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WHY on God's Earth do some ppl regard this as a good movie??

posted 16 years ago by soul_scion
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I know it takes all kinds to make up this world but why was this movie even made????!!

The script sucked. Even the relatively well known Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Hugh Grant and Willem Dafoe looked like complete duds. I mean who can do anything with a script of such poor quality?

Hugh Grant looked bored. I'm sorry were we supposed to feel sorry for you? Mandy Moore - Sally whatever. I'm sorry were we supposed to care?

The tone of the film was so bizarre. It was desperately trying to straddle satire and comedy and maybe a bit of something real but came off as confused and choppy in its editing. I mean if they wanted satire they should have pushed it much further and had fun with the visual style. The style was sooooooo flat.

The ending was stupid as sh**. Yeah ok some guy blows himself up over a worthless girl and that skank presents the next show. there would be serious investigations before another show started or whatever. I mean this cheap, artificial show is supposed to give meaning to the central character Omer??? Good god, please! What else you going to feed us?

These kinda films cheapen the whole industry. Waste of time and money for everyone involved. The only saving grace was Iqbal. Genius.

I'm sorry were there messages in there about America and the Middle East? *splutter* Next time, if you do want it in the fabric of the film, make it worth something, give it actual meat and momentum and allow the film to give it the right forum. Not another 'blow up' story.

[–] xanxei 10 years ago

I'm sorry were we supposed to feel sorry for you? [...] I'm sorry were we supposed to care?

Uh, NO. We weren't. At all. And that you would even suggest such a thing leads me to believe that you just don't know how to watch movies.

The only thing wrong with this movie was that the pace dragged and skipped and the jokes were spread a bit thin - otherwise it was a lovely (and mean) bit of fun, and a perfectly satisfying (if a bit crude) satire.

I'd have liked them to have included a slurring drunk and incoherrent Paula Abdul and a half-heartedly "Yo, Dawg!"-ing Randy Jackson putting in his hours for a paycheck. I also think they let Georgie Bush off way too lightly - he was innocent and downright sympathetic here - but portraying him as a doped up marionette was probably funnier than anything more truthful would have been.

At any rate, while this movie certainly could have been much better, it's quite entertaining as is.