The Big Picture

Rated this high because of my genuine affection for the cast, this is slow and without any narrative surprises but the tune it hums throughout is familiar and pleasant. Michael McKean who co-wrote has a fantastic character to contribute, allowing the film to maintain heart even in the face of downfall. The least of Christopher Guest's work that I've seen (never pulled the trigger on Almost Heroes) but for a quiet coming to terms with Hollywood film, this delivered just fine.

The way Guest pokes fun at Hollywood is far too obvious to be biting, rendering this satire, with all of its tame cynicism and faux quirkiness, completely impotent. The vacuous dialogue, designed to lampoon the emptiness of industry chatter, instead just makes for a mind-numbingly tedious script, and Bacon gives one of his worst performances on top of this.

A grande comédia estreava há 35 anos no Festival de Sundance (antes de ter esse nome). Se não está no mesmo nível das obras-primas satíricas que o Guest faria no futuro, ainda é uma ótima estreia em longas. Gosto de pensar que o Altman viu esse filme e quis filmar uma satira que quebrasse todas as satiras de Hollywood com The Player. YTS.

It was fine.

Nice little fantasy with enough truth in it to make movie people like me nod appreciatively. I even liked Martin Short, whose caricature of an agent exemplifies how over the map the tone is. In a way it's also Guest's own application to make It's a Wonderful Life someday.

This was like watching pornography, it seems to be a tailor-made fantasy for me (gorgeous girlfriend included and everything), though there's a bit of a nightmare before all the dreams come true. Despite this film's easy-going-ness and predictability, it's hard not to like, especially because of Bacon's filmmaker character who occasionally dips into goofiness, but mostly plays the straight man. Lots of great and on-point jokes about Hollywood and independent filmmaking.

Wonderfully smart film about what is means to make it in Hollywood.

A relatively forgettable movie that follows a kid whose artistic vision gets corrupted by corporate fat cats who don't have an imaginative bone in their body. It's kind of funny and has a decent story. If nothing else it serves as a wonderful go to for the six degrees of separation Kevin Bacon game as Martin Short, John Cleese, Elliott Gould, Roddy McDowall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Teri Hatcher all have roles in this film.

Dumb, slow, poorly acted, not funny. The only redeemable part was Emily Longstreth. Martin Short is terrible yet again. I can't believe Christopher Guest directed this. Complete throwaway film.

Weird, slow, and kind of dumb while trying really hard to look smart.

It's got some funny moments, but nowhere near the level of Guest's other work.