SHERDOG MOVIE CLUB: Let's pick the Week 8 movie! (Update: Poll closed!)

Sherdog Movie Club: Let's Pick the Week 8 Movie!

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shadow_priest_x said:
But that's all this club is. . .
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I get what you're saying.

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So, while looking for The Rookie (the one we're reviewing, not the 1990 buddy cop charlie sheen/clint eastwood movie I watched by accident and then 15 minutes in I realized it wasn't what I was looking for but I was invested so I stuck it out), I decided to watch Hesher, which didn't make the cut. I had heard it had a heavy metal soundtrack and was a bleak comedy. I even voted for it because it was the only one on the list I hadn't see.

Since I don't have something to say about The Rookie yet, because the netflicks isn't working for some reason, I'll give a little breakdown of Hesher. We can even talk about it in this thread if others want to - I don't mind.


Hesher

Boy, was I unpleasantly surprised. Where was the comedy? Where was the metal? This was billed as a dramedy with a kid meeting a metalhead and trying to fix his life. Joseph Gordon-Levitt played a burnout 30something that showed up out of nowhere, some kid played a kid who was dealing with the death of his mom before the movie started, Rainn Wilson played a sad depressed guy that was a complete waste of his talents, and Natalie Portman played some chick with funny glasses that breathed and stood around and had it bad too but who cares. Oh, and the guy that ended up being Zodiac in the Zodiac movie, John Carroll Lynch, was in it too for a few minutes here and there as an Old Man Smithers-type who owned the car lot that was part of a weak subplot.

To be clear, there were what felt like three metal songs played in the entirety of the movie: 5 Metallica songs (Motorbreath and Battery being the heaviest featured) and Motorhead's Rock Out. That's it? They were featured for all of five minutes in a 100 minute movie. Come on. They even made the font of the movie title the same as Metallica's Kill Em All album cover. The kid didn't even like the music, so it was all this burnout who has zero backstory hanging out with this middle school aged kid because reasons. The kid did pick up cursing from JGL and that was a thing for a minute too.

Here's the Synopsis:
The kid's trying to deal with the death of his mother, and meets this burnout JGL with long hair who listens to like three Metallica songs throughout the movie and tries to help the kid get over the loss in his own way. The kid's dad is a wreck, so there's no guidance there, and his grandmother is old. What would you think happens with a movie about grief? She dies, but not before she gets high with JGL because it was some awkward bonding moment. They're all sad. JGL walks into the funeral with a beer and says a monologue about losing one of his body parts and that magically snaps out the dad from his unfathomable and pill-heavy depression. JGL leaves. Oh yeah, and Natalie Portman banged JGL randomly and the kid got mad because I guess he was in love with her? That part didn't really go anywhere. A weak subplot was also that the kid was trying to get the car that his mom died in for sentimentality's sake, and some he ended up with 1800 bucks to almost buy the car? There was a bully too, and he kind of stood up to the bully but then JGL bailed him out magically. A lot of deux ex metallina in this one.

Rating: 4/10, only because of the few decent songs used. Otherwise, it was not at all memorable, and certainly wasn't a comedy or black comedy. I'm fine with a movie being a drama if it's billed as a drama, but I'm pretty sure it was billed as a dark comedy. Wikipedia, you failed me again. Basically, this was a motley crew of characters that didn't belong together and were inorganically placed in the same spot and had to deal with each other awkwardly.

And yes, the kid had a heroic moment trying to
fight off the bully that was mean to him intermittently and then rescue the car that his mom died in to I guess sit in, I think that was as far as he planned.
 
jeicex said:
So, while looking for The Rookie (the one we're reviewing, not the 1990 buddy cop charlie sheen/clint eastwood movie I watched by accident and then 15 minutes in I realized it wasn't what I was looking for but I was invested so I stuck it out), I decided to watch Hesher, which didn't make the cut. I had heard it had a heavy metal soundtrack and was a bleak comedy. I even voted for it because it was the only one on the list I hadn't see.

Since I don't have something to say about The Rookie yet, because the netflicks isn't working for some reason, I'll give a little breakdown of Hesher. We can even talk about it in this thread if others want to - I don't mind.


Hesher

Boy, was I unpleasantly surprised. Where was the comedy? Where was the metal? This was billed as a dramedy with a kid meeting a metalhead and trying to fix his life. Joseph Gordon-Levitt played a burnout 30something that showed up out of nowhere, some kid played a kid who was dealing with the death of his mom before the movie started, Rainn Wilson played a sad depressed guy that was a complete waste of his talents, and Natalie Portman played some chick with funny glasses that breathed and stood around and had it bad too but who cares. Oh, and the guy that ended up being Zodiac in the Zodiac movie, John Carroll Lynch, was in it too for a few minutes here and there as an Old Man Smithers-type who owned the car lot that was part of a weak subplot.

To be clear, there were what felt like three metal songs played in the entirety of the movie: 5 Metallica songs (Motorbreath and Battery being the heaviest featured) and Motorhead's Rock Out. That's it? They were featured for all of five minutes in a 100 minute movie. Come on. They even made the font of the movie title the same as Metallica's Kill Em All album cover. The kid didn't even like the music, so it was all this burnout who has zero backstory hanging out with this middle school aged kid because reasons. The kid did pick up cursing from JGL and that was a thing for a minute too.

Here's the Synopsis:
The kid's trying to deal with the death of his mother, and meets this burnout JGL with long hair who listens to like three Metallica songs throughout the movie and tries to help the kid get over the loss in his own way. The kid's dad is a wreck, so there's no guidance there, and his grandmother is old. What would you think happens with a movie about grief? She dies, but not before she gets high with JGL because it was some awkward bonding moment. They're all sad. JGL walks into the funeral with a beer and says a monologue about losing one of his body parts and that magically snaps out the dad from his unfathomable and pill-heavy depression. JGL leaves. Oh yeah, and Natalie Portman banged JGL randomly and the kid got mad because I guess he was in love with her? That part didn't really go anywhere. A weak subplot was also that the kid was trying to get the car that his mom died in for sentimentality's sake, and some he ended up with 1800 bucks to almost buy the car? There was a bully too, and he kind of stood up to the bully but then JGL bailed him out magically. A lot of deux ex metallina in this one.

Rating: 4/10, only because of the few decent songs used. Otherwise, it was not at all memorable, and certainly wasn't a comedy or black comedy. I'm fine with a movie being a drama if it's billed as a drama, but I'm pretty sure it was billed as a dark comedy. Wikipedia, you failed me again. Basically, this was a motley crew of characters that didn't belong together and were inorganically placed in the same spot and had to deal with each other awkwardly.

And yes, the kid had a heroic moment trying to
fight off the bully that was mean to him intermittently and then rescue the car that his mom died in to I guess sit in, I think that was as far as he planned.
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Sounds like it's good that shit didn't win.

What the the fuck, @TheRuthlessOne? Why are you nominating shit that sucks?

JK
 
It might actually be fun to talk about why we're glad movies did or didn't make the cut after the poll is done. Not in an insulting way or to disparage someone for picking the movie they picked, but as a fun side talk.
 
Seriously tho I think the imdb rating for that of a 7 is that is should be

I laughed a bunch
 
I had a problem with it mostly because it wasn't really particularly anything. It wasn't a feel good movie, it wasn't a coming of age movie, it wasn't a comedy, and the
movie ended very kind of abruptly, the whole thing "resolved itself" in a matter of minutes. It was a buildup to a tiny scene where they're running down the street with the coffin. Where did they go with it? How did Hesher get the smashed up car? He had a van, so he must have gotten a truck to bring it?
 
jeicex said:
It might actually be fun to talk about why we're glad movies did or didn't make the cut after the poll is done. Not in an insulting way or to disparage someone for picking the movie they picked, but as a fun side talk.
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I actually like that idea a lot. Post-vote nomination talk could definitely be interesting. I'd certainly have a lot to say about why I voted for certain movies and didn't vote for others.
 
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