DISQUS

Film School Rejects: SXSW Review: Modern Love is Automatic

  • Rob_Hunter · 8 months ago
    Sorry Adam, but you may need to watch the movie again with your hat off... so the blood flow can return to your brain. The film is Todd Solondz-lite meets a bottle of NoDoz. As far as Sisk goes, awesome cleavage aside, any performance that requires the audience "to do most of the work throughout the film" is not that great of a performance. That said, her song at the end was the best scene in the movie.
  • Adam_Sweeney · 8 months ago
    Wow, Todd Solondz, really? I didn't feel like the film went in that direction at all.

    But you know what is great about film reviews? We can agree to disagree. At least we do agree that The Horseman wasn't good.
  • nick_Cavella · 8 months ago
    lol you guys had me i thought this was based off A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS song lol
  • Adam_Sweeney · 8 months ago
    The title is. Thank God nobody had their hairdos in the film.
  • Rob_Hunter · 8 months ago
    Maggie Ross' character in particular seemed very Solondzesque...

    But you are right in regards to being able to disagree about film reviews. Hell, I sometimes disagree with my own.
  • Adam_Sweeney · 8 months ago
    Ok, Maggie's I can see. The whole adult film dupe reminds me of Selma Blair in Storytelling. The rest of it, however, stands alone, I think. I thought Sisk, Ross and Cherkas were solid.
  • Nick Norrman · 8 months ago
    Maggie Ross is almost an exact replica of the character Joy from Solondz' Happiness. Stylistically the film reminded me of Coppolo, even the kareoke song choice (the original version of that song appeared in Marie Antoinette). Even in the ridiculous bondage scenes Lorraine continues to make those hilariously bored, this isn't doing it for me, faces. The parts that "require the audience to do most of the work" are just average parts of a story that don't need to be shown because they are obvious, more tellers of stories should be doing this. Overall I Enjoyed Modern Love is Automatic and thought it was a refreshing look at how monotonous and dull life can be and it featured bondage scenes with average fat and hairy white men which I've been waiting to see on the big screen for a long time. the karoke scene was great the way it progressed into her getting more emotionally into the song she sang..