![]() ![]() Jonze tends to give his unusual, interesting subjects an amply simple base reality to pop off and shine. Watching Ad Rock and Mike D deliver obviously scripted, rose-colored crafted, cheesily communicated summaries of their lives to a group of applauding superfans felt inauthentic, cornball, self-congratulatory, and unnecessary - all qualities I would never in a million years never assign to either Jonze's nor the Beastie Boys' other works. And it should be a perfect object for me, who's been a fan of the Beastie Boys since the beginning, and purchased "The Work of Director Spike Jonze" DVD in part to acquire all his Beastie videos.Īnd yet, I couldn't stand Beastie Boys Story on a granular, minute-to-minute level. All of this should coalesce to a perfect fusion of boundary-breaking styles and muckraking sensibilities, especially given Jonze and the Beastie Boys' stunning track record of previous collaborations (The one-two of "Sabotage" and "Sure Shot"? C'mon). Beastie Boys Storyis a curious hybrid film, a mixture of documentary, storytelling, and one-man show (er, two-man show), all cut with rampant meta-textual "what are we doing?" interjections from Jonze, who speaks over his subjects, Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz and Mike "Mike D" Diamond ( Adam "MCA" Yauch, the third Beastie Boy, died in 2012 of cancer), via god mic. ![]() Jonze's only misfire, and it's a downright shame if you ask me.
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