Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

ritera1 I was constantly beaten about the head and body with the motivations for this film and it wasn't to shine a light on old people.It was to shine a light on the director and his apparently feeble career, to somehow prop it up and hide it behind the resolve of art or perseverance.Now this a double-edged sword. Anybody who wants to be in the film business wants the jobs this director had. But I've reviewed his resume and they are all very poor films.Which brings me to this film (which was his first after an 11-year gap and nothing after '07). Some very good acting talent but then it stopped there. The director himself is competent but the "flash" effect was WAY overused. The script was ham-fisted and unrealistic, even if you apply dramatic license. It was clear to me that the director had messages and intentions but no story. He then grabbed the first devices he could find and tried to cram those circles into square holes. He wanted us to have respect for old people but I wasn't buying it. I didn't hear the sincerity in it all. I did hear the bitterness. It was just a vehicle for this hallow and familiar film. If there still was afterschool specials, then this would have a place. As it is, I don't know where it would go.I don't think it's right but especially in the movie business they err on the side of the young. I don't see the surprise in it all.

David Traversa I won't criticize this movie, since others had done it superbly. It's just a couple of issues I'm interested in. First one: I find praiseworthy to make a movie with very old people. The world population in general is getting older, and even so, we continue to avoid the issue. We are terrified by old age. But if we continue to live, we'll get there, whether we like it or not. So, better start to face reality, the sooner, the better. This issue is so very well presented with the character of the gaffer (Christopher Plummer) and the script writer, that it gives you the creeps. Their loneliness (old folks become invisible to society), their aimlessness in life (they lost their jobs to retirement without finding a healthy replacement for it), and all of a sudden, by chance, this young boy comes across their sunken lives (elderly homes) and gets them to help him to make a 10 minutes movie. All of a sudden, people that were almost growing moss out of their ears, become alive, they have a motif to live for now!! the whole bunch of elderly people starts making projects, and with their lifelong experience in their profession, they put together a remarkable film (the producer --Robert Wagner-- is very impressed with the final result). Now, the painful question: The 10 minutes film is done, are these old folks going back to their miserable living at the elderly home? wouldn't it have been better for them that the young man never came their way? after all, they were resigned to that life. But now what? This question makes me think that EUTANASIA should be legalized so when we decide that enough is enough, we can take our own life, at the precise moment we think it's better.

JoeytheBrit Spoilers.Films like this are so well-meaning and full of enthusiasm for their subject matter that you almost feel guilty for not liking them as much as you know the makers want you to. Writer and director Michael Schroeder hits on a really neat idea about a bunch of retired below-the-line filmmakers having their lives enriched by the opportunity to help a high school student called Cameron make his 10-minute student film, but diminishes its impact with a little too much sentimentality, some plot strands that go nowhere and no small amount of predictability.Christopher Plummer, looking not unlike an ageing John Huston, plays 'Flash' Madden, a former gaffer now reduced to drunkenly yelling at the screen and arguing with other customers at a run-down revival cinema. Madden was given his nickname by no less a legend than Orson Welles, but he represents the unglamorous side of the industry: the underpaid, overworked and unappreciated crew members nobody knows – not even movie buffs – whose countless movie credits count for nothing as they languish in an industry retirement home, forgotten or abandoned by their families. Madden's date of birth is shown as 1920, and the film is set in the present day, meaning he and his buddies are all approaching 90 when the action takes place, which is stretching credibility a little, but Plummer is very good in the role of the irascible old-timer, who hides his fear of ageing and death behind an angry mask, and tries to keep it at bay with copious amounts of Wild Turkey.Once Cameron's managed to enlist the aid of Flash, they visit Mickey Hopkins (M. Emmett Walsh, who looks like one of those big old cuddly muppets these days), a washed-up writer living in a dilapidated retirement home. Seeing the conditions he lives in, Cameron drops his original idea of a man who builds a car out of vacuum cleaner parts in favour of an expose of retirement home abuse and neglect. This is the director's cue to inject a little social commentary about our throwaway society into what is essentially a fantasy tale, and a laboured sub-plot-cum-metaphor about Flash's dream of releasing captive dogs into a park to enjoy one last moment of freedom before they're rounded up and put to sleep.The film is OK, and it's packed with movie references which should keep the buffs interested, but it feels a little disjointed at times. There are some surprisingly effective scenes, but characters drift in and out, and Flash's big hissy fit seems manufactured for dramatic effect rather than part of a realistic character arc. That he will die before the little film is screened is never in doubt, as is the fact that he will die a better man for helping Cameron.

majaa_vk Men in the chair is definitely not average film! Dialogs, assorted with Nietzsches bywords constitute wonderful film, with excellent performance!Christopher Plummer makes a step forward, improves film to higher level, with character Flash Madden, and Michael Angarano follows him right through! Emmet Walsh not more than usually, brings him self to the character and fulfil the perfect trio!This easy film, in time of special effects and super heroes, is a master piece, an exception worth every minute!Camera shows different altitudes, and moves, it completes the act and ambiance..Facile and rewarding! 10/10