Stephen Soderbergh's "Bubble"

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I wasn't excited about this movie, but I was willing to give it a shot. The movie was basically written as a plot arc, and they let the untrained actors improvise dialogue to get from a -> b in each scene.

Well, it didn't work. This movie is one of the worst I've ever seen. The actors were as stiff as cardboard, and their improvised dialogue was just horrible. It was purely expository, with no concept of the place or time or any sense that any of the people were more than just their ultra-thin character descriptions.

It was like the Manos, Hands of Fate of our generation.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 5 February 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bubble

― shadeball (chaki), Sunday, 5 February 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody talks about the movie in that thread, they just flail around.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 5 February 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

That's why i loved both the movie and that thread.

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. This movie was so not "worst. movie. ever." material. Not exactly something I'll do backflips to watch again either, but it was a pretty worthwhile investment of my time. Maybe its the fact that I grew up in a small Midwestern town and worked for a short time in a smallish factory, but I thought the characters were pretty believeable. Yeah, they were stiff as hell at times - but considering how stiff conversations with awkward coworkers in real life can be, I don't think it hurt the film at all. People in small towns like that can often be ultra-thin, trust me I grew up with them. Sometimes dudes do really just float through life waiting for that next joint in the back of mom's trailer. I don't know,I just found it refreshing to see that kind of "thriller" (using that term very, very loosely) done with real, ordinary, boring as fuck people as opposed to all these CSI characters that all have some devious ulterior motive. That's just my two cents though. I liked it.

― jonviachicago, Monday, 6 February 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, I've seen a lot of great movies about regular, working class folks and their regular, working class lives, and I found this particular one to be a disaster in terms of the dialogue, general theme, etc.

And I'm not saying that Steven Soderbergh lives in an ivory tower and his idea of working class midwesterners is joyless conversation after joyless conversation over fast food, but one could be excused for thinking it based on this piece.

There were a couple of nice shots set to Rob Pollard songs with no dialogue, but in my opinion they didn't fit the rest of the movie and accounted for about 5% of its duration.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 6 February 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

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