Holy shit, dear readers. You should just click over to your netflix account right now and slap fucking Real Time onto the top of your queue (you didn't really wanna watch that documentary on climate change, no matter how good the cheese kid at Whole Foods said it was). Seriously, fuck my review, just do it, done and done.Okay, so that was rash. Read and cherish every fucking word of my review, then shoot it to the top of your queue.
Why should you do all this shit sight un-fucking-seen, you ask? Well, because I have fucking impeccable taste and you know this to be the scout's-honor-fucking-true. But for the unfaithful: go fuck yourselves. Nah, don't do that - pay someone else to do it for you.
Let's try that again: For the unfaithful, let's sleepwalk through this fucking plot summary dance yet again:
Real Time is a Canadian feature directed by Randall Cole starring Jay Baruchel (Seth Rogen's fellow Canadian roommate in Knocked Up) as a degenerate gambler and Randy Quaid (ummm...if you don't know who Randy Quaid is, see more movies) as the hitman who has come to make him pay. Instead of just shooting Baruchel and calling it a day (the deadbeat owes 68,000 and has sixty bucks to his fucking name), Quaid gives him an hour to make amends, do whatever he wants before he takes one in the back of the head. And it's in, you know, real time (which makes it a short fucking movie, remember when they used to make those?).
Now, I know what you're thinking, you're all like thanks but no thanks, Nerd. I don't fall for high-concept bullshit movies. Well, skeptical reader, you're only cheating yourself because Real Time is hilarious, engrossing and heartbreaking.
And when I say it's hilarious, I fucking mean that shit. It's basically these two dudes running around some Canadian shithole (in other words the shitholiest of shitholes) spouting some of the best dialogue I've heard since In Bruges. Good God, go me! That was a very apt comparison on my part (*pats self on back*). Real Time is very much in line with Bruges, another hilarious off-beat crime film that is both absurd and profound.
I really don't wanna get too much into the specifics of this one because I don't feel like many have seen it and it would be hindered by knowing much more beyond the concept, but come on. I went out there with an In Bruges comparison, a movie I love almost as much as prime rib.
So check out Real Time, a true fucking sleeper that deserves your rheumy eyes and cauliflowered ears for its short, blissful fucking running time.
5 comments:
Hey Nerd I just saw that flick and thought it was awesome too
Brilliant performances by Jay Baruchel and Randy Quaid. From opening till closing I was hooked. Thanks for the heads up Nerd of Noir!
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Glad you dug it. Spread the word. Movie deserves cult status at the very least.
haha. rheumy ears. you know, i was googling the world "cole" to look up the actress from Dr. Parnassus (which I just saw, and must say...eh.) and my favorite Nerd came up.
I liked Dr Parnassus. It's not amazing, but it had enough interesting ideas to keep me awake. Basically, it's a Terry Gilliam movie - good, but not as good as it should have been. Whattaya gonna do? Plus, it was funny to see all the scenes of "Ledger" in a mask.
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