Now that Spacey's dream has come true, viewers have the chance to see a two-hour film with little film sense, about a phenomenally selfish entertainer who was a prick to pretty much everyone, played by an actor who's 15 years too old for the part and who insists on doing all his own singing and dancing even though he's not very good.
Oh, ouch. And yet, so so true, except that I thought Spacey's performance in the musical numbers was terrific. They almost made the movie worth watching. (Actually, I quite enjoyed a lot of it. It has an air of "Love me, love my absurd sense of melodrama" that made the general suckiness of the framing device kind of fun in spite of itself.)
If I liked Spacey at all I'd feel horribly embarrassed and sorry for him over the reviews this trainwreck has been getting. As it is, they fill me with wonderful malicious glee.
If I liked Spacey at all I'd feel horribly embarrassed and sorry for him over the reviews this trainwreck has been getting. As it is, they fill me with wonderful malicious glee.
His live show in San Francisco got an absolute rave.
Sure, rain on my parade. Ah well, maybe he'll run afoul of a truant officer while there, or somesuch.
Sure, rain on my parade. Ah well, maybe he'll run afoul of a truant officer while there, or somesuch.
If it's any consolation, the clip on the last Daily Show looked kind of terrible.
If it's any consolation, the clip on the last Daily Show looked kind of terrible.
Other than the musical numbers, the movie is flat-out horrible on every level. I enjoyed most of it anyway, but that's because I sometimes like wrong things.
Eeee! I got
Kill Bill, Volume One
for Christmas!
The thought process has always been to create an extension of the Doom universe that will give fans an interesting new take on the themes that they've come to enjoy in the game.
There were themes?
I looked up Uwe Boll on IMDb. Wow, he's really establishing a niche for himself, huh?
That was my reaction, P-C. But I figure they can make a movie out of Asteroids too.
Oh, and:
Only days after acknowledging that he had removed references to God and the Catholic church in the movie adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Chris Weitz has removed himself as director. In a statement, Weitz said, "Though I remain honored to continue serving as caretaker of Philip Pullman's work on the page as this project's screenwriter, the technical challenges of making such an epic are more than I can undertake at this point." Today's (Wednesday) Hollywood Reporter quoted New Line production president Toby Emmerich as saying, "Chris over-delivered on the script, and I can only respect him for being realistic about the physical, emotional, and technical demands of the project."
