Lou Lumenick, movie critic for the venerable New York Post, said this today:
"Ang Lee's 'Taking Woodstock' achieves an amazing feat: It turns the fabled music festival, a key cultural moment of the late 20th century, into an exceedingly lame, heavily clichéd, thumb-sucking bore."
It gets worse.
"There are two main problems with 'Taking Woodstock.' One is the central nonperformance by the stand-up comedian Demetri Martin, who is pretty much an emotional black hole as Elliot [Tiber]. By all accounts, Tiber is a flamboyant personality in real life, but as awkwardly played by Martin he's pretty much personality-free."
The other problem? No music footage, whatsoever. Ang, what were you thinking? Doing a Woodstock film without the music is like making a gay cowboy movie where the protagonists end up together, happy.
The other problem? No music footage, whatsoever. Ang, what were you thinking? Doing a Woodstock film without the music is like making a gay cowboy movie where the protagonists end up together, happy.
Still, I'm gonna see it. And maybe, a "personality-free," "emotional black hole," was what Demetri was striving for. Like a funny one, or something.
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