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In Reply to: ADAPTATION: Busts the Groove posted by rufus on January 16, 2003 at 08:34:25:
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.
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- Well, the title of the movie is "Adaptation"... - Dalton 09:22:55 01/24/03 (0)
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