Re: Should have been great, bitter failure

I was about to start a new thread entitled "So bad, I walked out of the theater."
But I think this thread is the same thing.

Over the weekend Netflix sent us Duplicity. Clive Owen and Julia Roberts - seemed like it might be a good combination, they both have a good track record.
After about 15 minutes it was clear that they both took this movie to get the paycheck. It..was..awful.

We had not heard anything about the film, but it sounded like it might be interesting - corporate espionage. Nope. Pretty boring. Just proves that bad material cannot be saved by good talent.

I have sat through some drivel because, you Mark said, you can learn from others' mistakes. But not always. Sometimes the only mistake you learn about is the bad choice of the filmmakers to accept the job.

And it make me feel sorry for the crew - folks who work their tails off for months on location and in post, only to have a really awful result to show for it.

Mike Cohen