This hour and a half documentary snuck its way into my "Touch of Tarantino" DVD box-set, and, being a fan of behind-the-scenes and general DVD-obesity, I just finished watching it - being at home and a little ill on a Friday evening anyway.
There's plenty of minutes between the golden lines, but that said, this feature is a nice experience and a good substitute for your Hard Copy pulp, or how you guys keep yourself up to date with the off-stage life of actors and film-makers and -crew.
We get all the way around the film crew, from the best boys and the catering guy to lots of comradely fooling around between especially Mr. Tarantino and Mr. Clooney.
The documentary has a few highlights, e.g. when Juliette Lewis talks about acting, describing it as (quoted freely from memory) "well, to me acting is just lying. All that getting-to-know the character I don't understand, I just lie". Or one of the crew guys, asked about why he does, what he does: "- So I don't have to get a real job. And I get to work with other people, who don't have real jobs either".
To sum it up, I can't think of why I would recommend watching this documentary from a movie-critic POW - but if you want to recognize that movies are bottom line made by geeks (in the most positive sense, by the way) and, yes, 'normal people' - of if you have reached the end of your DVD-shelf and Blockbuster is closed, hey, flip it in.
There's plenty of minutes between the golden lines, but that said, this feature is a nice experience and a good substitute for your Hard Copy pulp, or how you guys keep yourself up to date with the off-stage life of actors and film-makers and -crew.
We get all the way around the film crew, from the best boys and the catering guy to lots of comradely fooling around between especially Mr. Tarantino and Mr. Clooney.
The documentary has a few highlights, e.g. when Juliette Lewis talks about acting, describing it as (quoted freely from memory) "well, to me acting is just lying. All that getting-to-know the character I don't understand, I just lie". Or one of the crew guys, asked about why he does, what he does: "- So I don't have to get a real job. And I get to work with other people, who don't have real jobs either".
To sum it up, I can't think of why I would recommend watching this documentary from a movie-critic POW - but if you want to recognize that movies are bottom line made by geeks (in the most positive sense, by the way) and, yes, 'normal people' - of if you have reached the end of your DVD-shelf and Blockbuster is closed, hey, flip it in.