There should be an advisory on the latest Kid Vegas epic, Kid Vegas: The San Francisco Freak. It should warn people about watching it, particularly at 6 in the morning which is what I did. Because, believe me, whatever time of day you choose, you'll see San Francisco as you've never seen it before. Not the Dirty Harry San Francisco, or the Rice-a-Roni San Francisco, or even the Steve McQueen car chase San Francisco, though the Kid Vegas version makes you feel like you've been in one, along with the pile up.
The question inevitably gets around to the element of sex in a Vegas movie, or perhaps the lack of it. If you're coming here to get your rocks off, forget it because Vegas has a tendency to take even a simple thing like a masturbation scene and turn it into a collage of compositional assault and battery. [Although I am told by Vegasphiles that "Freak" doesn't even begin to match up with some previous stuff.] In any event, there's not one second of this piece that qualifies as normal. The Kid can't even walk through an underground parking lot without the camera turning it into a stutter-step reverse moonwalk. Vegas has a sex scene with Naughtia Childs and the next thing you know you're smack in the middle of Al Capone's former home, Alcatraz; or, as in the case of T.J. Hart which happens to be a pretty good scene, if taken by itself, Vegas is setting off C-4's in a train tunnel during the cutaways.
We talked to Jeff from Legend, particularly about the editing.
Jeff: "The editing is, ah, interesting. That's how Kid Vegas wants it cut. We had four different editors because Kid Vegas has not been completely satisfied with the work. He's enjoyed it but wanted to bring it to the next level. I think Greg [the editor] has finally done it here.
"There where times where I had to turn it off and figure what I was watching. Was is this? Kid Vegas is a genius. People don't realize it. That's why I'm so disappointed that he's not going to be presenting an award. People need to see him for what he is. Anyone who sat down and actually watched one of his movies has seen it. This guy is breaking new ground. There's nobody else doing what he's doing."
