Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

chengrml I have watched this movie 4 or 5 times on HBO However, it was only after noticing one or two scenes that looked somehow familiar first viewing that we realized it was the Green Light movie project. The films title wasn't mentioned very much in the Greenlight series..it was just "the film"The critics of this movie seem to be Greenlight Runners Up who failed to get the award. Since all their comments have nothing to do with the movie but are a critique surrounding its creation. The plot scenario is hilarious,.... the British humor is where I grew up.Lots of sour grapes in rotten tomatoes.,

bruce-37802 I got angry when I saw the result of this latest Project Greenlight effort, "The Leisure Class". After all the anguish and hand wringing shown during the 8 episodes of this PG mini-series, we get a major flop. I expected something better for all the time I spent watching this series. I felt cheated. This season was more like Project Redlight, if you ask me.First, the plot is as thin as toilet paper. I had no idea what was going on and had to make up my own plot line to make sense of what I was seeing. It's like the "Prince and the Pauper" meets "4 Weddings and a Funeral". This story has been told a thousand times before and ten thousand times better by others. Why do it again? There is zero character set up or development. I thought I had missed the entire first reel of the movie when it began. I kept asking my wife "who's that?", "who is that woman supposed to be?" Who is that guy and why is he saying that?". All I kept thinking was "huh?". This lack of coherent story is Screen writing 101 stuff that a major studio, HBO, missed before shooting? That's your comedy, right there! Then, the camera work and lighting was amateurish and dull. Almost the entire film was shot in the same framing and camera angle. The camera rarely moved. The direction was so morose, I forgot it was supposed to be a comedy. Comedy of errors, yes, but funny? No! Not one scene had any comedic flare or even a hint of humor. Imagine Kim Jung Un directing a comedy. It was stop and say your line, stop and say your line, on and on...boring.So, I cannot say if the actors were good or bad because the dialog and lack of story would make even De Niro look bad. But why did Jason Mann feel he needed British-accented actors for the two main character roles? There was nothing in the story that demanded a Brit. It's just another easy, thoughtless way to say "a classy guy" because we have been conditioned to associate an English accent with high class and education. But in this case, it was meaningless. Again, HBO, you bought this? I'm not sure why HBO allowed Jason Mann to get his way with his script, his re-writes, his demand for shooting on 35mm film vs HD digital Cinema equipment. But, it all seems to be part of HBO's ham-fisted way of showing how "tough" it is to make a Hollywood movie. Well, being in the business, I know it is difficult to get the money to make a feature-length film. But, by the time the script is locked down, story-boarded, actors chosen and rehearsed, the crew is selected, your locations are selected and you have been given the "green light", shooting the movie is not tough. It may be laborious and stressful, but not hard. Working 2 jobs and raising kids is hard.I know it was a "low budget" movie, but I worked on a Roger Corman film at one point and that production had a quarter the money, adjusted for inflation, and much better results. $3 million dollars is big bucks to an Indie production, especially one as uncomplicated as "The Leisure Class". I mean, there were maybe 6 basic set ups and one location. That's an 8 day shoot, not 20! The car wreck scene should have been a 2nd unit deal, not tying up the main crew. Geesh! Jason Mann, the petulant, film-school dilettante and director/writer of this bomb,should think about a different career. Maybe he could become an annoying barista at a McDonald's? And HBO, maybe you can stop choosing inappropriate young directors just for the sake of that Reality TV, "goof on you" formula and get some real up and coming, talented directors to showcase. Then, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon should pay more attention to what's going on. It's your idea guys, your series. You were absent for most of this series and who likes absentee landlords?

jmckinzey Whata fraud PGL was this season. All those big shots, pretending the script didn't suck. It wasn't just bad, it was.... Well, it was so bad I barely know how to explain how bad it was. Was there a first act that had some character development that they cut? It's basically just two brit guys improvising the same character dynamics the whole story, and some Americans saying whatever needed to be said to service the plot at any particular time. Just as one example of the idiocy of the script, can anyone think of a reason the Dad would wait till just a few hours before the wedding to mention that the Private investigation into the Guy's background was sketchy? Actually I can think of a reason, because if he'd brought it up earlier, none of what had already transpired in the story would've happened.I will say this, the Producer lady, who's name escapes me right now, she IMO over-reacted to some things at times, but she pulled off a miracle with the budget she had. From a production standpoint, this doesn't look like a cheap movie. Of all the people I saw behind the scenes, she'd be the one I'd hire to help make a movie.Visually, it's just ridiculously stupid that the Director wasted so much time, money and effort on insisting on film. If you'd brought in a thousand people off the street to watch this movie, and then after you woke them up, and you asked them whether this was shot on film or video, I'd bet 99.9% wouldn't have a clue.All that time wasted on film/video, pointless location scouting, obsessing over a stunt that wasn't all that bad, etc.... should have instead been spent on trying to rewrite the script into something that resembled a story worth watching.Props to Affleck for not lying his ass off pretending the film was even remotely good.

Shula Ngoni ...It's a Reality TV Programme.Jason Mann was cast as the Bad Guy / Scaepgoat and sometimes so was Effie. The real villains were Marc Joubert and perhaps Ben and Matt - who all did everything to appear nice, level headed rather than honest. Effie suffered for being to honest and blunt. We all have agendas and she was too willing to show all her cards which worked against her a lot. The reason why this film has been rated so low is because people are mixing their personal opinion of Jason and the Film. These are two separate things. Jason is no different to any other director - yes he had a vision and he was very single minded about it and most good directors are. Sometimes that works out and other times it does not. His only problem is that of course he was entitled but you're only as entitled as what others allow you to be and Matt, Ben and HBO all colluded in that self delusion.Nonetheless lets talk about the film. It isn't very funny, that's true. In fact it's quite boring and laborious to watch. It's not a stinker though and isn't as bad as people have painted it. I've seen far, far worse first time films and the directors have gone on to make other more competent films.Basically the biggest problem is that it feels as though they shot a first draft of a screenplay rather than something more advanced. The weakest part of the film are the two leads, especially Ed Weeks (Charles) who is so limited as an actor that I was baffled he was picked as a lead. In the original Short an actor called David Manson played the lead - more successfully I feel. Ed Weeks failed to bring any life to the character and failed to have more than 2 expressions throughout the movie. Everything seemed non-consequential to him. Because he couldn't act at being in love properly and his performance wasn't believable then he had to say it through clumsy dialogue...lazy acting.Bridget Regan who plays Fiona made the best of poor dialogue and character development . Props to Bruce Davison who it felt like he was carrying the whole thing. He has been criticised for over-acting but at least he brought some kind of absurdity to the piece. I think he deserves credit - also for a poorly written character.The film does look like a film - it looks expensive. So that's a plus and I think underneath there - perhaps a few drafts later was a good film. Right now it's forgettable. I think Jason is capable and I am sure he'll be given lots of opportunities to make right in the future. With more time and working with realistic limitations he might come up with something decent.One last point: Going back to the series - I hope this is a lesson learnt that White dudes picking other white dudes to make film does not a good film make - let's try looking elsewhere next time - let's see what surprises we discover as surely they have nothing to lose now.