You either die an overlooked gem, or live long enough to become yet another franchise.
You either die an overlooked gem, or live long enough to become yet another franchise.
Takes me back to several all-nighters in film school. Good thing he’s not, like, a professional director or something. Wait...
I don’t think you understand focus groups. They typically make things LESS outre and LESS weird. Focus groups are indeed the reason that “so much shit is garbage,” but in a bland, mass-appeal way. Not a bold artistic misfire way. So bless the studio that had the stones to make a movie this freaking bizarre and…
One of my favorite recurring jokes on The Nanny was everyone giving theater producer Mr. Sheffield grief for passing on Cats. Because if you were in his place, wouldn’t you have done the same thing?
“On screen, the cats can’t go into the audience, and the alternative (having the audience go inside of a cat) has limited appeal”
the Uncanny Valley Of Dr. Moreau
This is why you guys should have waited until this came out before doing your worst films of the year. This one needs to be on there.
Mushrooms can make that happen. Think of it as Thundercats Day Off.
Only Ian McKellen emerges completely unscathed
You’re one GoPro and one trip to the Humane Society dumpster away from making your vision a reality.
On screen, the cats can’t go into the audience, and the alternative (having the audience go inside of a cat) has limited appeal.
I bet Netflix is kicking themselves for cancelling MST3k right before this movie came out.
In a way it’s inspiring that a movie this misbegotten could exist in a world of focus audiences and test screenings and all-around homogenization. In that regard, I salute it.
But I certainly will not be seeing it!
From Variety, Hooper speaking at the premiere:
“I finished it at 8 a.m. yesterday after 36 hours in a row. I just put the finishing touches on. So, I’m very happy to be here with it fully finished,” Hooper told Variety on the red carpet. He added with a laugh, “The premiere should be the first time people get to see…
The whole film is a rendering error
But how is it on mushrooms with the sound turned off and your own psychedelic music playing?
I wonder if this is going to bring back the 60s tradition of people going to the theater to drop acid and trip through a movie.
A rendering error? Really? Of all the horrible things about this movie, this one I find most shocking. Damn it Hooper, finish your movie.
They goddamn better.