I had binge-watched the final season of Project Greenlight, and, considering all the conflict, it was amazing how NICE everyone was. They were always hugging, and everyone was so nice to Jason Mann, even after sitting through his awful movie.
Ben Affleck said that it wasn't the sort of movie he would make, but didn't say a word against it. He suggested that Mann show it to a test audience to get some objective comments about it. He stated it simply. If he had been too delicate, Jason would have realized what he was getting at.
I still haven't sat through the whole movie. This time, my attention wavered and I started reading user comments about it on IMDb.com. I don't know what it tells you that people on there wrote long, long reviews.
I was astonished that a few people liked it. Most of the positive reviews were from white racists who called Effie Brown "racist" for insisting that the lone Black extra in the big wedding scene not play a chauffeur. A couple of them thought the movie would have been better if it had had an all-white crew.
The weird thing was that Jason Mann thought he was really socking it to Hollywood and making something that was radically different.
There was a scene at the beginning where the main character, whose name I didn't bother learning, congratulates his future father-in-law, the senator, for working so closely with someone from the other party. He doesn't say which party that is. I took that as a statement that the movie had no point of view and no ideology. Mann said he was inspired by Pasolini and Bunuel, but they were both Communists and had very definite views. He won't even say if the Senator is a Republican or a Democrat.
Mann has two acting credits and a couple of credits as cinematographer on movies made in southeastern Europe since this thing. Maybe it was a hit there. It might work better with subtitles.
At least the poor devil got something out of it.
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