Responses to this message:
I read that Roger Ebert called this movie "Woody Allen's best film ever". If this is true, than Mr. Ebert has either spent so much time in dark theaters and at parties kissing celeb ass, or had his first born held at gunpoint by Soon-Yee, because this movie isn't even Woody's best in the last 12 months! "Everyone Sings Out of Tune" is a frivolous, pointless, hardly ambitious waste of time, made purely to make everyone remember musicals of their childhood, thus deriving all of it's kudos based purely on the "nostalgia" factor. It is plotless, poorly shot and just plain boring. The actors do their best, and actually come off fairly good, but the insipid musical numbers fall flat and the random ending makes the whole thing a pointless self-indulgent film-school exersize that borders on masterbatory.
And for the record, I LOVE W. Allen. I consider him to be perhaps one of the most consistantly successful filmmakers alive today. Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall and Sleeper are all brilliant. But "Everyone Says I Love Woody", is just plain a waste of time. Don't listen to the critics! Or at least, listen to Mr. Cranky.
Not to mention, in his last 2 movies, Woody's character has slept with Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham-Carter and Julia Roberts. Ex-squeeze me??? Average age of these three women, 26.
Woody,...go rent "Crimes and Misdemeanors" again,...see what you're capable of, and stop wasting our time.
--j
Responses to this message:
Post a response to this discussion thread