croskelley I just binged through the last season of Project Greenlight and right before the final episode, I decided to give "The Leisure Class" a chance. I'd already read the reviews on IMDb and seen that the movie had a 3.9, but felt like I was better served in making my own judgement, despite the bias of having watched the show.The movie is flawed, for sure and having watched the show, it's hard to feel like it couldn't have been better if a few things had gone differently.That said, this is definitely worth a watch. It IS funny. It's a dark comedy. This reminds me more of "Running With Scissors" or "Death At A Funeral," but certainly not as good as either. Ed Weeks, Tom Bell and Bridget Regan are all spot on. The flaws lie more in the script than anything else. Sadly, this flick seems to have been the death knell for Jason, Tom and the Project Greenlight series.I would absolutely encourage anyone to give this movie a shot; it is worth your time.And regarding other comments:1. It is funny! 2. Fiona evolves and comes out STRONG. 3. Character development is there, though it doesn't follow the typical three act structure, WHICH, if you watched Greenlight, you should be aware of. By the end of the flick, if you don't care about ANY of the characters, then you may have missed the point.

sfreitashaley I can see why the Farrelly brothers pulled out last minute. Had nothing to do with conflict with the producer (who was fantastic Effie) at all. They witnessed a product that was not worth selling. Matt & Ben have jumped the shark with this and should stay with acting. He was not the right choice from the get go. I thought you two were smart. Clearly not by this choice. HBO is lucky to have a producer like Effie..... Leisure Class sucked. You could predict that Jason had no idea what he was doing from the interviews. He was a pompous child who focused on squinting eyes than the flow of the story. It sucked, he sucks and project green light has jumped the shark. As Billy Crystal said "it's just not funny."

jmckinzey Whata fraud PGL was this season. All those big shots, pretending the script didn't suck. It wasn't just bad, it was.... Well, it was so bad I barely know how to explain how bad it was. Was there a first act that had some character development that they cut? It's basically just two brit guys improvising the same character dynamics the whole story, and some Americans saying whatever needed to be said to service the plot at any particular time. Just as one example of the idiocy of the script, can anyone think of a reason the Dad would wait till just a few hours before the wedding to mention that the Private investigation into the Guy's background was sketchy? Actually I can think of a reason, because if he'd brought it up earlier, none of what had already transpired in the story would've happened.I will say this, the Producer lady, who's name escapes me right now, she IMO over-reacted to some things at times, but she pulled off a miracle with the budget she had. From a production standpoint, this doesn't look like a cheap movie. Of all the people I saw behind the scenes, she'd be the one I'd hire to help make a movie.Visually, it's just ridiculously stupid that the Director wasted so much time, money and effort on insisting on film. If you'd brought in a thousand people off the street to watch this movie, and then after you woke them up, and you asked them whether this was shot on film or video, I'd bet 99.9% wouldn't have a clue.All that time wasted on film/video, pointless location scouting, obsessing over a stunt that wasn't all that bad, etc.... should have instead been spent on trying to rewrite the script into something that resembled a story worth watching.Props to Affleck for not lying his ass off pretending the film was even remotely good.

Shula Ngoni ...It's a Reality TV Programme.Jason Mann was cast as the Bad Guy / Scaepgoat and sometimes so was Effie. The real villains were Marc Joubert and perhaps Ben and Matt - who all did everything to appear nice, level headed rather than honest. Effie suffered for being to honest and blunt. We all have agendas and she was too willing to show all her cards which worked against her a lot. The reason why this film has been rated so low is because people are mixing their personal opinion of Jason and the Film. These are two separate things. Jason is no different to any other director - yes he had a vision and he was very single minded about it and most good directors are. Sometimes that works out and other times it does not. His only problem is that of course he was entitled but you're only as entitled as what others allow you to be and Matt, Ben and HBO all colluded in that self delusion.Nonetheless lets talk about the film. It isn't very funny, that's true. In fact it's quite boring and laborious to watch. It's not a stinker though and isn't as bad as people have painted it. I've seen far, far worse first time films and the directors have gone on to make other more competent films.Basically the biggest problem is that it feels as though they shot a first draft of a screenplay rather than something more advanced. The weakest part of the film are the two leads, especially Ed Weeks (Charles) who is so limited as an actor that I was baffled he was picked as a lead. In the original Short an actor called David Manson played the lead - more successfully I feel. Ed Weeks failed to bring any life to the character and failed to have more than 2 expressions throughout the movie. Everything seemed non-consequential to him. Because he couldn't act at being in love properly and his performance wasn't believable then he had to say it through clumsy dialogue...lazy acting.Bridget Regan who plays Fiona made the best of poor dialogue and character development . Props to Bruce Davison who it felt like he was carrying the whole thing. He has been criticised for over-acting but at least he brought some kind of absurdity to the piece. I think he deserves credit - also for a poorly written character.The film does look like a film - it looks expensive. So that's a plus and I think underneath there - perhaps a few drafts later was a good film. Right now it's forgettable. I think Jason is capable and I am sure he'll be given lots of opportunities to make right in the future. With more time and working with realistic limitations he might come up with something decent.One last point: Going back to the series - I hope this is a lesson learnt that White dudes picking other white dudes to make film does not a good film make - let's try looking elsewhere next time - let's see what surprises we discover as surely they have nothing to lose now.