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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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February 24, 2010
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The Goode, The Bad And The Turgid
By Omar P.L. Moore / PopcornReel.com
Universal Pictures
At least he's honest. And he's right.
I'm talking about Matthew Goode (above), the England-born actor who in
yesterday's online edition of Britain's The Daily Telegraph, said
that "Leap Year", the romantic comedy he starred
in that opened in the U.S. and Canada last month, was "turgid".
Anand Tucker's "Leap Year" was essentially ushered off the cinematic stage in
the U.S. by many critics (including this one) who panned it. Mr. Goode
plays Declan, a local in Ireland who tries to transport Amy Adams to Dublin to
participate in a centuries-old Irish tradition of a bride-to-be proposing to a
would-be groom every leap year date.
In the Telegraph interview Mr. Goode is quoted as saying: "Do I feel I let
myself down? No. Was it a bad job? Yes, it was. But, you
know, I had a nice time and I got paid."
Which, in a film as poor as "Leap Year", is all that matters.
Mr. Goode has had roles in such films as Woody Allen's
"Match Point", "The Lookout", "Brideshead Revisited" and last year's films
"Watchmen" and "A
Single Man". He will be seen within the next year in the Ricky Gervais-Stephen
Merchant-directed comedy "Cemetery Junction", which is now in post-production.
Mr. Goode is the second actor or director I know of whom has publicly admitted
how poorly a film he acted in or directed was.
Last year this writer was at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, where during
a panel discussion director Gary Winick admitted that he "knew a few days in" on
the set of his film "Bride Wars" "that the movie
was going to be bad."
"Bride Wars", which opened in the U.S. in 2009 on the same January weekend that
"Leap Year" did this year, was also critically trounced.
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