The Film that Must Not Be Named...
I will not utter it's name, seriously I hate it that much. But I have to admit, there is more the back story. I met the filmmaker after I saw it, and I at this point already hated it more than life itself, and he was so patronizing, so condescending, so downright evil. It was like he was the Barlow character from 'Salem's Lot. People (and by people I mean middle age to pensioner house wives who openly admitted to their love of Lifetime Television) were f-ing loving this film and begging this guy for copies and just saying things like "This is the best film I've seen in years, why isn't it playing in my local cinema?" And his response was to be completely mean to them. Right to their faces make fun of them, make slights at their expense, but that came off as if he took they're comments to heart. A real charmer. What I couldn't believe was how they ate it up, as if he was the nicest person in the world. I was flabbergasted. Seriously. The look of horror on my face must have been evident because people afterwards were asking me if I was ok. I then met another filmmaker that evening who asked me if I met this guy, and what my impression was. We both ended up having the same feelings and couldn't understand how people were going around saying he was the nicest guy in the world. I'm serious when I say this guy could have told the room at large t drink the Koolaid and all but three of us would have done it. The strange thing is, there would have been no promise of a better world or life on the other side, he would have plainly said "You people are so stupid you don't deserve to live, so drink this poisoned sugar beverage and usher yourselves on to oblivion!" And they would have done it without a thought.
This was one of those defining moments when I realized the extent to which our viewing public has sunk. I knew it was bad enough for films like Soul Plane and Boat Trip to get made, but those films didn't bring it insane amounts of money, they floated like the turds they were just enough to recoup a bit more than they cost. But to watch a room full of people fall prey to one of the worst films I've ever seen, than beg a filmmaker to insult them to their faces was the limit.
The closest I'll come to revealing this film is to say this, if you have to most recent issue of Empire magazine, there is somewhere in that magazine a mention of it. That's as close as you'll come to knowing this film. If I told you outright, their would be a surge to the IMDB page to make it's points rise for a day or so, and I can't have that...
And no, it's not the Sound of Music. I own and cherish that film