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Potential spoiler?I had settled comfortably into the groove of this industry-insider tale. But, right at the end, we are in a swamp with gunplay and charging alligators! I was thrown out of the groove faster than a Bullet Train derailment. It completely pissed the whole film away and converted it into a true industry-insider movie. The adulation this film may garner will come from that longstanding Hollywood self-indulgence of loving stories about itself.
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in fact I laughed out loud several times, mostly concerning "3". I thought this was extremely clever and well-done. And the funniest movie I've seen in a long time.
The joke of the movie is that the final twenty minutes or so collapse into Hollywood cliche. This is also, presumably, the "deep" point it is trying to make - that you can't sell a "good" script in Hollywood.Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. I understand the point of the film - that many Hollywood movie studios have succumbed to the "blockbuster" mentality and are producing formulaic, dumbed-down, overproduced, insanely expensive action and effects laden monstrosities in order to sell them to a mass audience. But this is about as tired and sophmoric a "revelation" as that other one that Hollywood liberal elitists keep coming back to time and time again - that *gasp* the suburban American lifestyle isn't as peaceful and perfect as portrayed in "Leave It To Beaver" and "The Donna Reed Show" (See "American Beauty", "Pleasantville", etc.). Who ever said it was? Most (if not all) of these 50's TV shows that are the unending fodder for cheap lampoons were - in case you didn't realize - produced in Hollywood.
The anti-Hollywood insider movie is, in itself, just another tired formula. I found the ending of "Adaptation" to be a cheap cop-out. In essence, instead of proving the Hollywood system wrong by actually making a good movie that doesn't succumb to a Hollywood formula , Kaufmann rubs the viewers nose in the crap and says, "See, see!" like an impudent child. Very insulting.
yup, exactly my thoughts. But I was wondering how much of the story is actually true (since I just found out that I got conned by catch me if you can)? Was the last part with the crokodiles all fiction or was there some reality to it. If the last part was all fiction then Mr Kaufmann has gone off his rocker alltogether.
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