Ex drummer is a film that hates everyone and everything. Many films try to have a deeper meaning when it comes to “shocking their audience” ex drummer has a point to the violence, but the shock value is done with pure enjoyment. Racism, sexism, homophobia, rape jokes, and any other taboo that might get under a viewers skin, all of it is here. The basic plot is that 4 of the most neurotic, unlikable, disgusting individuals come together to make a band, and you see their trials and tribulations trying not to self destruct before they are able to perform a show.
The main character is a profoundly unlikable rich douchebag, who joins the band out of pure schadenfreude, despite his snobbish attitude, he’s about as horrible as the other band members, maybe even worse. The cinematography is grimy, every room in this film drips with blood, puke, and sweat. The dialogue is mostly jokes about genitalia, racial epithets, and rape threats. One of the small flaws in this movie is just how far over the line it goes. Some scenes are so edgy, so vile, that it’s hard to be shocked by any of the scenes when you’re an hour into the movie. Despite the fact that not a single aspect of this movie is in good taste, I absolutely love it.
I’d describe this film to be a much more artful and nihilistic version of the film “Freddy got fingered” where the entire joke is that the film even exists in the first place. If I were to describe the scenes in this movie, it would turn most people off from ever watching it, but I guarantee you, this is just a film you have to go into blind. One part I didn’t mention was the fantastic soundtrack.
The original songs here are absolutely fantastic, and I found myself humming some of the tunes after watching. My personal favorites are the devo cover song and the song they play at the concert, I think those two songs perfectly explain why I love this movie so much, they’re all grimy, edgy, and misanthropic. It’s hard to write a truly “meaningful” review for a piece of art so repellant to the idea of meaning, but I think that some movies just want to see you squirm, and this film is among the best of the shock/exploitation films I’ve seen. I mean, it’s hard for a film that opens with “2 morro morro land” by Lightning Bolt to be anything short of a masterpiece.
Ex drummer is a film that hates everyone and everything. Many films try to have a deeper meaning when it comes to “shocking their audience” ex drummer has a point to the violence, but the shock value is done with pure enjoyment. Racism, sexism, homophobia, rape jokes, and any other taboo that might get under a viewers skin, all of it is here. The basic plot is that 4 of the most neurotic, unlikable, disgusting individuals come together to make a band, and you see their trials and tribulations trying not to self destruct before they are able to perform a show.
The main character is a profoundly unlikable rich douchebag, who joins the band out of pure schadenfreude, despite his snobbish attitude, he’s about as horrible as the other band members, maybe even worse. The cinematography is grimy, every room in this film drips with blood, puke, and sweat. The dialogue is mostly jokes about genitalia, racial epithets, and rape threats. One of the small flaws in this movie is just how far over the line it goes. Some scenes are so edgy, so vile, that it’s hard to be shocked by any of the scenes when you’re an hour into the movie. Despite the fact that not a single aspect of this movie is in good taste, I absolutely love it.
I’d describe this film to be a much more artful and nihilistic version of the film “Freddy got fingered” where the entire joke is that the film even exists in the first place. If I were to describe the scenes in this movie, it would turn most people off from ever watching it, but I guarantee you, this is just a film you have to go into blind. One part I didn’t mention was the fantastic soundtrack.
The original songs here are absolutely fantastic, and I found myself humming some of the tunes after watching. My personal favorites are the devo cover song and the song they play at the concert, I think those two songs perfectly explain why I love this movie so much, they’re all grimy, edgy, and misanthropic. It’s hard to write a truly “meaningful” review for a piece of art so repellant to the idea of meaning, but I think that some movies just want to see you squirm, and this film is among the best of the shock/exploitation films I’ve seen. I mean, it’s hard for a film that opens with “2 morro morro land” by Lightning Bolt to be anything short of a masterpiece.
