"Feeling Minnesota" NY Times Review

[Jonah13]

I came across the review by Janet Maslin in the NY Times and she made some
observations which I found to be interesting and with merit:

1. A Quentin Tarantino cameo.

2. A heroine whose idea of a better life is a job dancing in Las Vegas.

3. A scene at a motel with an empty pool. Broken pastel furniture, please.
Bonus points for each fake flamingo.

4. One actor dressed in a powder-blue tuxedo with ruffled shirt. One
actress in a waitress' uniform.

5. Occassional armed robbery, accompanied by loud rock music and staged as
comic relief. Fun violence, like biting off part of someone's ear.

6. A hero who bathes at the bus station.

7. Empty philosophy. ("Time is like an orange.")

8. Specious kinks. ("I've got 50 bucks I keep stuffed in my underwear.")

9. A scene at a pinball parlor. If none is available, a truck stop or gas
station will do.

10. A neglected pet. Hero and heroine should adopt something adorable when
on the lam. This shows they're human, but they can forget to feed it
during the rest of the story.

This is what it makes to earn the A for Attitude to which Steven
Baigelman's "Feeling Minnesota" eagerly aspires ... except the actual Mr.
Tarantino (who is present in spirit)...

... Today's breed of femme fatale (like Lara Flynn Boyle in "The Big
Squeeze") isn't apt to be truly dangerous, though there's some risk she
might model herself to death.

--- I only filled in those parts from the review to make a point. I am
truly getting sick of "slacker-made" films. They're all the same and try
to be "deep". Maybe in the year 2025 if MST is still alive (I made a
funny!) these films will be pounced on. God knows, they need their just
dessert.

Yesterday's "The Violent Years" and "Girls Town" is today's "Feeling
Minnesota" and, um, well, "Girls Town".

"He tampered in God's domain", Bride of the Monster
"Knew your father I did!", Mr. B Natural
"I'm feeling a sensation altogether new to me! And you know what? I LIKE
IT!", Tom Servo