This movie was a let down compared to other movies he has directed. For instance all the Ocean Movies, I thought they were all really well but I just couldn't follow this one. It was really boring and had an Ed Wood feel. Bubble was probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen before. Steven Soderbergh could have done so much more then he did with the film, while the plot was bad I thought he choose a good range of characters. It was good to see new faces among a well known director like himself. Anyways the plot starts out with these two lower class factory workers named Martha (Debbie Doebereiner) and Kyle (Dustin James Ashley). They are really good friends and all is well until someone new comes to work at the factory and Martha notices Kyle taking an interest. This upsets her because Kyle is her best friend and she doesn't want some dumb girl to take that away from her. So Martha befriends the girl, Rose (Misty Wilkins) in order to gain an upper hand and to show Kyle just how much she cares about him. But it just doesn't seem to be enough because Rose agrees to go on a date with Kyle. Martha can't believe it and finally breaks down and kills Rose in order to keep the friendship she and Kyle once had. But little does Martha know that she actually killed Rose because she blackedout after she did it, totally forgetting everything that had happened that night. But it's not really a shocker because the whole story line is pretty perdictable. I was not impressed one bit I totally would give this movie like one star it was so bad. But I liked that he picked no name actors and actresses because it made the parts seem more realistic, it helps that you can't visualize them in different parts that they have played in the past. This whole movie was very different then other movies he has directed in the past.
Everything about this movie screams Ed Wood. The scenes were poorly shot, known of the scenes really seemed to fit well together, and the story line was just terrible. This is not at all like previous movies that Soderbergh has directed. In his other movies they seem to have a meaning like the Ocean movies are about stealing from the rich and giving to the poor or unlucky and Erin Brockovich is about helping the unfortunate and poor people so that they will no longer be hurt by the big corporations. His narration is always changing so you could say that this movie was just another hanger in the closet of changes he seems to be experimenting with. His characters are different then most of his films because they are no name and for most this is the only movie they have ever been in. Most if not all of his previous works have famous people like Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt. But I don't think this is a bad thing because it adds to the plot line in making it more realistic almost like a documentary. All of his work is good and I think he isn't comparable to anyone because he is own unique person and therefore he shouldn't put in any catergories with other directors. This film however is in a catergory of it's own. It really should be put as one of Ed Woods pieces. It was the worst movie by far that I have ever seen in my lifetime. I would agree with Colin Covert when he said "Soderbergh set out to make a movie about shallow people, but wound up delivering a shallow movie". He's right this movie is one of the worst movies he has ever directed and put out therefore giving it the title of a shallow movie. It had no depth and no deeper meaning it was just kind of put out there and thats that nothing more to it. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/11524051.html. But I don't agree with Claudia Puig when she says "you have the desire to go back and see it again". This is totally not the case, lets just say if I could I would burn in and get it so no one else would have to go through the torture of watching it. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2006-01-26-bubble_x.htm. Overall I would not recommend this film to anyone because its simply a waste of time and energy. I give the film one out of ten. The only question I have is why on Earth Soderbergh continued it?
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I don't know why he continued it!!! From what you are saying it sounds absolutely horrible!!!! I have seen alot of Soderbergh's movies like the ocean's movies, Traffic, Out of Sight, and the Good German and I liked every one of those movies!
But is it really fair to compare this movie to anyone of Ed Woods' movies??? Directors make bad movies all the time and i rarely see them compared to Ed Woods's movies!
Look at Steven Spielberg's movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. That has to be one of the worst movie sequels known to man kind! And i have never seen Spielberg compared to Ed Wood!
All I am saying is it really fair to compare Soderbergh to Ed Wood?
Yes in this case it is fair to compare this film to Ed Wood's work but I only said this movie of his because like you I liked his other works. I know that everyone has an off day but I just don't understand why he would even put this one out he must have looked at the footage and saw how terrible it was. I don't know hopefully you will pick a better movie to talk about. I just don't get it is all I am saying. Maybe if he had a reason for creating the film then I might see the motives. I just thought he could done a lot more with it. He could have had like an attack of the dolls or he could have had a serial killer at the doll factory that after they killed the victims they stuffed and painted the people to look like the dolls. Maybe I have seen too many horror films but I just thought it could have been better planned out or written. Who would you compare his work to?
I totally agree Shelby! But I think he was experimenting. A lot of directors do that with low budget films. They like to see what works and what doesn't work with a lower amount of money on the line. So they don't get producers yelling at them!
I don't know who I would compare Soderbergh to. Most of them time he is a good director. But he made a mistake this time...it happens. Also most of the time horror movies are really bad. So maybe he was keeping with the tradition! Haha or maybe not! Also Shelby from what you are saying it isn't going to be hard to pick a better movie of us to talk about!
Why did you pick this movie? You had to at one point of time said, "This looks interesting I think I will watch it"! What made you want to watch a movie like this?
I picked the movie because first of all it has an interesting title, second it took place in Ohio which is where I'm from, and thirdly the plot didn't seem so bad when I read about it. I also liked it because it wasn't one of his well known works but now I can see why. Seriously the only money he spent was a little on actors and actresses because they weren't at all known and they were terrible and the camera stuff. That's pretty much it everything else it looked like he just went to people's houses to do the scenes. I would say it was more like a documentary because you could tell someone was recording it the whole time. Well at least with this movie we had some pretty good conversations. Anyways its over so lets just put it behind us.
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