The many (many) godawful reviews have only made Chris Pine love Poolman more
"After the reviews in Toronto, I was like maybe I did make a pile of shit. I went back and watched it… I love this film so much."
Chris Pine’s directorial debut, Poolman, has not been having a good time with critics. The film has, in fact, been panned about as hard as a movie can be, both during its debut last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, and then again this month, when it began getting screened to a wider group of viewers. Although a few critics found something to like in Pine’s attempts to channel Chinatown and The Big Lebowski into a new L.A.-set neo-comedy-noir, our own Emma Keates was firmly in the majority when she noted that “Poolman sinks long before it gives itself the chance to swim.”
To which Pine himself says: Your hatred has only made him love his movie more. Pine revealed his take on the film’s reception during a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, noting that the time between TIFF and now has given him a chance to really run through a cycle of (mostly very bad) reactions to his movie. “I watched my film,” he told Horowitz. “After the reviews in Toronto I was like maybe I did make a pile of shit, I went back and watched it. I fucking love this film. I love this film so much.”