Jim Jarmusch wrote the script for this in two and one half weeks. It shows.
This is Rainman meets Ghostbusters (if Jarmusch can do it so can we) meets About Schmidt (in some 'scenes' he even looks like Jack) meets Lost in Translation with Murray's trademark deadpan used to the hilt - used so much that it becomes tiring, overdone, frayed and worn out, and starts falling flat on its deadpan face.
Fade in, fade out... Fade in, fade out... Some scenes are only seconds long. The movie never gets any tempo because Jarmusch is always doing a fade in, fade out...
When we got to the end, beginning to suspect this was a sophomore effort (you can start to tell because of the silly camera tricks it starts to devolve into) the girlfriend asked 'how could they sell this - how could they sell this to the likes of Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Christopher McDonald, Chloe Sevigny, and Jessica Lange? They were probably offered a $30 gift certificate and a bag of popcorn!' And I spontaneously replied 'because they liked it - liked the prospect of making it. Because you can enjoy making a movie without being able to enjoy seeing it.'
This is Rainman meets Ghostbusters (if Jarmusch can do it so can we) meets About Schmidt (in some 'scenes' he even looks like Jack) meets Lost in Translation with Murray's trademark deadpan used to the hilt - used so much that it becomes tiring, overdone, frayed and worn out, and starts falling flat on its deadpan face.
Fade in, fade out... Fade in, fade out... Some scenes are only seconds long. The movie never gets any tempo because Jarmusch is always doing a fade in, fade out...
When we got to the end, beginning to suspect this was a sophomore effort (you can start to tell because of the silly camera tricks it starts to devolve into) the girlfriend asked 'how could they sell this - how could they sell this to the likes of Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Christopher McDonald, Chloe Sevigny, and Jessica Lange? They were probably offered a $30 gift certificate and a bag of popcorn!' And I spontaneously replied 'because they liked it - liked the prospect of making it. Because you can enjoy making a movie without being able to enjoy seeing it.'