My thawtz on Million days to Die in the West

Watching my second review of this movie. I saw it on tv in a hotel while I was over in buffalo training for TSA, actually a nice little hotel. It's called the quality Inn, highly recommend it if you're out and about and need a cheap but good place to stay. It was a good experience, warm bath, good food every day, made me feel white.

I'm about to get started on the final act of the movie I'm working on... It's going to be hell to finish what I started, but I must, and I will, but before we begin just want to go on a diversion and get away from it and not care. Drink my tea, think about other things.

The reviews I'm watching for it are gutting the film, tearing it limb from limb making out to be a complete failure or whatever.

I was bored as crap in the hotel and say whatever you want, I have to thank Seth Mcfarlane for making my day less crappy because the movie came on and I enjoyed it. I left reality for a little while and went into the universe of whatever the hell was going on in the movie and it took my worries away for a while. I have to say that's what a movie's supposed to do and that's what the movie did for me at that time.

I saw its flaws though. I mean I suppose all the stress I was in made me want to not get into the awkward tone of the film and how kinda lame the story was if there was a story, I just kinda liked hanging out in the movie more than being tied up by its awkwardness.

I remember thinking, yeah this movie's not good. It's not really consistent and the main character's really boring. But I didn't care, it was an honest movie. No deception, if it was going to suck, it was going to do it with its heart on its sleeve and I can respect that. Seth wanted to make a western comedy like he grew up watching and so he did, and it's a pile of wtf but an interesting pile of wtf. It's like spielberg's 1941 in a lot of ways. Spielberg taking a turn at making a comedy and creating one of the most eternally both reviled and beloved films of all time... It's certainly a movie worth viewing to at least try to figure out what happened to make it the way it is.

Also, I find the older I get, it's hard for me to really care about white people movies as deeply as I did as a kid so maybe that's a problem too. I was just thinking about it. I was in the military, right. After that experience and having guns pointed at me by the honorable brave soldiers in our armed forces, I find it hard to give a shit about Jarhead as much as I used to. I was watching a clip on youtube today and thinking, man you're white, shut the fuck up. You don't have problems. I never thought that when I saw it in theaters, but yeah the more I look around me and EVERY SINGLE F'N thing is about some white guy saying his life is tough, it's like, wtf. Is my black ass in the twilight zone?

Now I know why I didn't fully enjoy Million, Seth himself. He's white, he's perfect, charming, and handsome. There's nothing stopping him from having a good life in the movie. All of his problems in the film are forced because of the script. In reality he'd be, well, seth Mcfarlane and be a millionare so he'd have no problems. Mel Brooks subverted this brilliantly by making his comedy western about race and having a black star. Then all his problems make sense.

Or just any comedy movie. Usually and this is the movie Million was trying to be, Dumb and Dumber.. The dumb and dumber movies feature unattractive dumbass guys trying to get through life. That's the set up really. Most comedies do this, have the main characters be losers and they have to overcome their status in life by the end some how. To make a comedy where the main hero is a good looking intellgent guy, and the funny thing is, seth plays his character as if he's a nerdy loser the whole movie. I guess he has no idea he's a dashing guy? What was he doing? The star of the movie should have been Niel Patrick Harris. They got the casting wrong. But whatever, what's done is done.

I'm racking my brain for comedy westerns I've seen that i can compare this to. Not many honestly. Outside of skits on tv shows or even a tv show such as Brisco County which wasn't a comedy but it was comedic at points. In that show, Bruce Campbell plays a similar role to seth's character. The difference is that Bruce played Brisco as far less competent and worldly. He was average and somewhat clueless about things in the series though he was a tough guy a cowboy. But he wasn't mr. perfect. I remember him being that way, not going to go watch the show to find out, but I think so. Anyway, because he was so ordinary you could understand why he had problems and at no point in million are we as an audience buying the seth character as having such a tough time. It doesn't work when you make the hero so damn perfect, he needs something limiting him. And Campbell knew it.

Oh well, it's good to stumble I suppose. Now they know not to make the same errors. The thing that gets me is that, I mean, it should have been f'n like clear from day 1 of shooting that the movie wouldn't work. What movie have any of us seen where the main character was a tall handome guy with charm and class? It's like, just look at any comedy movie. They don't cast those guys unless the gag of the film is a fish out of water scenario where the big handome guy is having to downgrade to being normal. Seth stupidly maybe arrogantly thought he could pass off for a paul reubens or maybe he thinks in his head that he is Paul. No, paul is the embodiment of all losers in history and that's why pee wee works. Essentially Million is as if they made a pee wee herman film with goddamn rob lowe playing pee wee. Now do you see my point?

Casting is key. Ok done..