Sugar Town

Caught this on HBO thanksgiving morning 2004 and was intrigued by it from the name so I watched it and it is one of the weirdest movies I have seen lately.It is like they took a whole movie and cut out the middle of it and made it into this movie, cause it starts off and you have no idea what is going on and then by the end of the movie, you are like where's the rest of it?

Eon McKai, a pretentious pornographer of a decade back, perpetrated this awful ripoff of "the look" of those Blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, with one "Dave Naz" directing it for him at Vivid's short-lived and lousy Vivid alt. label.

Allison Anders' best movie is a terrific ensemble piece, and what an ensemble! Seemingly playing themselves are ex-Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet members John Taylor and Martin Kemp, X frontman John Doe, Michael Des Barres (whose self-parody here deserves some kind of award), plus great turns from Rosanna Arquette, Beverly D'Angelo, Ally Sheedy, someone named Lucinda Jenney (I love her whoever she is) and a number of other actors who barely seem to be acting, they are so natural and the dialogue so true to life.

Everyone was saying to me not to get this on DVD cos its rubbish! But when I first watched it, I really enjoyed it.

This movie was so much fun. It boasted an incredible cast -- Roseanna Arquette, Michael Des Barres, Beverly D'Angelo, John Doe, Lumi Cavazos, Ally Sheedy, John Taylor of Duran Duran, etc.

Yes, I am a sucker for Rosanna Arquette. She actually did very well in this film as a former horror film actress married to the lead singer of a rock band that is trying to make a comeback.

Caught this Movie on the TV early one morning. The synopsis sounded promising being a Los Anglino with some history in the music biz and having some first hand experience with "Has Beens" colliding with "Soon To Be Has Beens" and their actress girlfriends and wives.

As usual, another Allison Anders film has come into my radar screen, and, as usual, I enjoyed it. Allison has a wonderful way of taking real life and showing it with non-judgmental truth.

"Sugar Town" is a dialogue-intensive plotless visceral comedy non-story about a bunch of stereotypical caricatures of Los Angeles musical loser-type has-been wannabees, the sundry personalities they hang with or bump up against, and their vicissitudes. What this film lacks in story and budget, it makes up for with a very hip, very clever script.