In a World …

I was looking forward to this one. It was written by, directed by, and stars a woman named Lake Bell. I admire that sort of determination to get your film made. And it’s not a bad one. It concerns the esoteric world of voice-over recording for movie trailers. You know the kind: A deep-voiced and somehow menacing and/or ominous man opens the thing (after a thudding bass note or two) saying something like “In a world where every blah blah blah …” A young woman is the daughter of one of the best in the business, but she can only find work as a vocal coach …

… and I couldn’t get interested in it, despite some fascinating insights into how these people work, including scenes where she coaches the real Eva Longoria in accents. But I just didn’t like these people much. Full disclosure: I was a few weeks into quitting smoking, and I don’t like anybody much these days, including friends and relatives and pets. So I could be dead wrong about this.