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Clunky as hell. The script needed SO much more work. SPOILERS

posted 12 years ago by chrysalis1814
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Easily one of his most awkward, half-baked films to date. The opera singing mortician story was stupid. The sight of a guy singing in the shower, fine, funny, but it makes no sense since the reason non-singers can sing in the shower and NOT in public has nothing to do with the shower, it's the solitude, the privacy. So he would still suck singing in public. Roberto's story was tiresome and thin. Took too long to get to its all too obvious moral. The Baldwin/Eissnberg flashback story was fine but still obvious and derivative. The only good story was the newly married couple since we got some funny farce out of it. But even that unraveled into a pointless ending. This script wasn't ready to be shot. Allen you realize you don't HAVE to make a film every year.

Penelope Cruz in that dress WAS however worth the price of admission.

[–] aliza_tvito 12 years ago

///Allen you realize you don't HAVE to make a film every year.///

Guess he does realise, but he's stubborn like a ##%% , because of his age maybe. Well, let his devoted fans to endure their guru's outcome, they deserved it richly.

Listen to your enemy, for God is talking

[–] hbotis 12 years ago

I want my money back-- it's half baked and awful. Woody just wants to have his own joke while he makes the film- like he would die in the middle of it or something.

[–] LeaBlacks_Balls 11 years ago

All the storylines seemed like short films jammed into one long excuse to shoot in Rome.

Just horrible.

[–] inconsequentia-1 11 years ago

"clunky as hell" - agreed. this is the best description i have read of allen in a long while -- kudos. i am a writer, and my flatmate/best friend is a *huge* movie buff. i said, "just screen it with me, it is a woody allen film." flatmate: "i really don't think i have ever seen a woody allen movie."

i say: "of course you have, you just prolly didn't know it was directed by allen.:
flatmate: "no, i mean, yeah. but i mean where he [insert attitude voice] you know, *acted* in it."

i will tell you LeaBlacks, he is an o henrey at best. remember how s king said he preferred the short story?

but hey, if they are pressing a paycheck into my hand, would i say no?

peace

[–] honky275 10 years ago

It's not the solitude that makes people sound better in the shower.

It's the physical acoustics of the bathroom, specifically the bathroom tile.

But you're right, the joke still does not work, since there is NO TILE on stage when they produce the opera.

I think maybe Woody thought it was the hot water (steam), or perhaps the relaxation of the shower that makes people sound better. Nope, still wrong.