Friday, November 13, 2009

Gentlemen Broncos: C



"Gentlemen Broncos" is unabashedly made by and for the type of people who write fan fiction at home and attend sci-fi/fantasy conventions.
From the family's geodescent dome house, to the old oldsmobile cutlass cierra with the "cutlass" nameplate missing- its ugly tacky thrift store milleau is exhaustingly complete. Since these characters essentially live in the hand scribbled pages of their notebooks, what they look like to everyone else doesn't much matter.

Benjamin is a home schooled teenager who attends a writers camp so he can hear the words of his child-hood hero, a fantasy novelist with more than a few breast issues played by "Flight of the Conchords" Jermaine Clement.
Ben decides to submit his original story, entitled "Yeast Lords" to a writing competition. But faced with a deadline and writers block Clement winds up stealing it and calling it his own.

Entire sequences of the film are devoted to watching the differing versions of Ben's book played out on screen with Sam Rockwell and some intentionally cheesy effects. They're kind of amusing, but not particularly funny. And everyone in this film has the slack jawed yokel expression of dazed constipation.

I didn't hate this film. But I can't really recommend it. I found it an agreeable time waster, but it's nothing I'd really want to see again.

Gentlemen Broncos: C

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