Lucky did okay playing Roman - he is one of those directors who are far superior behind the camera (i.e. Quentin Tarantino) than in front of one.
I am not really familiar with Kristen Bell (I know that she plays the lead role of Sarah in Forgetting Sarah Marshall - which is in my Netflix Queue - and that she is in the American Re-make of Kairo (aka Pulse) which I have not seen because I am pretty sure that it will be a clunker like almost every other American/Japanese Re-make. Based on Roman though, I thought that she did quite well.
Nectar Rose [her parents must have been hippies] on the other hand, in my opinion, stole this movie! During the movie it kept bothering me that she looked so familiar, so I looked her up on http://www.imdb.com/ to find out that she was an uncredited stripper in Independence Day and was also uncredited as Marilyn Monroe in L.A.Confidential. Well, she has come a long way from her uncredited days! In Roman, Nectar plays a crazy chick obsessed with death (Saturdays are for Chili Dogs in the Cemetery!) Her character's obsession reminded me a little bit of Cameron Diaz's character in Vanilla Sky - far out there!!
For those of you who are already Lucky McKee fans, you will be pleased to see that both Mike (Lucky's real-life father) and Jesse Hlubik (both of whom were in May and Sick Girl) return as Roman's fellow co-workers at the welding factory. Another co-worker was Director Chris Siverston (who directed the awful I Know Who Killed Me and then redeemed himself by directing Jack Ketchum's The Lost.
Ben Boyer (who was the Composer on Sick Girl) played Russ, Roman's Landlord, who watches porn - in surround sound - 24/7! Pretty Funny! :-) There is also a deleted scene with James Duvall (who was also in May, as well as Donnie Darko and also The Doom Generation)
All in all, if you are a fan of Lucky McKee's, I think that you will enjoy this movie. It was not as good as May, though it was a perfect directorial debut for Angela Bettis. If you are not a fan of Lucky's, but you like your dramas dark, then you too may enjoy this film. . .
[I am awaiting a friend's reply on how to add Trailers to my Blog. . .] :-)
Jason
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Coming from a big Lucky McGee fan, I must say that the review was honest enough to warrant a Netflix rental for me.
Imbedding trailers is not a hard task. Mostly, you can find them on YouTube, copy the embed code, and paste it into your HTML.
Bill
Cool ~ Be sure to let me know what you thought of it, after you have seen it! :-)
So, I need to switch from "Compose" to HTML, and then just add it to the end of the Blog?!? Sounds simple enough! :-)
Thanks Bill
J
Loved May. It was way creepy. I'm going to have to watch this but Kristen Bell's record in horror movies is kinda shitty
Like I said, I am not familiar with Kristen Bell - I thought she did fine in this movie - I would not call this one a Horror film though ~ don't expect another May!
J
Just throwing this out there...I saw Pulse and it wasn't that bad. I would have been pissed if I paid to see it in a theater, but it was an ok DVD rental. Um....ok, not fabulous or anything. LOL
Thanks for the Comment Jessi - I may see Pulse, one day, especially since they made a sequel to it! :-)
Another flick I'm really interested in seeing but that I have not. I did, however, really enjoy May, and I like both Lucky McKee & Angela Bettis quite a lot, plus I'm a fan of that almost minimalistic "lonely protagonist with a fractured psyche" type of movie (a la' May, Taxi Driver, etc.), so I think this will be right up my alley.
Then you should definitely enjoy this one William. :-)
J
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