(auth. Feb. 1. 2009)
In the modern world of movie promotion, the best clips are used in other media to entice the movie-goer into committing cash. Hasn't anyone told Steve Martin that he isn't phunny?
One Pink Panther flick by this guy was bad enough, now there sprouts a sequel. With the economic downturn, I do hope its all his money that was invested. Remember, according to the best clip axiom, which is now polluting television adverts, is a pope falling off a balcony. Oh slap my knee!
The economy isn't the only thing that is bankrupt in America. Hollywood America appears bankrupt of any ideas. Steve Martin busting a hernia trying to be Inspector Clouseau is one sample. Another example was the passing movie "Get Smart".
Most of the people who liked the movie probably didn't get the original television series. The original thrived because it grew out of the fear generated by the Cold War and the movie run of the best James Bond ever. Today Get Smart tv reruns appear infantile. The show was very topical to a culture that lived under the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation.
A major problem with the Get Smart directors and producers is that they didn't "get" Smart. They turned Maxwell Smart into a competent. Actually Steve Martin would have done better as Smart than the pathetically mundane actor Steve Carrell. They authored the movie as a reflection of character which is the standard screenplay formula of all Hollywood screenplays in today's commercially motivated movie industry.
The original Get Smart was a satire focussed on technology. Instead the director and screen writers focussed on a romantic comedy between Carrell and bug eyed beauty Anne Hathaway as agent 99. Totally wrong and a lost opportunity.
What is amazing about the Get Smart movie creators is that they don't understand modern technology. They went back on the old fall backs like the cone of silence and shoe phones. If one thinks the old technology was hilarious, this brain trust missed the entire potential that modern technology holds for satire. The television creators of the Get Smart television series did get the technology. While a shoe phone is old hat to the modern person at the time of the early sixties that technology was leading edge.
Huh. Another satire tonight. Its Stupid Bowl night. See the parody of what was once a good game.
1 comment:
Pardon me? You were expecting Hollywood to be insightful and creative? I think that's against their religion, isn't it? It seems to me, they're somehow required to produce nothing but pale imitations of previous successes.
If you're insightful or creative, I'm pretty sure they immediately ride you out of that particular town on a rail, covered in tar and feathers.
As for the Stupid Bowl, don't get me started.
I'm sure I'm imagining things but just for a moment or two, it appeared to me the referees were going to great lengths to ensure Pittsburgh neither met nor beat the spread of seven points.
All the people who bet on Pittsburgh (most everyone) won the game but lost their bets.
Surprise! Surprise!
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