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Dear Aaron Harvey (Writer/Director)


Dear Aaron Harvey,
I have good news for you, the financial system will collapse soon and you will no longer be forced to make movies, you clearly hate movies that is why you butcher them, right? After giving is The Evil Woods which was one of the worst movies of the last 5 years I thought you would step it up. OMG what a cast, you even got the hottie from True Blood. See Mr Aaron, you cannot write a 10 minute plot and try to make a movie out of it. You cannot copy Tarantino when you aren't insane. If you want people to care about your characters you need to let them develop. You didn't do that, instead you thought it was awesome to create random dialogs without meaning for the character. You probably don't know this, but giving away the end of the movie in the opening scene is only making sense when people know the characters at stake. Since you killed them all except of Tes in the first 5 minutes the only question left was when is Tes going to shoot Bruce Willis, will it be during the excruciating conversation with Forrest Whitaker or will she shoot him in the back when he walks out.

Please stop making movies!

if life gives you lemons break out the tequila

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Aaron Harvey just told me he's gonna take your post and seriously think about it... all night if he had to! Rejoice yourself with the thought that your post was not totally useless and that your opinion truly matter in his personal and professional life.

Further more, have you ever seen footage from Tarentino's My Best Friend's Birthday (1987)? What if someone told im back them to stop making movies.... What if he had stopped?

About David Fincher's Alien 3.... Most people told him to stop making movies and go back to Nike Air... What if he had stopped?

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In both of the instances you mention, the directors in question showed inklings of promise.

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I am among the few that actually really like ALIEN 3, but I know that a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot, lot of people hates it, with a passion. Fincher got mad volume of hater after that one, to them he didn't show any promises.

My Best Friend's Birthday was trash. Tarentino said so himself. That's why he never finished it. it was lame, the dialogue was lame, the acting was lame, the lighting was a fail, the sound was a fail, the camera work was a fail. If he wasn't famous like he is now, this, wouldn't get any attention from anyone. You habe to be a fan to like it because you see where he comes from. I am a fan, but I'm not blind to failure.

And I think it's interesting to see failure to understand an artist.. Either be Tarentino homemade film or Salvator Dali early sketch...

Aaron Harvey wrote and directed a low budget indie film and got a great cast. Who can say they had that kinda chance in life? I didn't, yet! Catch .44 has is flaws but it's not ALL THAT BAD?!? And i think he shows promises.

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"I am among the few that actually really like ALIEN 3, but I know that a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot, lot of people hates it, with a passion"

I can't leave you hanging in the wind like that.
Ahem, here we go: I also like ALIEN3. There. I've said it.


Regarding this movie, Catch .44:
Umm, I'm a bit suprised that there's so much hating going on. Even (god forbid) Uwe Boll's name gets mentioned in comparison. Are you folks pulling my chain? Have you seen Uwe Boll's movies? They make me want to claw my eyes out. For real. This movie just bored me. Bored me to tears. But the list of worse movies is a thousand feet long (so is the list of better ones). I give this sleeping pill 5/10. The 1's and 2's are reserved for such epic crap as "White Chicks", "Date Movie", pretty much every movie Uwe Boll has ever done (except for Postal).

I'm just saying, either you folks are confusing boring with bad (yes, there is a difference), or you havent delved too deply into the realm of True Crap Movies.

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Answer: The world would have been better without 2 overrated directors like those guys.

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Whoever blames the failure of Alien 3 on Fincher is a dumbass.It is now common knowledge how that production got farked up thanks to the studio.

Now back to Harvey.had he shown signs of originality I might have respected him.

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Uwe Boll and Ulli Lommel now have a new contender for worst director working at the moment.

How anyone can have such an awesome cast to work with and still produce this stinker is beyond me? Like turning gold into *beep*

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Ah, take it easy. Don't be so hard on this man. I haven't seen the movie and don't intend to, but just picture if one of you were Aaron. It's really offensive.

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My only complain was the pasting.
It was too slow for the style he was going for.
The camera was too static (then agin some people can't stop complaining about shaky cam)

If I nit-pick, Malin Akerman was badly direct, beaucause she's not a bad actress but her performance was off. He was probably in love with her and told her that she was doing great and how good and hot she is all the time ahaha!!

Why do you people hate it so much?

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I agree with u one some level that it was probably on the director. Cuz he wrote it too and the dialogue was so bad that it makes it hard for actors to perform well. If what ur saying is just lame its hard to not look lame saying it. But then again we have Bruce Willis and Forest Whitaker in the same movie with the same director and they were good. Forest especially is the one who made this ting partially watch able. I just hope that those girls do better in other movies

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This movie probably sucks ass but ten minute plots that are stretched out and characters you don´t care about is sort of Tarantinos thing.What´s this thing with copying Tarantino when someone manages to write cool and ironic dialogue where criminals are depicted as people who talk about normal stuff? Cause 1.They usually don´t....and 2.They certainly don´t talk like in a Tarantinomovie.

However,this is a director who´s Pulp Fiction was concidered by many to be groundbreaking with it´s unchronological storytelling when he actually had done exactly that three years earlier without anyone noticing.

But if someone succeeds in having a gangstermovie have hip,funny,cool,rememorable or etc,dialog...is that Tarantino-inspired or is it possible that he didn´t invent the entire universe of wellwritten toughguy characters...would you suggest that Things to do in Denver when you´re dead is Tarantino-wannabe,since it has gangsters and wellwritten gangsterdialog in it(Although a unique lingo was invented specifically for that film)? Is Running Scared wannabe-Tarantino?

This guy gets so much praise,even when he fails(Death Proof,Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill 1. to me)that it kinda makes you wonder if someone can write cool,funny,raw,original dialog for tough guys without getting compared to Quentin,with the highest praise being"This would make Tarantino proud."

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This movie isn't Tarantino-inspired, because that denotes that "inspiration" had something to do with it. This movie is a lazy ripoff. Copying Reservoir Dogs' camera angles, copying Pulp Fiction's jump cuts, it's just really insipid hack stuff.

I would rather watch Tarantino curl out a cleveland steamer onto my (deceased) grandma's shriveled chest than watch Catch 22 again.

It's a terrible movie because it's so damn dull, and as movie critiques go, there's not much worse. I could forgive the "director" for trying and failing. But to half-ass it so blatantly is weak.

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You forgot to add 'the longest gun's held high scene in history'. I actually managed to pull through to that part somehow and had to sit through all the dumb dialog about how Ronny is actually in love with Tes and bla bla bla... By the time the second line was over I was carving 'Who gives a damn!' in anger on the chair in front of me.

I totally understand and support your hate mail! Thumbs up to that reaction!

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I don't normally say I think a movie is bad or the director sucked, but I feel I need to say something after watching this. I won't say the movie was crap or terrible, it's worth watching, nothing more. Now, on to the director, you're not Tarantino, he's unique. Don't try to jock his style whether people like it or not. Had this movie been directed in a more normal fashion, it probably would have been better. Not great, but better, a more run of the mill flick. It's such a blatant ripoff of his style that it pretty much ruins the movie.

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Here's when I knew this movie was going to be bad news: when Kara emerges from the shower wrapped in a towel and then holds it around her when she moves around her apartment. This is obviously because the actress did not want to do a nude scene but it made the whole thing so far from realistic that I knew the director had no talent. The rest of the movie bore this out. Cramming a movie with jump cuts and non-linear action does not make it great, it just makes it boring and tedious. I admire Aaron Harvey for getting Willis, Whitaker and Dourif attached, but I'm convinced they thought they were in a different movie. This was self-indulgent garbage and I shall make a note of Aaron Harvey's name so I don't make the mistake of renting another one of this movies. Shame on you, Mr. Harvey for disrespecting movie making.

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The end credits show a copyright of MMV. My high school Roman makes this 2005 in modern western culture, yet it is listed as a 2011 release. I think after Willis, Whitaker and/or Dourif saw this they lobbied to have it released after their deaths. Unfortunately, it managed to squeek out six years later as a dvd only release (at least I didn't see it advertised for thearical release.) Too bad.
I think I'll go back to sleep now.

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such a bad movie......

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Within the first ten minutes or less,I began to feel sorry for the three pitiful actresses who begin spewing "filthy language"to make up for what passes for cinema in morally depraved America....correction what was once America.
The last two minutes of the first ten is a Caucasian Male on screen to be abused verbally by one of the three females.
Is it any wonder why this country is falling apart?Weak minded people imitate this vulgar,pointless junk.
Why Willis and Whittaker have their faces and names on this garbage,I cannot say.but these men also are part of the problem.
What a sad spot the film industry is in...and we are forcing our way of life on Europe andthe Middle East/What a sick movie and country we live in..Someone should be taught a lesson.Do not lower your morals and IQ, miss this film.

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i had to watch some porn midway...

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