Full Frontal

Filmed like the crew and director were paid to sabatoge the film.

I get the negative reaction, but I had a pretty good time with this. I think I just have a high tolerance for Soderbergh's shenanigans; I liked Bubble and The Girlfriend Experience after all. I thought the multiply-nested structure of films-with-films was compelling, and it's also pretty funny.

This one gets a lot of hate but I thought it was pretty good. Soderbergh's most underrated movie, for sure. Head-spinning, ironic and heavily experimental, with an occasionally sharp but always enjoyable takedown of Hollywood taking place. The guy who plays Hitler is fantastic.

The summary is spot on. Having watched a plethora of cinema, to see someone so selflessly and irreverently moon the modern industry--as well as the modern viewer--is very refreshing.

Soderbergh dialogue is so weirdly hypnotic even when it doesn't make sense. Easy to zone out sometimes but when you're locked in it's pretty special. Some pretty wild cameos in this.

This movie is like a poodle looking at Picasso.

I appreciate what it's trying to do.

Unendingly and saddeningly boring, a real experimental binge/purge, but not as fun as Schizopolis, and just rather unendearing.

44.000

Interesting Soderbergh experiment has some great ideas, and generally solid performances, but is torpedoed by a generally dreary, pretentious mood, and some hideous digital photography for the 'real-life' scenes, which make much of the film look embarassingly amateurish (the Underwood/Roberts sequences are professionally and quite nicely filmed, which only further contrasts with the ugliness of the other sequences.)

The feeling of experimentation rubs off on the film in both positive and negative ways - the genuine excitement and fun that must've gone into making it is irrepressible and makes it a lot more enjoyable than it should be, but there's a feeling of catching a devised student production halfway through a workshop, right down to the faux-Mamet speech patterns of one sequence between Keener and a man she's firing. Great performances and often funny, but patchy at best.

36.750

"An inscrutable experiment too fixated with its own self-reflexivity to ever be about anything in particular." - Ed Gonzalez

This movie sounded better in concept than it felt in execution. Nicky Katt is easily the best thing in the film. Soderbergh's worst, IMO.

weak experiment

Not Soderbergh's most successful experiment (that goes to K Street and Bubble), but pretty good anyway.

lots of star power adding up to 'pretty good'

Has its moments but ultimately comes off like a student film - full of good ideas, way short on execution.