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So my eyes hurt, my ass hurts, and all things considering my brain hurts
from having to sit through a film that’s blurbed as being a combination
of Jack Ass and Stanley Kubrick. Apparently that was from a kinder news
source, but at risk of being a complete dick, “Hole in the Ground” is a
flinging pile with tedium, monotony, boredom always a top priority when
setting the stage to introduce broadly written characters and moments of
silence that bear no sense of Jack ass at any point.
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I’m often very easy on bad indies, but
director Kenta McGrath who tries hard to imitate the long
drawn silent moments from Gus Van Sant’s films and just flat
out fails. Why do we have to see a crippled man being
taunted behind by the camera man within the camera man? Why
did we need to see the experience in the tech shop? I mean,
is it mumblecore or something that reaches for completely
taking those formulas and ripping them apart for the sake of
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All I see are the horrid scenes from
“Gerry,” a film that relied on aimlessness and there’s never any
material presented that convinces me there’s a point to all of this
hogwash. It’s a young man walking around with a camera for forty
minutes. There’s artistic merit and validity to this why? What am I
not getting here? I know: my forty minutes back. I wish, I really
wish folks with camcorders and equipment would stop and ask if they
have the balls to tell a good story because the screenplay here is a
clusterfuck of ideas and pretensions that make it one of the truly
tedious experiences I’ve had in a while.
Originality hardly ever go hand in hand with quality.
Almost like a
Larry Clark film, “Hole in the Grounds” presumes to have a point amidst
all the brutality, violence, and random stupidity, and like the
aforementioned’s films, I’m simply not convinced it’s anything other
than an excuse to veil crud with the tag word “art."
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