Runtime: 98 very long
minutes
Directed by: An atrocious
human being in “comedian” Jeremy Saville. Watching this “film”
makes me pretty sure I am not being overly dramatic here.
Starring: Saville and a
bunch of people I've never heard of before.
From: The Best Movie,
which is the worst name in history for a production company created
for a worthless motion picture
Loqueesha unexpectedly dropped on Prime Video two days ago. Please do NOT ever watch Loqueesha.
Just earlier this month a movie trailer went viral on Twitter, and I imagine that was the intent of the disgusting human being responsible for this motion picture, “comedian” Jeremy Saville, who was the writer, producer, director and star of this. As presumably he would not create a misleading trailer for his own movie, many people were horrified to see that the plot was some untalented white guy becoming famous as the titular character after he gets a radio show and speaks with a “black woman voice” (even though no one in their right mind would think that his voice was anything but some A-hole man doing a piss-poor imitation of a bad stereotype) so that his snot-nosed kid could go to an expensive private school. Not that I've watched Sorry to Bother You yet, but this seemed like that if it was created by a bigoted A-hole with an IQ of about 80.
Lest you think I am being overly harsh against Mr. Saville, Loqueesha is actually worse than it appeared to be judging by the trailer. When more than one person has used Neil Breen's movies as a point of comparison... even I was taken aback by how bad everything was. To start off, as others have noted there appeared to be a rendering error in this finished product! The first few minutes were telling... the lead character (Joe) is a real tool by not only doing a bad routine where he talks with a weak South Asian accent, but we get the first of several “jokes” related to transgendered people. I can say that all of the jokes are more like “jokes” as the only laughs I got from this were unintentional. Of course this was a low-budget production; I won't automatically punish them for that. But this was at times on the level of Birdemic. Wait until you see some of the graphics that were rendered for the movie, or how poor the ADR was in one scene, where “iPhone” was said on set but due to concerns over legal threats, was dubbed over with “smartphone” so ineptly, I am pretty sure it wasn't the actors on screen who did the dubbing!
Besides the fact that this is an utter failure all around, this “wise sage advice” that the lead provides is incredibly basic-Yoda he ain't. The movie could have been satire in how mediocre white men take the place of more deserving minorities or how it was obvious that Loqueesha is actually a guy doing a bad voice but no one seems to notice... in actuality, this is deadly serious. Joe and his producer have to hire a black woman to play the role in public (and it was absurd how Joe and producer had to jump through so many hoops to do a show in studio... such as no one else being in the studio itself during recording) and besides that character being a garish stereotype AND also is implied to be the VILLAIN of the picture... when she speaks she sounds completely different than Joe's terrible Stephin Fetchit voice! The movie actually has that much contempt for its audience. There are many other instances of just being tone-deaf and clueless but I don't want to write a thesis here.
Already this has been compared to the likes of The Room and Birdemic. I get it, but those are far more worthy of bad movie love as those accidentally became bad movie gold and without being grossly offensive. James Nguyen wanted to deliver something with an environmental message and Tommy Wiseau sought to show the tragic downfall of an innocent character. At least those spectacular failures are not hurtful or present dangerous ideas. Let's not have other loathsome people suddenly decide that “being outrageous” and having a poorly made offensive motion picture is the way to get attention and make some dough. Lord, this is a flick where not only does mediocre white dude have a black woman tell him that his Loqueesha is a better black woman than she is, but the appalling message of “people who make public their suicidal intentions are only doing it for attention” is presented as fact. This in whole should never be watched-if you must, there are already several YouTube reviews up where this is rightfully skewered and the most egregious moments are shown.
Just earlier this month a movie trailer went viral on Twitter, and I imagine that was the intent of the disgusting human being responsible for this motion picture, “comedian” Jeremy Saville, who was the writer, producer, director and star of this. As presumably he would not create a misleading trailer for his own movie, many people were horrified to see that the plot was some untalented white guy becoming famous as the titular character after he gets a radio show and speaks with a “black woman voice” (even though no one in their right mind would think that his voice was anything but some A-hole man doing a piss-poor imitation of a bad stereotype) so that his snot-nosed kid could go to an expensive private school. Not that I've watched Sorry to Bother You yet, but this seemed like that if it was created by a bigoted A-hole with an IQ of about 80.
Lest you think I am being overly harsh against Mr. Saville, Loqueesha is actually worse than it appeared to be judging by the trailer. When more than one person has used Neil Breen's movies as a point of comparison... even I was taken aback by how bad everything was. To start off, as others have noted there appeared to be a rendering error in this finished product! The first few minutes were telling... the lead character (Joe) is a real tool by not only doing a bad routine where he talks with a weak South Asian accent, but we get the first of several “jokes” related to transgendered people. I can say that all of the jokes are more like “jokes” as the only laughs I got from this were unintentional. Of course this was a low-budget production; I won't automatically punish them for that. But this was at times on the level of Birdemic. Wait until you see some of the graphics that were rendered for the movie, or how poor the ADR was in one scene, where “iPhone” was said on set but due to concerns over legal threats, was dubbed over with “smartphone” so ineptly, I am pretty sure it wasn't the actors on screen who did the dubbing!
Besides the fact that this is an utter failure all around, this “wise sage advice” that the lead provides is incredibly basic-Yoda he ain't. The movie could have been satire in how mediocre white men take the place of more deserving minorities or how it was obvious that Loqueesha is actually a guy doing a bad voice but no one seems to notice... in actuality, this is deadly serious. Joe and his producer have to hire a black woman to play the role in public (and it was absurd how Joe and producer had to jump through so many hoops to do a show in studio... such as no one else being in the studio itself during recording) and besides that character being a garish stereotype AND also is implied to be the VILLAIN of the picture... when she speaks she sounds completely different than Joe's terrible Stephin Fetchit voice! The movie actually has that much contempt for its audience. There are many other instances of just being tone-deaf and clueless but I don't want to write a thesis here.
Already this has been compared to the likes of The Room and Birdemic. I get it, but those are far more worthy of bad movie love as those accidentally became bad movie gold and without being grossly offensive. James Nguyen wanted to deliver something with an environmental message and Tommy Wiseau sought to show the tragic downfall of an innocent character. At least those spectacular failures are not hurtful or present dangerous ideas. Let's not have other loathsome people suddenly decide that “being outrageous” and having a poorly made offensive motion picture is the way to get attention and make some dough. Lord, this is a flick where not only does mediocre white dude have a black woman tell him that his Loqueesha is a better black woman than she is, but the appalling message of “people who make public their suicidal intentions are only doing it for attention” is presented as fact. This in whole should never be watched-if you must, there are already several YouTube reviews up where this is rightfully skewered and the most egregious moments are shown.
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