Godass
(2000)
Slapdash, amateur and consumed by a
typical plot, "Godass" has almost nothing going for
it. Well, except this, it has B- 52's frontman Fred
Schnieder in a featured role. That's it. There's really
no other reason to see it. It's a dull thud of a film.
The picture revolves around a female
protagonist which is what apparently makes many think
this film has some worth. Evidently there are so few
films with young girls in the lead where they are
not sluts or simply "midriffs" that this film deserves
some sort of special accolades. Not from me anyway.
The film revolves around a whiny and
stupid young woman who supposedly has enough snap
to put out a punk fanzine called "Skid Marks." It's
hard to believe this character has enough sense to
know how to brush her teeth. Lead actress Nika Feldman
flits and frowns through the piece like a giant lump
of nothing. She gets on your nerves. Of course, she's
stuck in a really drab TV movie of the week tarted
up as a indie DV flick. This film uses punk to make
a point and uses gays to make that point an exclamation.
It fails.
The acting all around is wooden and
unrealistic. Schnieder, as much as I lover him, is
nothing but a curiosity here. He is as wooden as everyone
else in the film. He does get to kiss another guy
full on the lips and that is, at least, something
to see. He doesn't seem to have to "act" there.
The editing in the film is awful. There's
no sense of pacing and no finesse to....
Oh I really don't want to write about
this film. It bores me. It's amateur crap. It's understanding
of homosexuals in nil. It has no point. It's drab.
Don't bother seeing it.
Note:
Bill Plympton is apparently in the
cast. His cartoons are shown briefly in the film.
The film is set in 1988.
