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madbaker ([personal profile] madbaker) wrote2007-06-11 11:56 am
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Movie Reviewette

I'm a big fan of Christopher Guest's work. I thought Best In Show was very funny and A Mighty Wind absolutely skewered folk music brilliantly. So, I was initially looking forward to For Your Consideration, his take on the Oscars and how it affects a film in progress.

I'm glad I watched it via Netflix, 'cause I would have felt cheated in the theater. It just never really went anywhere. The movie may have been too personal to be funny (as Berke Breathed pointed out - and has since lost sight of - you have to have distance to satirize effectively).

There were good bits, such as the ventriloquist weathergirl. Harry Shearer was good as the veteran actor. But a little Fred Willard goes a very long way, and there was a lot of Fred Willard.

Well put

[identity profile] lacochran.livejournal.com 2007-06-18 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to agree with you on FYC. It just wasn't what it ought to be with the people that were involved in it. My take on it is at http://lacochran.blogspot.com