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In Castlegar, catching up on some films. "Atomic Blonde" with Charlize Theron. Some amazing visuals, period sets, products - the high end of period luxury products, great attention to detail. Fight scenes, amazing, Charlize Theron is a goddess. The music, stylings - recall my youth In jokes - more than I caught, I'm sure - the cinema in East Berlin showing "Stalker", there are others. But overall - the narrative is shaky, uneven, and the characters fail to engage. That said, worth seeing for the set design and Charlize Theron. She kicks ass.
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I finally got around to watching "The Room". As bad as that. Worse. If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine. And despite Tommy Wiseau's good natured pretending that it was maybe - possibly intentional, it wasn't. It just looks better to pretend you were being ironic when really you were being heart-stoppingly incompetent and inept.
Nonetheless there's value - everything that you take for granted - even in a bad film - is laid bare and overturned in this, there's the continuity errors, random characters, questionable set choices, contradictory, over-explanatory dialogue, incredibly bad acting and embarrassing love scenes - it's a how-to avoid doing anything right in cinema. Most arts demand a long apprenticeship, wherein the artist learns his or her craft, but in this Wiseau started out - with a 6 Million Dollar budget - as if he'd never seen a film in his life...
Now Seth Rogen and the Franco brothers have made a movie about it entitled "The Disaster Artist", which documents the making of it as recalled by Greg Sestero- trailer below:
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I've posted this before, copyright takedown on the video, I'm posting it again because he is still one of the best filmmakers alive.
A bad film by Jodorowsky is still, by a long shot, a hell of a lot better than any great film by Hollywood.
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I've been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for this, and when, when, will it come to Castlegar or Nelson? It is so very much a "Nelson" film...
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Another promising movie, which I'd love to see but it may have to wait until I vacation to the big city...I haven't seen a movie forever, and the list keeps growing, the indy/cult films don't always make it out here and seldom are they on my schedule...
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I've never seen this, but Vox makes a good case for it. It seems to have everything I look for in Movies, and I've seen (and admired) a lot of the recommended related favorites.
- Link: Wiki describes "The Room" (Spoilers!)
- Link: The Room Funniest Scenes (YouTube)
- Link: BBC Describes "The Room"
- Link: Vox Analyzes "The Room"
Reviews:
- Ross Morin: "The Citizen Kane of bad movies"
- Jason Bailey: "If there is a 21st-century Edward D. Wood Jr., it is probably Tommy Wiseau."
- Kurt Loder: "What puts 'The Room' in a class of its own is its overabundant idiocy. While you're still gasping at one of the film's moronic lines or vagrant plot knots, another one rises up to smack you in the head."
- Steve Rose: "To make a movie that's so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously, The Room's writer/producer/director/star Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent."
- Ed Whitfield: "Watching The Room is like crossing over to a counterfactual universe where the rules of film grammar and screenwriting have been written by Dan Brown."
- Beth Accomando: "And that's the conundrum of 'The Room.' It's so very bad that it becomes riveting."
- Phil Hall: "It is a prime example of enthusiasm outrunning talent."
- Luke Y. Thompson: "'PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE'" gave me nowhere near as many belly laughs. Tommy Wiseau is a bit like Shatner or Schwarzenegger before they became self-aware."