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Great concept but something just didn't click

posted 10 years ago by Bronte_Sista
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The concept, the themes, and the characters (and actors) were all interesting, but something kept it from coming together. I think it may have been the script. It's like the scenes just didn't snap or something. The scenes seemed to drag and mumble along. I got the dark humor that was supposed to be coming through, but something about the ingredients was off. I don't know how to explain this. Just too bad. I want them to have a do over to get it right.

[–] JamesBondOO7 10 years ago

I felt like it all came together great. Sometimes things would drag a bit long in certain scenes but keep in mind its still a independent film. Majority of indie films do that to add onto the time or to keep it in budget. I enjoyed it from start to end and feel like they don't have to do it over but everything is opinion based so I can see where your coming from.

[–] iretos 10 years ago

I didn't see anything wrong in the movie, the script or whatever, I loved it much more than I expected. I read that it was weird (and it is, no doubt) but it isn't weird for the sake of it; reading the plot it gave an idea of something surreal (and here again, it is, but not as I imagined). What I didn't expect was the warmth of it all, the genuinity, the tenderness, the sense of friendship, this concept of art-for-art, music-for-music which is almost revolutionary nowadays.

[–] garriotts 10 years ago

I kind of know what you mean. I thought it was decent, but it could have been a lot better. I wish the movie itself had more of an "outsider" oddball, DIY, fun approach to the actual filmmaking, instead of the formal, reserved dime a dozen indie look and feel that it had. I was also thrown off by the way it started off following the dull Jon character. I would have preferred getting a feel for the actual band first and had Jon come in as an outsider part way through the movie.

[–] courts0 10 years ago

Had the same reaction. A lot of it has to do with how uninteresting Jon is, as I just wasn't invested in his journey and subsequently didn't really care whether or not he was able to help the band make it big. On top of that I didn't find it particularly funny or enlightening, save for the last 10-15 minutes -after Frank takes his head off- which I thought were fantastic.

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[–] Enlightened_Lanterns 10 years ago

Jon is suppose to illustrate the "mediocre" viewpoint of the average person. Such as trying to find his place within musically talented people and trying to "make it big."

Jon is the character that is trying to make the band hole, which we see throughout the film he isn't, and then at the end he simply walks away. He inadvertantly made the band hole with his mess ups, showing they don't need a keyboardist.

[–] iretos 10 years ago

No, or at least not exactly. Jon is the one who's looking for something different in his life and who thinks, once he meets the band, that he can make them famous. Because, for him, just being famous matters. He realizes only in the end that this is not what the band's members need, all they need is being together, around Frank and nothing else. He doesn't walk away because "they don't need a keyboardist", but because he amended his mistake bringing Frank back to where he belongs and going away because there's no place for him in the group.

[–] Enlightened_Lanterns 10 years ago

I think you may have been taking my "didn't need a keyboardist" a little too literal.
Essentially your last sentence is what I was saying, only personalizing it in relation to Jon.

It's the overall destruction of what was there in order for it to be rebuilt even stronger.

Had Jon never joined the Soronprfbs, they probably would have never seen who Frank really was and Frank probably would still be wearing the head.

Jon is the wrench that gets thrown into the gears...Then as he gets knocked out of place he impossibly ricochets off the wall, and tightens up the loose bolts that were there...and then he's gone...
This is possibly the most obscure way of describing this film, but for me it works.

[–] henrimaine 9 years ago

I feel kind of similar to the original poster. The movie was OK, but not great, and I think it could have been greater, given the general concept. The idea of a weird/genius artist, wearing a ridiculous huge doll head, seemed very funny and quite original at first. I later learned that there has actually been such a doll-head artist, but I presume that artist did not wear that head all the time, like the guy in this movie did. I think the movie wasted too much time on these Ireland recording sessions. I would have liked to see more of the club or music industry scene. The singer with a doll-head could have been a basis for some great comedic moments.