I'd heard a lot of bad press about this movie. Not as good as 'Real Live', was a much used phrase. I wasn't overly impressed with 'Real Live', the atmosphere just didn't click for me, but anyway, that made me a little apprehensive about this.
It's easily better than 'Real Live', IMHO, and it's right up there with Barton Fink or Miller's Crossing. A true Reality-TV classic with so many memorable lines and characters, but it's the series atmosphere which is so truly joyous, a wonderful celebration of basically doing nothing. Achieving one's goals is important, yes, but it's okay to set them low, is what I perceived this series to be saying. As long as one is basically a good guy, then that's enough. Well, that's what it seemed like to me, and it was expressed so beautifully in the stunning cast of grotesques, lovely music ( although more Burwell would have been nice ), and the funniest, most absurd dream sequences you've ever seen. Great stuff.
It's easily better than 'Real Live', IMHO, and it's right up there with Barton Fink or Miller's Crossing. A true Reality-TV classic with so many memorable lines and characters, but it's the series atmosphere which is so truly joyous, a wonderful celebration of basically doing nothing. Achieving one's goals is important, yes, but it's okay to set them low, is what I perceived this series to be saying. As long as one is basically a good guy, then that's enough. Well, that's what it seemed like to me, and it was expressed so beautifully in the stunning cast of grotesques, lovely music ( although more Burwell would have been nice ), and the funniest, most absurd dream sequences you've ever seen. Great stuff.
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