Wow, it’s been a minute since I saw a 4:3 movie… Oh, perhaps it’s gonna change aspect ratio later? It starts off in 1970.

Nutritional!

This is pretty amusing. I mean, it’s kinda choppy, but it’s amusing.

Sounds about right… but in a good way.

Ouch!

An unattractive cast in an unattractive film! Verow has been directing films for many years, but he has yet to learn how to cast them and make them.. Like another reviewer, I too couldn’t finish it.

I love it! It’s sort of channelling old, no-budget movies — everything is awkward and hesitant, but on purpose? It’s like a very meta take. I can’t stop sniggering; everything’s so perfectly on point.

I mean, I think it’s on purpose. It’s funny anyway.

I love the performances. The actors are so into this.

I did! I get it!

I’m gonna give this an unreasonably high score, because I laughed, I almost cried, I got angry, and mostly I smiled a lot. This is a really special movie.

But I do understand why all those people on imdb hate it.

Goodbye Seventies. Todd Verow. 2020. ⚄

Oh! This is a “reality TV show” (of the competition kind) parody. Seems fun so far — the concept seems to be that they have to kill each other? So it’s the usual plot (how many of these trenchant commentaries on the entertainment industry have there been with this plot? a couple dozen?), but it seems pretty sprightly.

“A self inflicted knife wound to the back…”

I mean, the main concept is hackneyed, but it’s so well done. All these little details…

And now it’s in full character development mode. I.e., deadly dull.

I love how unsubtle this is.

OK, I laughed out loud when they played Love Will Tear Us Apart Again on the stadium sound system.

There’s a lot to love here, but it sags in the middle.

Series 7: The Contenders. Daniel Minahan. 2001. ⚃

Wow, this movie’s got some credits list:

And it just goes on and on:

And I don’t think this movie had a big budget?

OK, it’s a mid-size budget… And it bombed at the box office! Totally!

I’m really curious what’s the story behind this, and how all these A-list actors ended up here… were they all friends of Sigourney Weaver? She’s known for doing no-budget movies that she likes… Friends of George Plimpton, who wrote the book this is based on?

Oh, the other Capote movie that year had had a smaller budget and… didn’t bomb. I think I’ve seen that one.

This is pretty good. It’s really enjoyable — it’s kinda of frothy and fun.

OK, it’s kinda boring now. They really had something fun going for the first half, but now it’s all… character development.

I’m guessing the director kinda made a lot of this boring stuff up? It’s… just… tedious.

I can understand why this movie bombed. It’s so schizophrenic. I mean, it’s like the first half of the movie was designed to appeal to somebody who would never, ever want to watch the last half of the movie.

And vice versa.

Infamous. Douglas McGrath. 2006. ⚂