Sick
of Woody...
It's happened
over the years...for the longest time, it was
not noticed. Once noticed, it remained unspoken.
Sadly, I can stay silent about it no longer. I
am SICK of Woody Allen. I find his voice
obnoxious, his scripts to be largely trivial
bulls... and his direction to be poorly paced,
disaffecting and unimaginative. Okay...Okay...I
know..."Annie Hall" was a brilliant film. I
acknowledge that fact. It will never be in my
Top 10, but "Annie Hall" was a well done film.
Woody, my man...at some point you have to move
on. The same crap year after year after year
gets old. I have no idea how you get people to
star in your films...I'm sure they have to work
for less than usual...and, well, let's be
honest...it's been years since you had anything
close to a major hit. What is it?
At least with Spike Lee, there's typically a
pretty average cast to start with...so, if they
look average it's okay. If the film works, it's
a bonus. With you, Woody, well you have a gift
for taking really talented people and making
them look like buffoons.
"Deconstructing Harry" is whiny, pretentious
crap made only slightly better by the trademark
creative casting of an Allen film. This film has
Richard Benjamin...Man, I love Richard Benjamin
even if I can't to this day get rid of the
flashbacks of him having sex with Julia Louis
Dreyfus. Ick.
Tobey Maguire is here...I'd never even realized
he'd done an Allen film...God, no wonder he's so
willing to put on the Spiderman suit...He's
getting enough financial stability so he never
has to do crap like this film again. Billy
Crystal & Demi Moore make halfway decent
appearances here...so, at least with a Woody
Allen film there's always something interesting
to look for...celebrity cameos and bit parts
abound.
As usual, Allen wrote and directed this film in
which he plays an author who wrote a book about
his best friends...well, it's not exactly a
flattering book so all his best friends come
looking for him. It's a silly, whiny and
self-deprecating script that only occasionally
works.
I suppose I can't deny having an obvious Allen
bias...Beyond sleeping with THEN marrying his
adopted daughter (sicko), he continues to make
self-centered, philosophical thumb twiddling
garbage.
As you have probably guessed by now, I do NOT
recommend this film.
©
Written by Richard
Propes
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