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Kuso: "The Grossest Movie Ever Made"

Discussion in 'Films' started by catparty, Jan 27, 2017.

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  1. catparty

    catparty Moderator Staff Member Moderator

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4160264/Grossest-movie-prompts-mass-walkouts-Sundance.html



    Kuso, the first feature film from musician Flying Lotus, was so gross it sparked massive walkouts at the Sundance Film Festival when it was screened this week.

    The film, four vignettes about survivors of a massive Los Angeles earthquake, has been labeled the grossest film ever' and a '93-minute nightmare' by reviewers who attended the screening on Monday.

    Chris Plante of The Verge said the troubling scenes - including footage of an erect penis being stabbed - prompted many in the theater to leave in disgust.

    But director Flying Lotus, whose real name is Steven Ellison, said Plante exaggerated the number - saying just 20 out of the crowd of 400 left.

    'Wasn't as dramatic as they make it out to be. I tried to warn folks,' he tweeted on Thursday.

    Some of the notable grotesque scenes included a man having sex with a talking boil on a woman's neck, genital mutilation and a doctor (played by funk legend George Clinton) who keeps a 'toddler-sized' cockroach in his anus.

    The revolting scenes didn't stop there. There's also a scene in which a pygmy eats a maggot-infested soup and another in which a woman gnaws on concrete.

    'At one point, [actor Tim] Heidecker is framed mid-coitus with what appears to be a hybrid of a turkey and a human torso, and it’s maybe the fifteenth most unsettling image in the film,' Consequence of Sound reviewer Dominick Suzanne-Mayer recalled.

    Suzanne Mayer says that audiences were warned before the start of the film that they were in for something unusual.

    'A Sundance representative advised the audience that "the film you’re seeing tonight will melt your f****** brains. There will be no survivors,"' he said.

    Once the film started up, Plante wrote that there was a consistent stream of people leaving the theater until the film's final scenes.

    'Anecdotally speaking, watching fellow moviegoers leave one by one was like witnessing a real-time trigger-warning test. A large chunk of the audience left my screening early, when a boil-covered woman choked a man with a strap until he covered half her face with semen that looked like a muted version of Nickelodeon slime.

    'But the walk-outs continued in a consistent stream up to the final scene. Some gross-out films are one-note, but Kuso finds new ways to test viewers’ fortitude.

    'Some folks stuck around after a woman chewed on concrete until her teeth disintegrated, but still peaced out when an alien creature force-yanked a fetus from another woman’s womb (accompanied by a Mortal Kombat sound clip: “Get over here!”), then smoked the tiny corpse,' Plane wrote.

    Suzanne-Mayer called the movie a '93-minute nightmare' but admits there's 'more to Kuso than shock value'.

    'Though Ellison works in lurid tones, it’s clear throughout that Kuso is firing on the kind of level that a certain kind of moviegoer will want to unpack for some time to come,' Suzanne-Mayer wrote.

    Plante agreed, but said the deeper meaning is almost impossible to take in with just one viewing, due to the shock value of all the gore.

    'The copious gore, the cruel extended rape joke, the abortion sight-gags, and any number of other vomit-inducing pseudo-goofs are so distracting and disorienting that making sense of the film would require a repeat viewing. I’m not sure how many folks have the stomach for that,' he wrote.

    A similar incident happened at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, when some members passed out while seeing the cannibal movie Raw.
     
    catparty, Jan 27, 2017
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  2. The Mysterious Stranger

    The Mysterious Stranger An Angel named Satan

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    Even when it's clearly just a film intended to shock and disgust people, there are STILL film snobs that insist there is a deeper meaning to the film. I am guessing there really isn't. Now I haven't seen it, so I can't be 100% sure, but based on the descriptions of some of the events that occur in the film, I'm guessing it's just gross-out schlock.

    Also the title is literally the Japanese word for "Shit". What else would you expect?
     
    The Mysterious Stranger, Jan 31, 2017
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  3. Regular Collie

    Regular Collie Verified Collie √

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    What the fuck is wrong with Tim Heidecker these days?
     
    Regular Collie, Jan 31, 2017
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  4. ToroidalBoat

    ToroidalBoat ¿qué?

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    First there was that Room book, now this? Imagine what someone would think of Americans if the only American works they knew of were those two.
     
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    Deleted User 0007 Well-Known Member

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    I have never wanted to unsee something more then I do now...
     
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  6. Dio Brando

    Dio Brando Makin' priests gay since 1987

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    Sounds hot.
     
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  7. Jewhunter69

    Jewhunter69 I'm feeling edgy.

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    It has David Firth in it, he was the guy behind Mr. Salad Fingers, of course it's going to be gross and weird.
     
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  8. CWCki Jeff

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    To me, this looks like the kind of thing pretentious movie critics would love, but also something they would hate at the same time.
     
    CWCki Jeff, Feb 1, 2017
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  9. Slut

    Slut What's wrong, big boy?

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    I need to see this movie
     
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  10. Craftaman Tractor

    Craftaman Tractor I do not identify myself as a helicopter

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    Meh, not a fan of things that rely on shock-value alone, be it art, film or whatever. Not because it genuinely shocks me or makes me feel uneasy or whatever. After all, a visceral, sometimes even violently oppositional reaction from the audience is exactly what these people are looking for. But I usually dislike them because it seems like an easy and lazy way to get praise from elitist, pseudo-intellectualist critical circles while the general public feels offended and makes them feel important and validated. If it's new and revolutionary, like it often used to be in the past (I'm thinking of certain avant-garde artists and the such from the mid-late 20th century) then fine, but if it's overdone then it loses all credit as something groundbreaking and game-changing.
    Not sure if that's the case for this movie, or if it has other redeeming qualities like an interesting plot and story or a deeper philosophical meaning, but that's the first impression I get when I read about a firm that boasts about being "the grossest film ever".
     
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  11. Dio Brando

    Dio Brando Makin' priests gay since 1987

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    Tim Heidecker stars in this movie, don't expect any of that
     
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    Ms. Mowz A real floozy at heart.

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    Is there any indie film that critics won't claim to have "a deeper message" or some other bullshit like that?
     
    Ms. Mowz, Feb 1, 2017
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    The Mighty Shockwave Suspicious purple old guy

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    Need to make up some sort of bullshit why you didn't just waste your time and money, I guess.
     
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  14. Gerion

    Gerion Fat Binturong

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    Oh fuck, I'm game, I'll watch any old grossout shit. I work the graveyard shift and like to live the cliché by throwing on super underground and hardcore crap edgelord horror films to stay awake. Just don't expect me to pay for it. If Flying Lotus can afford to make what's essentially just an ugliness endurance test as his big artistic statement passion project, he doesn't need my twelve bucks that badly.
     
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    Craftaman Tractor I do not identify myself as a helicopter

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    I can respect this much more than a bunch of posh critics praising this kinda shit as the best thing ever. But please, tell me your name is Igor and you always wear a black suit and have very thin, white hair.
     
    Craftaman Tractor, Feb 2, 2017
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  16. Gerion

    Gerion Fat Binturong

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    I sure as hell aspire to that level of greatness but I gotta train up still. Only 100 more viewings of Titicut Follies to go!
     
    Gerion, Feb 2, 2017
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    Ol Slag 'Tism stormchaser

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    Movie night when?
     
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  18. An Ghost

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    Tim and Eric's billion dollar movie only got walk outs cause it sucked.
    But as an Adult Swim fan boy I may need to see this.
     
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  19. The Jumping Dwarf

    The Jumping Dwarf Kiwi Farms refugee

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    Doesn't "kuso" mean "shit" in Japanese?

    Accurate, I guess.
     
    The Jumping Dwarf, Feb 8, 2017
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    Mettaton EX Just another Kiwi Farms user

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    I couldn't even make sense of the trailer. Everything about this film seems so bizarre. I imagine that's what they were going for. I didn't even have a chance to really register what crossed my eyes.
     
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