Watched on September 20, 2018
Trash Fire (2016)
Director: Richard Bates, Jr.
This guy… Richard Bates Jr…. man, this guy is something else. I am obsessed with his work! I am looking forward to his next project more than the next Quentin Tarantino flick. (More like Tarantin-who? amiright?)
This guy is the new and improved Sam Raimi. It’s like he is creating a whole universe—a pathetic-but-real universe—of Patrick Bateman’s (American Psycho) kids, much like how there is a Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This movie was great. It’s almost like Oscar Wilde wrote the dialog. Every line was important and funny/creepy/scary/seminal-to-the-story SOMETHINGs!
There was a little feller named James Gunn who worked for a little company-that-could, called Troma. He got his start directing a movie called Tromeo and Juliet. I loved it immediately and knew this kid would go on to do big things. Now, you know him as the writer and director of Guardians of the Galaxy. With the same powers of prognostication, I will say that this guy, Bates, is going to be a somebody. He’s got what they, in the biz, call ‘it!’
Trash Fire.
This one stewed… Festered (‘It means “to rot!”’) on my watch list for a long time because I have always hated that lead actor, the guy from Entourage. However, I learned that the movie was written and directed by that Bates feller, and I have it a shot.
There are so many good things to say about this. Watch it and any of his movies you can! This is solid gold, and it is hidden as such, in a sea of blockbusters and B-movies. Now, I have learned that that chap can act and be funny and dramatic, even playing a stuck-up kid. It is really great writing when you keep a character dislikable, but simultaneously make you feel for the character. If you are thinking of Jaime Lannister as being a great example of this, he is not! He, and every character in that show, are bad examples because they shift gears, go from bad to good. I’m talking about maintaining the character with their lousy traits and still creating empathy around them.
Also, you know how once and a while you find a rare gem of a scene where you don’t know if you should be grossed out, devastated, or laugh? Watch this movie, folks. And watch Excision!
One other thing to cling to is when a movie maker keeps their cronies around, a la Rob Zombie and Tim Burton. Katherine Isabelle will always be my favorite, followed closely by Monica Keena, but this new(ish) comer, AnnaLynne McCord has made her way to my top 3 favorite scream queens.
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