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this is why you never improvise an entire movie


What a complete and utter mess. Yes, there are interesting characters. Yes, there are good performances. Yes, there are scenes which are compelling in and of themselves. To make the movie equally good and interesting and compelling requires some type of thematic element, a storyline, that will tie everything together. There is none here.

There are scenes with characters behaving in precisely the opposite manner of their previous scene. There are moments and concepts that have nothing to do with anything yet keep popping up and going nowhere. There are ancillary characters who come and go without doing anything or adding to the scenes they show up in. Lousy storytelling.

If the trivia is accurate, and there are enough alternate takes to create ten vastly different movies out of all the footage...how awful must the alternative possibilities be if this is the best one they could come up with?

Congratulations, though, on having so many well-known actresses naked in the same movie. That's quite an achievement.

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Make anything an art film and famous actresses will drop their tops, perhaps knowing nobody will see it anyway.

Chloe Sevigny sucked a guy off on camera for the art film "The Brown Bunny". Nobody really cared for the film other than the 3 minutes of her doing the dirty deed.

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Yep.

This is what happens when you make a T&A film & then try to pass it off as some kind of important social statement.

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