Formerly known as Asheville: The Movie, this film was shot more-or-less entirely in Asheville. It was recently announced that the film was selected by Sundance Film Festival to screen in their Dramatic Competition.
Director Anthony “Chusy” Haney-Jardine has been fairly quiet about the production, and even the film’s website is devoid of concrete information about the film.
So, until the film is released some time in 2008, all we can do is gossip about it. Any thoughts, theories or insights?
I think they sold t-shirts to tourists and sold everyone on a wacky idea that this town can be captured in a movie. Instead, they are probably making the standard romantic comedy coming of age movie that we’ve all seen a billion times.
yeah, and his daughter is his marketing tool......ah...you’ve gotta love it.
one step closer to hollywood in that respect.
I would really like to see it, I am beyond curious.
Saw the trailer and was not impressed.
Looks like an attempt at John Waters in Asheville.
The few characters I saw seemed to be over exaggerated cliches of ‘down and out’ people.
I was curious to see Moon Europa but heard the acting was really bad, and I’ve seen the trailer and its ‘1984’ rip off (a hodgepodge of every other sci-fi movie ever made) ..so now I am not interested any longer.
When the hype builds...beware.
It’s directed at people who want to see the movie. Screw these guys for making a movie and selling Asheville as an idea. Screw em all. My home isn’t a brand name, and that’s what these chodes tried to do.
I’m going to make Anywhere USA shirts and sell them. I wonder how the director will like that?
Better yet, make ones that say “Asheville: The Movie.” They aren’t using that title anymore, so they can’t really complain, and people will buy anything with Asheville on it. We should go in halfsies on the printing costs.
No, I want to turn something they hold dear into a brand name, so that they might be able to understand why I can’t stand them and hope that any showings of their movie features a guy with two robots in the corner of the screen.
UPDATE: I looked up this abortion on IMDB and it got rave reviews!
Sadly, this movie turned out to be pretty much unbearable, and I was forced to concede defeat when my mom and sister demanded to leave the theater, because it was just bad. The film tells a “three part” narrative of 3 seemingly unrelated groups of people, which I will relate as follows:
In Part One, a pea-brained, long haired redneck enlists the aid of his racist, obscenity-spouting friend (who happens to also be a tattooed midget with pierced nipples) to spy on his girlfriend, who has been “looking at cocks on the internet”. They take the spying too far and accidentally shoot Ali, the girlfriend’s online suitor, who they believe to be a terrorist. One major problem here is how looooong everything takes - while slow, “meaning-laced” words poignantly drift across the screen, to just.. allow us to ponder the gravity of this moment.
After over an hour of this, we finally get the news that Part Two is beginning. Yay.. an 8 year old orphan first accidentally eating pot brownies, becoming disillusioned and depressed over finding out the tooth fairy isn’t real, and then discovering her uncle’s tequila in the glove compartment and dives right in. I would comment on the rest of this and Part Three, but this is right about where we finally gave up and left.
This was probably one of the longest films at Sundance this year, and it was really not worth 2 hours of your life. It’s just sad, depressing, squalid, and above all, drawn out to the point of boredom. Unfortunately cannot recommend this title.
t’s movies like Anywhere USA that lost Sundance’s luster.
Anywhere USA is everything you’ve come to expect from those “indie” films that are plaguing festivals and local theatres.
First of all, it’s not really a “film” per se. It’s shot on video and looks like it. Maybe there are people out there who don’t mind watching a home video for two hours, but I do.
Then, it’s overlong but fraught with dialogue and situations stretching oh-so-hard to be edgy-cool. And yet all it really does is bore from the lack of reality of the situations and characters.
Studio films aren’t very good these days, and there is no relief in sight from the smaller films (and this one was one of the very few movies at Sundance that wasn’t a studio movie trying to pass itself off as an indie).
Sure their are a couple of god reviews, including a virtual blow job of a review by a guy with the screen name djasheville, but allow me to dream that this movie is going to suck.
I think interest in this film is waning. Maybe if it was shown locally after the Sundance buzz people would still be talking about it. I’d still like to see it though.
As it stands GOLDEN BLADE 3 is the best local film so far.
