Comedy is HARD. And the shooting script for this movie is clearly terrible. And the director is entirely focused on time-management, and seeming competent to his employers. So of course it will be terrible.
In this age of modern technology, a would-be director like Jason is far better off working with a team of people he knows, and being left to do things 100% his own way. Unfortunately, shooting with film is the worst idea in the world for this kind of approach, since it is the astonishing power and cheapness of digital that revolutionises low budget film-making.
Comedy is rarely about 'cinematography' in the classic sense, so this is one genre where the loss of film is of no consequence. Jason is too thick to get this, since he spends too much time boosting himself with his pseudo-knowledge of 'film'.
What Jason is proving is that he is a competent enough jobbing director to get basic employment in this field. But he shows far too little commitment to the genre of comedy to become a significant name. I'm sure his future will be as yet another unknown TV director of light and insignificant drama.
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PromNightDumpsterBaby
9 years ago
Comedy is rarely about 'cinematography' in the classic sense, so this is one genre where the loss of film is of no consequence. Jason is too thick to get this, since he spends too much time boosting himself with his pseudo-knowledge of 'film'.
I agree, and that's why I think it's so funny watching him agonize over every detail and nuance for, what looks like, a pretty crappy comedy. It's like watching David Fincher direct "Hot Tub Time Machine". Except Jason is no Fincher. And, unfortunately, "The Leisure Class" probably isn't as good as "Hot Tub Time Machine".
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