I'm still doing it, everyone. I am still watching 90's serial killer rip offs of Se7en. You can't stop me.
I did watch Kiss the Girls finally as well, my mini review is going to be its good not great, stop having the killer be someone who knows the girl, and also stop having the killer be a cop. I think its very interesting that they say Elwes didn't rape Judd, but other than that it's whatever.
In Dreams was directed by indie director Neil Jordan. Funny, relevant quote from WikiPedia: "Co-writer Robinson criticized the film the year after its release, stating: "It was a complete and utter mess from top to bottom. I thought Jennifer Eight was a low point, but Christ almighty, this hit the floor and dug." Yeah dude, they though this was worse than my recently reviewed film Jennifer Eight.
So this is yet another serial killer thriller, one which this time stars Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr, and Stephen Rea. This was made at the height of Downey's drug abuse, and he was imprisoned the same year this came out.
Annette Bening is a relatively normal woman who's always had strange dreams, and it seems that now they are getting weirder, and have recurring motifs about children and drowning. It might be related to a spree of child murders in the area that involve drowning, and soon enough Bening's child is killed and she is more involved. They find stuff to prove her dreams are prognosticating the kills and bam, just like that you have another stupid serial killer movie.
What's strange about this and why it gets an entire review is the weird amount of time they spend with crossdresser or maybe trans character Vivian that RDJ plays. There's very long, bizarre, surreal scenes with Bening and Downey in somewhat sexually laden, cryptic scenes that kinda go nowhere...? They're quite cool and give the movie a bit more points. But the rest of the film is so bland and so average that this part is all it really has.
Its a strange one, and one that stands out amidst these types. I give it 3 stars.
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