worst movie ever

ok although i didnt think it was the best movie, not everything has to have a plot! just because its not a typical movie and there isnt an obvious storyline, doesnt mean its a bad film. i enjoyed it. im a dancer and though i cant say ive ever danced at that level, the dancing wasnt bad at all! neve wasnt that good i'll admit, but shes an actress now not a dancer..and although you're entitled to your opinions, i thought that zeta-jones and zellwegger (excuse the spelling errors if any) were just plain bad. for the amount of time and the dance instructors they got im sure lots of people could have looked as good if not better. and i thought the rest of the ballet was great! the actual ballets that they performed i didnt think were so hot, but in general i think their technique and control was amazing...theyre a great company..so just because the movie didnt have a plot and wasnt blatently obvious and hollywood, dont bash it please. i know everyones entitled to their opinons, so thats mine.

I agree with mark-adam and cosmicbabe. This movie was totally pointless and horrible. It had absolutely no plot and horrific writing. This movie is nothing more than numerous ballet performances which are totally irrelevant to the characters or each other for that matter. The storyline was terrible because there was none! The movie had no sense of direction or character development. Everything seemed just splattered all over the place then glued back together. I think the filmmakers spent way too much time on the dancing than on the actual components of the film.

I didn't enjoy this movie. The dancing was good and even mesmerizing in some parts. It's nice of you, Moveefrk, to correct us in our views that some things are just not good. I like the fact that Altmas takes a risk, in doing a non-conventional movie, but that doesn't mean I have to like the output, or be smart to appreciate it. The fact that Andrew Dunn is amazing does not impress me, but since you typed it it must be true. You are trying to create a "smart" (your word) class, which excludes those who have divergent opinions as stupid. Let me guess who else is a genius...Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick? Given a choice of a filmfest of these ueberintellectuals or an Urkel marathon, I'd gladly dress up in my floodpants and horn-rims...

To end on a positive note, I like your assertion that the images really capture the spirit of ballet. I agree. But they failed to capture the spirit of the viewers, which I feel is the joy of film, being drawn in and manipulated and cerced to pain, pleasure, and pathos.

I have to throw this up here because this "movie" is not even a movie. It's not a documentary. It's not Neve Campbell sticking anything to anybody. It's just a mess.

The "plot" of this movie is people dancing and then stuff happens and then more dancing. This is not a "smart" person's movie and you don't have to "get it" because there is nothing to get.

Yes, ballet can be beautiful. Yes, Neve Campbell used to be a ballet dancer. Yes, Robert Altman can be a fantastic director (every director has those one or two movies that everyone can agree is not a fine piece of work). But The Company completely thrashes at all of that. People dance, people talk, people dance. There is no story. Stuff just happens. In order for a movie to have a plot and for stories and characters to develop things must happen because of other things and force questions to be answered, decisions to be made thus developing a person into who they are. This does NOT happen in this movie. It almost seems like there were two different movies put into one. The behind the scenes stuff that seemed like it should develop when it doesn't, and the dancing which is just there. This movie was pointless because it doesn't have a plot. It has a somewhat story, but no plot.

What Mark Adam meant was that this movie is boring and makes ballet seem boring. Don't judge ballet based on this movie and I agree.

In response to MOVEEFRK, congrats on being a filmmaker. What does that have to do with this movie being horrible. Of all of the films that Altman has done this is the least inventive, the least courageous, and hands down the stupidest. It didn't seem like there was much of anything as far as a script went so it's not his fault that nothing was very good but why would he even consider doing this in the first place? It's just a horid "movie."

And I have a question before I go; what the hell was that thing at the end? Was that supposed to be a joke or what? The parents couldn't figure out what the hell was going on and neither could I. I thought that I was supposed to take it seriously because all of the dancers were but then I saw the parents and knew exactly how they felt. What the hell was that? Was it a joke?

Yeah, but you can still give insight by telling a story. Centerstage did that. Why couldn't this thing? And as for applauding Neve, I don't think so. If she wanted to make something that shows off her ballerina skills fine, don't try to pass it off as a movie though. Cut out the inbetween stuff and make it a ballet or flush out the inbetween stuff to make it watchable.