The value of a colossal waste of time
Brendan Koerner just tweeted that on his deathbed he will still regret spending two minutes watching the trailer for Leprechauns in the Hood (that’s very low indeed for a man who can find things to like in truly Bad Movies, like a fur bikini in Barbarians).
I wonder what Brendan would think of the nearly 40 minutes I spent yesterday watching Meteor, a mini-series featuring name actors like Jason Alexander and Stacey Keach. I was horrified by it from the moment it appeared on screen. I think I kept watching out of some kind of faith that something so lacking in any narrative quality could have escaped YouTube (sorry, YouTube, you deserve better than that). Ugh.
I did gain a reminder that some situations overwhelm even talented people. Like Lehman Bros. and Hank Paulson.
I believe Rogert Ebert’s “Death to Smoochy” review puts it best re: how even great talent can’t prevent some of the worst catastrophes:
“Only enormously talented people could have made “Death to Smoochy.” Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience. To make a film this awful, you have to have enormous ambition and confidence, and dream big dreams.”
sounds like my writing!