The star of this movie is Scottie, an incredibly annoying video store clerk. Scottie has, as he likes to say, "an encyclopedic knowledge of movies". This is absolutely true. And that's all he can talk about. He bores his co-workers with his knowledge, drives away customers (he doesn't want to rent them just any old movie), and has no ability to talk about anything but movies. So he gets fired. And now he's really adrift. Thank god he has his movie blog.
Yep, he's boring and one dimensional and he has a movie blog that nobody reads. Shit. This was a hard one for me to watch. Thankfully I soon realized that I am not one-dimensional at all. I can bore people on many topics. And I frequently do.
Scottie is a compelling character and Melik Malkasian does a fantastic job with the role. The movie was shot in Portland and is full of local movie rental places, local movie critics, etc. Nevertheless, the cinematography is poor and the ending sucks. However, as it is only 75 minutes or so, it is totally worth watching for Scottie. He's hilarious.
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