Word: directors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumerism. The movie takes the consumerism slant and clubs you over the head with it repeatedly--so repeatedly, in fact, that you lose sight of its importance. It takes the essential plot elements of the novel and blurs them together to create two hours of incoherent nonsense. In short, director Alan Rudolph's vision of Vonnegut's cynical tale boasts all the clarity of a disturbingly silly dream, conceived in a fit of misdirected illumination...
...various studio fare such as Suicide Kings and American Pie, but all in rather minor roles, and from the calibre of performances given it is easy to see why. The actors all seem to be reading off Teleprompters, and all possess very little range of emotion. Even the director acknowledges this woodenness because he places the image of each actor next to his or her name, just to make sure you don't forget who they...
...content myself with a frenzied conversation with all the luminaries involved with the film on the top floor of a New York high-rise hotel. Sometimes it was hard to tell them all apart; everyone who worked on the movie seemed to wear many proverbial hats. Plainspoken wunderkind director Spike Jonze is basking in the glow of his meaty supporting role acting in Three Kings. The producer Michael Stipe is also the frontman for R.E.M.--and, incidentally, likes to wear sparkly eyeshadow. Curlyheaded screenwriter Charlie Kaufman doubled as the executive producer of the film (and has a slew of strange...
...Spike Jonze, the director: Oh, we tried. We couldn't come up with anyone. I don't know what we would have done if John Malkovich did said no. Our list was empty...
...been a sweetly agreeable bit of fluff if its story wasn't so darn predictable. The film offers up a fairly tired plot, but then so did Deep Blue Sea, and I enjoyed every moment of that because it did such a good job of subverting its own genre. Director Damon Santostefano shows little creative flair, however, and spends most of his time desperately trying to find a comic tone, shifting between broad slapstick and homosexual farce...