Utter banality

Rating: 4/10 (8 June 2007)

If one of your friends one day would come up and say to you: "Hey, I've got a script"; let's say you read out of curiosity.
You know that your friend really loved Memento and Insomnia, so you are not surprised to see how the plot unfolds. He also likes many other famous movies of the last decade, like Fight Club and many of Lynch's, so it comes as no news if there are lots of nods to those movies; he also loves classic cinema, Hitchcock is his favourite.
The script is utterly boring and you thank god because it's a short read. Later, you say to him "Yeah good stuff but it won't be easy to do something like this. You know, insomnia, MPD, they have already made some really good flicks with those." He seemed turned off at first...
But one month later he comes back to you; the script is pretty much the same, short for some literary references slapped in the face of the viewer and thrown in for good. You start to feel tired about this, so you say "I can see that now it really has that much more subtle touch, but I don't really think you'll find someone ready to fork out good money for something has already seen many many other times, and better done." -- "Go back to your daytime job and quit your senseless dreaming about becoming the next Fincher or Hitchcock or Lynch or whatever -- you are a machinist! that's what you do well." You don't hear back from your friend anymore, but one day, you hear of a movie that sounds pretty much familiar: and it's not only because it's souped down mashed up boring version of Yet-Another-Cult-Movie of the 90s.