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Sometimes clicking "rent" at things that look vaguely interesting gets you classics, like I'm Not Afraid. At other times -- well, you get my last two weeks of movie watching. That "Gattaca" is the highlight of the list says a lot. I would have had more fun watching any of the movies on the Awful Movie Database.

Like Twin Peaks Season 2 Disk 2 (reviewed below), this second disk is one DVD too many. The director's orientalism, marxism, and general Frenchism (calling the Jews degenerate was a nice touch) gets tiring, as does his superficially informative documentary about India. If you want to see what India's true problems in the 1960s were, watching Commanding Heights. If you need to punish yourself to restore karma from a particularly bad dead -- say, the sacking of Samarkand -- then finishin Phantom India. If you liked Amin Maalouf's In the Name of Identity, as I didn't, you may be able to tolerate this movie.


A real conspiracy theory wrapped inside a false one, Tribulation 99 starts out fanatistically strange.. and ends as yet another angry, campus-radical screed against Reagan, Bush, the United Fruit Company, and counter-revolutionary generally. The whole film is about 50 minutes long -- watch the first half, then throw the disk away. (Or, if you subscribe to greencine, return it and get another in the mail!). Many references will be familiar to Coast to Coast AM fans. If the film hadn't strayed so far into late-eighties-campus-leftist paranoia it would have been a classic.