Over at Footprints…. Christy Bharath has written an impressively completist mass-review of movies featuring Timothy Olyphant. What did he think of “High Life”?
I seriously haven’t had this much fun watching two guys screw up their lives since Andy Serkis and Reece Shearsmith in The Cottage.
Thanks Christy!
[...] High Life: High Life is one of those films that went unnoticed last year because everyone was too busy admiring the second coming of CGI technology in Avatar over anything else that had anything at all to do with good cinema. Nah, who am I kidding, Gary Yates’ High Life would have been swept under the carpet anyway. It’s too quirky for general movie-goers to enjoy, but just perfect for us, geeks, to fawn in fervor over its wry wit and intelligent timing. The story follows four morphine junkies trying to plan a bank heist while dealing with two-timing, overdosing and general douchebaggery. Stephen Eric McIntyre and Timothy Olyphant (Dick and Bug) just zoomed past Rogen and Franco as the most likeable on-screen stoned duo this decade. Bug’s psychotic (and abso-fuckin-lutely hilarious) temper tantrums and Dick’s feeble attempts at being level-headed have so much entertainment value in them that someone could run a sitcom and have it not go stale for at least two seasons. I seriously haven’t had this much fun watching two guys screw up their lives since Andy Serkis and Reece Shearsmith in The Cottage. It’s been a pleasure, Yates. [...]