My Life with Morrissey (2003 Video)
1/10
Great idea, terrible storytelling!
1 December 2003
I am a big listener of the smiths and morrissey.. I am also a huge movie lover.. being both of these I was really ANXIOUS to see this movie when I got wind of it... With that being said, this is a sad day in SMITHS/MOVIE lore. Morrissey is not in tune with modern movie culture(he has not seen a movie made past 1970), nor does he subscribe to any particular fandom (he probably has the fewest tv/movie appearances of any major pop star).. I hope for his sake that he has not seen this movie.... Why couldn't they pick a modern rock star (fred durst, marilyn manson, dave grohl, etc) rather then tarnish Morrissey's already misunderstood image. This movie centers around "Janet" a schizophrenic psychopath smiths fan that talks to the morrissey posters on her walls. She is an assistant at an television studio(I think it's nickelodeon). Everyone in this movie must have went to the William Shatner school of acting. Her bosses and coworkers overreact spastically to almost everything she does. All of the office scenes with her coworkers are PAINFUL to watch because of this steroid driven acting. Eventually we learn that she spends her evenings going to places where morrissey has been sighted. Apparently she has been going to the same places for years asking the same nagging questions. Why hasn't she been committed yet? A better movie would have answers for this. This movie does not. The one good scene is when she does meet Morrissey.. The actor who plays morrissey really does look like a young morrissey and seems to be the only actor in the movie who isn't overacting. That scene is brief however and we are forced into a confusing mess for the rest of it. SMITHS/MORRISSEY fans, STAY away. Lastly if this movie were about a "real" moz/smith's fan she would have never left her apartment(or at least wouldn't have been so expressive about it). One more gripe, not 1 smith's/moz song is played in it's original form or as a cover. Is this girl obsessed with his music or just his picture??? 1/10 rating..
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