the groundhog day project

The Room is a must-see for fans of film. Mostly for reasons that are not good ones. I've watched it and written about it numerous times for this blog... day 609 - people are very strange these days day 610 - Men and women use and abuse each other all the time day 611 - you’re tearing me apart, lisa day 1086 - i’m doing what i want to do day 1087 - women change their minds all the time day 1088 - god, i’m so tired day 1089 - anyway, how is your sex life? day 1090 - denny, don’t ask a question like that day 1091 - what kind of movie are we going to see? day 1092 - i’m just sitting up here thinkin’, you know In that last one there, I wrote: We can all laugh at how bad The Room is, sure. And it is bad. But, those actors put themselves out there, and made something . If more people did creative things, nevermind just how good or bad the results would be, we'd be better off. And being in their audience, especially together, we would be better off. Today, I fin...

Plan 9 from Outer Space is, on its surface, an awful film, far worse than The Happening , but even if you've not seen Ed Wood and seen Johnny Depp's take on the titular director as a man so in love with film he cannot see its flaws, this movie has charm. It's just so... earnest and overwrought; its voiceover is too much, its melodramatic underpinnings are too big for its short running time; and its straightforwardness of plot coupled, its simplicity of sets (like this airplane cockpit which is barely more than a wall with a curtain; they don't even have steering columns), its simplistic acting (without being goofy or inhuman like Walhberg or Deschanel in The Happening ), it's mix of cheap original footage and stock footage, and its ridiculous premise make for a weirdly entertaining thing. Jeff's (Gregory Walcott) rant about how he can't tell anyone about the flying saucer he saw because he's "muzzled by army brass" feels like the kind of ran...