![]() During a threesome with Tim another guy and a girl, Tim starts crying and talking about how he misses his sister. It's a depressing slog through a wasteland of imbecilic characters who never at any time act like rational human beings. The movie takes a tremendous amount of effort just to sit through let alone find anything positive about it. 'I Melt With You' has absolutely no redeeming qualities. Sounds like a great movie right? A bunch of drugged out douchebags sitting around wishing their lives were different. They are nihilistic wastes of space that do nothing more than bitch and moan about what their lives could've been like. As movie characters they are entirely unlikable. They are worthless, every single one of them. They end up realizing that their lives are worthless and that they may just be better off dead. All while melancholy rock ballads or guitar solos play ear-splittingly loud in the background.Īs these idiots slide further and further into their drug-induced stupors, they realize that they've never amounted to anything. The entire movie is a collection of close-ups on sweaty, coked-out faces contemplating whatever it is they are contemplating. Every scene is drawn out to the nth degree. Mark Pellington's direction here is indescribable. They're all wallowing in self-pity and that's what this movie is about. Tim (Christian McKay) is dealing with the loss of his sister. Ron (Jeremy Piven) is a dishonest businessman who's in trouble with the feds. Richard (Thomas Jane) is a one-time novelist who now wastes his days away teaching high school English. He prescribes pain killers to rich woman who gives him a little spending money on the side. ![]() Jonathan (Rob Lowe) is a scoundrel of a doctor. They've realized that they're all failures, and the only thing that makes them feel is the drugs. These four buddies have all reached their mid-life crises. ![]() They'll scoop up a fistful of various pills, throw them in their mouths, and all that happens to them is they get sweaty and wide-eyed. I hate movies where characters are completely immortal when it comes to using drugs haphazardly. How they didn't overdose and kill themselves during the first day is beyond me. This vacation consists of sitting in a large, modern-style house doing copious amounts of drugs and drinking gallons of booze. I swear, following this group of man-babies around was one of the most excruciating movie-watching experiences I’ve ever had.įour friends from college, all 44 years of age, head off on a vacation they apparently take every year. Just another movie about a group of narcissistic cowards who can't function in the real world because of their incessant self-destructive behavior. Simply put, 'I Melt With You' was as soul-crushing an experience as ' The Informers'. ![]()
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