Indie Movie Dreck.

What's the difference between "indie" and "low-budget" anyway? And does The Squid and the Whale even fall into either of those categories? If a shitty movie falls immediately into obscurity, does anyone even care? Those, my friends, are questions I do not even care enough to explore.

I'm not crazy much for films which esteem shock value over things like interesting characters and plots (I'm looking at you, Todd Solondz.) At any rate, the Squid and the Whale was no exception. I can't really give much of a review because I turned it off a half hour into the movie. Not so much because it featured a small child drinking beer and talking about his mother in explicit sexual situations, but because it was a boring movie which featured a small child drinking beer and talking about his mother in explicit sexual situations. And all of the characters were assholes, even the kids. One thing I can't get behind is a movie where every single character is grating and unlikeable. Which was why I'm one of the few people I know who didn't care much for Sideways. But at least Sideways had an interesting plot, as well as snarky moments that made me giggle.

Moving on, the only redeeming thing about the Squid and the Whale were the craptactically horrrrrrrible indie (read: low-budget) previews before the movie that I thankfully did not skip over per usual. If I told you such a movie existed that starred Bobby Donnell from The Practice and Snoop Dog as writers (yes Snoop Dog as a writer, what's next Tara Reid as a scientist? Oh, WAIT..) sharing a mostly abandoned apartment building with the definite possibility of racial hijinks to ensue... You would probably laugh in my face and call me a fucking liar. But no friends! This movie exists! And here is concrete evidence. Yup, no way you could photoshop that.


The Tenants: Coming soon to the dollar DVD rack at a video store near you!