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demian cypher is exactly RIGHT!!!!!!

posted 13 years ago by play_the_game2011
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Demian Cypher is exactly right with his review.

This poor excuse for a movie SMACKS of "forced" Canadian content. In other words "Throw it together boys, the CRTC will force it to be aired! It doesn't have to be good"

5.1 is WAY TOO HIGH a rating for this Canadian piece of crap. When are we going to learn? We are amongst the best in the world at documentaries, news and sports coverage. Let's leave the 'entertainment' to the professionals, and stop embarrassing ourselves.

We have TONS of talented actors here in Canada. The GOOD ones go south of the border where they can get better scripts, exposure and proper training. Recent dapartees include Kristen Kreuk, Erica Durance, Aaron Ashmore and Evangeline Lilly (LOST).

One commentor on here said "Do you really expect us to compete?" Whoever he/she was taling to, the answer is NO I DON'T. My question is "why do we bother trying?" It is a waste of time and money.

I see we have resorted to the usual trick of mentioning someone famous to try and get an audience for a sub-medicore movie, using Olivia Newton-John's popularity. It hasn't worked in the past, and won't now. People are smarter than that.

I am sure people have noticed that the "genie" program was discontinued on Canadian TV. People just weren't interested in seeing people they had never heard of getting meaningless awards.

Someone else mentioned that the songs were stuck in her/his head. I can believe that. It is hard to forget something that bad. It is NOT 'patriotic' to support poor amateur movies.

What is the answer? I have no idea. More money? Perhaps. More effort? Probably. I think disbanding the CRTC would be a good start. Let the market flow freely. Perhaps then we would honestly be challenged to come up with something worthwhile, because if we didn't it wouldn't have to be shown even in Canada. It would be better than a series of pointless, effortless movies like "Gunless" and "Score". Just a thought.

[–] jipsiville-1 13 years ago

Well said and agreed 100%.

[–] crazyrabbits 13 years ago

Yes, S:AHM is a film that is in love with itself. As someone who lives right outside of Toronto, it was very apparent when the film focused (for almost too long) on surrounding shots of the downtown core and the surrounding landscape.

The cameos range from decent (you can see Hawksley Workman and Dave Bidini in the opening game, Strombo's role) to gratuitous (the "vision" scene with Walter Gretzky and Theoren Fleury) to plain annoying (the four times Nelly Furtado appears). The cast was decent, but they were in way over their heads when they signed up for this - you can hear several actors struggling to spit out the lyrics at several points.