Roll opening credits, go straight to the Rodriguez segment. Two snips with a pair of scissors, a bit of tape, and we wouldn't know the difference. Just some half-baked jokes and a pair of topless women (If I wanted that, I'd skip renting a movie and go out instead.) Second episode is a hair better, but you'll find yourself crying "Why doesn't Ted the Bellboy do and get the bloody hell out of there!" When it finally does end, you're disheartened to find that it had no reason to exist. It's juvenile, unfunny, and lifeless, but it has the (pointless) nudity and lines of dialogue like: Witch #1: "I am your mother." Witch #2: "Then why are we sleeping together?" that sound like the screenwriter is giggling and thinking, "I can't believe I'm getting away with this! I'm so clever!" Nothing is at stake in the first episode it's generally expected that a story must have conflict in order to BE a story. The first episode is exactly the sort of thing that someone in a high school drama production would want to do, but can't get away with in a high school drama production. ![]() ![]() It would also be improper, since it was not intended to be anything less than an anthology from four notable independent filmmakers: Alexandre Rockwell, Alison Anders, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino. It's impossible to analyze this film without breaking it down into its four segments for separate comment.
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