How Do You Know
IMDb: How Do You Know (2010)
How do you know when you’re about to waste two hours of your life? How do you know when you should walk out of a theater before a movie even starts?
Well, to be honest, if you watched the trailers, you wouldn’t know this movie was the rank, festering bowl movement it turned out to be. The normally mildly annoying Owen Wilson turns out to be the only funny thing in the movie and is heavily edited into the trailer to make it appear to be a comedy.
But it turns out this movie isn’t really a comedy. Every actor seems miscast (except Wilson), and they are all ultimately wasted by the pointless, vague plot and inane dialogue. No one was really trying here. They were all phoning it in.
James L. Brooks squeezed this turd out in exchange for a cool $10 million, so the only laughter you’ll hear associated with this movie is him chuckling all the way to the bank. The rest of the all-star cast seems to silently slink away with their paychecks, hoping we won’t remember they were in something so vile next time they decide to show their faces. All together they must have taken half of the nearly $130 million dollar budget.
…wait. What? 130 what? This thing only grossed $30 million. Now I normally don’t talk about budgets and numbers. That’s not what makes a good movie. But shit, $130 million dollars for a big name ensemble comedy is unheard of! They don’t even make blockbuster action movies for that much! Who the hell let this happen?
They could have made this movie for $10 million with up and coming actors and it might have worked out much better. Perhaps a micro-budget, shot-on-a-handycam approach would have been even better.
Nevermind. Since they shot the movie using an obviously ill-conceived first draft script, it should never have been made.
- bman