Parker Film Company, Luber Roklin Entertainment, Bossa Nova Productions
Adam Goldberg, Marley Shelton, Elon Bailey, Lucy Punch, Vinnie Jones, Zak Orth, Ptolemy Slocum, Michael Panes, Svetlana Efemova
I gotta get with my blogmaster to get a half star, or a ZERO stars, as giving this piece of crap a whole star is like giving one of those guys on the side of the freeway exit a fifty for a bag of oranges. It’s not worth it.
I recall one of the episodes of Penn & Teller’s Showtime series “Bullsh*t” where they went to a fancy restaurant in LA and sent the staff out to the back of the restaurant to fill up water bottles with the garden hose. Then they brought it into the restaurant to sell for up to $8.00 a bottle to a sucker public who raved about the flavor of the water. They were told it came from some glacier in Greenland and contained all these fabulous minerals. Every one of the patrons raved about the quality of the water from a garden hose.
I feel like the kid from “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. If you tell someone it’s expensive art, even if a chimpanzee painted it with his butt, someone is going to plunk down $50,000.00 and call it genius!
This film could have taken on this kind of B.S., but instead it truly is what it’s talking about. I expected maybe some ridicule about the so called “art experts” who tell us what is art and what isn’t. But instead, they seemed to take it seriously and it never did anything but show us what spoiled, nasty rotten, smug people these characters are.
One is a really bitchy art dealer. One is a famous artist who can’t decide whether his works should be displayed closer together or farther apart to really show thier impact. The other is a musician who bangs on pans, drops chains in a bucket and pounds away incessantly on a piano making a hell of a racket while a lady blows on a horn like a party favor. They call this noise music, and of course the 15 people who showed up for the “concert” walk out in the first few minutes.
Sullen and dreary, he’s disappointed that people don’t enjoy his genius. So both of them like the girl, but all of them are too stupid to have a real relationship.
So I gave this piece of crap a chance. I watched the whole thing, although I used Netflix Watch Instantly and didn’t waste a spot in my queue. I hate people who review films they haven’t watched or when they say the turned it off after 10 minutes and then sent it back and wrote a review. But this is one I really wish I had forgotten the review, and really turned it off after 10 minutes because it never got any better. The opening weekend grosses on this film tell you how great it is. It made a gross of $18,002.
Now you can read reviews from people who give this 5 stars and rave that it’s the most relevant film ever made. But I have to cry out as loud as I can. The Emperor has no clothes. The ones who made this film are laughing at the idiots who think there is any value to this in the least! I can hear them laughing from here!
WARNING: I do not know how to classify this junk, so I am choosing Music & Performing Arts but there is NO music I could recognize. Art is in the eye of the beholder. Yikes.
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Movie Review - (Untitled) (2009) {R},
