So you can only basically see Batman this week still, nothing else is really out other than Red Rocket which is on my Wishlist & is on at like 10 cinema in the country. Luckily for me & my Wishlist its at one of my local independents so lets do this wooohooo.

So who else joined me at the saturday evening 5:30 showing of this film in Worthing. noone. I had the screening to myself. Well i was the only paying person any how. The woman who was the usher in charge of the screening sat down to watch it & then there was another member of staff who came in too, but other wise it was all mine.

Trailers, phantom of the open which ive already seen, the Northman which looked odd, the worst person in the world which looked weird & then a load of national theatre stuff which i wont be seeing.

& then the film started… so letterboxd besties this is all your doing & im glad ive seen it but i wish it had done a few things differently.

Simon Rex was amazing, he really was. He was the correct amount of sleaze & dodgyness that you needed, & was very greedy in all respects & self centred. He lead the rest of the cast so well. If he doenst pull it out of the bag, the film falls apart but he did. & the guts to do that run down the road, even if it was fake, still takes balls (pun intended).

There were lots of life lessons that should have been learnt in this film by various character & how their attitudes could change or learn form mistakes & move on, however did any of them learn? Nope not one of them. None of them at all. That pissed me off. Id have thought at least one of them would have sorted something out. After 2 hours of film everyone (including the dog) was exactly where they started off, meaning that they were all still just stuck in that cycle. I get that this is the case in life but for not one lesson to be learnt really irritated me.

Something else that irritated me was suddenly adding drama for the sake of it with about 30mins to go. Adding some suspense & jeopardy when it didnt need that just felt weird & we all knew what was going to happen & that they were going to get away with it. I mean if they didnt then it would have taken the story a different direction but i think we all knew it just wouldnt.

None of the actual character in the film (other than the dog) were likeable at all. I felt no sympathy for any of them at all & why they were in the situation they were in. Im guessing due to the nature of the film & what was being done & how they lived their lives but there wasnt one person i felt sorry for. Altho the woman with the shot gun, she was funny, i was waiting for him to get found out there. Also didnt help with Trump, automatic dislike from here, but those people would watch all of that wouldnt they & believe it.

The second he said about the money or planning we all knew that something bad was going to happen you could just see the greed or optimism on people faces. You just knew it.

Epic 00s music. Especially Nsync with it being forward & backwards at the end, a good way to show that we were just starting all over again.

Strawberry? Really? Thats what you came up with for a name.

There were lots of long shoots of people cycling or walking about for travel & then some heavy editing to make you feel like we had been in this town for a very long time & that things really were changing & moving forward & then when its revealed it had only been a month i was like say what, thats a lot of jumping about & seeing people on different days.

I really wanted some doughnuts watching the film, my cinema doesnt sell them tho.

So cheers Letterboxd besties for recommending this. Im not sure it was cinema big screen worthy but im glad ive seen it. I did enjoy it & i did laugh but it wasnt jokes it was more the whole thing & how things came about that made me do that. Clever but frustrating.