Review of Maps to the Stars (2014) by Les B — 25 May 2015
To explain this sorry film I will go back to the 1980's. That's when farting first became popular in movies. It became popular in the teenager genre, and the laughable phenomenon was chalked up to the immaturity and general grossness of the target audience, the kind of phase so typical for that age.
Jump forward 30 years and farting is now considered funny by adult movie fans who consider their tastes in film to be hip n' cool. Maybe these are the same people who were the teenyboppers in the 1980's.
Whatever, I use this example, not because farting is all that the movie is about, but because that the entirety of this movie resides in this level of story telling.
A variety of techniques are used to achieve this level, such as general grossness, gore, gratuitous violence, misogyny. In addition, hateful, sicko characters are used, not just for the antagonists but for ALL the characters. These are not interesting or complex characters -- just gross.
The pretense in this style is that all this nonsense makes the movie "edgy". The pretense is one of substance, the reality is a MOCKERY of substance.
If this style of film seems oh-so hip n' cool to you, give it a try, you'll have a ball.
But please don't spew the nonsense that this is something with substance, that this is something other than a guilty pleasure, like eating a pound of rock candy.
This review of Maps to the Stars (2014) was written by Les B on 25 May 2015.
Maps to the Stars has generally received mixed reviews.
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