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Easier Said [VHS]

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Wow, this movie was awful. I rented this movie only because the goddess Alex Mcleod from Discovery Channel's Trading Spaces is in it, and I suffered for that. The movie has no character development whatsoever, a plot as thin as a clothesline, lame dialogue, etc. Very very bad. If you are a fan of Alex's, it's barely worth it because she's only in the movie for about 10 minutes. You will be doing a whole lot of fast forwarding through this one. Her scenes are about the only ones that kept me from burning the tape to prevent further viewings. So unless you're a really big fan of Alex's (and very brave), don't bother with this one.

Mr. Cranky said it best:

If you want to see a film that will suck the life right out of you, try this one. Making a film that does not have one single inspired moment in it -- not one thing where the viewer goes "gee, that was mildly interesting" -- would take herculean effort, because even the stupidest guy on the planet should be able to take a couple hours of film and do at least one interesting thing. Believe it: There's not one interesting moment in this entire film. Not one.
What do I mean by inspired? I mean that if you're a director and you're making your first feature film like writer/director H. Todd von Mende, you set out to make something original or, at the very least, containing a twist, however slight, on a common idea. Like "Romeo and Juliet" starring chimps; that's a twist. Of course, such a thing would probably be absolutely unbearable to watch, but you'd have to sit there and think, "you know, at least it's inspired. Who would have thought to make 'Romeo and Juliet' with chimps?"

Who, exactly, sets out to make a movie comprised of characters and lines and scenes that every person on the face of the Earth has seen more times than they can possibly count? If you took the most mundane moments ever witnessed on soap operas, combined them with most stilted lines ever uttered on infomercials and add a healthy dose of the worst acting imaginable, you still wouldn't have a film as bad as "Easier Said." The story, in a nutshell, is that a Manhattan book editor, Jack (Bo Clancey), quits his job to follow his dream of writing the great American novel and moves to Colorado where he runs his Uncle's Inn for the summer.<P...

'Tis a scarce occurrence when a skimpily funded independent film is an artistic success, and although such is not the case in this instance, credit should be given to those who make the attempt, this particular effort primarily stumbling due to inexperience, especially relative to its scenario. In what must be viewed as being nearly a student production, an unpublished writer, Jack Buck (Bo Clancey), is unfulfilled in his position as editor for a New York City publisher, and when he is telephoned by an uncle in Colorado, offering Jack a chance to join him and manage his mountain lodge, thereby gaining the time to complete a novel, the young man eagerly accepts and resigns from his employer. His decision is easier to make when he discovers his fiancee dallying with another, but Jack is soon involved with a former girl friend in Colorado, although even greater complications appear for him at his new post when his creative flow is apparently stillborn and he faces unforeseen difficulties in managing the lodge. Other problems surface when he is beset by blandishments from a local rival who desires to obtain the lodge for conversion into a casino, and also when his former fiancee unexpectedly visits, but he nonetheless discovers a method of overcoming his writer's block in an unforeseen manner. The director, who also scripts, furnishes a highly cliched piece with enormously telegraphed dialogue and continuity flaws, most evident in a failure to give flesh to scenes supporting the storyline, and in a hurried ending, indicative as much of a lack of expertise regarding pacing and post-production polish as of budgetary constraints. Although most of the players lack film credits and want closer direction, they have theatre experience, with Holly O'Neill, Alex McLeod and Tricia Gregory contributing good turns, and the editing is effective for the most part, but the musical sound track is obtrusive and hackneyed with the mixing being quite erratic for this affair, shot largely in and near Nederland, Colorado, that benefits from multiple functions for cast and crew; the scenery is, of course, all a nature lover might want.

Like the reviewer before this one, I got this movie because I saw that Alex McLeod from trading spaces was in it. And she's the only good thing about this movie. Just awful. Please, for the love of God, don't watch this movie. Just watch TLC.

We loved this movie. Not only does beautiful Colorado serve as the backdrop for this story, but the lead (Clancey) gives a compelling performance. He is the sexiest thing since Tom Cruise, and he's also sweet enough to take home to meet your dad. He's got the charm without knowing how adorable he is. This is a movie that even the manliest will love. A+!