Here we are folks with The Domino Man and his latest adventures in the world of advance film watching! Though he failed at his attempt to get the crown jewel, he did make off with this look at MICKEY BLUE EYES. This an advanced look, so take care... It is surely not the finished film and there will be a great deal of changes made between now and the end of the process. So... without further warning... I turn you over to the man with the spots and the pearly ivories!
Hey Harry, The DOMINO MAN is back from an all too brief excursion to Skywalker Ranch.Damn place is as difficult to decode as a David Koep script - sealed air tight. I'm quite sure I ran into Hallenbeck during this adventure,baseball to boot. We both got through their first line of defence,but alas I was caught infiltrating the east flank where I was later placed under surveillance by a Lucasfilm nemesis. Don't despair,A New Hope is at hand,Hallenbeck is still missing in action-and he might yet deliver the goods.
As a series of exercises to test my resolve and find out what I know, they sent me to a test screening of Mickey Blue Eyes-the new(and I use the term loosely)mob comedy starring Hugh Grant,James Caan and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Even the mob didn't go to such lengths to get people to talk. 30 minutes in and my nerves were shot.I'm stronger than this I said to myself,you can beat this.Sure enough I managed to defy the odds and I watched the film in its entirety.
The basice premise has Grant-who presides over art exhibits,marrying Tripplehorn without him realizing that she is the daughter of a Kingpin mob boss played by James "Corleone" Caan. When Grant realizes that he is marrying into a mafia family complications insue,and plot twist(use the term loosely)after plot twist drive the story forward. If you think you've heard this somewhere before that's because you've probably seen Jonathon Demme's "Married to the Mob" and most recently Harold Ramis' "Analyze this". Don't think I've forgotten the "Sopranos" either-a standard set in creative writing which the aforementioned others pale in comparison. It would be futile for me to give you(the helpless citizen being exploited)a detailed analysis of the film,because it is simply not worth it,and brings back painful memories of what I was forced to endure. I will say this,despite a few chuckles in over elaborate scenes,the film is a reflection on a Hollywood polluted with mediocrity and swimming in a genral lack of creative growth. Apparently at one point during post production,Grant took over the editing of the film from director Kelly Makin(Kids in the Hall)in a bid to tweak and rectify "minor" plot holes and over the top scenes. It didn't work-and to be blunt this is a turkey.
After retrieving me from the test screening-several Lucasfilm advisories interrogated me further, and after surviving a 24 hour Jean-Claude Van Damme film festival they decided I knew nothing and they let me go. Joe Hallenbeck is closing in on the Empire-may the force be with him.
THE DOMINO MAN
