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pitseleh · 02-27-2006, 03:22 AM

It's All Gone Pete Tong

A film about Frankie Wilde, an Ibiza DJ who does a shitload of coke and inevitably goes insane, and eventually - deaf. It's interspersed with interviews with several DJs and slimy record-industry people, both real and fictitious, who talks about Frankie retrospectively. So it has a bit of a mockumentary feel, although most of it is presented like a traditional (i use this word in a loose sense) movie.

At first I thought this was going to be a downhill ride all the way, but to my surprise it wasn't all that horrible. I'm talking about the fate of the protagonist here, not the movie itself, which was filled with black humour and some rather good acting performances. If you like Trainspotting, this will probably be right up your alley. Of course, since it takes place in Ibiza, this is a whole lot sunnier. Lots of good music, too.

By the way, before this one I saw some sci-fi flick about time-travel with disastrous consequences. I don't even remember what it was called, but the back cover has some screenshots of a dinosaur on it. Rented this with a friend of mine, just to have a bit of B-movie ridicule-fest. And boy, did we ever rip it to shreds. It sucked so hard. If you ever see a DVD cover that matches the description I've given, don't watch it! A total waste of CGI-monkey-power as well as whatever toilet-paper the "script" was written on.

02-27-2006, 03:22 AM	#1299
pitseleh Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Norway Posts: 1,059	It's All Gone Pete Tong A film about Frankie Wilde, an Ibiza DJ who does a shitload of coke and inevitably goes insane, and eventually - deaf. It's interspersed with interviews with several DJs and slimy record-industry people, both real and fictitious, who talks about Frankie retrospectively. So it has a bit of a mockumentary feel, although most of it is presented like a traditional (i use this word in a loose sense) movie. At first I thought this was going to be a downhill ride all the way, but to my surprise it wasn't all that horrible. I'm talking about the fate of the protagonist here, not the movie itself, which was filled with black humour and some rather good acting performances. If you like Trainspotting, this will probably be right up your alley. Of course, since it takes place in Ibiza, this is a whole lot sunnier. Lots of good music, too. By the way, before this one I saw some sci-fi flick about time-travel with disastrous consequences. I don't even remember what it was called, but the back cover has some screenshots of a dinosaur on it. Rented this with a friend of mine, just to have a bit of B-movie ridicule-fest. And boy, did we ever rip it to shreds. It sucked so hard. If you ever see a DVD cover that matches the description I've given, don't watch it! A total waste of CGI-monkey-power as well as whatever toilet-paper the "script" was written on.