Review: Lucky Numbers
03-22-01, 08:32 AM
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Everybody probably knows that 2000 wasnt a good year for John Travolta. When I saw this title in my local rental, I thought of Battlafield Earth and hesitated renting it. Since there was nothing else, I took it home. John Travolta plays a TV weatherman who is in serious debt. Travolta and girlfreind Lisa Kudrow attempt to scam the state lottery and win $6 million. The movie is enjoyable. The funniest character in the movie was Micheal Moore as Kudrow's sickly and perverted cousin. The movie is entertaing but the DVD is terrible. Paramount has definately screwed up with this movie. It is strickly a bare-bones DVD. An "okay" rental but not worth owning.
03-22-01, 11:06 AM
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03-24-01, 03:55 PM
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Its not that bad of a flick, but the dvd does suck. My only concern was that they make Central Pennsylvania residents out to be rather weird. As a resident of York, which is mentioned in the film, we aren't all that bad.
03-24-01, 06:46 PM
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I was actually thinking about renting this movie because both Ed O'Neill and Colin Mochrie, whose work I enjoy, are in it. Are either of them in the movie for a considerable length of time? Thanks.
04-03-01, 10:28 AM
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I bought this DVD for one reason and that was they filmed LN in my hometown of Sacramento, CA. I was working at a hotel where the crew was staying. I was invited to visit and hang around the set. John Travolta and Nora Ephron both signed a call sheet for me. They were both really cool. The movie sucks but I got to watch them film it. Its a really fun memory for me. Too bad its a bad movie.
04-04-01, 09:21 PM
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There are too many things wrong with this movie to even begin itemizing. So I'll go for big splashes.
The plot gets more and more predictable as this one goes on. The few twists and turns in this movie are never startling, ingenius, or even above average. Most comedy mishap movies either work from the premise that it goes better and better despite the ineptitude of the characters or it gets worse and worse, beyond all silliness. This, oddly can't make up its mind and gets mired and weighed down by going in neither direction far enough.
With the exception of some fabulous supporting cast members like Michael Moore and Michael Rapaport, no one here is memorable. Lisa Kudrow's character is perhaps the worse. She seems like a cold-hearted b*tch turned nice so the actress wouldn't spoil her image. In the end, she's neither menacing nor conniving enough to illict laughs or even a good smile. Ed O'Neill who is normally a fantastic character actor gets a boring role who's character is neither important to the story, nor interesting. Tim Roth seems lost in this hail storm of idiocy. His character being just another boob -- ultimately. This seems surprising given the character. Just another bad peice of movie-making. Lastly, Travolta's character is consistantly not funny, sympathetic, or deplorable -- while the plot and character want him to be! He's like some sorta teflon -- it just won't stick. How he manages this, I have no idea.
Another hollywood pitch that got made because enough stars showed up, not because of the story, script, characters, gags, etc. When will the madness end?
-Beebs
The plot gets more and more predictable as this one goes on. The few twists and turns in this movie are never startling, ingenius, or even above average. Most comedy mishap movies either work from the premise that it goes better and better despite the ineptitude of the characters or it gets worse and worse, beyond all silliness. This, oddly can't make up its mind and gets mired and weighed down by going in neither direction far enough.
With the exception of some fabulous supporting cast members like Michael Moore and Michael Rapaport, no one here is memorable. Lisa Kudrow's character is perhaps the worse. She seems like a cold-hearted b*tch turned nice so the actress wouldn't spoil her image. In the end, she's neither menacing nor conniving enough to illict laughs or even a good smile. Ed O'Neill who is normally a fantastic character actor gets a boring role who's character is neither important to the story, nor interesting. Tim Roth seems lost in this hail storm of idiocy. His character being just another boob -- ultimately. This seems surprising given the character. Just another bad peice of movie-making. Lastly, Travolta's character is consistantly not funny, sympathetic, or deplorable -- while the plot and character want him to be! He's like some sorta teflon -- it just won't stick. How he manages this, I have no idea.
Another hollywood pitch that got made because enough stars showed up, not because of the story, script, characters, gags, etc. When will the madness end?
-Beebs
04-05-01, 11:28 PM
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Originally posted by adia4625
I bought this DVD for one reason and that was they filmed LN in my hometown of Sacramento, CA. I was working at a hotel where the crew was staying. I was invited to visit and hang around the set. John Travolta and Nora Ephron both signed a call sheet for me. They were both really cool. The movie sucks but I got to watch them film it. Its a really fun memory for me. Too bad its a bad movie.
I bought this DVD for one reason and that was they filmed LN in my hometown of Sacramento, CA. I was working at a hotel where the crew was staying. I was invited to visit and hang around the set. John Travolta and Nora Ephron both signed a call sheet for me. They were both really cool. The movie sucks but I got to watch them film it. Its a really fun memory for me. Too bad its a bad movie.
Got her autograph on a grocery list I happened to have on me. However, when I saw the movie...... ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It was a novelty to see my school in a movie, once... but NEVER again!
