As a "film geek" myself, I was drawn to see 'Film Geek' in hopes of seeing the like. I, too, have a vast array of film knowledge floating on upstairs, I have worked at a video store (two movie theaters and was a reviewer for both my high school and college papers) and I am definitely considered a geek. But that's where the similarities end.
This movie-proclaimed "Rain Man" of movie trivia seems more ill or anti-social than annoying; though it was hard it was to watch this "Napoleon Dynamite/Lucas" character.
You'd think it was basically a PG or PG-13 film, until the first of many masturbation scenes. I haven't seen this many since, well, never in movies. And you throw in kinky sex, acceptable to some, disturbing to many – personally, I say to each their own, though I would never want to be part of that, it seems to go off target in to some weird tangent, that I expected some shocking closing where the main character, "film geek" Scotty, blows everyone away in the video store.
The movie starts with Scotty working at a video rental shop who annoys customers, coworkers and his boss with his textbook movie knowledge and eventually gets fired. Though what seems to be a gay character – all of his clichéd mannerisms point to that, they sorely prove that wrong with his infatuation with both his female neighbor and an artist/movie-lover girl he met on public transportation. The movie then aimlessly shows him masturbating and hanging out in his underwear while attempting to woo this artist girl, make that stalking her, mostly over the phone.
Thankfully, what started as one of the worst closing redeemed itself in a "surprise conclusion." That was probably the best part of this movie – because I was about to discount the entire movie due to the shockingly bad climax, until the final few seconds.
Problems: It was released in 2005? This must have been made years prior: note the extreme number of "VCR" tapes; heck, I was surprised to see CDs. Speaking of the time, his website looks more like 1997 than 2005. And he gets bit by a dog in some strange scene and hence, wears a bandage. It's hilarious how it's in one scene, then gone and then back again.
Finally, the "Making of" the "magic" 3 minute documentary basically showing the main star, Malkasian, all but denouncing the film (as did the director.) I had to laugh at that, and of course the additional scenes of him jerking again. I'm beginning to think of this as less "Film Geek" and more "Porn Geek."
This movie-proclaimed "Rain Man" of movie trivia seems more ill or anti-social than annoying; though it was hard it was to watch this "Napoleon Dynamite/Lucas" character.
You'd think it was basically a PG or PG-13 film, until the first of many masturbation scenes. I haven't seen this many since, well, never in movies. And you throw in kinky sex, acceptable to some, disturbing to many – personally, I say to each their own, though I would never want to be part of that, it seems to go off target in to some weird tangent, that I expected some shocking closing where the main character, "film geek" Scotty, blows everyone away in the video store.
The movie starts with Scotty working at a video rental shop who annoys customers, coworkers and his boss with his textbook movie knowledge and eventually gets fired. Though what seems to be a gay character – all of his clichéd mannerisms point to that, they sorely prove that wrong with his infatuation with both his female neighbor and an artist/movie-lover girl he met on public transportation. The movie then aimlessly shows him masturbating and hanging out in his underwear while attempting to woo this artist girl, make that stalking her, mostly over the phone.
Thankfully, what started as one of the worst closing redeemed itself in a "surprise conclusion." That was probably the best part of this movie – because I was about to discount the entire movie due to the shockingly bad climax, until the final few seconds.
Problems: It was released in 2005? This must have been made years prior: note the extreme number of "VCR" tapes; heck, I was surprised to see CDs. Speaking of the time, his website looks more like 1997 than 2005. And he gets bit by a dog in some strange scene and hence, wears a bandage. It's hilarious how it's in one scene, then gone and then back again.
Finally, the "Making of" the "magic" 3 minute documentary basically showing the main star, Malkasian, all but denouncing the film (as did the director.) I had to laugh at that, and of course the additional scenes of him jerking again. I'm beginning to think of this as less "Film Geek" and more "Porn Geek."