Slacker [VHS]

Slacker [VHS]
by Richard Linklater

Slacker [VHS]
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Actor: Bob Boyd, Brecht Andersch, Jean Caffeine, Jerry Delony, Rudy Basquez
Director: Richard Linklater
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 97 minutes
Release Date: 2000-03-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

VHS Movie Reviews of Slacker [VHS]

Movie Review: Slacker
Summary: 3 Stars

Its a stoner film so it may lose you if your sober, but it does shine on a lot of conspiracy theories for you to argue or agree with. Dialog heavy little to no action so be warned.

Movie Review: Painful to watch
Summary: 2 Stars

My review is based on the first half of this movie because I was fortunate enough to fall asleep halfway through. In short this movie is a montage of people whom in real life I would either run away from or if it wasn't practical tell them to please shut up. I suppose people closer to the 'scene' would say I just don't get it and they're probably right but I don't want to. On the other hand if you like listening to people prattle on about Madonna's pap smear this may be your film.

Movie Review: Richard Linklater: Master of Inspired Aimlessness
Summary: 5 Stars

SLACKER is a uniquely odd, funny, and thoughtful film, much like A WAKING LIFE, but with no absolutely no semblance of a main character or a unifying plot. If you loved WAKING LIFE, then I believe you will also love this film, which was Linklater's first feature.

The bonus disc is generous and interesting, and includes Linklater's first film, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN TO PLOW BY READING.

Anyways, the following is my favorite quote from this film which overflows with quotable moments. The scene concerns an elderly hipster (and self-styled anarchist) who offers words of wisdom to a young man who recently broke into his house and held him at gunpoint(!). The gun didn't work and the two men soon struck up an unlikely sort of friendship...or maybe kinship is a better word. Anyways:

"To those humans in whom I have faith, I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation.

I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished.

I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not: that they endure."

I like that.

Movie Review: A Fan of Movie-Making is Rewarded with "Plow"
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a terrific Criterion DVD, and for the fan of Slacker, there is seemingly no shortage of resources. For fans of movie-making, though, I thoroughly recommend watching Linklater's "It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books", his first feature (in Super 8).

"Plow" is a meandering look at a meandering life, but when you watch it again with Linklater's commentary, you're treated to a great monologue about the formation of his career that is both inspiring and daunting.

In the "Plow" commentary, Linklater describes his obsession with film, and his initial forays into learning the technical aspects of film. He reminds the listener that he was no overnight success, that he had been "filming" things for nine years before Slacker came out. He says that no one wants to think about how they would have to alter their lives to put out something like Slacker. It's a humbling message!

As commentaries go, this is right up there with the DVD commentaries of Ridley Scott on Alien, Robert Rodriguez on "El Mariachi", and Paul Thomas Anderson on "Sydney" (released as "Hard Eight").

Movie Review: So, so bad
Summary: 1 Stars

Have you ever been accosted by a complete stranger and forced to listen to his pet theories on government coverups?
Have you ever been the only sober person in a room of stoners while they, ya know, wrestled with, like, life and $%#@?
Do you have a know it all friend, like Cliff Clavin from Cheers, who actually knows almost nothing, but doesn't let it stop him from talking non-stop?
Have you ever watched late night cable access shows?

Did you enjoy any or all of these? if so, Slacker is for you. If not, don't even think about it...or most any Linklater movie with the exception of Dazed And Confused.
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Summary of Slacker [VHS]

Richard Linklater's debut feature is a comic kaleidoscopic portraitof the quirky characters stuck in a college town (it's Austin, Texas, but it could stand for hundreds of such places), a devilishly clever and endlessly inventive film that overcomes its nothing budget with scene after hilarious scene of short, sharp cinematic shots. Structured something like Luis Bu?uel's The Phantom of Liberty, Slacker is a comic series of character pieces, each lasting a few minutes before the camera picks up and follows someone, perhaps simply an extra in the scene, to the next conversation. Characters spout off theories on everything from JFK and Charles Whitman (we even get an eerie glimpse of the tower he climbed for his killing spree) to Elvis and UFOs, and more (wanna buy a Madonna pap smear?) on our bohemian tour of a condensed day-in-the-life. Linklater lets the characters set the pace but provides a loose, almost imperceptible rhythm to the film as a whole, giving a kind of structure to what seems like a series of improvisations. But the heart of the film is the freewheeling array of obsessed, self-absorbed, or simply lost souls wandering streets and coffee shops ready to talk your ear off about absolutely nothing. Killing time has never been more fun. --Sean Axmaker

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