Adaptation

This movie spirals in on itself so much that it’s difficult to figure out just what your watching. See a movie unfold as it’s created… but then, it’s all just a script with actors, isn’t it? Truly an original. The ending was perfectly woven into the movie too – as the writer runs out of ideas, he turns to his dorky brother and we get car chases & drugs & alligators eating people.

8mm

Yes, it was well filmed and stylish and all, but the whole “evil porn underworld” thing just didn’t phase me much. Sure, there are some wacked-out people in that biz, but this movie makes them out to be equivalent to drug lords or politicians or something. Certainly it was tragic, but I didn’t think the reaction of the Nicholas Cage character was right for the subject matter… something about his acting – his reaction to the snuff film – just seemed fake.