Day 33: Rubber (2010)

A French techno DJ decided to make a film about a tire that comes to life and kills people with its psychic powers. Sing to me, muse. Sing to me.

Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Ethan Cohn
Directed By: Quentin Dupieux

The Positives:

- This flick lets you know what it is in the very first scene: A man with a bunch of binoculars walks out of a desert to find a road full of chairs. A car randomly arrives and hits all of the chairs very slowly. Then a sherif with a glass of water pops out of its trunk, ignores the man with the binoculars, and walks toward the camera. He precedes to ask the audience a bunch of movie trivia which can only be answered with "No reason.", then pours the water out. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 'Rubber'.

- I love the in-movie audience and how they interacted with the film as it progressed. It's only a plus that it's composed of genuinely funny and interesting characters.

- Despite a slower start, it was pretty entertaining to watch the tire blow up rabbits and crows and people's heads. At least the first few times it did it.

- I was a very big fan of Stephen Spinella's character.

- The man with binoculars was pretty entertaining to watch too. Ya know, before he died like a punk as well.

The Negatives:

- Once the tire came to life it spent the next ten to fifteen minutes blowing things up in the desert. While that doesn't seem like a relatively long time, the premise got old fast and I stopped caring about it just rolling around, blowing up cans.

- Roxane Mesquida's character was pretty pointless. It's like her character was just introduced to parade around in water and look sexy. While I'm all for gratuitous naked women in horror comedies, I felt like a pervert just watching her shower. Nudity for the sake of nudity. Oh, and you're wrong black audience lady. She's very attractive, but her rack wasn't that impressive.

- Within the first thirty minutes I was already bored. The next fifty minutes were a pain to sit through.

- Remember that awesome audience I mentioned earlier? Yeah, they're all killed. Like punks. Halfway through the movie.

- Even though I was warned at the start of the movie this film is pointless, I didn't realize what a problem that would be. It's incredibly difficult to invest in a film that has no purpose.

Grade: D+

The flick has a charming premise but the pseudo-film gimmick quickly grows tired. I think I can go a while without seeing any more of these schlocky B-movie parodies.