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Polyester (1981)
One of the greatest anti-films
This movie is just dripping with humor. The acting is terrible and over-the-top but exactly appropriate for this kind of movie. The dialog is always ironic. There are no jokes in this movie, this movie is a joke. I was smiling and laughing almost immediately from the start. The perfect dagger in the heart of all those bloated, pretentious, Hollywood films. Words cannot express how much I love this movie. Divine as always, is great. It contains such classic lines as "I'm going to get an abortion and I can't wait!" A purely farcical ridiculous look at suburban American life. Silly. Nobody can ever do or has done what John Waters is doing. He has created a style and put a moat around it.
Miller's Crossing (1990)
The most over-rated under-rated movie
This film was very much a disappointment. I understand that it's meant to understated, but it's so subtle to the point of being droll. The first 45 minutes are quite confusing, there's lots of subtle plot points that seem to detract from the main plot. The acting is decent, but the script is borderline comically unrealistic without being ironic. Watching this movie, I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be a comedy, a gangster movie, or a drama. At times, it's all three and can't figure itself out. Gabriel Byrne's performance was underwhelming. He looked as bored as I was watching this movie. The characters are all unlikeable. By the end, you want them all to die. Only pretentious, faux-intellectual, artsy types would like this film. I'm generally a Coen Brothers fan, but this movie made me very angry watching it, mainly because I wasted two hours of my life. I would better have spent it watching Raising Arizona, Fargo, or The Big Lebowski even though I've seen them 100 times. The pace is extremely slow. This movie is all style and no substance. Nice art direction, nice cinematography, even good acting, but absurd script, excruciatingly slow pace, poor character development (what are there motivations?) and a plot spread thin over two hours complicated by unnecessary verbose dialog and distracting side bar sub-plots.