4 recensioni
BE WARNED. This movie is such a mess. It's a catastrophe. Don't waste your time with this one. I warned you!
The acting, story, dialogue, music... basically everything is so over the top, it's absolutely annoying and ridiculous. It made me want to throw up (if the dialogue/acting/story wasn't doing it, it's everyone being shot crooked). You'll feel like you're watching a comedy. The problem is, the parts that are supposedly funny isn't even funny. The acting, story, cinematography, you can feel everything is just trying WAAAAY too hard -- but it never succeeds. Practically every shot is canted, but so what?! This movie just feels like a student film. No wonder they shot this in HD because it would be a waste to spend more money to shoot this on film.
If you're easily amused or like poor acting, writing, editing, directing, full of clichés, everything that's forced in your face, oh and did I mention poor acting? (well, actually, it's not all the actor's fault - it's the director!) then I guess you'll like this movie.
I had to watch this for a class. I would have turned it off right away if I could. If you still can't tell by now, I HATED this movie. It made me want to throw up and get my time back... at least I didn't have to pay for this garbage.
Jeff Goldblum, you know... the guy from Jurassic Park/Independence Day, is in this movie but he sure went downhill from then -- accepting roles for movies like this catastrophe.
The acting, story, dialogue, music... basically everything is so over the top, it's absolutely annoying and ridiculous. It made me want to throw up (if the dialogue/acting/story wasn't doing it, it's everyone being shot crooked). You'll feel like you're watching a comedy. The problem is, the parts that are supposedly funny isn't even funny. The acting, story, cinematography, you can feel everything is just trying WAAAAY too hard -- but it never succeeds. Practically every shot is canted, but so what?! This movie just feels like a student film. No wonder they shot this in HD because it would be a waste to spend more money to shoot this on film.
If you're easily amused or like poor acting, writing, editing, directing, full of clichés, everything that's forced in your face, oh and did I mention poor acting? (well, actually, it's not all the actor's fault - it's the director!) then I guess you'll like this movie.
I had to watch this for a class. I would have turned it off right away if I could. If you still can't tell by now, I HATED this movie. It made me want to throw up and get my time back... at least I didn't have to pay for this garbage.
Jeff Goldblum, you know... the guy from Jurassic Park/Independence Day, is in this movie but he sure went downhill from then -- accepting roles for movies like this catastrophe.
When I was a teenager, I used to write all kind of absurd stories, "plays" and "novels" (usually very short: one-page-plays, half-a-page novels, etc.), combining in the most illogical way all kind of clichés, in an attempt to satirize and parodiate various subjects: snobbery, sugary romanticism, genre fiction, etc. A few of them were pretty funny - but the most were total failures (no fun, no wits, no sharpness at all).
While watching this "Fay Grim", for 3/4 of the screening, I was 100% convinced this was what it was: a failed parody at the worst thrillers. The total lack of reason, the ridiculous dialogs, the scandalous falseness of the actors, the outrageously cacophonous use of the sound-track (including those irritating noises trying to pass for "music", that seemed never to end), the illiterate cinematography, the ungrammatical editing, the fight scenes at the same level with a toddlers' game at bang-bang-I-shot-ya! - and all the other idiocies on screen seemed to be deliberate attempts to sarcasm, only devoid of humor, intelligence and professionalism.
Unfortunately, in the last part, I understood how wrong I had been: poor Hartley really took himself seriously! He imagined indeed he was making a movie (and a serious one, by that!).
As such, he deserves to be told the truth: Hal, baby, this stuff and movie-making are two VERY DIFFICULT things! It's not a child's play, with a camera and some actors who pitied you too much to tell you how retarded you are, and accepted to let you shoot them out of charity (I still wonder how aware is Goldblum of the self-disrespect level he proved with this masquerade). I would teach you a thing of two about what "cinema" means, but I doubt you are able to follow more than half of the first phrase. As such, please take my word: "Fay Grim" is as much a movie, as a pee puddle in a back alley is the Pacific Ocean. The bad news is that it stinks worse. The good news is that it can be wiped away as easily: just pour a gas canister over all the film reels and light a match. It will make a lot of smoke, but soon it will be over - an the world will be a better place.
While watching this "Fay Grim", for 3/4 of the screening, I was 100% convinced this was what it was: a failed parody at the worst thrillers. The total lack of reason, the ridiculous dialogs, the scandalous falseness of the actors, the outrageously cacophonous use of the sound-track (including those irritating noises trying to pass for "music", that seemed never to end), the illiterate cinematography, the ungrammatical editing, the fight scenes at the same level with a toddlers' game at bang-bang-I-shot-ya! - and all the other idiocies on screen seemed to be deliberate attempts to sarcasm, only devoid of humor, intelligence and professionalism.
Unfortunately, in the last part, I understood how wrong I had been: poor Hartley really took himself seriously! He imagined indeed he was making a movie (and a serious one, by that!).
As such, he deserves to be told the truth: Hal, baby, this stuff and movie-making are two VERY DIFFICULT things! It's not a child's play, with a camera and some actors who pitied you too much to tell you how retarded you are, and accepted to let you shoot them out of charity (I still wonder how aware is Goldblum of the self-disrespect level he proved with this masquerade). I would teach you a thing of two about what "cinema" means, but I doubt you are able to follow more than half of the first phrase. As such, please take my word: "Fay Grim" is as much a movie, as a pee puddle in a back alley is the Pacific Ocean. The bad news is that it stinks worse. The good news is that it can be wiped away as easily: just pour a gas canister over all the film reels and light a match. It will make a lot of smoke, but soon it will be over - an the world will be a better place.
- Mihnea_aka_Pitbull
- 10 nov 2008
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An awful film. Recommend skipping this movie. Parker Possey does not know how to act and God knows what Jeff Golblum was doing in this movie. Is no one approaching him with good movies???
It looked as though an amateur had made this movie. It was such a silly movie with no head or tail, screenplay out of place. Actors not knowing how to act. It was just nonsense that was dished out to us.
Henry Fool an apt name for the character in this movie. Actually the title should have been on these lines.
It was a total mockery of spy movies.
How about this tagline - featuring the continuing misadventures of Henry Fool and Fay Grim.
It looked as though an amateur had made this movie. It was such a silly movie with no head or tail, screenplay out of place. Actors not knowing how to act. It was just nonsense that was dished out to us.
Henry Fool an apt name for the character in this movie. Actually the title should have been on these lines.
It was a total mockery of spy movies.
How about this tagline - featuring the continuing misadventures of Henry Fool and Fay Grim.
Parker Posey's acting was so bad it ruined the movie for me. There were fine actors in this film, but I could not watch it.
- ted_tadlock
- 11 lug 2018
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