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marsh876's rating
I don't like any Altman films, so I didn't expect much from this one, and didn't get anything.
Meanders from one meaningless, unrelated scene to another.
It's like the long intro scene is the model of the rest of the movie.
It got to the point where the dialogue ceased to mean anything.
I can hear the words, but nothing is registering.
The fact that all these stars would appear in this dog says more about them and Hollywood than all the pseudo-jokes.
It devolved into watching a stream of cameos.
As one reviewer said, better to turn off the sound and just watch the celebs, one after the other.
As I said, I don't like any Altman film. Like Mash, with the long, boring, pointless football game at the end, where they spit on Radar. Sure it became a good TV series, but Altman didn't write the script.
Also, "The Player" was too long. After a while, it even gets boring to watch a parade of celebs. And the movie within the movie. I guess they though it was pretty clever then, and people do now, but it's been done many times before, and better. I guess if you're at a Hollywood party, with everyone stoned and drunk, and The Player is playing, everyone hardly watching, and people are saying, snootily, "Oh, look at that", one could acknowledge that this movie exists. Otherwise, no.
Meanders from one meaningless, unrelated scene to another.
It's like the long intro scene is the model of the rest of the movie.
It got to the point where the dialogue ceased to mean anything.
I can hear the words, but nothing is registering.
The fact that all these stars would appear in this dog says more about them and Hollywood than all the pseudo-jokes.
It devolved into watching a stream of cameos.
As one reviewer said, better to turn off the sound and just watch the celebs, one after the other.
As I said, I don't like any Altman film. Like Mash, with the long, boring, pointless football game at the end, where they spit on Radar. Sure it became a good TV series, but Altman didn't write the script.
Also, "The Player" was too long. After a while, it even gets boring to watch a parade of celebs. And the movie within the movie. I guess they though it was pretty clever then, and people do now, but it's been done many times before, and better. I guess if you're at a Hollywood party, with everyone stoned and drunk, and The Player is playing, everyone hardly watching, and people are saying, snootily, "Oh, look at that", one could acknowledge that this movie exists. Otherwise, no.
I really wanted to like this movie because I love Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. Their music is fantastic and will live forever. Unfortunately, I didn't like this movie and I recommend that people not see it.
I will admit that the acting was good, in all parts. The cinematography and costumes were very good, also. It's the story, direction and editing that, in my opinion, are terrible.
The constant back and forth in time is hard to follow. It's hard to tell the time line of events.
Wilson's mental illness is depicted with long, slow, boring, no action scenes, with discordant sound effects in the background.
And it's hard to believe they would try and sell a biopic about a musician and play virtually none of his music. What's the matter? The Beach Boys music wasn't good enough for Pohlad's artistic sentiments? Pohlad's background noise is the "real" music? So this movie is just an ego trip of Pohlad, shamed by the great achievement of Wilson compared to his own, and putting up any garbage as better? Pleeeeze!
And the 2001 homage at the end? Wasn't this movie too long already. We had to sit through that stupidity?
In conclusion, this movie sucked. Go see Mickey Mouse cartoons instead. Will do more for you.
I will admit that the acting was good, in all parts. The cinematography and costumes were very good, also. It's the story, direction and editing that, in my opinion, are terrible.
The constant back and forth in time is hard to follow. It's hard to tell the time line of events.
Wilson's mental illness is depicted with long, slow, boring, no action scenes, with discordant sound effects in the background.
And it's hard to believe they would try and sell a biopic about a musician and play virtually none of his music. What's the matter? The Beach Boys music wasn't good enough for Pohlad's artistic sentiments? Pohlad's background noise is the "real" music? So this movie is just an ego trip of Pohlad, shamed by the great achievement of Wilson compared to his own, and putting up any garbage as better? Pleeeeze!
And the 2001 homage at the end? Wasn't this movie too long already. We had to sit through that stupidity?
In conclusion, this movie sucked. Go see Mickey Mouse cartoons instead. Will do more for you.
