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Typical of many Rom-Coms... Meh
Overall Recommendation:
3 stars
Premise:
3 stars
Story structure:
1 stars
Character:
2 stars
Dialogue:
4 stars
Emotion:
2 stars
November 30, 2011
Okay, I just watched "The Break-up Artists" to see what to think about the contest. I was mainly trying to understand the mindset of the judges. I think, in this case, the entire thing is weakened by the R-rated kinds of things that don't do much more than detract from character development and story. Much of the structure (beats, blocking, shots, etc) was well done.
About four glitches in the movie, times when it would repeat a little part. Otherwise the production values, with the sound and music, was high. Nothing really moving about the music. (Used lots of Bach piano, for example, at 1:10, for high-class parties.)
It is slow to start.Took more than 15 minutes before we understood what the main line of action was. And it wasn't the line of action for the character that started the movie. It had a number of quite implausible turns, like the big one toward the end, when the main fellow and his "girl" try to get their friends back together. Far fetched. So was the whole ending. Which includes the character development. It comes out of the blue, like the circumstances just happened to bring about this wonderful change. Most critics, like newspaper critics on Rotten Tomatoes, would be quite critical of these things. So I'm not thinking much of the judges evaluation of the film.
It does address an important, current topic about today's thinking on love and men and women. Again, real critics, though, would think it simply walked on the wild side and then settled for the traditional. It's the same criticism, for example, of Cecil B. DeMille's bible epics. It did start to verge on something interesting, the needed loyalty of the men to each other and the suggestion that something like that could exist between a man and a woman. That could have, and should have, been more developed.
Overall, It is topical and clever but not profound and moving. I don't believe a studio would pick it up. The judges, I would think, should be agents who have to pitch scripts to studios. They will know if a story has a chance or not.
I think most real critics, like those on newspapers for Rotten Tomatoes, would have big concerns about this movie.
About four glitches in the movie, times when it would repeat a little part. Otherwise the production values, with the sound and music, was high. Nothing really moving about the music. (Used lots of Bach piano, for example, at 1:10, for high-class parties.)
It is slow to start.Took more than 15 minutes before we understood what the main line of action was. And it wasn't the line of action for the character that started the movie. It had a number of quite implausible turns, like the big one toward the end, when the main fellow and his "girl" try to get their friends back together. Far fetched. So was the whole ending. Which includes the character development. It comes out of the blue, like the circumstances just happened to bring about this wonderful change. Most critics, like newspaper critics on Rotten Tomatoes, would be quite critical of these things. So I'm not thinking much of the judges evaluation of the film.
It does address an important, current topic about today's thinking on love and men and women. Again, real critics, though, would think it simply walked on the wild side and then settled for the traditional. It's the same criticism, for example, of Cecil B. DeMille's bible epics. It did start to verge on something interesting, the needed loyalty of the men to each other and the suggestion that something like that could exist between a man and a woman. That could have, and should have, been more developed.
Overall, It is topical and clever but not profound and moving. I don't believe a studio would pick it up. The judges, I would think, should be agents who have to pitch scripts to studios. They will know if a story has a chance or not.
I think most real critics, like those on newspapers for Rotten Tomatoes, would have big concerns about this movie.