Remember when I promised to review the Fugly Truth (if you don’t, see my previous post).  Well, I lied.  Instead, I neglected this tumblr for months and decided to pull it from the dead so that I can bring this year to a close.  And what better way than to showcase nostalgia for 90s nostalgia for the 80s. It’s New Year’s Eve 1981, and a smattering of pretentious/creative white people are whining and bickering their way to a day-glo loft party in lower Manhattan, all of whom pick up pearls of wisdom from the soul-loving, pot-smoking African American cab driver who drives them to various events and locations leading up to midnight and 1982.  All of these kids are terrible and unlikeable, and I spent most of the movie hoping that all their fears will come true and they will end up alone and/or killed by hoodlums.  Except for the hoodlums, they were alright. Was it the innocence of the 90s or the portrayed innocence of the 80s that made the filmmakers think it wasn’t entirely riduclous that Paul Rudd and Courtney Love would be best friends who hook up and (presumably) fall in love?  And oh!  All that smoking! That MTV made a movie that took place the year and city in which MTV was born is no coincidence.  Terrible characters aside; the costume design, art direction, and soundtrack were all a fun (if glossy) ode to a slice of downtown Manhattan history.  Feel the real estate envy when you look at the spacious, high-ceilinged apartments and lofts lived in by 20-something aspiring artists.  Maybe this movie is best watched on mute with the soundtrack playing instead of the audio. After being irritated for about an hour and a half, you’ll be treated to the best part of the movie, which is Dave Chappelle’s character (aforementioned cab driver) recapping the party (which was conveniently skipped in the plot) with polaroids and voiceover.  Which makes me think you can probably skip the movie and just watch that part.  Or just skip the movie altogether.  I wouldn’t exactly call this one a “must-see”. Happy 2011, kids! 

Remember when I promised to review the Fugly Truth (if you don’t, see my previous post).  Well, I lied.  Instead, I neglected this tumblr for months and decided to pull it from the dead so that I can bring this year to a close.  And what better way than to showcase nostalgia for 90s nostalgia for the 80s.

It’s New Year’s Eve 1981, and a smattering of pretentious/creative white people are whining and bickering their way to a day-glo loft party in lower Manhattan, all of whom pick up pearls of wisdom from the soul-loving, pot-smoking African American cab driver who drives them to various events and locations leading up to midnight and 1982.  All of these kids are terrible and unlikeable, and I spent most of the movie hoping that all their fears will come true and they will end up alone and/or killed by hoodlums.  Except for the hoodlums, they were alright.

Was it the innocence of the 90s or the portrayed innocence of the 80s that made the filmmakers think it wasn’t entirely riduclous that Paul Rudd and Courtney Love would be best friends who hook up and (presumably) fall in love?  And oh!  All that smoking!

That MTV made a movie that took place the year and city in which MTV was born is no coincidence.  Terrible characters aside; the costume design, art direction, and soundtrack were all a fun (if glossy) ode to a slice of downtown Manhattan history.  Feel the real estate envy when you look at the spacious, high-ceilinged apartments and lofts lived in by 20-something aspiring artists.  Maybe this movie is best watched on mute with the soundtrack playing instead of the audio.200cigsinset

After being irritated for about an hour and a half, you’ll be treated to the best part of the movie, which is Dave Chappelle’s character (aforementioned cab driver) recapping the party (which was conveniently skipped in the plot) with polaroids and voiceover.  Which makes me think you can probably skip the movie and just watch that part.  Or just skip the movie altogether.  I wouldn’t exactly call this one a “must-see”. Happy 2011, kids!