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Insignificance (1985)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 7/23

7/23: Here I go with Nicolas Roeg who made so many bad films that oddly ended up as part of the Criterion Collection.

Is there some kind of fetish going on here? Anyway, Insignificance is exactly what the title says. Made for pseudo-intellectuals, it's a 108-minute waste of celluloid, giving me a hard time to think of Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, and Michael Emil as Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Joseph McCarthy, and Albert Einstein, respectively.

I don't think it's cool to see Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio together in the same film because the guy basically beat the shit out of her. They would divorce nine months afterwards. Weirdly but maybe not, DiMaggio "kept company with a mannequin of Marilyn, complete with 'an almost indecent authenticity to the breasts and other erogenous zones,' which he'd designed and had manufactured for $10,000." On the other hand, it's hard to believe that Tony Curtis is opposite the fake Marilyn Monroe when he starred with the real one in Some Like It Hot.

All in all, who was honestly excited to see a Nicolas Roeg film back then?

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