Gay jokes, clichés and other minor details aside...did ANYONE notice the continuous visual blooper of the BOOM MIKE CONSTANTLY BOBBING UP AND DOWN ABOVE THE ACTORS HEADS thruout MANY scenes in the film?? Reading the reviews from EBERT, and other "distinguished" film reviewers, no one seemed to notice this or care that it made the final cut of the film.
They spent better than a month in Chicago to reshoot the end of the movie because word has it the test audiences didn't like the way the original cut of the film ended, spent many hundreds of thousands on non-union extras, rental of equipment, food, paying the actors outrageous sums of money to make this turkey, and the director, the producer, the film editors and the production people at Universal Studios can't even properly frame a scene so that the boom mike doesn't show on camera??? I'd expect that kind of amateur editing from teen filmmakers at Columbia College, but UNIVERSAL?? What happened, Mr Reed? Fall asleep watching the rushes??
Outside of the fact that many of the characters were shallow and unnecessary (somebody actually PAID Ann Margret to make a cameo appearance and sit like a bump on a log at the dinner table scene when a no-name extra could have done just as well), the film felt uneven and stopped being funny about 30 minutes in. All the hoo-haa, interviews on Letterman & Leno, Vince And Jen romance PR and the unnecessary media circus they did for this flick could have been saved by delaying the release of the film until they found a professional to edit and frame it properly, and THEN develop the characters to more resemble people we can care about.
The end scene where Vince and Jen accidentally "bumped into" each other in front a store some months after their breakup concluded with Jen and Vince flashing a little smile at each other before they walked their separate ways. I imagine they were both thinking "we pulled off a nice little publicity scam, and got paid WAAAAYYY more than we're worth, and the public came to see us anyway..."
This is film-making? Apparently it's easier to scam the public than I thought......
They spent better than a month in Chicago to reshoot the end of the movie because word has it the test audiences didn't like the way the original cut of the film ended, spent many hundreds of thousands on non-union extras, rental of equipment, food, paying the actors outrageous sums of money to make this turkey, and the director, the producer, the film editors and the production people at Universal Studios can't even properly frame a scene so that the boom mike doesn't show on camera??? I'd expect that kind of amateur editing from teen filmmakers at Columbia College, but UNIVERSAL?? What happened, Mr Reed? Fall asleep watching the rushes??
Outside of the fact that many of the characters were shallow and unnecessary (somebody actually PAID Ann Margret to make a cameo appearance and sit like a bump on a log at the dinner table scene when a no-name extra could have done just as well), the film felt uneven and stopped being funny about 30 minutes in. All the hoo-haa, interviews on Letterman & Leno, Vince And Jen romance PR and the unnecessary media circus they did for this flick could have been saved by delaying the release of the film until they found a professional to edit and frame it properly, and THEN develop the characters to more resemble people we can care about.
The end scene where Vince and Jen accidentally "bumped into" each other in front a store some months after their breakup concluded with Jen and Vince flashing a little smile at each other before they walked their separate ways. I imagine they were both thinking "we pulled off a nice little publicity scam, and got paid WAAAAYYY more than we're worth, and the public came to see us anyway..."
This is film-making? Apparently it's easier to scam the public than I thought......