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captain_slinkyWatched the movie "Adventureland" last night. If you remember correctly, the ad blitz for that particular film was something along the lines of "From the folks who brought you 'SUPERBAD' comes the next hit comedy! Critics are calling it a funnier, raunchier and laugh-out-loud FUNNIER than Superbad!"
Superbad, Superbad, SUPERBAD! If you liked SUPERBAD, yer gonna love this film!
I stayed with the movie all the way till the end in hopes that I would find something good in it. By the end, all I felt was ANGER. I didn't want my 90 minutes back, I didn't want revenge or anything... i was just ANGRY.
First, they started with a nice little romantic story about a kid falling in love during the summer after he graduates while working at a local amusement park. If they has stuck with this, they could have totally pulled off a "Say Anything" vibe and gotten away with it nicely.
But then somebody said "We need a COMEDY!"
They hired a few comedians to go over the script and told them to "Punch this sucker up! Make it more Michael Cera-ish! The kids love that awkward fast-talk gibberish, right?"
Then they said "OOH! Also! Let's make it be set in 1987! And the only way people will know it's 1987 is because we tell them at the beginning of the movie, and we put some 80's music in there! Don't worry about the clothes, the kids can wear whatever they like... but we're gonna tell everybody that it's 1987 anyways. Kids love The Retro!"
The entire movie felt like Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio were sitting on the other side of the fire asking stuff like "Great story, Gordie, but just one question... did lard Ass have to pay to get in to the pie eating contest?"
Too many people involved in the creative process I guess, and it just made me sad because it was *really* a sweet little storry that got absolutely ruined by "creative input". And that's why I'm angry at it.
Superbad, Superbad, SUPERBAD! If you liked SUPERBAD, yer gonna love this film!
I stayed with the movie all the way till the end in hopes that I would find something good in it. By the end, all I felt was ANGER. I didn't want my 90 minutes back, I didn't want revenge or anything... i was just ANGRY.
First, they started with a nice little romantic story about a kid falling in love during the summer after he graduates while working at a local amusement park. If they has stuck with this, they could have totally pulled off a "Say Anything" vibe and gotten away with it nicely.
But then somebody said "We need a COMEDY!"
They hired a few comedians to go over the script and told them to "Punch this sucker up! Make it more Michael Cera-ish! The kids love that awkward fast-talk gibberish, right?"
Then they said "OOH! Also! Let's make it be set in 1987! And the only way people will know it's 1987 is because we tell them at the beginning of the movie, and we put some 80's music in there! Don't worry about the clothes, the kids can wear whatever they like... but we're gonna tell everybody that it's 1987 anyways. Kids love The Retro!"
The entire movie felt like Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio were sitting on the other side of the fire asking stuff like "Great story, Gordie, but just one question... did lard Ass have to pay to get in to the pie eating contest?"
Too many people involved in the creative process I guess, and it just made me sad because it was *really* a sweet little storry that got absolutely ruined by "creative input". And that's why I'm angry at it.
