American Dreamz -- because you really wanted to see Hugh Grant playing Simon Cowell

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There was a demi-trailer of sorts for this before The Libertine the other day and I felt embarrassed for everyone involved.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

i can't wait for thuis movie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

i think it might be a glorious disaster

(i haven't seen the trailer yet though)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

I can sense this film straining to be a Christopher Guest-style movie but not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:31 (twenty years ago)

i hear ya

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Trailer/ad-bit I saw (it was part of a thing that was like the dreaded 'Twenty' but not) had lots of intercut interviews with Mandy Moore not catching the irony and video camera footage and etc. Also apparently the theme song goes something like "American Dreamz, that's dreamz with a z," which is humorless only to dead cuttlefish.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Hahahah, a telling slip! I meant to say "humorous," not "humorless"! Perhaps both sides will win. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

Guaranteed to be awful, but still better than a Christopher Guest movie.

The new ad trailer is kind of misleading. The first one I saw concentrated on a bumbling Dennis Quaid playing Bush, with some semi-famous character actor I can't remember playing a Cheney clone; Quaid-Bush has been holed up in the West Wing reading about Iraqistanis, etc., agrees to host American Idol/Dreamz to show that he's still alive, that's why the Arab guy is sent to audition, so he can make it to the finals and blow Quaid-Bush up.

This new one leaves out all of that stuff.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:24 (twenty years ago)

I've really got to stop sitting through The 20.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

The trailer I just watched shows the full premise, and, wow, this looks horrible. Though I suspect the Radio Disney crowd will eat it up.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

The first one I saw concentrated on a bumbling Dennis Quaid playing Bush, with some semi-famous character actor I can't remember playing a Cheney clone; Quaid-Bush has been holed up in the West Wing reading about Iraqistanis, etc., agrees to host American Idol/Dreamz to show that he's still alive, that's why the Arab guy is sent to audition, so he can make it to the finals and blow Quaid-Bush up.

This new one leaves out all of that stuff.

As counterprogramming to V for Vendetta it seems apt.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

i kinda like how WRONG the whole premise is! that's why i think it's promising!

and i thought "about a boy" was totally great

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

i kinda like how WRONG the whole premise is! that's why i think it's promising!

That's what I was thinking...I'm kind of curious and would like to see this.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

The logical endpoint is the theme song being performed in the American Idol final.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

'some semi-famous character actor I can't remember playing a Cheney clone'

Isn't Willem Dafoe the VP?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

I kind of like the "fuck it, why not?" approach it seems to take. Although I have no intention of paying actual cash money to see it, I do really want to see it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

This is the film I have been most looking forward to this year. The Weiss Brothers are two of the most maverick talents working in mainstream holiwood and I think this will be the rallying call that V For Vendetta isn't.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

see, now that makes me look reasonable!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Anthony Lane in the New Yorker: "This picture ain’t funny. I winced three times, and gave a couple of short laughs, but that was it..." But then he goes on to swat Dr. Strangelove too, so meh.

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/060424crci_cinema

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

ooh I totally wanna see I Am a Sex Addict.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Interesting point though, Dr. M:

Worshippers of “Dr. Strangelove,” for instance, tend to fight shy of the awkwardness that comes from seeing an ambitious comedy created by a humorless artist. Most of the fun in that movie springs not from Kubrick but from Peter Sellers; the rest of it is cold and cavernous grandeur, overlaid by a studentish conviction that the world is run by lonely, nervous madmen. Quite unlike a film set, of course. Or a TV studio.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that's totally innacurate - Sellers easily makes the film, and Kubrick is otherwise a pretty humorless director.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

George C. Scott helps a lot, IMO.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I don't agree at all on SK & humorlessness, but we all know that...Dave.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

(and someone should remind Lane that Weitz & Kubrick couldn't blow anybody up)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Lolita is filled with humor, and you can't just chalk that all up to Sellers or the acting talent generally or to the Nabokov screenplay which Kubrick mostly didn't use. A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, too. It's not always just the screenplay, actors, whatever; sometimes, it's actually Kubrick!

Speaking of humorless, Lane strikes me as fitting the bill usually anyway.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

And Eyes Wide Shut! Sorry, but Tom Cruise constantly whipping out his doctor ID like he's a cop is funny. On purpose.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I have every intention of paying cash money to see this.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

theyve been advertising the hell out of this on tv. i guess theyll be poking intelligent fun at trashy tv but it looks like it could be good anyway.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

phil is OTM. Lane's end-of-quoted-bit swipe is instantaneously a bit har har but kind of falls flat as a very easy swipe to be making, also.

Title film seems meh to me but then again I can't stand the sight of Hugh Grant.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

i cant look at the title without 'electric dreams' playing in my head

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Mandy Moore appears to have the shoulders of a linebacker.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I love Lane but that's so totally wrong it baffles me.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

lane is a funny writer but he frequently displays a complete lack of a clue about movies.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

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