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The Aristocrats (2005)
iI'd rather shave my butt hair than watch this film again.
The story in this film is that there is no story. The editing is horrible, the humor is absent, and the direction is worse than Beavis and Butthead on cocaine. The only attraction about this film is its interesting and catchy advertisement. Frankly, it provokes one to go see what the film is about and hear the joke. The problem, however, is that after 5 mins into the film, you know you've been ripped off, deceived, and duped into spending $10 on a bunch of frat boy typical no brain, no humor rip-off-of-a-documentary. The only offensive material in this film is the film itself -- not its vulgarity or smut jokes, but the entire way in which the film was made, presented, told, and edited. Sit far away or else run the risk of throwing up.
Free Lunch (2005)
innocence turns into sadistic fun
Viewed in Harrisburg at the Artsfest Film Festival. Free Lunch begins with a seemingly kind act performed by a benign pedestrian. The remaining portion of the film, however, unfolds from innocence to darkness as the same pedestrian and his friend begin a savage game of "lunch roulette," except they're pointing the gun at a business community interested in only a random free lunch obtained by dropping their cards in a fishbowl at a local diner. It is here where the film makes its inciting incident by having the characters steal the lunch cards and randomly choose their victims.
The characters in the film thread into one another's lives like a fine spun web until the main characters meet in the basement of a supposed drug dealer's home. It is here that the film takes on original characteristics of Pulp Fiction, with innocent fun turned into facilitated beatings. I'll say no more as to not spoil the pleasurable viewing, but know ahead of time that this wonderful film was shot on 35mm, carefully planned, cared for by someone who obviously loves what he/she does, edited well, and follows through to the end with a simultaneous soft and disgusting commentary on human nature and fun intentions gone awry. The only minor downfall was the music overlapping with scenes where I preferred to watch rather than listen. See this film!