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S.F.W. (1994)
Topic Started: Dec 24 2014, 11:21 AM (82 Views)
Kevin R.
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S.F.W. (1994)

Rated R for pervasive strong language, scenes of brutal violence, constant drug and alcohol use and some sexuality

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Cliff Spab is a guy who doesn't really care about anything. He gets held hostage at a store for 36 days by terrorists, who demand that the entire thing be broadcast on national television. Cliff ends up taking a bullet for fellow hostage Wendy, making him a national hero. The two are the sole survivors of the ordeal, and soon become prisoners of the media. Cliff escapes it all, only to find himself being pushed further away from Wendy when he needs her most.
I had this movie lying around in my DVD collection, so I decided to throw it in a couple nights ago. Short version: wasn't impressed, at all. It was the poor man's Natural Born Killers, ninety minutes of insufferable grunge posing that thinks it's a smart satire of the media. The only things I liked were the soundtrack (which was friggin' amazing) and Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon as the protagonists, and even then, they barely had any characters to work with. Cliff Spab does nothing but wander around aimlessly for most of the film, and outside the last fifteen minutes, Wendy's barely in it even though she's supposed to be the second most important character in the film. (Seriously, that plot description treats her like she's one of the main characters, and so does the film at the end, but between the beginning and end, almost nothing outside a lone TV interview and brief clips of her from the hostage siege.) Once they finally got together, I thought "maybe this won't be completely irredeemable", but then the ending came and completely destroyed any sympathy I had for this film.

Full review here. (Side note: I posted the review yesterday, making it my Airing of Grievances for Festivus.)
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