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Why the Weather Man?
27 March 2006
[indent]Will TV weatherman David Spritz get his failed life together? Remake his career? Restore sense to his dysfunctional family?
Who cares? That was the overwhelming emotion I had while attempting to watch this film.
The Weather Man is one of those movies with characters you can't feel sympathetic towards, who encourage no warmth, no sense of shared tribulation with the audience, and no humour in theuir actions or dialogue. I can't think of a single redeeming element in any of the characters.
Despite a fairly solid cast, The Weather Man is adrift, plotless. It's a series of painfully stilted moments, watching David try to cobble together some sense to his life. But it's hard to feel sorry for a guy who boasts about earning $250,000 a year for two hours' work a day, and whose goal in life is merely to push himself up the career ladder to get more of the same.
He's entirely self-centred, his family is emotionally neutered from him, each one trundling to his or her own drummer without matching step with the others. Both of us were squirming as we tried to watch the continuing series of failures David achieves as he half-heartedly tries to patch things together.
We ended the misery of watching it about half-way through. No stars for this one: it gets the turkey rating.[/indent]
Who cares? That was the overwhelming emotion I had while attempting to watch this film.
The Weather Man is one of those movies with characters you can't feel sympathetic towards, who encourage no warmth, no sense of shared tribulation with the audience, and no humour in theuir actions or dialogue. I can't think of a single redeeming element in any of the characters.
Despite a fairly solid cast, The Weather Man is adrift, plotless. It's a series of painfully stilted moments, watching David try to cobble together some sense to his life. But it's hard to feel sorry for a guy who boasts about earning $250,000 a year for two hours' work a day, and whose goal in life is merely to push himself up the career ladder to get more of the same.
He's entirely self-centred, his family is emotionally neutered from him, each one trundling to his or her own drummer without matching step with the others. Both of us were squirming as we tried to watch the continuing series of failures David achieves as he half-heartedly tries to patch things together.
We ended the misery of watching it about half-way through. No stars for this one: it gets the turkey rating.[/indent]
Took a pass on it this weekend, in fact - bought Holy Grail instead...