Date Night: "The weirdest thing happened to me today. It's something that hasn't happened for months, maybe longer. I honestly don't even remember the last time it happened. It was bizarre. I was sitting in a movie theater, watching a studio comedy, and I was completely overcome by this unfamiliar sensation. I think it might have been happiness. I'm not sure, exactly, since it's been such a long time since I felt anything akin to that in a multiplex. But that odd sensation was accompanied by laughter. Real laughter. I laughed. Out loud. More than once. And it wasn't even at stuff I'd already seen in the trailers. When I left the theater, I wasn't hit by a wave of disappointment. I was in this oddly pleasant mood. I didn't know what to do with myself. I briefly considered running back into the theater and watching The Last Song...
- 8/10/2010
- by Intern Rusty
The Joneses is about a four-member sales unit posing as a family in order to use guerrilla tactics like fake banter and good old-fashioned envy to push a variety of high-end products on unsuspecting rich people. I'm telling you this up front and in plain language in case you want to see the movie yourself, in which case you'll need a cheat sheet to make sense of it at the beginning. First-time writer-director Derrick Borte commits a number of sins in the film, but the biggest is that everyone in it behaves as if they've read the script already. Every quality piece of filmed entertainment establishes its concept quickly and (hopefully) with a minimum of exposition. Two random examples: If you go into The Godfather knowing nothing about it, you will immediately begin to piece together that it's about a sprawling Italian family in mid-century America with ties to crime.
- 4/16/2010
- by Daniel Carlson
Rating: 3/5
Writer: Derrick Borte (writer), Randy T. Dinzler (story)
Director: Derrick Borte
Cast: David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard, Ben Hollingsworth, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Derrick Borte’s feature film debut follows the exploits of our titular family, including mama bear Kate (Demi Moore), patriarch Steve (David Duchovny), and their two lovely teenagers, Jenn and Mick (Amber Heard and Ben Hollingsworth). The Joneses (as familial unit) are not your average family. I wonder now how much I should give away here, but the marketing for The Joneses as film stands pretty firmly on the legs of the film’s premise, and its public synopsis proudly announces just what’s going on. If you want to be shocked, stop reading now. But for a film that could very easily marinate in the cleverness of its own premise, The Joneses exposes what’s really going on early – almost too early.
Writer: Derrick Borte (writer), Randy T. Dinzler (story)
Director: Derrick Borte
Cast: David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard, Ben Hollingsworth, Gary Cole, Glenne Headly
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Derrick Borte’s feature film debut follows the exploits of our titular family, including mama bear Kate (Demi Moore), patriarch Steve (David Duchovny), and their two lovely teenagers, Jenn and Mick (Amber Heard and Ben Hollingsworth). The Joneses (as familial unit) are not your average family. I wonder now how much I should give away here, but the marketing for The Joneses as film stands pretty firmly on the legs of the film’s premise, and its public synopsis proudly announces just what’s going on. If you want to be shocked, stop reading now. But for a film that could very easily marinate in the cleverness of its own premise, The Joneses exposes what’s really going on early – almost too early.
- 4/16/2010
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
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