{"id":35076,"date":"2021-04-20T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35076"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:32:36","slug":"touch-me-in-the-morning-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/20\/touch-me-in-the-morning-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch Me in the Morning (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Giuseppe Andrews\u2019 \u201cTouch Me in the Morning\u201d is comprised of mainly a man throwing a lot of camera errors towards the audience presenting it as arthouse chic. It watches like a pointless exercise towards the audiences\u2019 attention span. The dialogue rambles endlessly (most times I had to turn up my volume to hear any dialogue), the narrative is almost non-existent, and there are a myriad odd and incredibly mind-numbing musical numbers that aren\u2019t catchy or fun.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cfilm\u201d stars Giuseppe Andrews as Coney Island, a man with seventies glasses who hangs around the elderly singing songs, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, while bringing the audience on a grueling journey of nails on a chalkboard. Andrews\u2019 films is structured like pseudo-Hunter S. Thompson with a main character on the journey for self-discovery, an odd array of people around him, really drab narration that drones throughout most of the film.<\/p>\n

Most dialogue is repeated, and our \u201cactors\u201d deliver their lines in almost three different takes on film (The editing is choppy with quick cuts, and long drawn out close-ups), almost as if we\u2019re supposed to think of this as a masterful presentation in acting. Really it\u2019s just sloppy, and far from amusing. I think even the most forgiving arthouse goon will have trouble enduring the little ticks that director Andrews employs here. The characters that are never as compelling as Andrews thinks, and we have to also sit through really cold scenes between them.<\/p>\n

This includes one where Island asks his mom, why she and his father broke up. Every cast member appears as if they\u2019re improvising their lines, and quite poorly; Andrews, meanwhile doesn\u2019t muster up any sense of charisma or personality to make him a watchable main character. That\u2019s a damn shame because even in piss poor projects, Andrews is a unique character actor, and one I\u2019m often entertained by. Even in \u201cDetroit Rock City\u201d he thrives over everyone else. \u201cTouch Me in the Morning\u201d is just too poorly made to considered solid schlock or even experimental. It just feels more like lazy film student fodder when all is said and done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giuseppe Andrews\u2019 \u201cTouch Me in the Morning\u201d is comprised of mainly a man throwing a lot of camera errors towards the audience presenting it as arthouse chic. It watches like a pointless exercise towards the audiences\u2019 attention span. The dialogue rambles endlessly (most times I had to turn up my volume to hear any dialogue), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[111,219,302,335,501,851],"class_list":["post-35076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-arthouse","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-experimental","tag-indie-film","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35078,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35076\/revisions\/35078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}