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Anything Else (2003)
Young insane writer guided by older insane writer...a snooze!
A dreadful, boring, stupid, inane film, not worth seeing. An embarrassing film, in fact - it made me uneasy to watch it, knowi g that it purports to be a Wody Alen film. This is, I think, an effort by Woody Allen to recapitulate all the romantic comedies of his entire career, unfortunately by the colossally foolish method of culling every bad line, foolish and/or boring scenario he ever constructed and pasting them together to avoid making a new film. To make matters worse, the direction is derivative of, well, Woody Allen...at his worst. Which is not even the worst news, which is that the acting is beyond terrible. Ricci is dreadful. Awful is too generous a word. Horrible comes closer but falls short, ultimately.
This movie is flat out horrific.
Jewz N the Hood (2005)
Jewish toughs survive attack
If you loved BORAT, you'll love this movie -- fun, funny, fast...and did we mention funny. This short is both tightly written and directed, and it is well-filmed and well-edited. I thought that it was very well done, in that it managed to tell a story in a few short minutes, but also managed to amuse me and make me laugh. I also thought the director -- a first timer, I am told -- did a wonderful job with the actors and the director of photograph... The satire of a well-known, if laborious and sometimes tedious feature, is a difficult task for any director/writer, but for a first time writer, it is particularly difficult and problematic. I think that Josh Sterne, the writer/director, managed to pull off the satire beautifully, while still being able to quickly and tersely tell the story.