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Plot:
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask ...( read more 
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MCT:September 8, 2008INTERESTED
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MCT:November 28, 2008
This movie has three distinct segments. The first is about actual hecklers of stand up comedians. The second is an over-reaching view on criticism in society, its effect on the criticized and what it reflects on the critic. The third is about how blogging and the internet have exaggerated the nastiness of criticism.
It made me reflect on my criticism. I realize that it's just easier to bitch. I can't be fawning over giving praise because I haven't the words or the nergy. As to how bad something is, I haven't usually the words for that either, but I've the energy to find shorter words to express my immediate anger at mediocrity, which is why most of my reviews are intentionally negative. However I find the amount of energy even for negativty to reflect on the overall effective nature of the film, whether it's effectively bad or incredibly great. Sometimes a film, by its greatness or its awfulness, leaves me without a long-winded reaction. Some things only need a sentence to promote it because that's how great it is conversely some things are so bad that I can't waste the investment of my time thinking and typing about it. I admit that I can't give 100%l all the time (which is why I put my reviews on Flixster or another similar site as opposed to in a draft bin for a book on actual film criticism), but I can always find the finger energy to get my negativity out.
I'll give this film some of my genuine energy: I appreciate the wide range of people interviewed and I think it's a great modern sampling of entertainers, artists, and critics. Keep in mind that this film goes WAY beyond just hecklers into all criticism, but the heckler figure is used as a perfect example of the type of critic this film is standing up against.
Hilarious yet human highlights: Jamie shows people REALLY slamming him to his face, and his reactions strike the side of us that has been criticized before. Uwe Boll punches the crap out of some detractors in a highly publicized boxing event. Footage of Bill Hicks going ballistic on a heckler. Letting the critic get their predictably negative say on the end of the film.
Some people I'm really glad this film was able to interview: Richard Roeper, Andrew Dice Clay, Pauly Shore, Rob Zombie, Leonard Maltin, Joel Schumacher, all the geeky net reviewers
I think if you're a creator of any sort and are or want to be involved in today's entertainment and arts world, you should see this doc, as it may help you sort through some stuff and put it in an objective perspective. It's also a good reminder to the bloggers to stay (well, in most cases, become) humble if they want to attain genuine and respected critical status. -
MCT:November 6, 2008Some funny observations that are made a little more funny by the editor's timing ... sort of like the way a drumroll accentuates a punch line. Jamie Kennedy plays a large role and takes the emphasis off hecklers and points it at Internet critics. I began with a little admiration at his guts in facing his critics head on but finished with boredom at his misdirected, unfair whining. In the end the film comes off like a giant bitch session. (And I am now a target of their wrath.)
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MCT:November 3, 2008
It is so ironic i ha to rate this documentary about critics...but still I think and i don't think nobody likes hecklers... but as for the critics part that's where i don't agree cuz directors actors and producers need critics if only for when your friends can't or won't tell them the truth of what they think about their movies. I pay for most of the movies i see and i should be able to say what i think about it. In no means does it mean a movie is bad or not it just means that I hated or loved it. So guys don't take it personally if i say ur movie sucks, it's just my point of view. Someone else might think it's the movie of the century (idiots but none the less) lol
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MCT:October 30, 2008
I did come away feeling bad for J-Ken. Even though I think some of his stuff isn't funny (I haven't seen Son of the Mask or Kickin' it Ol' Skool, which wasn't mentioned), he is obviously a talented individual to make his career as a entertainer.
It's true that a lot of people online are guilty of make absolutely personal attacks on certain actors when it's the actual movie that needs to be under review.
I thought this doc could've done less with the online reviewers being confronted by J-Ken, but it was entertaining to watch.
The beginning part of the doc covering hecklers was my favorite. And when Kennedy brought in the young guys who didn't think he was funny, was also fun to watch them squirm a bit.
If you are in stand up or films, your perspective on this movie is absolutely different than anyone else and can identify with it on a level others can't.
So hopefully after this, we'll see if people still keep writing asinine reviews saying "Jaime Kennedy must be stopped!"
Probably not.
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