Film Geek (2005)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
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A socially inept video store clerk forges a tenuous friendship with a pretty downtown hipster after being fired from his job in Oregon-based director James Westby's quirky tale of geek love among the twenty-something set. Scotty Pelk (Melik Malkasian) may not be able to relate to his peers at the video store so well, but his knowledge of film is encyclopedic. A nuisance to the customers and an endless source of annoyance to his coworkers, Scotty takes solace in a friendly hipster named Niko
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Tyler Gannon
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Matt Morris
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John Breen
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Tara Walker
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Leslie Taylor
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (10) | DVD (5)
As played by Melik Malkasian with Pee-Wee Herman-y chirpiness, you feel for him as you would any out-of-it sibling who seems beyond help.
Top CriticPerceptively hilarious.
The film looks like it cost 10 cents, but a lot of the jokes are gold. Hollywood, take notice of writer-director James Westby.
The film's press notes proudly observe that both Westby and Quentin Tarantino spent time soaking up celluloid while working at video stores. Which means they have exactly one thing in common.
Film Geek has a likable premise and a pleasantly homemade indie feel. Unfortunately, its lead character is so irritating you want to get away from him.
Westby never provides a reason you should pay to spend 70 minutes with Scotty, but he offers at least a dozen compelling ones not to.
Here, getting there is all the fun, and this flick is stocked with laughs galore, all at the expense of the most clueless loser since Napoleon Dynamite.
Laughs galore, all at the expense of the most clueless leading man since Napoleon Dynamite.
It's so very easy to love Film Geek, especially if you are one.
[I]t all just feels like [writer/director James] Westby's cinematic masturbation.
Amusing (and, at 72 minutes, in and out of there fast), with a diabolically dweeby performance by Melik Malkasian.
Film Geek" is a Rorschach test for movie buffs.
there's enough magic here to merit a viewing or two.
For people who know their cinema, I recommend FILM GEEK not just as a comedy, but a cautionary tale as well.
Detailed in its affectionate mockery, the film captures the social isolation that befalls guys like Scotty but understates their own complicity on it.
Westby's escapist fantasy's happy ending falls short of a meaningful message in spite of a rib-tickling individual effort by lead Melik Malkasian.
On its own terms and for that small audience it owns, the film delivers.
Film Geek is a delightful, sad, witty, scorchingly satirical film about movie buffs.
Audience Reviews for Film Geek
Super Reviewer
There are a few good things about it though. It is at times funny, but it's jokes do become tiresome after about half an hour. Melik Malkasian is pretty good at playing the annoying film geek. I just didn't enjoy the character enough for his performance to have that big of an influence on me. The third thing that is good about it is that it's short. If it was any longer, it would be impossible to get through.
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