One of the more glorious trainwrecks of Sundance 2003 was "Masked and Anonymous," a nearly incomprehensible vanity piece
starring Bob Dylan and about a million other celebrities who apparently really, really wanted to be in a film with Bob Dylan, even if the film was useless. Look at this roster, in alphabetical order: Angela Bassett, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, Bruce Dern, John Goodman, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Jessica Lange, Cheech Marin, Giovanni Ribisi, Mickey Rourke, Luke Wilson. Some only make brief appearances to ramble for a while about something, with Dylan forced to stand there squintily and sort of listen. Most are only barely suppressing their glee at appearing with Dylan. Dylan himself says little; mostly he observes. When he does talk, it's often to say something absurd, like when someone asks him, "Where you headed?," and he replies, "That way." There's a lot of enigmatic stuff like that here. You pile up enough enigmatic stuff, you're going to have one big, senseless movie.
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