After seeing vicious & revolutionary comedy artist Conner O'Malley's last short film masterpiece, COREYS, I was VERY excited when I heard a new film RAP WORLD had been released.
It kind of got less interesting as it went, but, man, I am really happy that this exists. It was sending me back in time watching these stoney fools working at a movie theater at the beginning of the movie, just screwing off and talking about their plans to make some bum art at, like, one of their parent's places, in this case it was a proposed music album - in my case it was short films shot on a Digital 8 camera that looked exactly like what RAP WORLD looks like. I was like "this was literally me and my friends 2003-2007" - the only difference is I was leaving town frequently to go on music tours, but otherwise this feels EXACTLY like my past life. That's the greatest part about this film. It gets it right. It feels real. This was a very real era, full of thousands and thousands of suburban college-age Americans exactly like these characters. Existing in their little Family Guy-flavored, bongwater-stained bubbles. We were LOSERS and it was the greatest time of our lives. These characters are beyond realistic. And Conner's character is so bad at rapping, so unbelievably bad, that it makes Joaquin Phoenix in I'm Still Here sound like Kool Keith.
If you were a college-aged bonehead in the 2000's, I would recommend giving this maniacal slice of mock-reality a whirl. The full "film" is up on YouTube. But, no matter who you are, you should watch his other short film COREYS, first. Cuz, THAT ONE...wow. Conner O'Malley is on a role...he hasn't made his true masterpieces yet, but I can feel that they are coming VERY soon...
