Rising Star

I also can't believe i watched all of it. perhaps i was waiting for it to get better, but sadly, it was wretched from beginning to end, from acting to plot to the writing and the crappy film quality--it reminded me of a very bad 80s pr0n film as far as quality and acting and dialogue.

it's amazing how many movies use the conceit of providing character insights by dint of a therapist or a friend or girlfriend asking them questions or providing narrative about them. it really annoys me when this is so obvious that i notice it and then it annoys me and nags at me as i dislike being manipulated. and the producers created and assigned the female lead to do exactly that for like 94% of the entire movie and she was super annoying.

but far surpassing her annoyance factor was the male lead--the dullest, most uninteresting, most emotionless, most stick-up-the-ass person in existence and the last person on earth to be a subject of a movie. and i still don't know if the character was written like that and the actor was brilliant or that the actor created the lack of character by being emotionless.

worthless dreck, imo.

/guy

I did not like this movie. Maybe I mean it was too juvenile for me. After all, I am 66 so that is 'possible'. :) But I WANTED to like the movie, because I liked the male lead. Unfortunately he must have picked his latest BFF to be the female lead, because otherwise I cannot figure out WHY she was the female lead. She was not talented, only 'a bit cute'. She couldn't rap. I do think rap is good only for when you are vomiting, but nevertheless there are certain raps that I 'almost' like, but not hers. She was like some Canadian townie trying to do karaoke. As for acting, she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper sack. I mean the guy is an insurance adjuster, but clearly he doesn't know ANYTHING AT ALL about that job, because frankly it is a VERY interesting job. My husband is an insurance adjuster and he is not only the sexiest man I've ever known (and I've known a lot of sexy men), he is also the most intelligent man I know (that's not really saying much since most men are rather stupid creatures after all). The movie is still running on my notepad right now (a roku channel) and the female lead is again trying to act. hmmm. Her arms are flabby (mine are not and I think women who have flabby arms are too damn lazy). Now they are having sex on their first 24 hours together. Kids, this is 2014, not 1967. There is no such thing as 'free love' AND today, unlike 1967, there are incurable forms of STDs. Okay, now I am firmly convinced she must be the producer/lead male actor's girlfriend, because she just CANNOT act, and there is nothing 'appealing' about her AT ALL. Really if you are gonna make someone a 'love interest' at LEAST make her (or HIM) someone that the viewer's imagination WANTS to be with. sigh. Oh well, time to get back to the second revisions to my third book now.

I agree with reviewer alikinds who said 10 minutes was all he ( or she) could take. It was nearly impossible for the female lead, whatever her name was , to deliver a line without grinning like the Cheshire Cat: after my 10 minutes I wanted to jump through the screen and wipe that smile off her face. After her profound " it is what it is" pronouncement- probably her only low wattage delivery-my time was up: save yours d n 6/2/18