Film: Sour Grapes

This is a film written and directed by the great Larry David. Seinfeld taught me everything I know about life from the years I was 12 to 17. I think it permanently warped my view of the world and perception of reality. But it's so damn funny who cares if it made me neurotic? Curb Your Enthusiasm is a little more hit or miss but still one of the best TV shows out there.
I had heard this movie wasn't very good (even in interviews with Larry David) but I figured that it had to have some redeeming qualities because of the pedigree of writer/director. I was wrong. The two main leads are very bad actors. One is the other guy from Wings (not Thomas Hayden-Church) and he's the better of the two. That should show you the level of acting. In another post about this movie someone was talking about the lines and how they are "Davidesque" and looking at the lines on paper they are quite close to Curb Your Enthusiasm but David hadn't developed a way to deliver them yet. The actors just kind of recite the lines and don't know how to emphasize them correctly and they end up just sounding odd, not funny. If you put Larry David in one of these roles it might have been halfway funny.
But as it is the movie is fairly poor. But I think that maybe in the end this movie did a great service to mankind. It let Larry David see that he needed to develop a way to deliver his lines the way he probably said them in his head. Because in this case it didn't translate from paper to actor at all. I know Curb is improvised and that makes it even more clear that Larry David himself is what makes that show funny. If you took David out of Curb and replaced him with an actor who said the exact same lines David said, the show wouldn't be half as funny. And I think he might have learned that from Sour Grapes.