Crap Fiction!

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 1999)

In a nutshell, the following elements causes a movie to be hyped beyond its own good:
1. Early trailers showing a movie with a huge cast, sex, drugs, and violence from a director who made an earlier hit and an underground genre as its subject.
2. After the trailer, it will respectively draw people in like sheep to see it.
3. Sooner or later, there's a controversy about the movie's content, and yet it is still being raved about. Sooner or later the Academy of Motion pictures will knock on the director's door based on the amount of sheep-people who love it. It becomes a classic, and to those rare cases of actual humanoid lifeforms like myself, it's a hoopla B.S.
Essentially, it's the hype that made this movie. If a film student approached a producer with the same idea, he'd get the hand. If you're Quentin Tarantino, you'd get Caviar and a warm welcome. First of all, I didn't care for any one these characters. And where's the plot? Ooh, who needs one? Just turn these con men into philosophy majors, and have them drive around using four letter words all the time. Then make a bunch of vignettes out of this "plot"! Someone gets a big needle poked through their chest because they overdosed on cocaine! Ooh, shocking! Pump up the hype! They took the scientologist star of Saturday Night Fever and made him disco dance again! With Uma Thurman yet! Some shocking stuff here! But what does it all mean? Is it supposed to prove that even the most sleazy people are smart and intelligent? Does it mean rape in a VCR repair store could be a hype getter in another movie? Could it mean that the "N" word is okay to use as long as your name is Quentin Tarantino and you're just making a movie?
The emperor has no clothes. Or is it the hitman has no clothes? Or the drug dealer has no clothes? Whatever.