Lust for Love

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99¢ rental on iTunes. I really wanted to like this movie, it has Dichen Lachman in an electric blue shock wig, so I was inclined to cheer for it in all ways possible. Sadly, the characters are hard to cheer for, making poor decisions and being entirely unreasonable. Well, it's about love -- maybe that's OK since "love" or lust are involved, but the kind of demands these people were making on each other, I would have walked from any relationship or encounter like these.

A group of actors who met during various Joss Whedon efforts (Cabin in the Woods, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible; Joss and Jed as well as Eliza Dushku get a shout-out in the credits) got together to make a completely predictable and staggeringly unrealistic romantic comedy about mostly alcoholic oddly-named young people in what may be Los Angeles. I barked laughter at a couple points which may have been improvised. I spent most of my time shaking my head and shouting "FUCK OFF" at the screen. The writing fell flat and was was kind of creepy left-and-right. There were some wild stabs in the dark at literary structure, but sadly a wild stab in the dark was more of a gut wound that left it bleeding out slowly.

The typical noughties rom-com camerawork was solid, the musical score was fun, and the twee-as-fuck soundtrack was pretty charming, but the audio was uneven, and the overall length and pace needed tighter editing.