38 Minutes

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2004)

Why is it that critics, and the academy seem to love movies or TV shows about actors or the "show within a show" as is the case with they piece of...?
38 minutes was all that I could take. Why, because I've been on business trips to Tokyo and know how boring it is, and that's ALL the first 38 minutes is trying to communicate. Who cares if the screen play does a wonderful job of showing that other than those in "Show Biz?"
I'm sure the acting profession was delighted by Bill Murray mugging for the photographer the way they were for Travolta giving Devito acting lessons in "Get Shorty," but I don't see any entertainment value in that, nor people lying in bed or looking out windows, nor the blork on the "Actors Studio" TV show, nor the outakes and other junk that comes with DVD's unless I like the movie.
To use a Dorothy Parker line, "Bill Murray runs the emotional gamut from 'A' to 'B.'"
Maybe something else mildly interesting happens after that, and I may get back to it some day. Probably after I finish watching "Birth Of A Nation" and "The General," both of which have the nasty habit of putting me to sleep.
I guess if your hobby is turtle watching, this movie would excite you.