The Con Is On

Rating: 1/10 (20 October 2009)

Paramount just played another con on the film-going public.
It has taken a poorly-made, no-budget piece of cinematic nonsense and hyped it in hopes of fooling enough people to replenish its empty coffers.
For that purpose, Paramount is publishing box-office returns that are aggressively suspicious (do you realize that box-office figures are made up at the studios with no checking by the press?) and tells us that this film is doing great even though it is getting awful word of mouth.
Paramount has been doing this for the last few years (if you don't believe me look at the financial results of Paramount after two "record years" where they made no money!! Makes you reconsider those BO numbers for J.J. Abrams' universally panned Star Drek and Michael Bay's hideous Transmongers, doesn't it? In any case, this is an amateur hour movie that was produced by a bunch of Hollywood insiders eager to pull wool over the public's eyes.
They were playing the usual "little movie that could" card (not a bad idea given the dreck that the studios are producing these days) and deliver nothing except poorly framed shots and a complete lack of film-making knowledge (the filmmakers proudly stated they didn't go to film school... They should have).
In other words, another film that will turn people off from going to the movies. Thanks Paramount... Great job (if your goal is to kill movie-going)!