{"id":12132,"date":"2017-06-20T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12132"},"modified":"2017-06-20T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T17:27:21","slug":"tricked-2012-paul-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12132","title":{"rendered":"Tricked (2012, Paul Verhoeven)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How weird to be watching the DVD extras before the film &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell if the distributor thought this was necessary, or if Netflix fucked something up (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5121\">they&#8217;ve done worse before<\/a>)&#8230; no, a Cinema Scope review confirms that the 50-minute movie is meant to be preceded by 40 minutes of promo fluff interview material.  I lasted less than 10 before skipping ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if the rest of the promo fluff covers this, but I read online that this was somewhat of a failed experiment.  Control freak Verhoeven decided to solicit movie scripts from the public based on a short intro scene, then film segments piecemeal with amateur actors&#8230; but he wasn&#8217;t happy with the story submissions, so he wrote his own script, cast professionals, and shot it.  We&#8217;re left with a 50-minute light infidelity comedy that ends with a couple of main characters zipping off to a Rammstein concert.  I suppose instead I&#8217;ll try <em>Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy<\/em> or <em>Mysterious Object at Noon<\/em> to get my fix for disjointed, crowdsourced stories.<\/p>\n<p>Remco (an actor from <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/197\">Black Book<\/a>) has a long-suffering wife, horny son and Rammstein-loving daughter.  His business partners are trying to sell out their company, using Remco&#8217;s pregnant mistress to blackmail him into agreeing.  Meanwhile the daughter and her best friend Merel (who is sleeping with Remco) figure out the mistress is faking her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Ignatiy in AV Club:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that it&#8217;s fast-paced and diverting (rather than, say, a god-awful mess) is a credit to his skill at black comedy &#8230; Bereft of subtext and shot in a largely handheld, TV-ready style, it lacks Verhoeven&#8217;s usual deep bite, despite the cynical punch line of the ending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How weird to be watching the DVD extras before the film &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell if the distributor thought this was necessary, or if Netflix fucked something up (they&#8217;ve done worse before)&#8230; no, a Cinema Scope review confirms that the 50-minute movie is meant to be preceded by 40 minutes of promo fluff interview material. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2301,119],"class_list":["post-12132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-crowdsource","tag-paul-verhoeven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12157,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions\/12157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}