Saw it last night … the two friends I was with walked out after the first hour, but I stuck it out. It was honestly so disjointed, and its practised ignorance of "the real world" (that is, the world in which people have to work for a wage) verged on offensive.
The film overall was like a notably poor and incoherent graphic novel in the vein of something vast and eclectic like Jodorowsky's METABARONS, terribly executed and jam-packed with directorial innovations that didn't come off—for instance the decision to have characters speak as if they were performing Shakespeare at times, but unfortunately with only rotten written dialogue available. Certainly one of those cases where a studio executive's involvement would've been bloody handy.
Yeah, I think that comparison to a Jodorowsky graphic novel is a fair one.
It's frustrating, really, cause you can see an interesting film in the depths of it. I don't know if it'd be a good one - there's a lot of deliberate choices there that are pretty ofensive to anyone without a vineyard to sell so they can make their movie. But there's an interesting one there.
Saw it last night … the two friends I was with walked out after the first hour, but I stuck it out. It was honestly so disjointed, and its practised ignorance of "the real world" (that is, the world in which people have to work for a wage) verged on offensive.
The film overall was like a notably poor and incoherent graphic novel in the vein of something vast and eclectic like Jodorowsky's METABARONS, terribly executed and jam-packed with directorial innovations that didn't come off—for instance the decision to have characters speak as if they were performing Shakespeare at times, but unfortunately with only rotten written dialogue available. Certainly one of those cases where a studio executive's involvement would've been bloody handy.
Yeah, I think that comparison to a Jodorowsky graphic novel is a fair one.
It's frustrating, really, cause you can see an interesting film in the depths of it. I don't know if it'd be a good one - there's a lot of deliberate choices there that are pretty ofensive to anyone without a vineyard to sell so they can make their movie. But there's an interesting one there.