Dec 2018
This is a great little story set in Texas about an insurance scam that you know right away wont end well. Just in like TCM4, McConaughey plays a fucking creep, and it does it wonderfully. Not that Vilmer and Joe are very similar, because Vilmer was an erratic mess, but Joe is calm and collected. Of course, he still goes off the deep end when someone pushes him, but he's very particular about his routines. Hell, he even threatens to wear someone's face. And then, like any chainsaw movie, there's a dinner table scene where it all goes south.
I really like Killer Joe. It's one of those gritty deep-fried crime dramas that feature a lot of rednecks, incestuous vibes, and violence. I also want to say that the character of Ansel played by Thomas Hayden Church is a great, laid-back hick who goes along with everything. He amuses me, but everyone does good in the movie.
Emile Hirsch kind of always looks like a piece of shit, what with his facial hair and whatnot, but he's been in some good movies. Then, you have Juno Temple playing Dottie, who's in her 20s playing a 12 year old that everyone looks at sexually. Uh oh.
Of course, this plays a big part in the storyline, but it still makes us all inherently uncomfortable. Gina Gershon is good too, playing a sleazy broad who we never quite trust. Because of her, you may never look at fried chicken the same way ever again.
The movie was based on a play, but last I heard, they were trying to make a tv series about it. Not sure how that would play out, because the movie is pretty concise. Not much room for expansion, me thinks, but what do I know?
McConaughey is awesome.
I really like Killer Joe. It's one of those gritty deep-fried crime dramas that feature a lot of rednecks, incestuous vibes, and violence. I also want to say that the character of Ansel played by Thomas Hayden Church is a great, laid-back hick who goes along with everything. He amuses me, but everyone does good in the movie.
Emile Hirsch kind of always looks like a piece of shit, what with his facial hair and whatnot, but he's been in some good movies. Then, you have Juno Temple playing Dottie, who's in her 20s playing a 12 year old that everyone looks at sexually. Uh oh.
Of course, this plays a big part in the storyline, but it still makes us all inherently uncomfortable. Gina Gershon is good too, playing a sleazy broad who we never quite trust. Because of her, you may never look at fried chicken the same way ever again.The movie was based on a play, but last I heard, they were trying to make a tv series about it. Not sure how that would play out, because the movie is pretty concise. Not much room for expansion, me thinks, but what do I know?
McConaughey is awesome.
The Thomas Hayden Church character is about as close as this movie gets to comic relief, I think. Well, the drug dealer kingpin guy was sort of funny too, in his own way. But yeah, without Ansel there are a few scenes that would be flat out unbearable to watch.
I watched it, and then for a few hours afterwards I kept suddenly realizing that various things that happen were even more twisted than I realized as I was actually watching it. The human mind can only hold so much twistedness before it just shuts down, I think. I couldn't keep track of all the twistedness the first time through.
There's a video on Youtube somewhere, either a trailer or a review of the movie, where people started a thread in the comments telling stories about the first time they went out for KFC after watching the movie. I saw a comment somewhere where somebody said they actually brought KFC to the movie, without knowing, and a guy on the staff at the cinema said "yeah, no, you don't want to be doing that."
To sum up: bwaaaaahhhhhhhh (vomit vomit vomit). In a good way.