Monday, January 21, 2008

Sundance: The Extra "R" is for "Really Lame"

[Film Fest] Day Four is when my tolerance for utterly unredeemable crap at Sundance vanishes entirely. I'll start to bail out on the movies with that stench of "I had a DV cam and a burning desire to write a terrible script." Usually I last at least 30 minutes, hoping against hope that sometime around Plot Point #1 (read up on your Syd Field Screenwriting for Dummies, boys and girls), something interesting will happen.

North Starr did not invite me to make it to that magic half-hour mark. I knew I was in trouble when the film opened with a dream sequence, the filmmaking equivalent of “I really don’t know how to start my movie.” It got hilariously worse with a conversation between two African-American gentlemen – one of them an aspiring rapper, apparently, the other his “homey” – which appeared to be constructed out of a hip-hop-themed Mad Libs: “Yo, you packin’ a [street slang for gun]?” Apparently writer-director Matthew Stanton never saw Airplane!’s two jive-talking passengers, because he has re-made that scene as though it were not meant to be funny. After our protagonist flees Houston, having witnessed the murder of his pal, he wanders down a road, sits under a tree, smokes a cigarette and begins writing rap lyrics describing the scene we just endured – all in the course of a single static shot. I was done.

I have now spent more time writing about this movie than I spent watching it. (Scott Renshaw)

6 comments:

  1. Scott Renshaw "SR" = "Stupid Reviewer". You don't have the slightest idea what you were watching. My two points on your 1/2 ass/hearted review are as follow:

    1.) How can you slam ANY movie with not watching the whole movie? That's the real lame story! You either have a vendetta against something or very uneducated. My guess is both! Which leads to my second point....

    2.) You must be a new comer and are just trying to create some buzz for your stupid blog. Therefore, you can receive more hits and buzz for your own benefit. However, I believe that this will backfire on you and you will regret not watching the whole movie.

    You miss one awesome movie. The majority of the audience was in tears and gave an OVERWHELMING STANDING OVATION. 'North Starr' is a beautiful movie and a better story. You really are uneducated or bias in Black Culture. Matthew Stanton has created a beautiful story that no other movie has came close in attempting to mix trust/humor/drama across real American culture.

    The real reviewers are giving "North Starr" great reviews.

    My advice is to watch the whole movie before you write reviews on any movie. I must be 'The Stupid One' for replying to this ignorant blog!

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  2. Come on, movie fanatic...

    you've never walked out of a Pauly Shore movie?

    You don't need to sit through every agonizing minute to know it's crap.

    Also, perhaps you've missed the point of movie reviews.

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  3. Movie reviewer-it's always good to practice your viral-marketing before posting, just so you don't come off as a complete studio/North Starr-planted D-bag.

    Hints: don't capitalize your points. Nobody (not associated with it) cares about a movie that much.

    Don't throw out PR flack like beautiful/humor/trust/American culture within the same sentence--you might as well call it "a story about perseverance against all odds."

    Good luck with your movie.

    D-bag.

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