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Fast Sofa

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Fast Sofa starts out very unpromisingly. An agonizingly long sequence of Jake Busey and Natasha Lyonne sexing it up intercut with shots of Jennifer Tilly as a porn star moaning in one of her videos. All of it with some mediocre rock playing over it. Talk about bad beginnings.

The first 45 minutes of Fast Sofa are filled with poorly acted scenes and seem to lack any sense of meaning or purpose. Adam Goldberg's character is almost entirely unnecessary. What saves this move right at the "time to switch it off" breaking point is the entrance of Crispin Glover.

With short, red, '50's styled hair, a slightly sun-burned face, a lazy eye, and a wool suit, Crispin Glover enters the picture and the whole atmosphere changes. It literally feels like a different movie. The rest of the actors step up their own game just acting alongside him.

At this point the film becomes somewhat of a "so opposite they just click" buddy movie, in which Jake Busey is the neanderthalish tough guy whose thoughts revolve around the female sex, and mostly around one specific member of that sex, Jennifer Tilly. Crispin Glover is the soft-spoken, introverted, biological genius who has never had sex or gotten drunk. The two actually make a very engaging pair on screen.

If the director would have cut about 30 minutes of the first 45 out, and then left out some of the Jennifer Tilly plot-line this movie would have had a chance at cult status. The plot line with Busey and Glover is intriguing and fun to watch. The audience never really knows what's going to happen next.

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The DVD doesn't have any extras, but honestly I don't know what kind of extras there could be. Maybe another cut of the film that's shorter and more fun to watch?

I waited a long time for this book to become a movie and it stays somewhat true to the book,Jennifer Tilly is dead on as the porn star, and the ending's a classic in the vein of way of the gun or u-turn. Recommend it

Jake Busey and Crispin Glover are among a cast that all take part in this wierd little movie. Rick and Jules go on a road trip to palm springs after Rick decides to pack up and leave his old life behind. Oh, by the way, they are complete strangers. What an adventure, with a lot of interesting characters along the way, which makes this film just plain entertaining. Great cinematography to boot. Worth renting or even buying used.

And they are Tilley and Glover. And that's it. Why Jake Busey was cast for this role is beyond me. Granted, it's not entirely his fault. His character is written to be completely reprehensible to the point that you not only cease to care about him, but wish he were dead. Busey's "Rick" is so irresponcible that the entire movie is spent wondering why you care at all what's happening to him. Not that this is a problem exclusive to Rick, because the truth is not one on the characters in this movie is worth anounce of sympathy, except maybe the poor 16 year old girl who falls for Rick's charms.

Even Tilley and Glover--whom I liked--have very one dimensional characters. There is an attempt to inject some depth into them, but it falls pretty flat to the point that once they are opened up, they morph into completely different people. Tilley for instance, plays a bimbo harlet whose only concern in life is making porn and having relations with random strangers, and whom you couldn't care for in the least until the strange scene at the end when she suddenly turns into an intelligent but hardened girl with underlying abuse issues as an explaination for her behavior.

Besides the poor characters and script (which tries very hard to capture some philosophical point but again makes you hate the movie even more), the editing techniques are irritating and stupid. So are a number of metaphorical symbols, such as the hawk (I wonder what the director was trying to say????)which occupies more time than it deserved.

I gave the movie 2 stars because I thought Tilley and Glover did great with what they had to work with. Neither has great range, but they are the best at the respective roles. Tilley could have been the quintessential film noir femme fatale back in the 40's, just as Glover could have been the creepy guy in B horror films. If you can find this somewhere for a dollar or so, buy it for a lazy weekend day, but don't waste your money otherwise.

One of the best, well written screen plays I have seen. Interesting, thought provoking movie. Fine performances by all actors.

This movie is so strange I , dont feel as if I could explain it at all. I guess you could say it's just one of those movies you have to see for yourself? I thought Jake Busey was really good in this and his acting was amazing, but the movie just had no plot. I honestly felt uncomfortable watching this. It has way to many porn scenes, and some very gross humor. Crispin Glover stole the show, he was awesome in this movie ,but I dont know if he could save it from being trash on film. There is also a very neat little cameo by the legendary punk band Fear which is really cool. All in all I gave Fast Sofa a 2 out of 5 stars and I think that was pretty nice of me............This is what you would call a pass.

PS: The way this movie ends is just plain out lame.It almost feels like they just ran out of money and stoped filming.

I'm a Crispin Glover Fan. I think he was great in this movie! Get off your high horse and see it already =3

My husband and I are Crispin fans, to a degree that we try to watch whatever work of his we can find. This movie may have changed that ideology, as this film is painfully bad. And by painfully bad, I have to note that it is NOT bad in the way that one can sit back and enjoy how thoroughly awful a film is, like one would with Ro-Man the Robot Monster or Pitch Black which is horrendously-achingly-funnily bad, no this film is BAD. Disappointing. BAD.

That's right, everyone. I know that all of you out there thought that Chad McQueen was this planet's greatest actor, but he's got a challanger. It's burnout basketcase Gary Busey's son, Jake. He enthralled audiances on TV's across this nation in this should-be smash. Of course, the only ones with enough integrity not to attempt to keep loose cannon Jake Busey down were the powers that be at video stores. I guess that a cross bow weilding, tin foil jacket donning, bleached blonde cowboy was not good enough for the big screen. Well, frankly, I am disgusted once again by the American film industry. If men of sight and wisdom were running the show, Fast Sofa would have been the Oscar winner for Best Picture, and Jake Busey would have responded to the outstreached hand of the presenter of the Best Actor Oscar with a jerking away of his accemptance handshake, pretending to brush his flowing bleached locks behind his bloodshot ear, and yell "WHOO! PSYCH!" Now I ask you, does it get any better than that? If you're not convinced, then you must be El Diablo, or live in Belmar. Anyway, I give Fast Sofa 5 cans, and nominate it, and Jake Busey, for Manwich Awards in 2003. As ever, this is Art Vandelay signing off, and remember kids, if it isn't B, it isn't me.

Loved the Story, Loved the characters! Crispin plays a shy, but lovable nerdy virgin who hooks up with..What's his name...the main character guy!..on his way to meet up with a porn star so he can get lucky! They get beat up a lot and..stuff happens! Hey, I'm bad at describing movies but...this is a great one! Buy your copy today!