The Problem With Allen/Scoop
SCOOP
"C'est merveilleux ! C'est merveilleux ! Woody Allen est le génie du cinéma américain !”
I wouldn’t swear that the above sentence is exactly what the Parisian woman behind me exclaimed at the end of Scoop, a movie I thought was barely even good, much less marvelous, but it’s pretty damn close.
Our difference of opinion was not exactly unexpected. I have never been that much of an Allen fan, and I’ve never really understood why during the past ten years most of his films have been graded on a pass/fail system, where pass equals masterpiece. READ THE REST HERE