Falling from grace
It's no God's Army, that's for sure. The first movie from celebrated LDS film auteur Richard Dutcher since he lost his faith is a departure with a capital R.
Falling, which will light up Utah screens Friday, is being pointedly publicized as exploding Dutcher's type cast as a Mormon filmmaker. Yet the billboards for the flick call it "The first R-rated Mormon Movie." An oxymoron, but I guess a lucrative niche is hard to give up.
"I don't know who this is supposed to appeal to -- it's so bleak," says Dan Nailen, reviewer at Salt Lake Magazine. "It is relentlessly dark and harsh.
There's no sunshine."
Indeed, according to its rating, Falling includes "strong brutal violence, bloody images, and language."
It's the old story of a man losing his faith -- Dutcher's movie, that is.
Even if Utah County folks still could get a CleanFlicks bowdlerized version of this gore-rich movie -- it would probably only be ab0ut seven minutes long.
Falling, which will light up Utah screens Friday, is being pointedly publicized as exploding Dutcher's type cast as a Mormon filmmaker. Yet the billboards for the flick call it "The first R-rated Mormon Movie." An oxymoron, but I guess a lucrative niche is hard to give up.
"I don't know who this is supposed to appeal to -- it's so bleak," says Dan Nailen, reviewer at Salt Lake Magazine. "It is relentlessly dark and harsh.
There's no sunshine."
Indeed, according to its rating, Falling includes "strong brutal violence, bloody images, and language."
It's the old story of a man losing his faith -- Dutcher's movie, that is.
Even if Utah County folks still could get a CleanFlicks bowdlerized version of this gore-rich movie -- it would probably only be ab0ut seven minutes long.
3 Comments:
Richard Dutcher saw that "R" rated movies continually gross more money than lower rated movies and he was willing to give up his faith for the all mighty dollar. It makes one wonder just how strong that faith could have been to begin with. He seemed to making pretty good money before. He should have stuck to his guns
Actually anonymous, if you look at the box office receipts, R rated movies are almost never among the highest grossing movies of any given year. Mr. Dutcher will most likely make hardly anything at the box office with this movie and that will start the end of his career as a film maker. It is too bad because States of Grace (which bombed at the box office) was one of the best movies, of any sort, that I have seen in a long time.
All of Richard Dutcher's movies are horrible. None of them were well-written and CERTAINLY not well-acted. I wish he would stop believing he knew how to write/direct good films.
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