Its all about the soy sauce, a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. It came across to me as though david wong was telling me about his adventures with john, amy, and their meddling dog, molly. Director and cowriter don coscarelli phantasm 1979, bubba hotep 2002, the beastmaster 1982 made me think this movie was not something i wanted to see within the first few minutes. Chase williamson, rob mayes, paul giamatti, imdb rating. It was juvenileand i loved damn near every minute of it. While i complained about the rushed plot, its probably not as noticeable to someone who hadnt read the book. A new drug provides users with an outofbody experience, but some who come back are no longer human. The sense of humour in this book is brilliant and theres a lot of really original, insane, and amusing stuff going on throughout. Its an endlessly trippy, oddball experience about a fictitious street drug called soy sauce that lets users see things. When you hear a song on the radio, where is the song.
When smart but troubled videostore employee david gets a peculiar latenight phone call from a friend, he assumes john is just having another of his semiregular drug or alcoholinduced freakouts. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were removed in september 2008. But as progressively more bizarre events unfold over the next few hours, david realizes that things are different this time. A movie so brazenly offkilter that im not entirely sure its title is even accurate. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Principal photography began in october 2010, and by january 2011, the project had entered postproduction for a planned theatrical 20 release.
But the dream started 30 seconds before the thunder hit. On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across t. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind. It is both joyously ridiculous and annoyingly indulgent a movie that is engineered for future cultdom but almost a little too tryhard to really deserve it. Is it possible to take a movie with a fantastic ending, and make a movie about it without ruining the ending of the original novel. He rambles, goes off topic and, generally speaking, goes through albuquerque on a trip from detroit to chicago. The threat of apocalypse no longer holds consequence enough. Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the don coscarellidirected movie via. The only complaint i have for the movie is that it feels rushed at times and i dont understand the need to change mollys name to barkley.
How it went from being a story posted on the internet, to being a book to being a movie is nearly as unbelievable as the story itself. Can two college dropouts save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion. Literally, when i read the email, i thought, this would make a great movie. So he bought it, read it, loved it, wanted to make a movie from it, and did so.
Both actors who play john and david do a great job, giamatti is awesome, the practical effects look great, i just wish it didnt feel so rushed. Can two college dropouts save humankind from this silent, otherworldly invasion. Can two college dropouts save humankind from this silent, otherworldly invasi. Seriously, dude, dont touch it with david wong real name jason pargin. What it gets instead is john and david, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. While the core of the film espouses the belief that time is not linear, the word end suggests there is a beginning and an end to things. What it gets instead is john and david, a pair of college dropouts who can barely. On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across time and. On the street they call it soy sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. Its a drug that promises an outofbody experience with each hit. It appears that the firearms seen in this film are airsoft replicas. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. With chase williamson, rob mayes, paul giamatti, clancy brown.