If John Lithgow's career arc was a candidate for inclusion in your Best New Party Game, it's safe to say it wouldn't start with him having a lot of professional integrity.
It would probably start with him having fun. At dinner.
Whatever. Just another example of how you can't win if you try to make a movie. Not just a movie from a book. A movie. Movies aren't good. They're just not good.
Would we have preferred that they tried to make another indie movie from a good book--see Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Starting out in the Evening, Feast of Love, A Home at the Edge of the Universe... Un-good.
This one is at least trying to succeed. With a formulaic trailer. And what's her name.
Don't you ever get the feeling that there's a secret contest to make the least educational Expert Village video ever and you just weren't invited?
This reminds me of the time I had to give an informational speech to my middle school English class. I picked throwing a football. But I didn't really know why. Or how.
"You know how gay is a hip-hop term that I had originally invented to quantify whackness? Well, I'm going to be appearing on Ellen again this week to talk to my fans, my base, and that's going to be so good, it'll be the other kind of gay. The new kind of gay. That I just invented."
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