2019 Directed by Steven Knight
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen tracks him down with a desperate plea for help.
steven knight finishing this screenplay: media.giphy.com/media/bLVNvzX4k8R5S/giphy.gif
exclusively for people that watched The Truman Show and were like “man, i wish there were more matthew mcconaughey drunkenly yelling about tuna and iraq and sucking on anne hathaway’s chin”... luckily that’s me. a few screams and line deliveries in here that would make nic cage proud (“GIMME THE ROD!”) scattered throughout this very pro-rum, pro-butt, pro-murder, hoot-and-holler cinema gem. as pure a piece of nonsense screenwriting as one could hope for in their life. loved it.
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Lmaooooooooooooo.
To be fair, I definitely liked this, as it is incredibly watchable and baffling from the first scene to the last, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly why. It really has no reason to exist, but each and every decision, whether by narrative or character or visual, feels so particular and pored over. It's equal to someone playing darts in a dive-bar, and they miss the board *every fucking time*, and not only does it *not* hit the board, but each dart flies in a different direction so gracefully and forcefully that it must've been on purpose, right? Well, it wasn't. No way. Nohow. But it's that dedication and unaware innocence towards the exorbitant stupidity of Serenity that creates a new good-bad classic, one which features (among many wonderful, wonderful things) a man named The Rules and Diane Lane as a sexy, senile cat lady.
"Steer clear Big Tuna, head for open waters."
this was very, very bad - but bad in a way I can almost respect? Serenity is sure to join the ranks of Life Itself and Collateral Beauty as films that suck so aggressively and seemingly purposefully that you almost admire them for going there.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is shit, but that is also why it is amazing. The twist is so forcefully shoved so hard into your ass that it's hillarious. Go see it!
I'm not sure why I even liked this or found it watchable at all, its a film with a stupid plot about a broke fisherman whose faced with temptation, getting the opportunity to earn $10 million by taking his ex girlfriends abusive husband out to see and killing him. The screenplay and story literally miss the boat at every opportunity and is very melodramatic and unnatural, nobody ever thinks or talks the way Matthew does in this movie.
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Winter's Tale, Collateral Beauty, Book of Henry, and now this. How are these mind-bogglingly ill-advised films being greenlit and attracting big name talent? How could anybody read a script like this and think it is a good idea? Oh no.
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