Day 142 - 5/22/09 - Movie #141
BEFORE: This time David Bowie plays an alien, and if that's not perfect casting, I don't know what is. Bowie re-invented himself so many times in the 70's that I think legally he actually was a space alien at one point...
THE PLOT: A humanoid alien comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him.
AFTER: God, there go two hours of my life that I'll never get back...this movie is long and very hard to follow. Bowie's alien character somehow proves he owns some very valuable patents, and parlays this into a vast corporate tech conglomerate - but nothing really gets explained very well. It's like the director had never made a film before, or else it was edited by spider-monkeys. Essentially, this is an experimental film - but is it "arty" or just poorly made?
Bowie's alien believes in free love, interplanetary sex, fooling around with pistols in bed (kinky!) and he needs our water (I think?). Problem is, his plans to return to his wife and home planet never seem to materialize - why should they, when he can spend his days having freaky sex with messed-up Earth girls?
I just didn't get this at all - pointless. The 70's were a weird decade.
RATING: 1 out of 10 gunshots
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