Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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Looks like it might be good, right? Well you would be very, very wrong. I had really high hopes for this film with it being John Krasinski's directing debut, and even adapting the screenplay from David Foster Wallace's book of the same title. Alas, hoping something will be good and it actually being good are two very different things as this movie proves.
The premise, if you can actually put one together for this movie, is that a boring, uppity, plain Jane, smarty pants ( Yeah, I said smarty pants!)gets dumped and interviews the most vile men around or in some cases the strangest men. To prove what you ask? Who the hell knows! She is working on her PHD for psychology, so we can assume it has something to do with that. At its best it plays out like a mediocre student film with one or two interesting scenes most notably with Christopher Meloni reenacting a story of meeting a heartbroken woman at the airport. At its worst, which is most of the movie, its choppy, scattered, but mostly you just don't care what happens next. At the end of it all I could think was, " Why would someone want to tell this story?"
The premise, if you can actually put one together for this movie, is that a boring, uppity, plain Jane, smarty pants ( Yeah, I said smarty pants!)gets dumped and interviews the most vile men around or in some cases the strangest men. To prove what you ask? Who the hell knows! She is working on her PHD for psychology, so we can assume it has something to do with that. At its best it plays out like a mediocre student film with one or two interesting scenes most notably with Christopher Meloni reenacting a story of meeting a heartbroken woman at the airport. At its worst, which is most of the movie, its choppy, scattered, but mostly you just don't care what happens next. At the end of it all I could think was, " Why would someone want to tell this story?"
We all know that men can be shitty at times.... people are shitty at times. Its the human condition. So please if you are going to just string together a bunch of scenes with men being shitty have a point to it, a statement, an opinion. Something. I have no idea what this was about, or why I should have even cared. So I am sorry John, but BOO to this, and also I am not completely sure you are not a bit of an ass for thinking this was a worthwhile story. No, I take that back. I am sure you are lovely, but this movie still sucks.
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1 comments:
Yeah with a group like that involved, it's gotta be the biggest disappointment of the year. Sigh.
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