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The first thing that is wrong with this movie is that it is a British Film made my a British Director, British actress, and therefore I wish they'd take it back to Britain where it belongs with so much other stereotypical American paraphernalia. This film has no import whatsoever. Maybe they could release it in France?
The plot is dynamic like an obese elephant is dynamic. An appropriate analogy to whole 'political' issue is one where an undercover securities inspector tries to beat the metal detectors at an airport. Except when the security inspector effectively smuggles the bomb, he then decides to go ahead and blow up the plane anyway. What the... Kevin Spacey said that good politics don't make for good theater. Does that mean bad politics do make for good theater. The whole thing is spurious.
Everything is contrived. Spacey looks no different from the amalgamation of characters he played in movies past and showed us only one perspective that we've not seen before - that of the loving father. And no matter how I examined it, I couldn't help but wonder if Spacey might should abandon show business and start doing commercials for Tasters Choice.
Winslet is no better; in fact she's worse. I couldn't help wondering if she had packed the exact same clothes she wears when she goes clubbing in London. She certainly had rather chic make-up for a 'busy' reporter. I loved the line where she goes, 'you shouldn't eat at restaurants where they show pictures of the food.' Since when do Texas newspaper reporters stop eating at Denny's? I think not.
And that was the whole weirdness to the movie. I assume most of these people were from Texas, but they looked lost like they were from somewhere else. Britons trying to blend in by using American accents - oh, the horror.
The party scene - I don't know any Texas college kids who would sit around and listen to a bunch of college professors doing Irish rhyme verses - contrived and lame, typically British attempt at something. Do you think they got homesick?
The script - This guy who is a doctor of Philosophy (notice the small 'd') either doesn't know his subject, or he's dumbed it down to the point that he's trying to start writing song lyrics for the Romantics. Know your audience.
Etc...It goes on and on...The reporter at the cafe with the blank endorsement, what was it "The Discourse Dialogues" or some chickensh__ title like that and then he says 'this guy is so brilliant' 'Harvard, Rhodes, etc. etc. ugh. I hate the British...The ridiculous name boards that split the scenes like some kind of graffiti - I started to think I was watching Ally McBeal...The ridiculous quotes in the utterly pathetic 'hard hitting' interview - Gandhi, Churchill, Hitler; I thought does this director do anything other than watch movies. Is his creative pool that dry and barren. He couldn't do any better than that?
Like I said...ugh. The camera work was weird. Shots tended to move from near to far and created closeness when there was none, and created distance for effect. Nice try and you failed. I kept getting the feeling that I was being lead around the stock yard like some Texas bull with a ring through his nose.
But that is the whole point of this movie. It is bull.
The first thing that is wrong with this movie is that it is a British Film made my a British Director, British actress, and therefore I wish they'd take it back to Britain where it belongs with so much other stereotypical American paraphernalia. This film has no import whatsoever. Maybe they could release it in France?
The plot is dynamic like an obese elephant is dynamic. An appropriate analogy to whole 'political' issue is one where an undercover securities inspector tries to beat the metal detectors at an airport. Except when the security inspector effectively smuggles the bomb, he then decides to go ahead and blow up the plane anyway. What the... Kevin Spacey said that good politics don't make for good theater. Does that mean bad politics do make for good theater. The whole thing is spurious.
Everything is contrived. Spacey looks no different from the amalgamation of characters he played in movies past and showed us only one perspective that we've not seen before - that of the loving father. And no matter how I examined it, I couldn't help but wonder if Spacey might should abandon show business and start doing commercials for Tasters Choice.
Winslet is no better; in fact she's worse. I couldn't help wondering if she had packed the exact same clothes she wears when she goes clubbing in London. She certainly had rather chic make-up for a 'busy' reporter. I loved the line where she goes, 'you shouldn't eat at restaurants where they show pictures of the food.' Since when do Texas newspaper reporters stop eating at Denny's? I think not.
And that was the whole weirdness to the movie. I assume most of these people were from Texas, but they looked lost like they were from somewhere else. Britons trying to blend in by using American accents - oh, the horror.
The party scene - I don't know any Texas college kids who would sit around and listen to a bunch of college professors doing Irish rhyme verses - contrived and lame, typically British attempt at something. Do you think they got homesick?
The script - This guy who is a doctor of Philosophy (notice the small 'd') either doesn't know his subject, or he's dumbed it down to the point that he's trying to start writing song lyrics for the Romantics. Know your audience.
Etc...It goes on and on...The reporter at the cafe with the blank endorsement, what was it "The Discourse Dialogues" or some chickensh__ title like that and then he says 'this guy is so brilliant' 'Harvard, Rhodes, etc. etc. ugh. I hate the British...The ridiculous name boards that split the scenes like some kind of graffiti - I started to think I was watching Ally McBeal...The ridiculous quotes in the utterly pathetic 'hard hitting' interview - Gandhi, Churchill, Hitler; I thought does this director do anything other than watch movies. Is his creative pool that dry and barren. He couldn't do any better than that?
Like I said...ugh. The camera work was weird. Shots tended to move from near to far and created closeness when there was none, and created distance for effect. Nice try and you failed. I kept getting the feeling that I was being lead around the stock yard like some Texas bull with a ring through his nose.
But that is the whole point of this movie. It is bull.