From thehuffingtonpost, Neither angel wings nor cleavage could save Megan Fox’s newest film.
Fox stars as an angel (or just a woman with a random set of wings) working in a circus in the film “Passion Play,” a slightly bizarre premise that you’ll have to go out of your way to see — it’s going direct to DVD. The film, which co-stars Mickey Rourke as a burnt out trumpet player who rescues and somehow romances Fox from Bill Murray’s sleazy gangster, is set to be released to home theaters everywhere on May 31st.
It’s little surprise that the movie, despite a seemingly strong cast, finds itself without theater play; it already failed on the big screen. Playing at the Toronto Film Festival in September, the film bombed, with terrible reviews and viewers openly mocking it as it played — that is, before they walked out.
According to Rourke, who went to high school with writer/director Mitch Glazer, it wasn’t Fox’s fault that the movie failed. In an interview with EW, Rourke absolutely raved about Fox’s acting skills. Big time.
“I think the pleasant surprise was this girl who’s a world-class beauty turned out to be probably the best young actress I’ve ever worked with,” Rourke said. “I don’t know if a lot of her films have showcased her acting ability more than, say, being action-oriented, but she really stepped up the plate with this one and was very consistent and professional, beyond her years. At 23, I couldn’t do half of what she’s doing.”
Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite enough to get the film in theaters
5 comments:
I'm sorry, maybe it's just because I'm a chick - but that is seriously unattractive cleavage. Those things look majorly squished and somewhat deformed.
Nope, not because you're a chick. I was going to say the same thing. I think maybe it's a function of that outfit and not the boobs, but that is a bad combo of pushing, pulling, revealing and covering. Or something.
But what I wanted to say was: Isn't Mickey Rourke full of shit? Actors.
That cleavage looks like the Death Star trench. Yep, everything goes back to Star Wars at the end of the day.
HAHAHAHA, JPX. You slay me.
I'm having trouble understanding what happened here. I mean, what's the deal? Does Fox just straight-up sink the picture, or is it crap that Rourke is in out of "boxer loyalty" or whatever, because he's such a righteous dude? Why is he praising Fox so lavishly, especially after he and Evan Rachel Wood electrified the entire neighborhood containing the movie theater when they did scenes together so he knows what it's like to work with an actually-talented young actress.
If Fox plays her cards right she could do well as this weird curiosity whom cultured people like Karl Lagerfeld or Keith Richards or Jeremy Irons want to hang out with, and then she could start appearing in little roles in Sundance movies and then suddenly score a big role like an Ava Gardner biopic and totally kill.
But then I remember that she can't really talk, and I realize that all the magazine-cover looks and high-class company in the world can't make you appealing on the big screen.
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