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Lucian-3's rating
Come on.
Leaving aside the poor effects there is still plenty wrong with this film.
The holes in the plot They approach a barrier no ship has ever entered and no probe has ever returned from. How do they get past it? "Keep going!"
Totally undermining the characters of the Trek series by placing the minor relief they get from a Vulcan flim-flam man over their duty to StarFleet?
Turning Scotty into a buffoon by having him walk into a bulkhead?!
A chase sequence with something of supposed God-like power that can't outrun a man or survive a blast from a Klingon ship.
Shatner's overdone prestige acting "I...NEED...MY...PAIN." without a director to try and reign him in just gets ridiculous.
It doesn't work on any level. It's just sad.
Leaving aside the poor effects there is still plenty wrong with this film.
The holes in the plot They approach a barrier no ship has ever entered and no probe has ever returned from. How do they get past it? "Keep going!"
Totally undermining the characters of the Trek series by placing the minor relief they get from a Vulcan flim-flam man over their duty to StarFleet?
Turning Scotty into a buffoon by having him walk into a bulkhead?!
A chase sequence with something of supposed God-like power that can't outrun a man or survive a blast from a Klingon ship.
Shatner's overdone prestige acting "I...NEED...MY...PAIN." without a director to try and reign him in just gets ridiculous.
It doesn't work on any level. It's just sad.
Overall this is a fun pic. The plot works, the atmosphere is excellent and Woody Allen is able to play his age reasonably well despite romancing a much younger co-star.
The dialogue is uneven; overwritten in some places and underwritten in others. Kudos to Allen for writing a decent female roll that can effectively spar with his own character. Helen Hunt performs well as do much of the supporting cast (especially favourite character actors Wallace Shawn and David Ogden Stiers). Dan Ackroyd, unfortunately, is woefully miscast in a roll better suited to Alec Baldwin or Rob Lowe and, as a result, the romantic triangle in the film is never convincing.
There are a few shortcomings in the plot that could have been fixed in a rewrite but the story moves along well and laughs are delivered regularly throughout. Woody would have been well advised to take one last run at polishing the script (or even bringing in a thorough editor) but these days who can give Woody Allen that kind of advise?
It's nice to see Allen returning to lighter comic fare and this film is worth seeing on a discount night or would be just as effective on video.
The dialogue is uneven; overwritten in some places and underwritten in others. Kudos to Allen for writing a decent female roll that can effectively spar with his own character. Helen Hunt performs well as do much of the supporting cast (especially favourite character actors Wallace Shawn and David Ogden Stiers). Dan Ackroyd, unfortunately, is woefully miscast in a roll better suited to Alec Baldwin or Rob Lowe and, as a result, the romantic triangle in the film is never convincing.
There are a few shortcomings in the plot that could have been fixed in a rewrite but the story moves along well and laughs are delivered regularly throughout. Woody would have been well advised to take one last run at polishing the script (or even bringing in a thorough editor) but these days who can give Woody Allen that kind of advise?
It's nice to see Allen returning to lighter comic fare and this film is worth seeing on a discount night or would be just as effective on video.
When I saw this film at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival it sounded like a lark and I knew I'd get to see Kevin smith, the producer, at the screening. I did but th film itself is offensive, poorly written, poorly acted and purely pointless.
The film fails on pretty much every level. The main character is a clown yet the actor who plays him has no sense of comedic timing. The film's pacing and plot change gears so often and so poorly watching it is like riding with a student driver first learning on a standard transmission car.
The subject matter of the film is far too dark to be treated comedicly. I'm not sure how long the film's rape scene actually is, maybe 10 minutes, but it felt like 30. And that's not even the most disturbing scene in the film. Yet 2 minutes later we are expected to laugh at silly trivial material. It doesn't work.
Even the soundtrack is so loud and grating it's physically painful and, at the screening I was at, the director overrode the complaints of audience members demanding it be turned down. That's inexcusable. No film should ever attempt to /physically/ hurt its audience.
In the end the film is forced to introduce ridiculous strings of coincidences in order to avoid a realistic response from its main character and allow a forced happy ending. It doesn't work, on any level, ever. The only positive thing I can say about writer/director/actor Bryan Johnson is that he saves the best, most realistic dialogue for the the character he plays himself. His character doesn't seem long he belongs in this movie but, then again, neither did anyone else, neither did I and neither do you.
Vulgar is what it claims to be, I give it a 1 out 10 and I think I'd rather gauge my own eyes out than see it again.
The film fails on pretty much every level. The main character is a clown yet the actor who plays him has no sense of comedic timing. The film's pacing and plot change gears so often and so poorly watching it is like riding with a student driver first learning on a standard transmission car.
The subject matter of the film is far too dark to be treated comedicly. I'm not sure how long the film's rape scene actually is, maybe 10 minutes, but it felt like 30. And that's not even the most disturbing scene in the film. Yet 2 minutes later we are expected to laugh at silly trivial material. It doesn't work.
Even the soundtrack is so loud and grating it's physically painful and, at the screening I was at, the director overrode the complaints of audience members demanding it be turned down. That's inexcusable. No film should ever attempt to /physically/ hurt its audience.
In the end the film is forced to introduce ridiculous strings of coincidences in order to avoid a realistic response from its main character and allow a forced happy ending. It doesn't work, on any level, ever. The only positive thing I can say about writer/director/actor Bryan Johnson is that he saves the best, most realistic dialogue for the the character he plays himself. His character doesn't seem long he belongs in this movie but, then again, neither did anyone else, neither did I and neither do you.
Vulgar is what it claims to be, I give it a 1 out 10 and I think I'd rather gauge my own eyes out than see it again.