Bad music + bad acting + bad film-making = bad movie

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2008)

Another entry in the "indie chic" category of bad film making. This movie was really too hip for its own good. It was all shot on digital camera and it's usually shaky and oftentimes badly lit. It's cloying, fuzzy, vapid crap for middle-aged hippies who sit around in their sweaters smoking weed and drinking red wine. The music was also awful and quite repetitive. Want to watch a good movie with the same themes -- try "Almost Famous". Maybe the reason it works -- the lead characters are teenagers. It might have worked had that been done here. Seriously, what's with middle-aged guys who wear scarves who sing about how bad their life is and are still trying to become famous? The music was too much. It was like Coldplay but worse (I'm not kidding). The singer sings all the words normally and then picks one word out that he drags along like a piece of roadkill stuck on the rear fender of a pick-up truck.