one of the funniest armour wearing midget movies I've ever seen. The quality and turn around for the disc wasn't bad either
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Added 2/1/2009
it's hard to keep track of who is who, every scene is like is this that person from before or is that a different person and half the dialogue is unintelligibly mumbled and there's no subtitles. From the director of Pump Up The Volume and Empire Records? Seriously? I'm going to have to assume he took the gig out of spite against such a poor script being greenlit and had a great laugh elaborately making everything about the movie as awful and incomprehensible as possible.
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Moving up with Taryn Manning
Added 10/10/2008
Actually, I wasn't going to review this film for a couple reasons. One was that it was pretty obscure and the other was that I really had a hard time deciding if I really liked it or not, but then I realized that this blonde in WEIRDSVILLE was Taryn Manning, who was also in two films that I blasted here at AMAZON.COM. Well, fair is fair and I am forgiving of THE CULT and THE BREED. While Taryn isn't the main reason I liked this film, I did think she did a good job, even though she spent a good part of the movie as a corpse. The heroes of this movie were Wes Bentley and Scott Speedman. They were in trouble with a loan shark but also had the problem of disposing of the aforementioned corpse and these two brilliant fellas decide to bury her at a drive in theater. For a couple losers already near the bottom, things go downhill pretty fast but in a glorious ending, things all work out. I thought they did okay, but in my opinion, the film was stolen by Maggie Castle, the girl in the Satanist cult and by Greg Bryk, who was terrific as the leader of the satan worshipers. I don't think I've ever seen a less menacing group of devil worshipers in a movie, but at least his prayers were answered in the end. I guess. I give this one 3 stars. My expectations weren't too high for WEIRDSVILLE and it was pretty much what I expected. Funny for the most part but not just downright hilarious. My advice here is give this one a chance, maybe rent it and you might want to buy it. Shoot, you might even become a Taryn Manning fan, but if you do avoid THE CULT and THE BREED. now I'm going to watch banshee staring (who else) Taryn Manning.
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funny, entertaining, great music...
Added 7/15/2008
ok, i'll admit it: i only watched this movie because i'm a huge scott speedman fan. like anyone else, i'd read the synopsis and i wasn't expecting much given that i was sure i'd just see stoned people in it... and although i did see some of that, i must say i was pleasantly entertained! i found the movie to be simply hilarious, and although i can't relate since i've never gotten stoned, if this is what people do while stoned, well then i must say at least it's partially laughable [i use that term loosely...], especially the "gnome/no" part [lol!]. scott speedman had all my attention, not only because i'm a fan, but also because i found him to be one of the few characters in the movie with real substance and depth. he seems to care way more about mattie and her well-being than does her own boyfriend, who gets high any chance he gets and invents 'amazing' concepts like "sprayonnaise". maybe she should have been his girlfriend instead?! on another note, i found the soundtrack to be real good and i will definitely look into it and i recommend you do as well. it's an all-around funny movie to watch and to not take too seriously [obviously, i mean... read the synopsis! haha]. the conclusion with that money issue i also found to be quite creative =]
enjoy!!
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A mildly amusing black comedy starring Wes Bentley.
Added 3/21/2008
I'm always interested to see what Wes Bentley (an actor who basically disappeared after hitting it big with "American Beauty") is up to, and I was particularly intrigued by the idea of him doing a comedy. I'm used to just about every film, even tiny ones, opening somewhere in New York. When "Weirdsville" was released, I looked it up online and found that it was playing in one theater... in Kansas. That's truly stretching the idea of a theatrical release.
"Weirdsville" is a dark comedy about two drug addicts (as much heroin addicts as potheads) by the names of Royce (Wes Bentley) and Dexter (Scott Speedman). They owe money to a drug dealer, and when they cannot pay him back he employs them as dealers. But Royce's girlfriend accidentally ODs on the dealer's drugs and they decide to bury her at an abandoned drive-in, where Royce once worked. Unfortunately for them, Royce's old boss is there as well performing a Satanic sacrifice. The Satanists believe they've brought Royce's girlfriend, Matilda (Taryn Manning), back to life and now need her to complete their sacrifice.
Royce and Dex also have their eyes on a safe locked away in someone's house. And there's a gang of little people running around who do medieval reenactments. Yeah, it's one of THOSE movies.
One long night. Lots of misadventures and odd connections between the characters and a plot that closes in on itself.
I found the most entertaining part of this movie to be Bentley, who seems very comfortable playing a scatter-brained druggie who is as dumb as he is screechy. There are times where he infuses a stoner's sense of disregard that lifts the movie into something very funny.
Allan Moyle manages to put together sequences that are visual feasts. But, oddly, he doesn't work the same magic when filming the simple scenes, and I often found that the comic timing in the film was off. There were clearly some funny moments in Willem Wennekers' screenplay that Moyle didn't understand or couldn't pull off. It leads to a bit of awkwardness.
Moyle assembles a fine cast here. I loved Greg Bryk's performance as the head Satanist as a put-upon priss. Bryk seemed to get the tone of the material just right -- as did Bentley -- though you can't say that of everyone involved.
In the end, "Weirdsville" is more amusing than ever really sustainably funny. The actors do a good job, but it felt like it could have used a little more to it.
But I would recommend seeing it. Especially if you like watching drug addicts too stupid to be scared bounce from one crazy catastrophe to the next.
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