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Trade News | June 4, 2009 | Comments (19)

Below is the trailer for Shrink, starring Kevin Spacey. Here is the marketing pitch:

Jonas Pate’s Shrink is a striking, fast-paced exposé of the “other” Hollywood, featuring folks living outside their comfort zone and the people who put them there. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) is a psychiatrist with an A-list clientele, including a once-famous actress (Saffron Burrows), an insecure young writer (Mark Webber), and a comically obsessive-compulsive superagent (Dallas Roberts).

Pros: 1) Kevin Spacey can still be good, particularly when he’s playing normal guy who goes unhinged; 2) Landry is in it; 3) good use of a Jackson Browne song in the trailer.

Cons: 1) Kevin Spacey has a history poor movie choices; 2) Landry is not in it enough. Also, his character’s name is Jesus; 3) The pothead shrink was done just last year (Wackness); 4) the marketing pitch is terrible; 5) the announcer in the trailer is awful.

Cons win. Sorry, Shrink. You lose. Thanks for playing.


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Comments

Dammit, Kevin Spacey,

Stop trying to make me feel good. Stop trying to uplift me with your movies. Stop trying to get me in touch with the human spirit.

You, sir, have got no soul. You've got a shriveled black prune where your heart should be. That's why I loved your movies in the 90's. You didn't like us and we didn't like you and we loved you for it.

But no one, NO ONE, liked KPax.

Posted by: Withnail at June 4, 2009 9:57 AM

You know what I'm really getting tired of? Every trailer that has Academy Award winner: so and so in it. Spacey won an award 10 years ago and, off the top of my head, I can't recall a whole bunch that he's done well since.

Seriously if you've won an Academy Award does it give you leave to make crap for the rest of your career? I don't give a shit if you won an award thirty years ago, it's not going to make me see your movie.

Posted by: admin at June 4, 2009 10:03 AM

Academy Award winner: Gwenneth Paltrow. Case closed.

Posted by: admin at June 4, 2009 10:05 AM

Not to be the highjack bitch, but MSNBC is reporting that they just found David Carradine dead.

Posted by: slower lower at June 4, 2009 10:09 AM

I still like Spacey for reasons unknown, but admin has a great point. However, there should be a Lou Gossett Jr. exception to that rule.

Posted by: branded at June 4, 2009 10:14 AM

When'd Jackson Browne become an asset?

Posted by: Jay at June 4, 2009 10:24 AM

Call me a cockeyed optimist...I feel hopeful. (And I like that JB song, too.)

Posted by: angelbabe at June 4, 2009 10:40 AM

Um, am I supposed to know who Landry is? Seriously, who the hell is that? Is it like Where's Waldo, only with a name instead of a picture?

And if it's in the trailer (the identity of this Landry), fine, my bad, I guess, but I didn't watch the trailer.

Posted by: Slash at June 4, 2009 10:40 AM

Listen, once you win the statue, where is there to go? What is there to try for? That's pretty much the pinnacle. If I ever won an Oscar, I'd be like, "My work here is done." Sure, I'd still do stuff to bring in a paycheck, but I wouldn't care as much as I had previously.

(Actually, I guess that's not really true. I probably would try for a second one, but that's me.)

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 4, 2009 10:42 AM

Fun fact: per imdb, this is the 4th movie of this title since 1998. Seems like a good sign :-)

Posted by: Eep at June 4, 2009 10:52 AM

Nice to see Loggia again! Gonna pass, tho. I recently watched Swimming With Sharks, and I like Spacey so much more when he has an edge (or is a complete dick). "Compassion Fatigue Syndrome"? Please.

Posted by: Chickaboom at June 4, 2009 10:59 AM

It actually looks a little like Wonder Boys and Wackness smashed together. I'll probably see it.

In the meantime, 2 days until The Hangover!!!!

Posted by: amanda47 at June 4, 2009 12:28 PM

I liked K-Pax. I said it. I meant it.

Kevin Spacey is one of the finest actors of his generation and I can't allow anyone to dispute that point. Though, he did have to learn to act over the course of his film career.

Posted by: ChristianH at June 4, 2009 12:37 PM

Listen, once you win the statue, where is there to go? What is there to try for? That's pretty much the pinnacle. If I ever won an Oscar, I'd be like, "My work here is done." Sure, I'd still do stuff to bring in a paycheck, but I wouldn't care as much as I had previously.

First off, I disagree that winning an Oscar is the pinnacle of acting/directing/whatever. Award shows are subjective bullshit*. Everyone from a certain group gets together to perform fellatio(or cunnilingus) on each other and celebrate their medium, or rather the officially sanctioned entries of their medium. It's like when we call American teams the "World Champions" but only let American(and some Canadian) teams compete.

But forget about my hatred of award shows for a moment. Just because someone wins the "highest honor" their craft awards doesn't necessarily mean they should just give up. Some people that have enough talent and work hard enough to achieve that award might actually care about acting. In that case, there have all sorts of places to go. They could always do better. They could explore roles that they've never done before. Maybe they wouldn't win a higher award, but they would know that they'd continued to improve themselves and their craft.

In short, art, like life, has no attainable final goal.

Now, if I could step off my high horse for a moment: I try to not care about money, and I'm yet to find that I hold some highly sought after skill/talent, but I can only imagine the kinds of things I would do/have done to me for the amounts of money that exchange hands in Hollywood.

Them: KPax 2?
Me: I don't know...
Them: $10,000,000, yo.
Me: Fuck it, I'm in!

* - by the way, let's all try to remember that the MTV Movie Awards are a fucking spoof. I mean, they had a Best Sandwich category one year(still makes me chuckle).

Posted by: pissant at June 4, 2009 1:11 PM

I liked the idea for this film better the first time, when it was called "Head Case."

Posted by: jimbob at June 4, 2009 1:12 PM

I agree with pissant. There's always something to achieve if you really do it for the craft rather than for the award. The Dardennes brothers keep directing one excellent film after another. Pixar keep producing jaw-dropping stuff every year. Pedro Almodovar keeps producing quality films. Although I'm not a big fan of all his work Guillermo Del Toro keeps pushing himself into interesting new directions. Roberto Benigni keeps acting and reciting breathtaking poetry... The list goes on. I doubt its winning a golden statue which keeps pushing these people. I think its more the mad genius inside them which wants to express itself.

As far as Shrink goes, I think it looks interesting enough for me to watch it.

Posted by: barf at June 4, 2009 1:47 PM

The words "Academy Award Winner So and So" lost all of their power with "Catwoman: Starring Academy Award Winner Halle Berry!"

It's really just laughable nowadays.

Posted by: figgy at June 4, 2009 1:59 PM

Listen, once you win the statue, where is there to go? What is there to try for? That's pretty much the pinnacle. If I ever won an Oscar, I'd be like, "My work here is done."

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 4, 2009 10:42 AM
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I know the feeling exactly. I could live to be 115 (Godtopus, I hope not) and the first four words of of my obit are always going to be "Four-time 'Jeopardy!' champion ..."

I know because I've already written it.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at June 4, 2009 2:15 PM

It was a joke.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 4, 2009 3:06 PM





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