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It takes a very significant number of talented individuals to craft a good episode of SNL. The same holds true for this excellent representation of what the early days were like for the show's inception.
Well-known actors in top form round out an electric, less-known cast. The parallels continue as I'm excited to see where this film's selection of cast members end up just as the real Lorne plucked out less known yet gifted folks for a chance at stardom.
Frequent creative liberties tied to well-known actual events make this film very endearing and easy to stay engaged with. The more you know and respect about the history of SNL, NBC, and the original cast, the more you'll appreciate the very hard and deliberate work that went into this film. It's exactly what it was intended to be. The more you look and think about the massive cultural impact of Saturday Night Live, the more you'll appreciate the end result in Saturday Night--enjoy!
9/10.
Well-known actors in top form round out an electric, less-known cast. The parallels continue as I'm excited to see where this film's selection of cast members end up just as the real Lorne plucked out less known yet gifted folks for a chance at stardom.
Frequent creative liberties tied to well-known actual events make this film very endearing and easy to stay engaged with. The more you know and respect about the history of SNL, NBC, and the original cast, the more you'll appreciate the very hard and deliberate work that went into this film. It's exactly what it was intended to be. The more you look and think about the massive cultural impact of Saturday Night Live, the more you'll appreciate the end result in Saturday Night--enjoy!
9/10.
Yes, it is a musical. Yes, it is technically a "Joker" movie. And yes, it is awful.
This was not what any of us expected. It was impossible to tell what they were going for with this movie. An edgy love story? Maybe a "clever", ironic reclamation of the comic book origin story? Regardless, it'll take a long while to wash out this bad taste.
At least two years too late following up on any potential successful franchise, this boring, unfunny, strange (and not in a good way) slog of a tale went nowhere. Only 20 minutes in, half of the theater began audibly groaning every time Joaquin or Gaga started singing ANOTHER of the 14 (!!) showtunes with minimal relevance. I am racking my brain trying to think who that movie was made for. It had no significance for carrying any certain plot forward nor was it entertaining as a standalone film. Joaquin and Gaga did fine in their roles, but the script, plot, and character "development" were all terrible.
Was the joke on us all along?
2/10.
This was not what any of us expected. It was impossible to tell what they were going for with this movie. An edgy love story? Maybe a "clever", ironic reclamation of the comic book origin story? Regardless, it'll take a long while to wash out this bad taste.
At least two years too late following up on any potential successful franchise, this boring, unfunny, strange (and not in a good way) slog of a tale went nowhere. Only 20 minutes in, half of the theater began audibly groaning every time Joaquin or Gaga started singing ANOTHER of the 14 (!!) showtunes with minimal relevance. I am racking my brain trying to think who that movie was made for. It had no significance for carrying any certain plot forward nor was it entertaining as a standalone film. Joaquin and Gaga did fine in their roles, but the script, plot, and character "development" were all terrible.
Was the joke on us all along?
2/10.
Once upon a time, Mike Judge visited Francis Ford Coppola on one of his eleventy vineyards. The following is a transcript of their conversation.
Judge: "Hey, you haven't made a movie in almost two decades. I know you're incredibly out of touch, practice, and irrelevant but why don't you waste a hundred mil or so of that cheap wine fortune on a pile of hot, steaming garbage? Pull out all the stops with some higher end actors, big budget set pieces, costumes, and a ridiculously long production timeline. Then release it when everybody's desperate to watch... literally anything at all."
Coppola: "What should it be about?"
Judge: "Uhhhhhh maybe like a misguided civilization collapsing under its own weight where everything is hyperbolic, nonsensical, and weird so people all suck?"
Coppola: "You already made that movie, that's Idiocracy."
Judge: "Oh. Well make it anyway but not fun at ALL. Idiocracy + Great Gatsby + Tenet + Brazil. Also, don't have any point to it but also every point at the same exact time. Make everybody feel dumber, poorer, and worse off for having seen it. Just a giant middle finger to everybody to show how you can do anything you want with all your money. Like you're being ironic for acting like a megalomaniac but also like it a lot. You'll be 85 when it comes out and Hollywood will pretend they understood it and thought it was a masterpiece so you'll get a ton of legacy points though. Make sure it's boring but flashy. Subtle as a sledgehammer but pure nonsense. Interesting enough to look at but a complete disappointment in the end. I hate even thinking about it already."
Coppola: "I love it."
Judge: "Haha, we're rich."
Coppola: "Haha, yeah. More cheap but fancy looking wine?"
(3/10 for reuniting Stanley Yelnats IV and Mr. Sir one last time)
Judge: "Hey, you haven't made a movie in almost two decades. I know you're incredibly out of touch, practice, and irrelevant but why don't you waste a hundred mil or so of that cheap wine fortune on a pile of hot, steaming garbage? Pull out all the stops with some higher end actors, big budget set pieces, costumes, and a ridiculously long production timeline. Then release it when everybody's desperate to watch... literally anything at all."
Coppola: "What should it be about?"
Judge: "Uhhhhhh maybe like a misguided civilization collapsing under its own weight where everything is hyperbolic, nonsensical, and weird so people all suck?"
Coppola: "You already made that movie, that's Idiocracy."
Judge: "Oh. Well make it anyway but not fun at ALL. Idiocracy + Great Gatsby + Tenet + Brazil. Also, don't have any point to it but also every point at the same exact time. Make everybody feel dumber, poorer, and worse off for having seen it. Just a giant middle finger to everybody to show how you can do anything you want with all your money. Like you're being ironic for acting like a megalomaniac but also like it a lot. You'll be 85 when it comes out and Hollywood will pretend they understood it and thought it was a masterpiece so you'll get a ton of legacy points though. Make sure it's boring but flashy. Subtle as a sledgehammer but pure nonsense. Interesting enough to look at but a complete disappointment in the end. I hate even thinking about it already."
Coppola: "I love it."
Judge: "Haha, we're rich."
Coppola: "Haha, yeah. More cheap but fancy looking wine?"
(3/10 for reuniting Stanley Yelnats IV and Mr. Sir one last time)