Anyone Actually like this?

Two of my favorite films this year, this and Weather Man, we marketed all wrong. They marketed them as straight comedy, when they were more on the drama side. People expected something else when they saw these two.

i expected a film like groundhog day, however i wasnt dissapionted. its nice to see that harold ramis can do both types of films and do them so well. too bad this didnt make any money in theatres. i personally loved it.

Tampaman...are you being sarcastic or do you really think that it was obvious that John Cusack would be stabbed in the foot??

Okay, so this is kind of a roundabout way of getting to my point, but bear with me.

You remember the show The Comeback, with Lisa Kudrow? Well, I really enjoyed it, but I've read a lot of viewer feedback, and it would seem I'm in the minority. From what I gathered, the main reason people disliked the show was that the humor was lacking for them. They just kept saying, in one way or another, that basically she couldn't be so unlucky and so unfortunate and still have it be a comedy. In my mind, my constant response was, "Then look at the show as something else, and see if you LIKE the fool thing!" I just couldn't get over how many people just said, "Not funny. Not good comedy. Me no like," instead of, "Let's see if I like this as a satire. No? How about a light drama," etc. It just kinda pissed me off.

So then...

We have a new John Cusak movie. I frickin' love John Cusak. And Oliver Platt. And Pushing Tin was enjoyable, so Cusak and Thornton should be fun. And to top it all off, I hear several comparisons to Get Shorty. Some critic says it's the sequel that should have been. Another says Elmore Leonard couldn't have done any better. Well, I frickin' loved Get Shorty as well. So self aware was it. So smooth and suave. Suffice it to say, I was going to love this movie.

And then I saw it...

John Cusak was not charming. Billy Bob was hardly in it at all. The movie did not have a keen awareness of itself. Where Get Shorty was clean and cool and put together like one of Chili Palmer's suits, Ice Harvest was cold and dark and ever falling apart like Cusak's character. Suffice it to say, I was disappointed.

Until... (you like all these ellipses breaks, by the way?)

I came here. You guys basically became me telling others to just look at it another way. Thank you all. I may not see the movie again, but you have truly enlightened me and sorta humbled me. Not in a big, earth-shattering way or anything, but in an appreciated way. I acknowledge that this film had its merits, many of which I may have missed due to other expectations, and that is solely because of this thread. Thank you.

Have just came across this on imdb and I can't believe this has been made into a film! I read the book by Scott Phillips and absolutely loved it! Has anyone who has read the book seen the film. I'd be interested in hearing their views. Also, is the ending the same, and will they be doing the sequel?

("As Witchita falls, so falls Witchita Falls", NOW I get it!)

I still don't get it. What did that mean?

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