Dreamers
(1998)
Horrible acting. No budget picture quality. Boring
and irritating story. Lifelessness. A Dull thud.
"Dreamers" wants to be a no-budget independent film
about the dream of independent filmmaking. It purports
to tell a story of the "Dreamers" who do whatever it
takes to get their film made. A better title might be
"Losers." These characters are so dull and boring that
even when they exploit themselves it implodes with a
vapidity and an unrealistic sonic boom that sucks the
life out of the viewer. Suffering through the film is
like being at one of the worst poetry slams imaginable.
Watching the film is nothing short of torture. Why would
anyone want to agonize through this nothingness?
Jeremy Jordon makes himself look "normal." That's
the key to what makes the film a complete waste of time.
Who wants to see Jeremy Jordon looking like a dud? Even
if we do get the two obligatory underwear shots here.
It's mind numbing how boring it all is. There is literally
nothing good to say about this film.
Director Ann Lu peoples the film with Asians. They
pop up everywhere for absolutely no reason. Perhaps
she is importing her subjective view, as an Asian in
Hollywood, into the film. Well, there's no perhaps about
it. That's exactly what she is doing. Of course, there
is no good reason for it. She wants us to see that this
is "her" idea of the American dream of Hollywood. But,
the rub is, she has bought into this dream herself.
And making an Asian-American independent movie that
bemoans the state of American independent movie making
is just so pointless. There's nothing new said here.
There's nothing worth seeing here. This is the work
of hacks. Hacks posing as independents, but hacks nonetheless.
Witness one of the most typical and horrid scenes
in the film. Two young filmmaker wannabees get to see
a distributor (played by Paul Bartel) in hopes that
he might help them make their film. After watching him
paw all over his Asian secretary, we watch him rush
the boys out of his office with typical platitudes.
Then it is revealed... Surprise... He's a pornography
distributor. Wow! Really. Paul Bartel in a cameo as
a seedy character. Didn't see that coming. A pornographer?!?
That's so clever and ironic. Yawn.
God. Stop me now. This film is horribly acted. It's
horribly lit. It's filmed poorly. It looks phony. It's
stupid. It has no point. It has no reason to exist.
If your idea of a good time is watching young actors
stand around and do nothing. If you don't like logic.
If you don't like plot. If you don't like assured character
development. If you don't like interesting visuals.
If you don't like fresh ideas and characters. If you
want to be bored silly with pretentious bloated nonsense
that purports to be gritty "independent" realism, then
maybe "Dreamers" is the film for you.
What a waste.
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