 | MOVIE #1,600 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.02.24 Any movie where the writer-director of Tár shoots up the guy who played Blue in Old School is PRETTY good in my book, just on principle. There's something around every corner in this, the debut film from the creator of the Dan Akroyd TV movie Earth vs. The Spider and the DTV Cruel Intentions 3. Obviously, what I mean by “something” is vast and unexplainable, cosmic really, for example: Todd Field, writer-director of Tár, does sexual assault on an unconscious lady in the back of his ambulance, Todd Field, writer-director of Tár, drugs a dog so he can do a home robbery, and Jason London, star of Dazed and Confused (and countless movies you’ve never heard of — see below), pukes in his gay roommate’s beloved fishtank… |
Please bask at the last ten years of Jason London movies, which has me contemplating a late period Jason London actor focus series…
But we’re here because of James Hong and James Hong you shall get…
He has probably the third or fourth-biggest role in what is essentially a two-hander about this pair of fucked up paramedics in Los Angeles. The unintentional comedy is, at times, off the charts. Field (writer-director of Tár) is top-billed and he is actually a decent actor imo: he does bitter, acid tongue vitriol really well honestly...
The end of this is beyond ridiculous: London gets shot in the hand during a drug deal gone wrong, then we see him in an orange prison jumpsuit and learn that he only wound up in L.A. after killing an Amish kid while drunk driving (?!). But then he plays the cops some random, incriminating Rodney King-style VHS footage he shot earlier (which HAD to come back in play), essentially blackmailing them into letting him go scot-free. We get some tepid voiceover about how he realizes he's an addict (no shit) then the movie ends. There’s no real consequences for their deplorable behavior, no visceral arcs: just the waning days of 90s independent film going out with a whimper (which is at least sometimes funny by accident).
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Broken Vessels is a 1999 medical drama film directed by Scott Ziehl and written by Ziehl along with David Baer and John McMahon. The film debuted at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and marked Ziehl's directorial debut. It stars Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, and James Hong. The film follows a rookie paramedic and his hardened drug-addicted partner as they take calls and cruise L.A. in their ambulance. Although it shares the same name as the book, it has nothing to do with the Andre Dubus essay collection of the same name. It was released on July 2, 1999.
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