{"id":14326,"date":"2021-07-31T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2021-07-31T21:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T01:49:43","slug":"buzzard-2014-joel-potrykus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14326","title":{"rendered":"Buzzard (2014, Joel Potrykus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Potrykus movie where Josh Burge plays a slacker \/ scammer \/ gamer, and his life gets increasingly complicated and dire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/buzzard2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Two great additions here: a Freddy Krueger power glove, and the director playing Josh&#8217;s friend\/rival Derek.  <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/gemko\/film\/buzzard\/\">Per Mike D&#8217;Angelo<\/a>, &#8220;Obviously, Chekhov&#8217;s Gloveblades dictate a climactic moment of violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/buzzard1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the oddball who watched the director&#8217;s followups <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13047\">The Alchemist Cookbook<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13169\">Relaxer<\/a><\/em> before finally getting to this, so it&#8217;s funny seeing all the contemporary reviews about the great promise Potrykus shows.  Promise fulfilled, more specifically than they imagined: Josh gaming on the couch, all decade long.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/buzzard4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9014\">Stranger by the Lake<\/a><\/em> issue of Cinema Scope makes a cameo in a convenience store magazine rack, and Potrykus got a feature story a few issues later.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Growing up, European cinema was always exotic and incredibly distant.  I wasn&#8217;t prepared for the tables to turn.  Suddenly I felt like we were the ambassadors of not so much American independent cinema, but of the Midwest as a landscape.  <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12095\">Ape<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s empty city streets and mundane convenience-store bureaucracies were now the exotic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/buzzard3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Potrykus movie where Josh Burge plays a slacker \/ scammer \/ gamer, and his life gets increasingly complicated and dire. Two great additions here: a Freddy Krueger power glove, and the director playing Josh&#8217;s friend\/rival Derek. Per Mike D&#8217;Angelo, &#8220;Obviously, Chekhov&#8217;s Gloveblades dictate a climactic moment of violence.&#8221; I&#8217;m the oddball who watched the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2287,92],"class_list":["post-14326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-joel-potrykus","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14346,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions\/14346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}