Paul Shrader and Bret Easton Ellis’ Neo Noir meta soft porn indulgence starring Lindsay Lohan and James Deen The Canyons—receiving admirable, elegant reviews on Rotten Tomatoes such as, “a howlingly bad soap-opera-meets-soft-core-porn mash-up, sticks a cinematic fork into Lindsay Lohan, signalling her screen career is well and truly done.“; “the death of cinema” and “thin, clumsy and dull“—has employed some emergency marketing SOS confetti to disguise a farcical, probably terrible film.
After being released in cinemas in the US and on demand on iTunes yesterday, The Canyons received a swarm of cutting reviews announcing it as being straight up horrible; for some reason, such a disaster could only fittingly be solved by Kanye West. Yeezus saves (minimally) in his reworking of The Canyons trailer, trading tired, ill-thought out dub for chilling, deep thrashing piano plunging with a palpitating climax—cloaking the film in a sombre shadow it so deserves.
Via Billboard.
