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bernardmlyons's rating
I wondered why there was this movie that had 4 HUGE actors at the time in it, and why I hadn't heard of it.
John Candy, Dan Akroyd, Chevey Chase and Demi Moore - each of which are great actors/comedians.
After seeing it, I realise why - jesus, it is bad.
The storyline is just like a bunch of stupid ideas, some supposed to be humourous, but its more like someone picked up a list of rejected story ideas and put them together. It just seems someone gave Akroyd carte blanche to write and make a movie, and no body actually cared it it was good or not. Apparently, he just went off script, and started including randome bits that people suggested. The movie doesn't really make sense, you don't feel for the characters, there is a lot of annoying Chevey Chase reactions at absurd situations.
If you want to think good of Akroyed and Chase, watch Ghostbusters or Fletch - and forget this exists.
I never give movies a 1 - I would give this a zero but you can't.
John Candy, Dan Akroyd, Chevey Chase and Demi Moore - each of which are great actors/comedians.
After seeing it, I realise why - jesus, it is bad.
The storyline is just like a bunch of stupid ideas, some supposed to be humourous, but its more like someone picked up a list of rejected story ideas and put them together. It just seems someone gave Akroyd carte blanche to write and make a movie, and no body actually cared it it was good or not. Apparently, he just went off script, and started including randome bits that people suggested. The movie doesn't really make sense, you don't feel for the characters, there is a lot of annoying Chevey Chase reactions at absurd situations.
If you want to think good of Akroyed and Chase, watch Ghostbusters or Fletch - and forget this exists.
I never give movies a 1 - I would give this a zero but you can't.
The Curse is very clever, very unconventional, and was is a great social study of certain aspects of society. Themes of white savior complex, gentrification, impractical environmentalism...and hopeless do-gooders.
There's lots of great things that get sent up here. Some of the cringe is really well done, however, its the mismatch between all of it that perhaps means it doesn't work.
At some point, it appears to be a drama, and you invest in the characters, but at other points, that drama is thrown away for something to surreal to happen.
Major plotlines are not followed up and you are left wondering why they were really introduced. Characters make odd choices. The two main characters seems to unrealistically move in different emotional dir3ections that don't really make sense.
Asher's character is most developed, Whits is at times a great send up of the superficual white do-gooder, and dougie's while perhaps being the most interesting, is never really explored that much... with unsatasfying hints at what is going on.
There are also surreal elements that come into the show and really in my mind, don't quite fit.
While it has attracted critisism for being slow, that was not an issue for me, it was more the fact the show doesn't quite know exactly what it wants to be.
There's lots of great things that get sent up here. Some of the cringe is really well done, however, its the mismatch between all of it that perhaps means it doesn't work.
At some point, it appears to be a drama, and you invest in the characters, but at other points, that drama is thrown away for something to surreal to happen.
Major plotlines are not followed up and you are left wondering why they were really introduced. Characters make odd choices. The two main characters seems to unrealistically move in different emotional dir3ections that don't really make sense.
Asher's character is most developed, Whits is at times a great send up of the superficual white do-gooder, and dougie's while perhaps being the most interesting, is never really explored that much... with unsatasfying hints at what is going on.
There are also surreal elements that come into the show and really in my mind, don't quite fit.
While it has attracted critisism for being slow, that was not an issue for me, it was more the fact the show doesn't quite know exactly what it wants to be.
The acting is dodgy (both the main actors had little experience), the storyline pretty boring, the scenery bland.
I grew up in this part of sydney, and movies showing Australian suburbia were rare, so this was reasonably popular as it showed a slice of life of Australia - which we never saw on the big screen.
I remember Australians growing up in the time would refer to it, and it was pretty famous.
But its overall, pretty bad. Bad acting, plot is very basic and not particularly interesting - but it does show what life was like at the time pretty well, so its of value as a historical/social piece. Even a bit of casual racism played off as a joke!
Parts of it are so bad they are funny, and the two actors, instead of acting drunk, actually *really* get drunk in one scene, and can barely say their lines.
Its a really bad Aussie film, but yes, of interest to people who grew up in that time, or that part of Sydney.
I grew up in this part of sydney, and movies showing Australian suburbia were rare, so this was reasonably popular as it showed a slice of life of Australia - which we never saw on the big screen.
I remember Australians growing up in the time would refer to it, and it was pretty famous.
But its overall, pretty bad. Bad acting, plot is very basic and not particularly interesting - but it does show what life was like at the time pretty well, so its of value as a historical/social piece. Even a bit of casual racism played off as a joke!
Parts of it are so bad they are funny, and the two actors, instead of acting drunk, actually *really* get drunk in one scene, and can barely say their lines.
Its a really bad Aussie film, but yes, of interest to people who grew up in that time, or that part of Sydney.