Posted
11:58 AM
by Gene
Granola sighs:[
Casablanca]
feels as if it was made for the satisfaction of the audience while [
THE NEW, IMPROVED CASABLANCA II]
feels as if it was made for that of the director alone....In a recent interview Mr. Soderbergh said that he would have been happy with a career like that of Michael Curtiz, a workhorse who spent decades churning out entertainments like “Casablanca” for Warner Brothers. The idea that the extremely self-motivated Mr. Soderbergh might be satisfied with a career like Curtiz’s is rich nonsense. Curtiz had next to no say on the personnel who worked on “Casablanca.” By contrast, for [THE NEW, IMPROVED
CASABLANCA II]
Mr. Soderbergh persuaded the same studio, now owned by a media conglomerate for which movies represent only a thin slice of the pie chart, to cough up millions for what is essentially a pet art project. [Emphasis added]
Rich nonsense indeed, made richer by KING RICHARD. PLUS IT HAS A PC ENDING, as we'd have guessed.