comment #1

Internet jerk with a website says ...

Of course it's the critics fault for not "getting" the movie! Of course New Line bungled the marketing. Same old song and dance from a wounded filmmaker...

Gimme a break, Mr. Kramer. He needs to grow up, take responsibility and realize that not everyone is going to like his work.

Personally, I HATED the film. And the people I know went that first weekend hated it too. It's overdirected, overedited, poorly acted (Paul Walker is never going to have a dramatic breakthrough. And Palmenteri as a thug? SEEN IT), derivitive of other crime-based thriller, and the child porn angle is the most ill-concieved and aggresively subplot of 2006.

It's a film about about shock value, and it's a tired one at that. The film died because, believe or not, the public can sniff out junk now and again. Not often, but it happens.

How come it's never the film's fault? Kramer is a five year-old.

comment #2

goldenhorse says ...

I thought The Cooler was fucking awful, so I avoided Running Scared like the plague.

comment #3

John says ...

At least the Cooler was moderately interesting with good performances...I watched Running Scared the other night on DVD and quickly grew tired of it's oh-so-aggressive "lookit me! I'm edgy!" style. Tired and tedious, and a deserved flop.

comment #4

JoJo says ...

John, the only thing tired and tedious is pompous comments like yours that have begun to pop up on this site more and more frequently lately.

comment #5

Anonymous says ...

I love, love, love, love this movie. It's the best kind of crazy.

comment #6

Anonymous says ...

Internet Jerk is just copying and pasting his angry rant all over the webt.

comment #7

Internet jerk with a website 2 says ...

I count two places, both dealing with this subject. Hardly all over the "webt."

comment #8

nick says ...

running scared is EASILY one of the most underrated and overlooked action thrillers in a while. So dark, so stylish, so cool...like a colorized Sin City. I saw it in the theaters and flipped...bought the dvd on Tuesday and it still plays like gangbusters.

comment #9

Bob says ...

I think this is STILL the only film this year I've called a near-perfect 10. It's a goddamn masterpiece, it's going to find it's audience on DVD, and in a year or so it's going to be one of those "discovered on DVD" minor classics. I work DVD retail right now, and it's already selling well mostly to 20-and-under males traveling in groups including a "dude, you HAVE to see this, it's NUTS!" member.

comment #10

goldenhorse says ...

I read that interview, and it really intrigued me, and I liked what Kramer had to say. A lot. Despite my misgivings on The Cooler I'm gonna check out Scared now.

comment #11

Austin says ...

I can see the New Line DVD marketers are already trying to plant BS on the site...this movie is violent and overly frenetic (like the crap Tony Scott's been trying to do with Man on Fire & Domino, with quick cuts and multiple exposures), but not for one minute did I really give a damn about what happened onscreen. It's very self-consciously crazy, such as with the whole child killing couple sequence, and it wore out its welcome pretty quickly with me after a promising start. I'll give it a 4 out of ten, and that's probably a point too generous.

comment #12

nick says ...

as Tony Scott did brilliantly in Domino and Man on Fire, Wayne Kramer is pushing the envelope in style, tone, and downright visceral intensity in the action thriller genre. these movies are like cubist artworks, movies that are made up of a million little pieces. whose to say that there's something wrong with this? why do so many people seem intent on slamming this style of filmmaking. i just don't fucking get it. not everyhting needs to be the same...every movie doesnt have to be calm and stately and serious and high-minded. there are many different flavors of films and filmmaking and we should be happy to have so much to choose from. And this is coming from someone whose absolute favorte film of 2005 was Terrence Malick's masterpiece The New World. I just find what Scott is doing to be very, very exciting (Domino is the most mis-understood film in many a year) and I welcome Wayne Kramer's vision into this punk-rock school of filmmaking. enough rambling, i'm done.

comment #13

Austin says ...

Punk-rock school of filmmaking? A bloated, coked-up style of zero substance and all hyperbole? Bullshit. If I want to see an extended music video with rapid, chaotic editing to mask the fact that there's no "there" there, then I'll watch my local music channel (or MTV2 during a few hours a day). If I want to see a briskly edited, time-shifting and beautifully assembled crime thriller, I'll watch Out of Sight, The Limey, or even Amores Perros. (But I do agree with you, The New World was just stunningly beautiful!) Point being, if I don't care about the characters involved or feel an emotional stake in the film, I'm outta there. Man on Fire at least has some level of depth thanks to Denzel's typical strong performance, but the frenetic style just wears thin after a certain point. To me, Domino is vapid beyond belief and far more unwatchable than the merely tedious Running Scared.

comment #14

Ted Oaks says ...

wayne kramer I don't make movies for the critics you make them for yourself you have no taste armond white loved your movie armond white said torque was a pop art masterpiece maybe waybe should have less animosity for his audience critics are one part of the audience wayne kramer always wanted a porsche always wanted to date a dancer now he can boo hoo

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