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What's the point?

posted 15 years ago by kabbalah_boy
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I caught this on television last night at about 3:00am
and out of curiosity I decided to watch it.

What was the point?
The acting is terrible, the script is worse, but still... why did they even bother in the first place?
Is Paris Hilton so interesting that movies need to be made about her?

Now - I know that this is supposed to be taken as a spoof; but that begs the other question: "where are the jokes?"

Nothing about this movie is funny - even at 3:00am!
EVERYTHING should be funny at 3:00am!

Another thing that really bothered me about this film was its overuse of the "paparazzi cam".
I realize that Paris Hilton is hoarded by paparazzi on a daily basis - and it would have been a fun, tongue in chic joke to do it once or twice but it feels like every third or fourth shot is through a paparazzi camera.

There is one scene which tries SOO hard to create an emotional response from the audience that it just comes off as laughable - and ironically the most enjoyable moment of the film.
Paris Hilton has just been arrested for "drunk" driving (after arguing that she only had one drink hours ago), she is taken to the police department and locked in a holding cell with a motley crew of prostitutes and drug addicts.
One prostitute/drug addict begins to talk to Paris about her sex tape and how she wishes she could be in a sex tape with her - yeah... I know.
We are obviously supposed to take this scene with some degree of seriousness as the music builds in tension and Amber Hay (who portrays Hilton - we'll get back to her in a minute) tries her hardest to convey an emotion.
It comes off looking ridiculous.

Back to Amber Hay - she's terrible. Plain and simple.
At first, I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt... but no, she's just bad. REALLY BAD.
I know that she has a stalker who creeps her board on IMDB - so I guess he'll argue this with me... but, he's wrong. I'm sure she's a sweet girl... but just be a waitress or something.

Now don't get me wrong, most of the time I'm pretty pro-Paris. I've watched a few episodes of The Simple Life (and enjoyed myself) and I was actually pretty impressed with her portrayal of Amber Sweet in Repo! The Genetic Opera.
But this movie is just stupid. There's no reason for this to exist!

Script - 2/10 (an extra point was awarded for the terrible/hilarious prison scene)
Acting - 2/10 (for the line delivered about I Know Who Killed Me, joking about how it's a terrible movie - but strangely about a billion times better then this shlock)
Cinematography - 0/10 (I'm pretty sure this was filmed by someones older brother and not a professional DOP/Cameraman Team)
Over All - 1.5/10 (Don't bother... unless you're high)

[–] blondbomb 14 years ago

I agree with almost everything you said (aside from Pro-Paris, I am anti-Paris): the movie was bad, etc.

However, I didn't fault Amber Hay's acting. In the interviews I've seen and the television shows, she comes off as vacuous. I could not determine if it was bad acting or if she was spot-on with acting that airheaded. Paris also does a lot of that posing thing Hay did throughout the movie.

Also, I didn't interpret it as a spoof. I'll admit I was partially swayed by a friend yelling "Paris wrote this! Paris wrote this!" throughout the movie (of course she didn't, but my friend suspected it was underhandedly authorized with some supporting evidence). It was just too sympathetic to Paris to be a spoof. There were too many conspiracies against her and posturing regarding the indiscretions of others (I'm sorry, but she did flaunt the law: the examples used in the movie were isolated incidences - at least in which they were caught - whereas Paris repeatedly broke similar driving laws while on probation/suspension and was caught). It was making too many attempts at "positive" commentary to be a spoof.

As well, it intentionally avoided issues that a spoof would have mocked (e.g. her "medical condition"). It just did not have that kind of tone.

I agree with your scores, most definitely.

[–] mikebourkefan 11 years ago

i think the point was for everyone to try and make some money from a bad movie

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