I always feel a bit weird when I don't like a movie. Eshi mentioned that we watched The Stepford Wives a couple days ago, and it left me with a feeling of despair. When I see a movie and don't like it I feel like I must have missed the point of it. That it is somehow my fault that the movie is bad, like my perspective is wrong somehow. Regardless of my selfhate-y shit, this particular movie had me on this bend a little more than usual and it made me think more on what a good movie is.
TSW had a lot of jokes that I have seen in other movies that worked well in those movies. All of the actors are good actors I have seen do amazing work. The director Frank Oz has a good list of work (He directed The Dark Crystal and Little Shop of Horrors. Also he was Yoda!). This movie has all of the ingredients of a good movie "should" have and I think that is the problem. I feel like a group of people got together at a studio needing to make a movie and picked an old movie to remake. Then they decided to make it a comedy because it would reach a larger audience. They decided to make the movie a summer blockbuster movie that had a ton of big name actors in it so that it would grab even more people. How could a movie with all of these big name actors be bad?! And then it was (Welcome to the basement has a term for this: Talent Bomb.)
This movie had no soul. I think this is one of the many things that makes bad movies bad. I feel bad for shitting on this movie after Eshi did on Monday, but this is a problem that's not just from this movie. A good movie is something made with some kind of passion, not just shit out as a money making scheme. Hollywood is an industry though and unfortunately sometimes that side wins out over artistry and or originality.
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