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movie review - Slacker

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 1997.04.08

Well, it was an unseasonably warm night, so we rented two flicks -- for the price of one, even: Living life to the max! This movie was, in a word, boring. It was the type of movie I would make if someone said "Mike, here's a camera; go make a movie." It was a reasonably well written thing, but it overdid the presumed use of the director's friends and entire fine arts class.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life, rather than a monday-to-friday sort of dying.

— Studs Terkel