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Film Geek (2005)

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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
User Ratings: 871

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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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Aug 22, 2006

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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.

February 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Newsday
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Perceptively hilarious.

February 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
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The film looks like it cost 10 cents, but a lot of the jokes are gold. Hollywood, take notice of writer-director James Westby.

February 10, 2006
New York Post
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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.

February 10, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
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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.

February 9, 2006
New York Times
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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.

February 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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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.

March 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine
Upstage Magazine

Laughs galore, all at the expense of the most clueless leading man since Napoleon Dynamite.

March 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Upstage Magazine
Upstage Magazine

It's so very easy to love Film Geek, especially if you are one.

October 11, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

[I]t all just feels like [writer/director James] Westby's cinematic masturbation.

September 19, 2006 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher
Flick Filosopher

Amusing (and, at 72 minutes, in and out of there fast), with a diabolically dweeby performance by Melik Malkasian.

August 28, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Film Geek" is a Rorschach test for movie buffs.

August 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

there's enough magic here to merit a viewing or two.

August 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Filmcritic.com

For people who know their cinema, I recommend FILM GEEK not just as a comedy, but a cautionary tale as well.

May 3, 2006 Full Review Source: LYTRules.com

Detailed in its affectionate mockery, the film captures the social isolation that befalls guys like Scotty but understates their own complicity on it.

March 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly
Orlando Weekly

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.

February 24, 2006
Monsters and Critics

On its own terms and for that small audience it owns, the film delivers.

February 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Film Geek is a delightful, sad, witty, scorchingly satirical film about movie buffs.

February 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Cinemonkey
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Audience Reviews for Film Geek

One of the more creative films to scope the world of film geeks, nerds, connoisseurs, and experts, most of the online film community can relate to the story of Scotty Pelk: Completely obsessed with film, Scotty can only communicate with people through the art form, and though his expertise is of the highest level, he is ridiculed throughout the film for his pestering and endless awkwardness with other people. In his spare time, it's all about film. Even when it's his day off he goes back to the video store; suggestions for a date invariably come back to film; all forms of conversation, you guessed it, are film related. Watching his exploits becomes painful as he is fired, mistreated, and blocked out of every societal standard possible. Though there is a spot of romance, the girl he goes after is visibly reluctant, which we're not sure the effervescent Scotty is even aware of, or if he chooses to live in his fantasy world, constructed of video tapes lying around his tiny apartment. The ending is by far the best part, a fantasy all film buffs and geeks have, and yet there's a Shyamalian twist that is both comical and sadly dark. I hope this is not what normal people compare us to, but it is fun to watch, geeking out at the multiple film references and scenes of desperation.
July 12, 2011
FrizzDrop

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Film Geek is too depressing to be enjoyed. It was ok for awhile, but then it seemed like they were just trying to fit as many references to movies, directors, and actors as they could in an hour and fill the rest of the movie with the lead jacking off. There's really no need for it and absolutely no point to it. The ending is absolutely disastrous and brought my rating down another half star.

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.
July 9, 2011
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Melvin White

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