Some have written about how meaningful and sing this film is, but once the credits roll it honestly feels like you objective watched a soft core win on a few LA hedonists and nothing else.
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Ashton and Heche signed on because of the “epic” (making of docu) but considering every scene they have together involves the fun stuff, it makes you wonder. Anyway, we survey all of these shallow people muddle through their cons and bed campaigns as Ashton’s character narrates his success strategy at this lifestyle, but in the raze I really did not care about any of them. Apparently, (the mask art states) our main character is hoping to win something proper, but that never happens as we hop from one party, bed conquest and sleepover to the next. But - they found a scheme to save 7.1 sound on this film - why of all films does this glean the sound some strive to hear all year but only pick up once or twice?
The sound was outstanding. The opening sequence has a helicopter buzz hitting all seven channels, followed by a one-take night club scene (that was very well done: stairs, railing pans, reusing extras, etc.) where the music and voices move all around you in eloquent fashion. The Blu clarity is outstanding as is the color; plenty of skin tones and black contrasts against candlelight and such. The LA basin gets shown in all its glory several times in a decent skyline haze. The supplements are:
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* 16:10 itsy-bitsy Living the Dream (making of) . Plenty of production material, hows and whys.
* 5:44 puny Late the Scenes with Ashton. Actually the only Ashton piece of this was everyone else talking about how mountainous it is to work with him…yech.
* 3:53 little World According to Nikki. As if they could gain a map to accumulate any shallower, Ashton gives the viewer a detailed training academy on how to earn a gal in LA…whatever.
* Commentary with cast and crew. This is actually an intermittent picture-in-picture. It is a smaller box than normal but the information is keen and it covered a nice background on how they did the one-take shot. It comes up every few minutes and composed allows you to hear what is going on in the film.
You read about people claiming this has an wonderful ending, a colorful motif, outstanding neo-realism, blah, blah, blah. Fair did not grab me as anything other than a well-filmed depiction of the hedonistic side of LA.
If you are a fan of these magnificent actresses doing their first hard R roles, than this would be your film (I remember Maragrita the most from Noise) . Watching Ashton breeze around in the buff didn’t work for me - but I know there is a target audience out there for this one. 2 for the film, 1.5 for the Blu specs and .5 for the supplements. Delight In.
4.5 out of 5 stars
Sexy, bittersweet and unforgiving, Spread is a keen bedroom tussle through a Hollywood dream. Despite the somewhat mis-leading preview, this edgy indie flick is anything but your standard chick-oriented romantic comedy. With a lot of heart - and a lot of bedroom antics - this is probably one of the best films I’ve seen in a long, long time.
Nikki (spectacularly portrayed by Ashton Kutcher) is a homeless, jobless, playboy with enormous dreams, who uses his dubious charms and perfected sex skills to live off of rich magnificent women; sleeping his map into the Hollywood social elite. His most new target is Samantha (mountainous performance from Anne Heche), a rich lawyer who spends most of her day away from her very lavish home. And Heather (beautifully done by Margarita Levieva) is the lovely young waitress that has Nikki all figured out.
At first, Nikki is a figure we all esteem to abhor and disfavor ourselves in loving. But as the pressure of his hold actions builds, and his world begins to unravel, we cannot attend but ache for him as a human being. While there are comic and romantic moments within this film, it truly is about the imprint of being willing to do anything “for the dream of an easy life.”
One of the best aspects of this film for me is that it doesn’t play it friendly. It’s going to push buttons and earn some people miserable (heck, even I squirmed a bit) . I consider that’s awesome! Not enough movies - and books for that matter - really resist the boundaries of their genres, their ratings, and the fact that this tale does is refreshing.
Some have complained that this movie “makes women glimpse terrible.” Or that this is a pointless legend of people having sex. If you only contemplate the surface, and refuse to explore deeper, maybe that’s apt. A more thoughtful gaze may state that each character is nuanced with pleasurable and awful qualities. And I consider some are forgetting that this is a movie about morally flexible people - not impartial a terrible guy with lots of humdrum women who descend for him. Not one character, whether seen or unseen, is the epitome of honorable or dreadful. They are all perfectly flawed.
NOTE TO PARENTS: Don’t choose your 7 year olds to go inspect this! I couldn’t gain it when I saw people taking their very young children to this film - it’s a hard R (not for violence or swearing - but for sexual express) . There is a lot of sex in this film, very graphic sex, so if that bothers you or if you’re not going to be able to seek past that, select a pass on this one.
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