DATE, THEATERS, AND WEBSITE ANNOUNCED FOR JOE KAHN’S DETENTION

I'm not sure how I feel about this movie, but I will totally agree with Renn that it is a MUST-SEE. I am dying to hear the conversations that occur after this movie reaches some form of the mainstream. It's capital-C CRAZY. I saw a commenter on the front page saying this was the apex of the Scott Pilgrim-type geekifying of the cinema, and he's far off... this is like nothing I've ever seen. This is one of those movies that seems like a logical progression of cinematic storytelling of a certain type, but from fifty years in the future, and we have no way of knowing what the other steps were in between.

Rush to see it. It might very well blow your fucking mind.

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Originally Posted by Gabe T 

I'm not sure how I feel about this movie, but I will totally agree with Renn that it is a MUST-SEE. I am dying to hear the conversations that occur after this movie reaches some form of the mainstream. It's capital-C CRAZY. I saw a commenter on the front page saying this was the apex of the Scott Pilgrim-type geekifying of the cinema, and he's far off... this is like nothing I've ever seen. This is one of those movies that seems like a logical progression of cinematic storytelling of a certain type, but from fifty years in the future, and we have no way of knowing what the other steps were in between.

 

Rush to see it. It might very well blow your fucking mind.

Wait, are we talking about Joseph 'Torque' Kahn???  Those are some bold statements.

Really looking forward to the film and am happy to see that it will be playing very close to me in April.  But that clip doesn't really promise anything that matches the insanity I've been hearing about regarding the film.

But that's a good thing.  I don't want the insanity spoiled.  If anything, lessening my expectations for insanity would probably help.

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Originally Posted by Ambler 

Wait, are we talking about Joseph 'Torque' Kahn???  Those are some bold statements.

Kahn pretty much made Torque on a dare. He has said numerous times that the studio would give him the world's dumbest notes and he purposely listened to every single one of them.

This feels more like what he wants to do with his movies. I could describe any five minutes of this movie, and you would feel like your head was exploding. And I'm so so tempted to do that.

Again, I'm not in love love love with it - I do think Kahn goes for some really cheap gags in the middle of this absurdist lunacy, which gives scenes an out-of-nowhere conventional vibe. Think of it like a mashup of every single music video you've ever seen. Normally I don't like the sound of something like that, but everyone in my audience, including me, sat there mouth agape watching this thing the whole way through. 

I can't wait to see this.  That said, I know it won't come anywhere near me unless by some miracle it manages a nationwide release.  VOD seems to be my likely viewing mechanism on this one.
 

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Originally Posted by Gabe T 

Kahn pretty much made Torque on a dare. He has said numerous times that the studio would give him the world's dumbest notes and he purposely listened to every single one of them.

My hero!  He's so dreamy!

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Originally Posted by Gabe T 

Kahn pretty much made Torque on a dare. He has said numerous times that the studio would give him the world's dumbest notes and he purposely listened to every single one of them.

 

This feels more like what he wants to do with his movies. I could describe any five minutes of this movie, and you would feel like your head was exploding. And I'm so so tempted to do that.

 

Again, I'm not in love love love with it - I do think Kahn goes for some really cheap gags in the middle of this absurdist lunacy, which gives scenes an out-of-nowhere conventional vibe. Think of it like a mashup of every single music video you've ever seen. Normally I don't like the sound of something like that, but everyone in my audience, including me, sat there mouth agape watching this thing the whole way through. 

 

I dunno...you can also dazzle people with bullshit.  I'm tempted to believe it's a case of the filmmaker throwing everything at the audience to distract them from realizing it's a terrible movie.  This is the go-to trick in modern Hollywood filmmaking, and it's possible Kahn simply injected it with acid and took it to its natural conclusion.  Just because a filmmaking technique is new, doesn't mean it's good. And this is not a knock at anyone who enjoyed the film at all.

Realize though, that I haven't seen the film and am only piecing an argument together from the bits I've heard about this.  

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Originally Posted by Ambler 

I dunno...you can also dazzle people with bullshit.  I'm tempted to believe it's a case of the filmmaker throwing everything at the audience to distract them from realizing it's a terrible movie.  This is the go-to trick in modern Hollywood filmmaking, and it's possible Kahn simply injected it with acid and took it to its natural conclusion.  Just because a filmmaking technique is new, doesn't mean it's good. And this is not a knock at anyone who enjoyed the film at all.

It's not this.

As crazy as the movie sounds, there's actually a satisfying narrative follow-through. It makes sense.

You really just have to see it.