From a filmmaking point of view, SLACKER is very interesting. I enjoyed the seamless way the camera glided from person to person. But from an entertainment point of view, I was floundering. First off, every goddamn conversation sounded like the last one! I mean, I’ve lived in this town since the mid-Pleistocene epoch, so I know the whole fucking place is full of mindless fart-sniffers too scared to have an opinion, but this is a work of fiction! Make some shit up! Whatever, it’s not my movie, maybe the writer intended everybody to sound the same and be boring! Whiff!!! If that’s the case, I’m sorry, the joke went right over my exceedingly handsome head. And speaking of handsome skulls, ol’ Jason Voorhees’ skull was fucking wild in that Crystal Lake series. They did that boi wrong, but it didn’t fucking matter since 87% of the show was about his mom and not Jason. Nobody wants a backstory on Jason and definitely not a backstory on his mom. I just want to see Jason kill! That’s literally it. Jason killing. I just want an endless TV show of Jason killing. In a summer camp, every fucking episode. Just over and over and over. No reason given. Just Jason murdering people, but no animals. People only. Lots of nudity, lots of people goofing off while Jason kills their friends.
Oh yeah, SLACKER. It’s okay. I can see historians, filmmakers and oldheads from ATX enjoying it, but younger movie watchers would probably turn it off within 5 minutes. It would be interesting to see a follow-up made nowadays. Then again I could just stand on Red River and listen to boring people talk and imagine I'm in Slacker 2.
