If I could give this movie 0/10, I would.
I'm fairly positive anyone giving this movie more than a 1/10 is either Eric Schaeffer or one of Eric's hundreds of email/IMDb accounts. He's the sort who would do something like that. He's oversensitive, frail, and a basket case.
The movie FALLS under the category of so laughably and horrifically atrocious, that it makes for some of the best comedy I've ever seen (laughing at you, Eric, NOT with you).
Do yourself a favor and get the back story on Eric Schaeffer the boy-man. Read his salon interview (where he nonchalantly tells the reporter that as a child he had sex with his cousin), and check out some of the stuff on gawker. It begins to explain his insecure psyche, his repressed and latent homosexuality, his sub-acute anger towards women (he tells a woman he wants to bash her skull in with a rock).
In two of his movies now a supermodel just happens to find him unbearably cute and attractive (yeah?! Really, Eric? I mean. Really?) It says that the guy's self worth is so rock-bottom that he would need a really attractive woman to validate him.
One theme in Eric's life -- fiction and actual -- is the ubiquitous insecurity about his looks (and by extension his masculinity and sexuality). He's constantly asking women if they find him attractive. Women he's just met on a first date. And he'll badger them with the question until he gets the answer he's looking for.
The tragedy of it all is that the man is almost 50. These are the kind of issues you should have ironed out -- oh, I dunno -- at least by the end of your thirties.
There is a time when I probably might have liked this movie: when I was 16 and didn't know jack about life. It's no coincidence that most of the IMDb viewers who rate this movie high are teenage girls (check out the stats).
There are some nice American Indie movies from the 90's. Kevin Smith, Edward Burns, etc. But if Eric Schaeffer is in any way associated with that group, it's completely by accident.
In short, this movie isn't about idealistic, old-school romance and tenderness. It's about a guy who believes women should woe, fight for, and court him (and it's **so** unfair that the world doesn't work that way for him). A guy who wishes society found him as attractive as a supermodel. A guy who thinks women will instantly find him attractive just because HE thinks he's a helluva nice guy (which is kind of questionable). A guy who fetishizes tortured agony in lieu of real intimacy.
Watch FALL to figure out how NOT to live your life.
I'm fairly positive anyone giving this movie more than a 1/10 is either Eric Schaeffer or one of Eric's hundreds of email/IMDb accounts. He's the sort who would do something like that. He's oversensitive, frail, and a basket case.
The movie FALLS under the category of so laughably and horrifically atrocious, that it makes for some of the best comedy I've ever seen (laughing at you, Eric, NOT with you).
Do yourself a favor and get the back story on Eric Schaeffer the boy-man. Read his salon interview (where he nonchalantly tells the reporter that as a child he had sex with his cousin), and check out some of the stuff on gawker. It begins to explain his insecure psyche, his repressed and latent homosexuality, his sub-acute anger towards women (he tells a woman he wants to bash her skull in with a rock).
In two of his movies now a supermodel just happens to find him unbearably cute and attractive (yeah?! Really, Eric? I mean. Really?) It says that the guy's self worth is so rock-bottom that he would need a really attractive woman to validate him.
One theme in Eric's life -- fiction and actual -- is the ubiquitous insecurity about his looks (and by extension his masculinity and sexuality). He's constantly asking women if they find him attractive. Women he's just met on a first date. And he'll badger them with the question until he gets the answer he's looking for.
The tragedy of it all is that the man is almost 50. These are the kind of issues you should have ironed out -- oh, I dunno -- at least by the end of your thirties.
There is a time when I probably might have liked this movie: when I was 16 and didn't know jack about life. It's no coincidence that most of the IMDb viewers who rate this movie high are teenage girls (check out the stats).
There are some nice American Indie movies from the 90's. Kevin Smith, Edward Burns, etc. But if Eric Schaeffer is in any way associated with that group, it's completely by accident.
In short, this movie isn't about idealistic, old-school romance and tenderness. It's about a guy who believes women should woe, fight for, and court him (and it's **so** unfair that the world doesn't work that way for him). A guy who wishes society found him as attractive as a supermodel. A guy who thinks women will instantly find him attractive just because HE thinks he's a helluva nice guy (which is kind of questionable). A guy who fetishizes tortured agony in lieu of real intimacy.
Watch FALL to figure out how NOT to live your life.