Ultimately, Bogdanovich
blamed the studio for this catastrophe that basically ended his A-list
career; but it's the IDEA that's flawed beyond the horribly uneven
execution, not knowing which path to take in celebrating the first
Hollywood independents war on the big studios (and vice versa), that,
unlike PAPER MOON, is a road to absolutely nowhere... An irony
because if anyone were to do a historic Hollywood piece it would be the
man who began as a critic and wound up an overnight auteur sensation,
but, perhaps Bogdanovich was simply too close to the material... Simply put, in doing a parody of old movie style he didn't center enough on the making of old movies. Grade: D
NICKELODEON (1976)
There's a scene in Peter Bogdanovich's tribute to early
film-making when Ryan O'Neal, a goofy lawyer turned goofy director, has
no idea what movie he's in the process of making: no plot, no real
characters... which is ironic since director Bogdanovich might have felt
the same way while making NICKELODEON... Or perhaps not... if
the man who gave us brilliant classics like TARGETS and especially THE
LAST PICTURE SHOW combined silent comedy slapstick with a romantic
triangle with true Hollywood history in such a clumsy, uninteresting
fashion... and Burt Reynolds has absolutely no chemistry as novice
actor to O'Neal's novice director...
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