{"id":7823,"date":"2012-04-02T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2012-04-02T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:37:52","slug":"things-that-sounded-like-a-really-bad-idea-right-off-the-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=7823","title":{"rendered":"Things That Sounded Like a Really Bad Idea Right Off The Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1440345\/\">Here&#8217;s a film I&#8217;ve never heard of<\/a>, that never got a U.S. theatrical release, that cost some \u20ac25 million to make, that sounds not just like a train wreck, but like horrifying, misconceived, <i>epic<\/i> train wreck.<\/p>\n<p>The premise, from IMDB:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star, now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father&#8217;s persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, they doesn&#8217;t sound very promising right off the bat. But then you see who&#8217;s playing the lead role:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/post-images-2011\/this_must_be_the_place-poster-crop.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1308772023374\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right: Sean Penn, 50-something EMO rocker. That moves it from merely bad to <em>legendarily<\/em> bad. You look at the IMDB listing and think: &#8220;Well, it has David Byrne playing himself. That might be the only thing about this film that doesn&#8217;t suck.&#8221; And then you watch the trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0ryRwKkKI4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And think: &#8220;Well, it has David Byrne playing himself. That might be the only thing about this film that doesn&#8217;t suck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This may be the most ill-conceived film involving Auschwitz since Jerry Lewis&#8217; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068451\/\">The Day the Clown Cried<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>But unlike <b>The Day the Clown Cried<\/b>, <b>This Must be The Place<\/b> was actually released. And I&#8217;d be willing to watch either of them once.<\/p>\n<p><em>Once.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Edited to add<\/b>: Though it&#8217;s played in Europe and Sundance, it doesn&#8217;t seem to have had a general U.S. release, so it might still pop up at art houses across the country this year.<\/p>\n<p>It does seem to have gotten mostly good reviews from the kind of people who give films like this good reviews&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a film I&#8217;ve never heard of, that never got a U.S. theatrical release, that cost some \u20ac25 million to make, that sounds not just like a train wreck, but like horrifying, misconceived, epic train wreck. The premise, from IMDB: Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star, now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,132],"tags":[15,1076,1975,1369,1370],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","tag-bad-movies","tag-david-byrne","tag-movies","tag-sean-penn","tag-this-must-be-the-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7850,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}