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I thought it was incredibly well written & performed, and found it very clever as well! To each his own I guess... I thought Titanic was one of the worst movies I'd ever seen (with truly horrific acting & dialog), yet it won the Oscar (what a joke) for best film!!!
They were both terrible movies.......
I found this movie to be absolutely marvelous.
It was the most self indulgent, pretentious crock of crap I've seen. Sadly, many of the critics loved it.
Hard to be any worse that that piece of crap.How was it possible to jam in so many things that are wrong with Hollywood?
Bright side? I only watched about 20 minutes of it, then turned it off.
But what a torturous 20 minutes!
But the Adaptation? Why would anyone even waste time on another work of the Being John Malkovich "creator"?
Geez, Patrick, there are quite a few picks in that "Worst Film of the Decade" category...
what was bad about Goodwill Hunting and what was bad about Robin William's performance? What specific things that a re wrong with Hollywood were jammed into Goodwill Hunting?
I did, but it is nothing compared to this ! Have you seen it, if not you must ! It is the perfect example for pretencious " everything " best mention for acting & directing...Imagine TWO Cage overacting, one Streep looking voluntary older as she is ( for the sake of no one in Babylon do want aging actress on the return ).An actor for one hour without his front teeths, sirupy explained to the great relieve of the spectator as a tragic car accident, where is mother died,sniff...So much fatuities and imbecillity are very seldom...Go and see it...
I must be masochiste.
Maybe,
You too.PS : I am living too long in Germany ( You paid for it you look till the bitter end...)
But this one is..a must.
Thank you Patric, but I have fullfilled my American movies duties for this week already with the Hunting.I HATE Robin Williams!!!!!!
long before suffering through "Hunting", but after that film there will be nothing he could do for redemption but to spontaneously combust, preferably ASAP
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And if it weren't for a two minute scene, it would be great! Williams really disappears into the character.
Hmmm....only thing I've found him good in was Birdcage.Bill
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Well, in Garp ,at the time I found him acceptable, even if the film was bad, the very few first sequence were funny ( J. Irving..) It is the most overacting actor with Ford ( I like him, curiously ) and one who steadily press on your tear gland.
Dead Society ...I was the only one I knows, for not loving it...
when it came to running from gators and squeezing off pistol shots. I found the "insider" aspects of the movie interesting but ultimately sacrificed to banality---the performances were great, the writing went flatly awry at the end. Shame.
I was laughing as the credits rolled... as pointed out elsewhere, the film's ending was the punchline to a near two hour joke. The drug storyline, the car chase and escape into the swamp, his brother's death... all of this played like a bad episode of Cops or America's Most Wanted for a reason.If you remember, Charlie has a lunch meeting early on in the movie where he explains that he wants the script to be about the book and about flowers, stressing that he doesn't want to turn it into an action movie... this is exactly what happens by the end. It all ties into his self-loathing personality and feelings of inadequacy.
Another big joke in the movie is that it's credited to both Charlie and Donald when Donald doesn't even exist and never has. That has been well publicized, but I still think people fail to miss how great it is.
One other favorite is when they redo that scene from Being John Malkovich where all the people in the restaurant look like him and Malkovich tells everyone to make sure the shot happens quickly because it's extremely uncomfortable in the masks... but not so uncomfortable that they redid the scene for a few seconds in another movie. Imagine how long it took to get everyone made up for that 10 seconds of footage...
While I thought Adaptation was hilarious, I know that most people wouldn't think it was. It's definitely an art film and I'm just amazed that they got so much press for it. Spike Jonze is one of the most interesting directors out there and a very funny person.
wasn't re-shot. It was from documentary/behind the scenes footage of the movie and he was really giving those instructions. Apparently, before agreeing to let SJ use the footage of him, JM had to see Adaptation. After viewing it he agreed to let them use footage and asked "Why wasn't BJM that good?"
"when it came to running from gators and squeezing off pistol shots"But wasn't that the whole point - The tortured writer trying to make something important and authentic and finally breaking down and writing that hollywood ending that he hates so much. When the book doesn't give him enough for a movie, he reluctantly hypes up the hick, throws in a trailer park affair, spins up a fantastical drug ring twist, and when the hollywood chase scene is at it's height - throws in the alligator attack.
The instructor told him, "Don't use deus ex machina." The alligator attack and gunfights were the ultimate joke, the ultimate hollywood surprise ending and cheap trick that Cage's character was trying to avoid.
I thought it was pretty funny and reasonably clever. Watching a movie about a guy writing a screenplay for a movie about a guy writing the screenplay for the movie that you are now watching. The movie isn't real . . the alligator attack and affair aren't real. . it's all part of the movie that he's writing.
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What a marvelous script about writers block and bogus Hollywood artificiality. Convoluted, multi-layered and philosophical, it really had NOTHING to do with "The Orchid Thief". It's sure not a linear and smoothly obvious movie, but I like that. It was more of a mind warp that "Being John Malkovich" (same writer).One of my favorites from last year.
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The script was " a would be " pretentious without any reason to be, pseudo intellectuel, and on top this double play, entirely laughable...so badly played from Cage , a Cage like an ape with a touch of Marlon Brando .
Being John, was just funny for the first twenty minutes.
Never again!
I thought this was such a funny movie I laughed out loud quite often. That is not common. I thought the script was extraordinarily clever. Self-referential...never knew where it was headed. I found that very captivating. I even like the multiple meanings of the title. I found this very playful and refreshing.
For me as said before one of the worst ....ever.
...at least a thousand other candidates for "worst film" of the decade...Daddy Day Care and Kangaroo Jack, to name just two.Be thankful you haven't seen them.
Well, with this kind of names..I would not be tempted....
( hehe )
Some people feel that the ending cheated them by subjecting them to pure hollywood drivel, a sort of cheap trick. But one knew something fantastical was going to happen, all signs pointed to that, and the characters even told us. A anti-hollywood film a relatively new genre, but a worthwhile one, even if it too is formulaic. I liked it in a very non-philosophical way, an entertaining look at how something strange could happen to seemingly normal people. I was surprised, and the fact that I knew I would be surprised, didn't negate my enjoyment of it.
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. . . ending as perfect. The cop-out was completely intentional. It was his real life and yet it was exactly what he was saying all film long about how bogus contrived, Hollywoody movie endings usually are. It ended exactly how he didn't want it to end, even though it really happened (in the context of the film).The irony and knowing wink was obvious . . . to me anyway.
Lots of people aren't going to get this movie, but that's ok.
This film failure was that it has to be anti-Hollywood, for the sake of beeing.
It is confuse, mixed like a potpourri.
A great occasion ( writer blocade )definitively lost.
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