At some point during Jackass 2 when Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze were terrorizing the neighborhood in old person makeup, I’m pretty sure I said, “Oh man, I could watch two hours of just this!” Well, it sounds like Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo) took that as a challenge on his latest, Trash Humpers, which plays this week at the Toronto Film Festival.
The movie apparently follows a group of elderly people (read: actors wearing old man make-up a la Jackass) who vandalize and terrorize everything around them. It is also partially a musical… go figure. [FilmJunk]
Harmony Korine is on a lifelong campaign to convince you that he’s weird, but after watching the trailer for his latest, I feel like Homer Simpson when he got his giant beer in the Australia episode. I mean, I guess it was pretty weird. It’s just that when I hear a movie called Trash Humpers, I expect there to be some GD trash humping. This barely has trash foreplay. These bait and switch tactics are the reason this country’s in the sh’tter.
ADDITIONALLY: I got a free personality profile from eHarmony Korine once. I didn’t get any dates, but a gay midget poisoned my cats.
This is the trailer for Mister Lonely, from Harmony Korine, the writer of Kids (when he was 22) and director of Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy. Korine makes movies that hipsters swear are amazing, but I’ve thus far avoided them on account of the whispery cheeseball voice overs in the trailers.
This one (which at least doesn’t look like it was shot on a butt cam) is about a Michael Jackson impersonator falling in love with a Marilyn Monroe imprersonator in a land of celebrity impersonators. Whispery voice over quotes include:
You are the reason why I’m here. You make this place beautiful.
There are miracles! There are miracles to happen to everybody!
If you’re pure enough, you will fly.
A little faith can take us a long way.
You must stay strong, Michael. Keep searching.
They’re all chasing a great dream. They’re all looking for answers. What they don’t realize is that they have found it already. They have found it in one another.
I’m sure it will be an emotional tour de force, revolutionary in its subtlety (expository dialogue is way more subtler when you whisper).
