Indie Pick O' The Day: Swimming With Sharks

Do you think you have the WORST boss ever? After you see this flick, you may find out you have it easy after all. Swimming With Sharks released in 1994, is film that stars the magnificent Kevin Spacey and the ambiguous Frank Whaley. Whaley plays Guy, a yuppie naïve Hollywood studio assistant who becomes Buddy Ackerman’s (Spacey) bitch.

Buddy constantly berates Guy at every open opportunity and actually gets off on it. Poor Guy (pun intended) is like every other lowly assistant in the entertainment industry who is willing to take the heat from Buddy to make his way to the top and become a Hollywood producer. However, Buddy’s taunts get worse and Guy’s abuse is starting to take a toll on him. Guy decides to take matters into his own hands and teach Buddy a lesson in respect. He kidnaps Buddy and holds him hostage in his apartment. Ties a rope around him and bounds him to a chair. From that point on the torture begins and Buddy is forced to face his past and how he has mistreated everyone he has ever come in contact with.

Kevin Spacey is so extraordinary to watch. He can play EVERY type of role. The role of a jerk-off Hollywood studio executive is so scandalous to watch and quite humorous. I’m a bit partial to Kevin Spacey, but you’ll more than likely enjoy this film, and most certainly can relate if you work in the entertainment industry.

SEEN O' The Day: United States Of Leland

Another stunning perfromance by Ryan Gosling in this film called United States Of Leland.

The film has an all star cast including Kevin Spacey, Don Cheadle, Jena Malone, Chris Klein and Michelle Williams.

Here is a scene between Cheadle and Gosling discussing the over used phrase that has now become a cliche "I'm Only Human".

IndieSeen Favorite: Kevin Spacey

Oh, How I Love Thee? Let me count the ways....

Kevin Spacey is by far the greatest actor in Hollywood. No one can match his skills as method actor. What I like the most about this guy is his discreet ways of portraying a character. It's not too over the top or overacted. It's subtle and modest.

I also love the sarcastic sense of humor he bring to every part. Ya gotta love it. I remember seeing him first in this indie film called Henry and June. He played the role of Harry Osborn. However, the earliest film I've seen him in that resonates with me the most however, is Glengarry Glenross. He was a prick of a boss John Williamson who manages to screw up Al Pacino's sales. I LOVE that fuckin movie!!!

However, if you haven't seen the indie cult classic Swimming With The Sharks then you need to fuckin stop reading this blog and rent that movie right now. Go ahead rent it! Kevin Spacey plays the epitomy of every asshole Hollywood agent that represents all that is wrong with the entertainment industry. Personal assistants everywhere need to use watch this movie as a training film, cuz trust me, you will grow from the experience of seeing how a Hollywood agent acts.

Aaahh and then there's Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects. We loved him as the studdering muttering Verbal Kint who couldn't shutup. He surprised us of course but his performance sure didn't. I mean damn after all he did win an Oscar for his performance.

Then there is his performance as slick L.A. narcotics detective Jack Vincennes in 50's era Los Angeles in L.A. Confidential. He plays a cop who seeks headlines, tries to hob knob with the stars, and can be bought at a price. But you see his subtle turn from dirty cop to a police officer who tries to set things right and unfortunately it leads to his surprising demise.

Who could forget when we see Spacey masturbating in American Beauty? That's just classic. The first mainstream A list film with a masturbating scene. YEAH!!! I loved seeing Lester tell off his wife in the drive-thru! Classic stuff right there bitches!

I could go on and on and on about this film career. Seven, A Time To Kill, The Negotiator, Pay It Forward and Edison Force.

Edison Force?? Ok, well we all make mistakes.

So we just wanna say we love you Kevin for being the best actor EVER! Luv yaz!!

Edison Force: WTF??

So a friend of mine was telling me about this movie he saw at Blockbuster. On the coverbox it featured LL Cool J armed with a SWAT sized gat and Justin Timberlake. I was like wha??

So I look it up on IMDB and couldn't believe that a film was actually made with LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, Kevin Spacey, and Morgan Freeman? Are you fuckin serious??

The name of the film is called Edison Force.

Are you telling me these Academy Award worthy actors (except LL and Timbertoes) actually agreed to be in this piece of crap? Also Cary Elwes, Roselyn Sanchez and Dylan McDermott appear in the film. Wow, so they actually manage to put together a budget with all of these high profile actors to make this waste of celluloid?

There's like 20 executive producers listed for this film and it makes me think of a the joke...

Q: How many producers does it take to make a piece of shit movie?

A: The amount of producers it took to make Edison Force.

Don't take my word for it, feel free to rent the movie yourself and judge it on your own, but don't say I didn't warn you.

I just wanna know how did these producers convince all these actors to appear in this film? I mean, wow how did they do that? Hypnosis? Justin Timberlake's new CD? A free lifetime membership to Netflix? What?

Oh wellz I can only hope I make a craptacular film like Edison Force and have those actors as my stars.

SEEN O' The Day

THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995)

One of the greatest INDIE films of all time about five career crooks in what "appears" to be a random lineup.

Well this is the lineup scene that is SEEN on the movie poster of the film. I love Stevie Baldwin's part...there is a moment of humor and revelation in this scene if you know anything at all about how it ends...