Comments on: The value of a colossal waste of time http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=330 An occasional journal of ideas and work by Michael Fitzgerald Mon, 04 May 2026 02:32:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Michael http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=330#comment-294748 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:46:43 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=330#comment-294748 sounds like my writing! sounds like my writing!

]]> by: Brendan http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=330#comment-294747 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:38:50 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=330#comment-294747 I believe Rogert Ebert's "Death to Smoochy" review puts it best re: how even great talent can't prevent some of the worst catastrophes: "Only enormously talented people could have made "Death to Smoochy." Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience. To make a film this awful, you have to have enormous ambition and confidence, and dream big dreams." I believe Rogert Ebert’s “Death to Smoochy” review puts it best re: how even great talent can’t prevent some of the worst catastrophes:

“Only enormously talented people could have made “Death to Smoochy.” Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience. To make a film this awful, you have to have enormous ambition and confidence, and dream big dreams.”

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