Randomly and because of a lack of creativity, I decided to check out
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard this weekend. I obviously was not expecting a lot, but alas I was still disappointed. Jeremy Piven (generally delightful, excruciatingly irritating here) plays Don Ready, the man with the golden touch when it comes to selling used cars. A floundering Temecula car dealership hires the services of Ready and his team to ensure big sales during their 4th of July event. What follows is one lame joke and plot contrivence after another. Some jokes land, but most fall flat.
The Goods seems like the kind of movie that was quickly thrown together by a bunch of guys who found their own jokes to be so funny they didn't realize they were the only ones laughing.
I'm torn on Tarantino. I love how his movies are always a big event. They're big and bold and grand. I like that. I'm not a big fan of
Pulp Fiction, but I absolutely
love Death Proof. Go figure. I think I fall right in the middle with
Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino sure does like his dialogue and there was a lot of it in
Basterds. Sometimes it worked beautifully, sometimes I got impatient waiting for the characters to get to the point. I think that general opinion sort of applies to the whole movie for me. There were parts of the movie that were clicking along and were great fun and had a lot of laughs, but there were also a couple of scenes that I just wished would end.
Randomly and because of a lack of creativity, I decided to check out The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard this weekend. I obviously was not expecting a lot, but alas I was still disappointed. Jeremy Piven (generally delightful, excruciatingly irritating here) plays Don Ready, the man with the golden touch when it comes to selling used cars. A floundering Temecula car dealership hires the services of Ready and his team to ensure big sales during their 4th of July event. What follows is one lame joke and plot contrivence after another. Some jokes land, but most fall flat. The Goods seems like the kind of movie that was quickly thrown together by a bunch of guys who found their own jokes to be so funny they didn't realize they were the only ones laughing.
I'm torn on Tarantino. I love how his movies are always a big event. They're big and bold and grand. I like that. I'm not a big fan of Pulp Fiction, but I absolutely love Death Proof. Go figure. I think I fall right in the middle with Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino sure does like his dialogue and there was a lot of it in Basterds. Sometimes it worked beautifully, sometimes I got impatient waiting for the characters to get to the point. I think that general opinion sort of applies to the whole movie for me. There were parts of the movie that were clicking along and were great fun and had a lot of laughs, but there were also a couple of scenes that I just wished would end.
1 comment:
You've convinced me to skip The Goods...but, just as you claim to be torn on Tarantino, I'm now torn on whether or not to see it. Pulp Fiction was an acquired taste for me, but I hate Kill Bill no matter how many times I see it. Hmmm.....
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