'D' is for 'Desperation': Drillbit Taylor
By Keith Uhlich
Straight D's across the board for Drillbit Taylor, which narrowly avoids a full-on failing grade for its forthright truth-in-advertising: "You get what you pay for" goes the poster art tagline (true dat: apparently, we're coughing up our hard-earned cash for a swift kick to the 'nads by "deserves better" star Owen Wilson). There are worse things, I suppose, than being below-waistline roundhoused by a Hollywood celebrity. Chief among such tortures would be experiencing the complete sense of desperation that marks Drillbit Taylor's each and every scene -- "slumming it" is too kind a descriptor for House of Apatow screenwriters Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen, dusting off a twenty-years prior treatment by John Hughes (here credited under his Dumas-derived pseudonym Edmond Dantes). To put it as horrifically as possible, imagine Curly Sue, but McLovin-ized.
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To read the rest of the review at Underground Online (UGO), click here. And see after the break for a special international Easter Egg.
Loose AltaVista translation: A man for all accidents: Paid is still too expensive
Straight D's across the board for Drillbit Taylor, which narrowly avoids a full-on failing grade for its forthright truth-in-advertising: "You get what you pay for" goes the poster art tagline (true dat: apparently, we're coughing up our hard-earned cash for a swift kick to the 'nads by "deserves better" star Owen Wilson). There are worse things, I suppose, than being below-waistline roundhoused by a Hollywood celebrity. Chief among such tortures would be experiencing the complete sense of desperation that marks Drillbit Taylor's each and every scene -- "slumming it" is too kind a descriptor for House of Apatow screenwriters Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen, dusting off a twenty-years prior treatment by John Hughes (here credited under his Dumas-derived pseudonym Edmond Dantes). To put it as horrifically as possible, imagine Curly Sue, but McLovin-ized.____________________________________________
To read the rest of the review at Underground Online (UGO), click here. And see after the break for a special international Easter Egg.
Loose AltaVista translation: A man for all accidents: Paid is still too expensive
posted by Keith Uhlich at 5:45 PM
4 Comments:
"A Man for All Accidents" is a much better title.
If I consistently showed my face in crap like this, I'd want to kill myself too...
(harsh - but you were thinking the same thing too. ADMIT IT.)
You are a brave man, Keith. I couldn't do it. "You, Me & Dupree" didn't seem that awful while I was watching it, but it sure curdled ("Curdley Sue") afterwards, leaving a really bad taste in my mouth and in my memory. I'm not soured on Owen Wilson -- "The Darjeeling Limited" is lovely -- just on him in comedies -- or, at least, ad campaigns -- with titles like this one.
That German title reminded me of Werner Herzog's "Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle" ("Every Man for Himself and God Against All"), which is also best-known in America by its hero's full name: "Kaspar Hauser." If that had been Bruno S. (oder Clemens Scheitz oder Eva Mattes) on the poster, I woulda been there.
The German title is a play on the proverb Ein Mann für alle Fälle (A Man for all Problems) and isn't really translatable, though A Man For All Accidents isn't half bad.
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