Worth Your Time 2003

I just got back from seeing Party Monster. I thought I'd enjoy the fabulous costumes and pretty boys kissing and endure the connecting bits. I did get some of the former to please me - though many of the costumes were more outrageous than beautiful - and pretty much none of the latter, but it turned out to be the masterful portrayal of the two main characters which leaves me strongly considering seeing it again. I really enjoyed Seth Green and Macaulay Culkin's performances. Green has more range than I realized and Culkin can be much darker (then again, if you're a millionaire former child star, perhaps playing someone who believes the world should be his on a plate isn't such a stretch...)

Reading the reviews on IMDB which range from "Excellent!" to "Sucks!" you get an accurate sense that this film isn't for everyone or perhaps even most, but I think it's very worth seeing and it certainly leaves me excited about what these actors will do in the future. It's playing at the lovely Castro Theater through Thursday, and even though I have stuff going on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, I will probably make time for it.

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Worth Your Time

I just got back from seeing Party Monster. I thought I'd enjoy the fabulous costumes and pretty boys kissing and endure the connecting bits. I did get some of the former to please me - though many of the costumes were more outrageous than beautiful - and pretty much none of the latter, but it turned out to be the masterful portrayal of the two main characters which leaves me strongly considering seeing it again. I really enjoyed Seth Green and Macaulay Culkin's performances. Green has more range than I realized and Culkin can be much darker (then again, if you're a millionaire former child star, perhaps playing someone who believes the world should be his on a plate isn't such a stretch...)

Reading the reviews on IMDB which range from "Excellent!" to "Sucks!" you get an accurate sense that this film isn't for everyone or perhaps even most, but I think it's very worth seeing and it certainly leaves me excited about what these actors will do in the future. It's playing at the lovely Castro Theater through Thursday, and even though I have stuff going on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, I will probably make time for it.

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