Bitchen-2

Holy crap. Perfect movie. Both metaphorical and literal at the same time. Coppola meets Hitchcock.

I find it almost impossible to wrap my head around the fact that it's this director's first feature. It reads like it was directed by a season professional who's learned from a lot of past mistakes.

This is nearly flawless. The acting and pacing are perfect.

An edge-of-your-seat thriller that thinks very deeply.

Watch it if you get a chance.

Good Lord! This movie needed a cinematographer. Nearly a third of the shots are out of focus! I like the concept, and for a low-budget Indie, it wasn't bad. Had some real laugh-out-loud moments, too. The Matrix allusions wore thin, but the Star Wars and convention gags were dead on.

George Starkey's Lucas was as dead on as I'd expect from a Hollywood film.

Ultimately, Jim Peterson's Hank steals the movie with his "comic relief" character that hits the nail on the head.

Director Wood's choice to play the lightsabers straight (as plastic toys and not roto-scoped light sabers) was a stroke of genius.

Unfortunately the film suffered technically. The sound and photography left much to be desired.

Worth the rent.

This film had *no* plot. It had a circumstance. It had a time line, setting and marginal character development, but *no plot*.

Performances by Ackroyd and Goodman are disappointing.

The *only* thing that makes this movie worthwhile is the band competition at the end where Paul Schaffer has used his remarkable influence to assemble a band of the biggest names in blues for a performance culminating with a joint effort with the Blues Brothers Band. (Although, I don't think they're even on the same set.)

Fast forward to the ending sequence. (Okay, stop for the completely unmotivated, but fun, cop car pileup.)