Swiss Army Man (2016)

Corholio

This is dividing audiences, mostly in the negative way, at Sundance.

Here goes. Paul Dano, who is stranded on a desert island, by means of escape rides the corpse of Daniel Radcliffe like a jet ski propelled by Radcliffe's corpses flatulence. There has been walk outs at the showing, along with praise for a risky film. The guys who directed it are first timers who previously directed a Lil Jon video, take from that what you will.

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Corholio wrote: »

a jet ski propelled by Radcliffe's corpses flatulence.

The what now?

tigger123

Sounds like an episode of South Park.

bnt

Did I just imagine this? :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrK1f4TsQfM

Links234

I GOTTA see this! It looks like someone had a fever dream after watching Castaway and Weekend at Bernie's back to back

mada999

Links234 wrote: »

I GOTTA see this! It looks like someone had a fever dream after watching Castaway and Weekend at Bernie's back to back

classic!!

Links234

All I can think right now...

bnt

The directors are the guys behind the video for Turn Down For What? So, the have form, you could say ...

Banjaxed82

Given the fact that he's

about to hang himself at the start

, is it a bit too obvious to assume we're in

'Jacob's Ladder'

territory here and that he

did actually hang himself...

bnt

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

Given the fact that he's

about to hang himself at the start

, is it a bit too obvious to assume we're in

'Jacob's Ladder'

territory here and that he

did actually hang himself...

Based on that trailer, I would not advise anyone to assume anything ... :pac:

safetyboy

This looks awesome.. I'll be at this for sure

bnt

Was that first trailer the PG version? There's now a Red Band trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v92gXetGqA

ShooterSF

Anyone actually watch this? Just picked a random movie tonight wanted something different and different I got. I think I enjoyed it. I definitely laughed at one inappropriate moment. It gets plenty deeper than fart jokes but still never takes itself more seriously than the premise allows.

Ciaran_B

5 star review in Empire from one of their better writers. Not that a good review in a magazine means anything but I am looking forward to seeing this.

Frank O. Pinion

I've seen a little over 40 films from 2016, and this is easily #1, so far. Incredible, amazing film, with great performances by both Dano and Radcliffe. Originality is the most important quality I look for in a film, and this has that. To the people who complain about too many sequels, remakes, and superhero films, well here's a film for you.

Was about to say something but I can't see any option in the toolbar for Spoiler tags? How do I do that?

2smiggy

Deleted User wrote: »

Was about to say something but I can't see any option in the toolbar for Spoiler tags? How do I do that?

last option on the right, beside the youtube tab.

[*SPOILER][*/SPOILER]

take out the asterisks and put text in between

:D

Have I drank too much or what? So there are two options on the right after the YouTube button "code" and "quote". I tried code and it doesn't work. Im wondering why there isn't an icon called "Spoilers" for the retarded among us...

And now I can't delete the bit I wanted to hide!

Giacomo McGubbin

just when you thought the bar couldn't go any lower, another film comes out to prove it can

darced

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johnny_ultimate

It's a big gamble in a film to have your most memorable scene in the first 10 minutes, and I don't think Swiss Army Man quite pulls it off.

Now, this is undoubtedly a distinctive, often very funny film that has a darker undercurrent that gradually becomes more apparent. The last line in the film is

'what the ****?'

and I think they earn that - it's the first film I've seen in a while that surprised me that it was financed in the first place :pac: There's a few highlights: THAT scene, the running gags about

Jurassic Park

, a visual & editing style that manages for the most part to make all this mad nonsense feel reasonably coherent. It stays on the right side of grotesque, which I'm not sure is a good or bad thing. Its ending is a bit of a mess execution wise, but it also manages to drag the fever dream in to something generally resembling a clear, ****ed-up resolution.

Altogether, though, there was something about it that didn't quite hang together for me. I have to admit it lost me somewhat as soon as

Radcliffe started speaking. The conversations and 'real-world' aspects of it just weren't particularly interesting to me, even allowing for the admirably creepy reality that emerges

. There's plenty of repetition throughout, and even though the film is reasonably short there's a sense many of its best ideas have been expended very early on. Ropey effects also struggle to give the 'swiss army' scenes the ahem 'life' they need, although the frantic editing endeavours to give them at least some extra energy.

By no means a bad film, and it's refreshing to see a film that really is uniquely strange. But once you get past the fact that this is indeed the 'Daniel Radcliffe farting corpse movie', you're left with a full length feature that only semi-fulfills its nutty premise.

Wheety

I seen it last night. I liked it. A bit weird but enjoyable.

I just think that

the final scene wasn't needed. You think that Hank is schizophrenic and imagined the whole thing, even where things took place. Where he was living wasn't far from Sarah's house, so was he ever on an island?

Showing other people seeing Manny actually having powers was a bit too far, unless we're also meant to thing Hank imagined that bit too.

Giacomo McGubbin

I think it's very sad Radcliff feels he has to stoop to this kind of stuff in very poor attempt to distance between himself and his Harry Potter role, and even sadder that there are people in the film industry that want to cash in on manipulating this, while playing what they feel is a 'clever' in joke on their paying customers, while watching the dupes psychoanalyse and search for the profound in a farting corpse. Just when you thought they can't go any lower, a new low on the emperors new clothes trick.

johnny_ultimate

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

I think it's very sad Radcliff feels he has to stoop to this kind of stuff in very poor attempt to distance between himself and his Harry Potter role

Or, perhaps, he wanted to make the film? I can imagine many actors chuckling to themselves with glee when they are reading a script this ludicrous with the knowledge that it might actually get made.

watching the dupes psychoanalyse and search for the profound in a farting corpse.

Or, perhaps, it is just a farting corpse and played for laughs. Which is all I got out of it (the thematic substance of the film comes elsewhere).

Giacomo McGubbin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Or, perhaps, it is just a farting corpse and played for laughs. Which is all I got out of it (the thematic substance of the film comes elsewhere).

If you enjoyed that i can get you a video of grass escaping from a dead sheep carcass as it rots.

johnny_ultimate

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

If you enjoyed that i can get you a video of grass escaping from a dead sheep carcass as it rots.

Now surely you can tell the difference between a silly, absurd and knowingly crude black comedy fiction film and an actual video of a rotting corpse

Giacomo McGubbin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Now surely you can tell the difference between a silly, absurd and unapologetically crude black comedy film and an actual video of a rotting corpse

It's about the same subject, gas escaping from a corpse as it rots, surely you can tell ? and for a few extra bob I could throw in enough pills so you think it's talking to you.

fryup

a modern day take on....weekend at Bernies ???

TerrorFirmer

Strange film but very enjoyable, overall quite tragic and very reminiscint of that other incredibly polarizing film, The Lobster. A 'love it or hate it' type of film really.

Sad Professor

A farting corpse movie about mortality, loneliness and societal norms? Sure why not.

I loved it! Stunningly original and entertaining absurdist-fantasy with buckets of heart. The premise would be a gimmick in a lesser film, but here it's actually integrated into the thematic narrative of the movie. Radcliffe and Dano make a great duo. Will definitely be making my top 10 list.

bnt

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

It's about the same subject, gas escaping from a corpse as it rots, surely you can tell ? and for a few extra bob I could throw in enough pills so you think it's talking to you.

Ooh, I think I've heard this one before.

Roger Ebert wrote:

Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.