Better Off Dead (1985)
Better Off Dead (1985)
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Language: English | Subtitle: English Included | 97min | 470MB
Genre: Comedy | Romance | IMDb Rating: 7.1/10 (18,438 users)
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Language: English | Subtitle: English Included | 97min | 470MB
Genre: Comedy | Romance | IMDb Rating: 7.1/10 (18,438 users)
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Lane Meyer is a depressed teen who loses his girlfriend Beth. Her given reason for breaking up is: "Lane, I think it'd be in my best interest if I dated somebody more popular. Better looking. Drives a nicer car." Anyway, poor Lane is left alone and thinks up treacherous ways of killing himself. He finally meets a French beauty called Monique and falls for her. Simultaneously, he must endure his mother's terrible cooking which literally slides off the table and his disgusting next door neighbour Ricky (and his mum) while he prepares for the skiing race of his life - to get his old girlfriend back!
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Ahhhh…an actual dark comedy. I watched this again, to clear my mind of "Wilbur…"
What makes this a cut above is the composition of sight gags – 'How to build a space shuttle out of household items' is in the foreground, and then the eye pulls back to reveal the mother battling a sea monster in a pot, which frustrates her attempt to cook it…Cusack frets over an impossibly broken binding, and in the same frame the 'paperboy from hell' appears on a weatherized delivery bicycle…it's priceless stuff.
The story is told visually, you see…this has less to do with dialogue (although what there is of it, is classic), than with the idea of the writer's imagination conflated with movie imagination conflated with movie 'reality'. We see Holland seeing Cusack seeing the situations somewhere in between Holland's imagination and the platform of the movie (high school role playing - already a confused reality). At key points, Holland literally invents characters on paper or in stop motion animation to further warp that perception. These realities continually blur with 'real' reality, and the sheer absurdity keeps it seamless.
Some impressive camera work during the skiing portions.
This is capable film-making that can be enjoyed as what it was meant to be.
Better Off Dead (1985)
