Deadly Drifter

...it's obvious why. This has got to be the worst movie I've ever sat through, but it has some surprisingly redemptive qualities. The most obvious is getting to enjoy all these reviews afterwards - the best laugh I've had in a while. The story itself had potential (conceptually if not in how it was realized), and could perhaps be great if done completely differently (and I mean completely!). As it is, it comes across like a high school film project (conceived in committee from a mishmash of immature friend's psychedelic experiences) with adult actors somehow hoodwinked into donating their time....(oh, those oblivious parents). But amid the disjointed Dadaist surrealism there is something remarkable and worth seeing here, and that is the Humpback Whale mother and child footage. These are some of the best close up whale images I have ever seen - seriously. While the rest of the movie is ponderously satiric and inessential these whales are the real deal. Like the sweet and perfect lotus arising from a sewer filled swamp they are sublime and unlikely - amazing in themselves, and perhaps even in what they are used to signify here, whatever that is....