Movie Details
| Title: | The Death of Dick Long | |
| Director: | Daniel Scheinert | |
| Year: | 2019 | |
| Genre: | Dark Comedy | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.20.19 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.20.19 | Alamo South Lamar | This Screening is part of event: FantasticFest 2019 Spoiler alert on this one. Fair warning. This is ostensibly a dumb-people-trying-to-get-away-with-a-crime movie with the added layer of a mystery about what crime they did unfolding as the movie progresses. The dumb-people part is pretty funny in an Alabama version of Fargo sort of way but then about halfway through the movie you learn how Dick Long died. From having a horse fuck him. So... my immediate thought was that they probably thought this was the right audience for this film. That doc Zoo screened at SXSW a dozen years ago about a real guy who really died by having a horse fuck him. But I kind of feel like it played the opposite... almost exploitative of that real guy by making a dumb comedy about it. Plus the reveal makes the title into a terrible pun. So the reveal kind of deflated the movie for me. Not that I was offended by the horse fucking or anything, but I guess more that the movie had to go to such an outlandish place in order to justify itself. I guess you could say it left a bad taste in my ass. i mean mouth. I mean |
