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Dreamscale
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In case some of you aren't familiar with the back story on this, I'll throw some info out.

Star studded affair with Nic Cage, Nic Kidman, and a host of recognizable faces, directed by Joel Schumacher, with a $35 Million budget.  The film was shot in 2010.  Apparently Mr. Cage decided he wanted to play a different role during filming.  His role was then offered to Liev Schrieber, but good old Nic returned the following day, and all was hunky dory.

This "film" holds the record for a theatrically released film in that it was the fastest to go from the theaters to DVD - 18 days later, nudging out another amazing piece of celluloid, "From Justin to Kelly", 2003's American Idol disaster.

The Box Office returns here are just stellar at a whopping $24,000 NABO, and another  $4.8 Million Overseas...suffice to say someone lost a shitload of money, and if that came as a surprise to them, they're fucking dumber than I'm giving them credit for, and as far as I'm concerned, every single person involved with this fiasco should be happy they're not institutionalized for being legally insane.

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This is easily one of the most anemic, poorly written and conceived pieces of dog shit I've ever come across.  With a $35 Million budget and basically only 1 location that appears to be a real house, I'm not going to accuse the film of being cheap or looking bad.  I'm not even going to accuse Mr. Schumacher of doing a crappy job on the directing.  And even though the acting is pretty bad all the way around, I'm not going to accuse either Nic or any of the other actors of phoning in a performance.

The problem here is the incredibly juvenile, writing of 1 Karl Gadjusek, who's other writing credits include the TV series, "Dead Like Me" from 2004.  But, can he really be blamed for writing a moronic, laugh out loud, cliched, sophomoric, no talent piece of shit script?  Hell, lots of idiots write shit like this...only difference is...thank God, most of them never see the light of day.

But, no...not here, not this time.  Somehow, Mr Gadjusek not only got his script into the hands of the right people, he got it green lit, attached major star power, and financed a whopping $35 Million.  Incredibly, this most likely means, he secured somewhere just north of $1 Million for his time and talent.  UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!

I've said it many times and I'll say it again - the decision makers in Hollywood (or anywhere else for that matter) are seriously fucking idiots.

This plot and story is absolutely pathetic.  Downright ridiculous.  The characters are some of the poorest drawn and stupidest I've ever come across.  The set up is ludicrous.  The actions and reactions of all involved would fit much better in a slapstick comedy.  I mean, seriously, WHAT THE FUCK was everyone, and anyone thinking when they read this pile of ape shit?  What were they thinking as they went through pre-production?  What were they thinking as they were shooting it?  My God...I'm just absolutely amazed at the complete ineptitude on display here.

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Within the first minute, I knew I was in for a rough view, as it was so poorly set up and so unbelievably acted.  But the real amazing thing is that it continuously 1 ups itself every few minutes.  Seriously...it does.  It gets more and more outlandishly hilariously bad as it crawls along, and that in itself is saying quite a bit.

Talk about a group of bumbling idiot crooks.  My God...I honestly think an 11 year old could write better, more believable characters.  These people take the cake for being complete fucking idiots.  The only way they could be worse would be if this was a comedy starring The Three Stooges, or those 2 dumbfucks from the "Home Alone" movies.

To call any and all of this implausible is like saying fresh dog shit smells like fucking shit.  Of course it does...it's shit, asshole, and this is exactly the scent on display here.

But, to make matters much worse, every character continually yells and screams their lines, usually while sobbing, and almost always swearing.  Then, we're treated to at least 20 Flashbacks that are so poorly constructed, it's laugh out loud hilarious.

You know, I could go on and on for pages and pages after 1 viewing about all that's wrong here, all that's ridiculous, all that's fucking pathetic.  How in God's name could a group of wealthy decision makers, seasoned film people, and strong actors not have a remote clue of what a fucking disaster this steaming turd was going to be?  How is it possible?  Please, someone help me here.

Absolute piece of steaming shit, served on a silver platter with a bottle of Dom and a linen napkin.

All involved should get a lobotomy, cause it's apparent there brains aren't functioning.

Karl "Fuckwad" Gadjusek should be embarrassed with himself, but I'm sure he was laughing all the way home from the bank.
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I stayed away from this turkey.

It's a thinly veiled shockingly unacknowledged remake of "Kidnapped".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629377/

I say shocking, because some of the scenes are lifted, shot for shot.

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Ha ha. Watched this a couple of weeks ago. Didn't even bother posting a review. It would've been, "don't waste your time." I wonder how many people signed on to be a part of this before they read the script, which is usually the standard excuse for any in Hollywood being involved in a stinker. Anyway, you summed it up better than I would've, although, like you, for some reason i sat through the entire film...

Finally watched Drive last night, I think it finally chased the stench out of my PS3 left by this turd.

When you get a chance, check out the Shrine on Netflix. Terrible characters and acting, but it was the first film in awhile to give me some solid chills. Good blood-fest ending, too.

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I saw The Shrine - hated it...but not nearly as much as this pond scum.
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Haha.  We had a grand ol' time watching Trespass.  Easily one of the most moronic films I've ever seen in my life, but in an entertaining way.  That said, Trespass isn't a "so bad it's good" film in any sort of traditional sense.  I think it was most amusing for us as a group of filmmakers watching to see the way in which the film -- as Jeff rightly mentions -- continually outdoes itself in inanity of dialogue and stupidity of plot.  It really is just unbelievable the way the movie unfolds.

Personally, I'd say it's well worth the watch for the sort of...incredulity factor.  Terrible film, though.  Absolutely the worst.
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This "film" holds the record for a theatrically released film in that it was the fastest to go from the theaters to DVD - 18 days later, nudging out another amazing piece of celluloid, "From Justin to Kelly", 2003's American Idol disaster.


The film in question was picked up for VOD/ HDNet a few days before its brief theatrical run in the selected theatres. As a rule of revenge, most theater chains won't go near a (new) film that has a VOD deal.

I actually thought this was another version of The Desperate Hours myself.

Still, unlike some, I'm not going to put all the blame on the writer. As mentioned, the film had production problems. It's quite possible the script may have been fixed when it wasn't broken. I'm also of the opinion that Joel Shumacher had never fully recovered from the Neon Batman debacles. Oh, the wish to return to better days with Grisham adaptations, Lost Boys, DC Cab and Flatliners!

Yeah, DC Cab. Say what you want to, but I laughed my ass off at that film.


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Still, unlike some, I'm not going to put all the blame on the writer.


I'll never understand why some people think the writer is never to blame.  U just don't get it.

Do you think the dialogue was changed during production to come off as inane as it did?

Do you think the plot and story was changed as they filmed to be as preposterous as possible?

C'mon Darren.  $35 Million was spent here.  There were a host of more than competent actors.  Schumacher may not be everyone's favorite Director, but he's been in the business for eons and definitely knows what he's doing.

Plain and simple, this is an example of an abomination of a script, based on the plot, the story, the setup, the characters, the action, and the reaction.

How could you seriously argue any other way?  Or better yet, why would you?
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The thing is though, Jeff. They all must have liked the script or none of them would have signed on.


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If they actually read the script and liked it, then as I said and say often, they're fucking complete idiots.  Anyone who even remotely considered this script to be even halfway decent is a complete moron.

This honestly comes off like a grade school kid watched a few R rated movies and wrote this out in 2 days, having no clue whatsoever what adults and the real world are like.

Something else I often say, which seems to fall on deaf ears is that just because a script gets picked up, greenlit, funded, made into a film, doesn't mean it's a good script.  In no way does it mean that.

The problem just may be that lots of Pro writers write their scripts in a hip way that fools the idiot moneymen into thinking it's a good script, cause they are complete fucking idiots who don't know a good script even when it bursts out of their disgusting, bloated guts like the original Alien.

If ever there's a time to blame the lame brain writer, this heaping, steaming pile of elephant shit is the perfect example of everything that's wrong in a script.
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so, how do you think Blackout will turnout?  


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I watched it for free on NETFLIX and the one thing that bothered me was a lack of focus on which "baddie" was the most bad.  At one point, Cam Gigandet was the chief heavy, then switched to that white thug from "Dark Blue", whatever his name is.  And then the leader of the pack turned into a wimp about halfway through the movie.  There was no one character for us to truly hate.
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I'll never understand why some people think the writer is never to blame.  U just don't get it.

Do you think the dialogue was changed during production to come off as inane as it did?

Do you think the plot and story was changed as they filmed to be as preposterous as possible?



First of all, I said that I don't put *all* the blame on the writer(s). Granted, there are times when some writers are paid to write what they are paid to write. Perferct example is Kurtzman & Orci. One day Star Trek. Next day, Transformers. If the writing credits were erased you'd never guess the writing team was behind both.

To answer some questions:

1 - It's possible. Some actors go off the page. Things do get rewritten from time to time, better or worse. Some writers may even come on uncredited. Shit happens.

2- It's possible, The story itself resembles to films of the past where a couple is held hostage (some examples mentioned above) and I also hold to the idea that Shumacher is still limping on since '97

I'll have to see the film now for this to continue.

****THE FOLLOW UP****

Just got done watching in VOD. There's one unanswered question, although I'm pretty sure I know the answer. If the invaders/thieves have to answer to a behind-the scenes mastermind - a drug kingpin - who do I think that kingpin was?

probably the rich emo kid's daddy, since emo kid shows off the cash stacks and does the coke lines I'll tell you why in a minute.

The leader of the invaders "knows" who ripped off the deal. That person, an unstable stalker-type, is among the crew. His big brother looks out for him, does not know. I'd forgive it if they already knew and the doper (who doesn't cover his face well) was there as an act of proving his worth. Otherwise, the kingpin would have TCB.

There was some early tension, but it started to drag. I put my finger on when it went south for me. It happened when the daughter came home. There was a 'time limit', a ticking clock! Why didn't they use it? I can't tell you why. But I'm willing to play Vegas odds that an earlier draft of the script might ---just might-- have used it. More I think it over, I'm more sure of it.

How can I figure it out?

Here's the path. Daughter wants to go to party. Big setup for that. Daughter rebels against parents, sneaks out of the house, meets friend on highway.

*obvious reshoot* - bad pole placement/watch the speed.

Daughter arrives at party. Using our "kingpin son" theory (and the implied notion that daughter's friends may hang around a 'bad element') they know the daughter is out of the house. This solves two problems: one, if the daughter is at the Kinpin son's party... they can LIE and say "we have your daughter" or someone slips daughter a sleepy drug, locks her up etc. But let's say the party will last two to three hours.

The other problem solved is that the crooks will have one less person to watch.

When Daughter arrives at party, the thieves break in about the same time. Much is made of the "two hour" deadline. Who comes back exactly two hours later? On the nose!

So, after enduring the torture of the couple - not just threatening to kill them, but by having the junkie-stripper GF slink around in the wife's evening dresses, and dissention among the ranks,which is another form of anguish - the daughter gets rid of junkie stripper girl who threaens to shoot all the party people - one thing is paid off (hey, junkie pole dancer dies by the pole!hahaha!) but why show the emo kid with the drugs and cash? She's really a good girl at heart, right? Remember: she got there, back home, on the right moment (right music cue too) ...

A lot of the dialog was banal. A lot of it consisted of everyone dropping F bombs a hundred times a minute. When I hear that much, a good chunk of it is ad-libbed. It usually is. Still, it seems as if it is the only language they know. The flashback whether or not the "security guy" messed around with the wife. When it's revealed that she didn't screw him, I'm thinking two things.






- Why didn't she tell her husband/authorities/ security company "hey, this guy's a creep"?

- Why did the crew bring him along if they knew he may have had come on to the wife?

There's only one plausible explantion. I bet it's also in a previous draft.

There's no way to know for sure unless I find those early drafts. One thing is undisputed. The finished film is bad.


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DJS, are you telling me you haven't even seen the movie and you're defending the writer and condemning Schumacher, the Director?

There's nothing that could be done by any Director, based on this ludicrous plot and story.

C'mon now...
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I edited the above post, Jeff.

Fact is, from what I heard about the film, it did sound like the script was tampered with. I watched the film, and had to see the finished product. There was a plot point that got my attention, not in a good way. The film spirialed downward from there and never recovered.

Everyone gets blame for this.


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