kemp, not Hunter S. Thompson as Paul Kemp.
I don't mind it when adaptation's aren't faithful to it's source, just as long as the spirit of the story is still there. The spirit of Rum Diary was lost in it's translation to film by substituting it with a simple tribute to the journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas still stands as the best adaptation of Thompson's work thus far until another filmmaker gets on the saddle of Thompson's beautiful prose and rides wild.
I don't mind it when adaptation's aren't faithful to it's source, just as long as the spirit of the story is still there. The spirit of Rum Diary was lost in it's translation to film by substituting it with a simple tribute to the journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas still stands as the best adaptation of Thompson's work thus far until another filmmaker gets on the saddle of Thompson's beautiful prose and rides wild.
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