Interesting, if depressing read.
Seems it was a shit film made cheaply to cynically cash in on high-profile banality.
The fact it was aimed at kids makes it all the ickier. It's a cinematic turkey twizzler.
No deeper conspiracy in the negative reaction.
Shame Biffo felt hard done by, but what did he expect? I imagine it was a paycheck for everyone involved. They didn't set out to make a bad film, but I can't imagine they really cared about making a good one either.
Complaining that the critics attacked it for being a corporate product inextricably linked to Simon Cowell is...odd. Because, really... what else was it?
(, Thu 24 Sep 2015, 22:45, Reply)