Which is sad, as many people probably worked on this as hard as they did on any other film that made sense, had a workable plot, decent writing, any tempo, in short, something that is recognizably a film.
So, what went wrong. Why did the studios put money into something, hire so many people, and look at the end result and table it for as long as they could hoping no one would go to the theatre and see it? ( They were almost right, with no advance pub, screenings, posters etc. it vanished ) However the stars were aligned in heaven, simply every single component of this film failed. Which is not to criticize anybody in the film, I will leave that to, oh, critical people.
Every decision involved in this film worked out badly.
1. The initial sequence involved a man of undetermined origin (until you realise he's Irish!) with the worst accent in a major motion picture ever. NO,really. You have to see it.
2. The love interest/cartoonist is supposed to be a straight man.
Now I have no interest in gender politics, but the man in the role is so undeniably not heterosexual, that you would have to be literally blind and deaf not to notice. (back story is that no one bought a ticket for this when it was dumped out on a Friday, and after a couple of days of no shows, two local critics, and some friends of mine ponied up to get the theatre to show the film. One of the critics is openly gay, and turned around in the middle of the first scene to give a look of such utter perplexity, that to this day, he looked like a dog who had just been given the facility to reason and understand speech and was so utterly disappointed with our species that you could see his soul wither in front of you.)
3.OH a script would be nice. Somehow, someway, all of the ideas and revisions and changes that were made to this and at some point obviously made a director feel that he had made the chronological logic necessary to wrap and print, failed. FAILED. On a massive level.
4. Oh, there is lots and lots of amazing film to watch if you can make it through but find it yourself and go for it.
***Please find a copy and watch this movie. It is so less than the sum of its parts that it is hard not root for everyone connected to this. A jawdropping lack of coherency and committed sincerity, it will stay with you. To all fans who liked this, that is what makes the world so beautiful and why even though Something About Mary is seriously worse than this film I could not let the recommendation as calumnic-ish as it is, go by.
So, what went wrong. Why did the studios put money into something, hire so many people, and look at the end result and table it for as long as they could hoping no one would go to the theatre and see it? ( They were almost right, with no advance pub, screenings, posters etc. it vanished ) However the stars were aligned in heaven, simply every single component of this film failed. Which is not to criticize anybody in the film, I will leave that to, oh, critical people.
Every decision involved in this film worked out badly.
1. The initial sequence involved a man of undetermined origin (until you realise he's Irish!) with the worst accent in a major motion picture ever. NO,really. You have to see it.
2. The love interest/cartoonist is supposed to be a straight man.
Now I have no interest in gender politics, but the man in the role is so undeniably not heterosexual, that you would have to be literally blind and deaf not to notice. (back story is that no one bought a ticket for this when it was dumped out on a Friday, and after a couple of days of no shows, two local critics, and some friends of mine ponied up to get the theatre to show the film. One of the critics is openly gay, and turned around in the middle of the first scene to give a look of such utter perplexity, that to this day, he looked like a dog who had just been given the facility to reason and understand speech and was so utterly disappointed with our species that you could see his soul wither in front of you.)
3.OH a script would be nice. Somehow, someway, all of the ideas and revisions and changes that were made to this and at some point obviously made a director feel that he had made the chronological logic necessary to wrap and print, failed. FAILED. On a massive level.
4. Oh, there is lots and lots of amazing film to watch if you can make it through but find it yourself and go for it.
***Please find a copy and watch this movie. It is so less than the sum of its parts that it is hard not root for everyone connected to this. A jawdropping lack of coherency and committed sincerity, it will stay with you. To all fans who liked this, that is what makes the world so beautiful and why even though Something About Mary is seriously worse than this film I could not let the recommendation as calumnic-ish as it is, go by.