We\'ve all worked some form of retail or fast food industry job before, if you aren\'t spoiled rotten that is. With the release of Waiting, you can relive those days with this movie. Some of you are probably thinking that you can\'t relate to this movie if you haven\'t worked for a food place before. Well, you\'re wrong mister! I worked retail and never for the food industry, but even I was able to connect with this movie in regards to several things held within this goblet of a movie.
This movie, to be straight forward with you, has no real point to it. The plot is a day in the life of a restaurant and a new employee. Some could reach for the fact that one of the characters has a \"life changing decision\" and that this could stand in for a plot. With how much of the movie revolves around this, I disagree.
For those lucky enough to have avoided a customer job, you will still get a laugh out of this movie. Go ahead and laugh at how \"improbable\" this movie is, because you\'re wrong yet again. Everything that the employees (including the boss) do in this movie, has happened before. Go ahead and ask your friends who have worked in the food business before, you won’t have to go far. In fact, almost 100% of my friends who worked in the food industry saw or helped create a lot of the type of magic you’ll see in this movie.
This movie shows the real talks and things that go on behind the scenes at any job. So any working person should be able to point at this movie and go \"we do something like this\". An example would be the types of talks that you have with your co-workers which you aren’t suppose to have while on the clock. Such as how many girls you got it on with within the last week and/or how poorly someone performed.
This movie has parts where you drop your jaw or just gag in response to some of the things you\'ll see. I might be the only one who doesn\'t enjoy seeing an oral snot rocket made and unleashed, because you\'ll see that in nice close detail. Now, this next one might just be on the \"unrated\" version of the DVD I saw, but you might want to be careful on the normal DVD too just in case. One act that I saw made even me go \"well I didn\'t need that\", was when you some good ol\' stretched scrotum.
Now you might be wondering why there is a... Yeah, in the movie. You find out very early that they are part of a detailed game in their work area. We all have little games at work. For example, I and friend would always draw our box cutters and whoever got their blade out first won. Not even behind closed doors would we ever think of the ball game.
This movie has a very cast driven feel, especially since the idea of a plot is laughable in this movie. Without that little nag of a thing called a plot, they\'re open to do many things that would be cut in other movies. With Ryan Reynolds playing Monty, aka the lead man, the movie rotates around him and Dean, who is played by Justin Long. This sharer of the screen is the little man who will have a life altering event. You might remember Justin from his role in Dodgeball, or even…. Herbie: Fully Loaded. I personally strike out that latter one and think that we all have bills to pay.
The cast is an ensemble of people you\'d find within your own work force. You have the know it all sage, the poor green-horn, druggies, hot co-workers, and so on all the way down to the boss.
I will argue this movies ability to capture the work force down to the last man. It is a movie that you see where the memories of it will spring up just at the right time so you can tie cinema to life. Which is why I keep saying how it captures the work force, cause even as I type this up different things will spring up at me from the depths of my memory.
The extras on this DVD will show you things that you wouldn’t notice about the set unless you looked beyond the cast the entire time. We’ve all seen the sketches of the machines that are horribly complex but do a simple task right? You know the kind. Tip the dominoes to push over the army guy to cut the rabbit loose who would run forward pulling a pin free from a bowling ball so it could tip over a bucket of water to raise a boat so it could…. In the end open up a bottle. I’d give the name of that artist, but every time I go to look him up I can’t pick the right words to use so I end up walking away with some neat-o pictures of gaming pc’s or gundams. But we all know what I’m talking about.
They have a working one on set.
That’s right, one of the set people wanted to make one on the wall and the director (who seems to swear like a sailor. He likes the F bomb) was all for it. They came back later with the idea of making it work, he agreed (colorfully). They wanted to cheat to make it work and he told them they had to get it working with no cheats at all. And they did. The machine I described above is roughly what the one in the movie is.
Some of the storyboard to movie things are kind of interesting to see. Like when the camera moves throughout the entire set without cutting. That scene is interesting enough, let alone getting to see how it was brought into life.
As I sat and watched the deleted scenes, I could see why they were deleted. Watching them made me wonder how bad the other shots that didn’t make it onto the DVD must have been.
In the end I’d say Waiting is a good comedy that’ll make those who are beyond the days of low pay slave labor glad to be beyond them. And those that are still in those days will walk away with new vile plots that they can use within their own working environment.
This is definitely one to wait for until it hits that $14 stage.
"Waiting..." opens October 7, 2005 and is rated R. Comedy. Written and directed by Rob McKittrick. Starring Anna Faris, Dane Cook, David Koechner, Justin Long, Luis Guzman, Ryan Reynolds, Jordan Ladd.
