When Good Casts Get Bad Movies!

My Netflix pick for this week turned out to be the film, "Red." I had a lot of hope for this one, because of the great cast involved: Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louis Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis and more!

You see a cast like that, you read about the film and see it's going to be that old stand by, "We're getting the band back together," kind of a film and you think there is some hope.

But alas, other than Mirren looking sexy as usual, Mary-Louis Parker as more visual candy than anything else because her character was weak and could have been played by anyone... even Kristen Stewart. And the occasional line here or there, "Red" was not worth a selection.

Now as a filmmaker, I have total respect for the art... see some of my other post on Blogger.com at "The INSIDE Skinny" but as an indie filmmaker I just look at all of that talent up on the screen, know how much they are roughly getting paid and then thinking to myself, "If I had just a half day of the craft services budget for that film, I could make movies for 10-20 years without needing another cent!"

So let me throw this out to you... what are some of YOUR favorite or not so favorite films that had great cast, but in the end, let you down with the final product?

Good Bad Movies

Just wrapped up watching the film, "Best Worst Movie" the documentary about the film, "Troll 2" Now I have to be honest, I don't know if I'll see the film, but based on the doc, it might be a fun watch.

Clearly the film is bad, but what I love at the core of the documentary is the passion of those who made the film. They believed in what they were doing and in the doc that comes through. They don't hide from the fact that "Troll 2" is a bad film... I believe they call it "the worst film ever made" but they all are connected to it and still have fond memories of it.

When I see all of these types of docs I wonder if one day someone will look at my films and say some of the things being said in these films. I guess if they look and see that we DID care about everything we shot and that it wasn't just a throw away then I guess that would be OK.

"Best Worst Movie" is a good film. The extra were really jammed packed and I loved that. And at the core of low budget filmmaking is of course the desire to make movies, not for money but for passion so in that sense, "Best Worst Movie" is a huge success.