Thursday, August 20, 2009

Movie: Metropolitan

This piece of crap is from 1990 (Metropolitan, written and directed by Whit Stillman)and I recently streamed it to my Xbox 360 via Netflix Instant Thingie. Some people --including otherwise reasonable professional critics-- think this is important or compelling in some way. I think it blows.

Metropolitan is like "Clerks" for the upper-crust. Take the pointless one-note dialog (all the characters have the same vocabulary and speech patterns; something Kevin Smith does a lot as does David Mamet), horrifyingly bad acting, and lack of any action (at least Clerks had hockey on the roof) and dress it up in aristocratic garb. It STILL sucks. It does have a plot; which Clerks lacks, and might have been interesting if done with real actors and a believable script.

Skip this film, unless you just want to make fun of the goofy hairstyles.

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