TEN REASONS WHY CHARLIE'S CRITICS ARE WRONG!

Even in today's Evening Herald magazine they slate Charlie Casanova. This being during an interview with the star! So to explain what's going 'wrong' here are ten reasons:

1. They've never seen anything like it before.
The  reason why rubbish like Parked/Sensation/Savage get good reviews by our critics is because they've seen this stuff already in other movies. It's familiar and they feel comfortable watching it.

2. It's technically sh-t!
How anyone expected a €1,000 movie to look better is a puzzle? Unlike crap like Anton the filmmakers here didn't try to piss higher than the urinal.

3. The characters are horrible
I can understand this one. There are no likeable characters here so it would turn audiences off.

4. There's no plot
Actually there is, but it's not using the routine 3-act structure. But even so, I did not find this movie confusing.

5. The director's a prat
Maybe he is I don't know. But here's a question: would you rather see a movie from this interesting director or a movie from yet another smug, bearded, film-school grad, with some shit overrated short film?

6. There's no backstory
Like Anton this one is a character piece and the other actors play background roles. That gives the movie little depth and is a flaw.

7. It's too fast
I can't think of any other Irish movie so fast-paced as this? However, compared with sh-t like Parked where every scene is dragged out and then they cut to an establishing shot this movie was a breath of fresh air.

8. It's ugly/vulgar/nasty
So what? Who says cinema needs to be audience-pleasing and safe. We've produced enough lame crap already in this country. More movies with an edge like this please.

9. It's just a bad movie
What's good/bad is subjective. We've lots of 'good' films from 'good' directors and they are just sh-t. But no-one will say this because they won stupid IFTA awards. Charlie Casanova is more of an 'interesting' movie than a bad one. Real film fans prefer 'interesting' movies. Casual movie fans prefer 'good' ones.

10. It doesn't make sense
It does actually. A guy goes beserk and offs the working class based on a deck of cards. He's involved with his friends and their wives. Maybe the critics find a middle-class guy attacking tracksuited scumbags silly? I don't!