Movie Review
Dave and I went to see Man of the Year on Thursday night.
Well, here's a fine example of when movie trailers show a completely different movie than what it actually is. They billed it as a comedy, but it ISN'T! It's a comedy, thriller, drama, romance story. It is, for lack of a better term, fucked up.
It raced right through the political humour at the beginning and I was a bit confused, but I didn't care. Why? Because it was apparent that the scenes with the bantering of Williams, Black, and Walken was COMPLETELY off the cuff. What I saw was absolute realism. Ibsen would have been proud. I thought that was awesome. People overlapping eachother, fucking up their words, etc.
But then it got weird. There was this weird conspiracy theory involving the voting machines...s'weird. Jeff Goldblum...the ONLY reason he is in this movie, okay? Dead serious. The only reason they hired him was to spout off this big, long, confusing monologue. That's it. Totally worthless.
Laura Liney...her character was...it was not necessary, but the scene in the cafeteria was beyond incredible. It was weid because it didn't fit in with the rest of the feel of the movie, but it was superb acting.
What else...
Shocking and depressing lack of Lewis Black. But the succubus line was great. He's still gorgeous and I want to marry him. Christopher Walken was...Christopher Walken, who has, by the way, become the unoffical offical mascot of Caper Convenience.
Just a really bizarre movie.
In terms of the political aspect, I think it's something everybody should see because it isn't one side or the other, and that's the point, because the character, Dobbs even says that we should break away from this idea that we have to only choose between the two and there are better ways of handling things than just one way or the other. I found that compelling. Plus...this idea of having a humourist lead the country. It almost takes someone like that to joke about the things that we joke about and to be able to talk about and explain things to us on levels that we can udnerstand.
I'd like to see it again.
Well, here's a fine example of when movie trailers show a completely different movie than what it actually is. They billed it as a comedy, but it ISN'T! It's a comedy, thriller, drama, romance story. It is, for lack of a better term, fucked up.
It raced right through the political humour at the beginning and I was a bit confused, but I didn't care. Why? Because it was apparent that the scenes with the bantering of Williams, Black, and Walken was COMPLETELY off the cuff. What I saw was absolute realism. Ibsen would have been proud. I thought that was awesome. People overlapping eachother, fucking up their words, etc.
But then it got weird. There was this weird conspiracy theory involving the voting machines...s'weird. Jeff Goldblum...the ONLY reason he is in this movie, okay? Dead serious. The only reason they hired him was to spout off this big, long, confusing monologue. That's it. Totally worthless.
Laura Liney...her character was...it was not necessary, but the scene in the cafeteria was beyond incredible. It was weid because it didn't fit in with the rest of the feel of the movie, but it was superb acting.
What else...
Shocking and depressing lack of Lewis Black. But the succubus line was great. He's still gorgeous and I want to marry him. Christopher Walken was...Christopher Walken, who has, by the way, become the unoffical offical mascot of Caper Convenience.
Just a really bizarre movie.
In terms of the political aspect, I think it's something everybody should see because it isn't one side or the other, and that's the point, because the character, Dobbs even says that we should break away from this idea that we have to only choose between the two and there are better ways of handling things than just one way or the other. I found that compelling. Plus...this idea of having a humourist lead the country. It almost takes someone like that to joke about the things that we joke about and to be able to talk about and explain things to us on levels that we can udnerstand.
I'd like to see it again.