darko

I thought this movie was awful. For the first half hour, I thought "wow, this is a pretty imaginative idea". After that it just got ridiculous. His little attempts to be funny (such as the fetal position Giamatti [sp?] gets into to hear the story) are just really silly and unnecessary. The plot gets laughably complex until I finally felt like I was watching a poorly made video game (ie. "we have to find the gate keeper, now we have to find the guardian, now the healer"; it sounds like a crappy Lord of the Rings game). There was zero character development. You get no sense of any character except Giamatti's, and even then, he makes no sense. Why on earth would a doctor retreat from his position to become a plumber super intendent? How does that even remotely help his painful past? It was just a ridiculous explanation for why this guy is a superintendent and frankly, there is no such thing as a 'tragedy-induced' stutter as far as I've ever heard. he should have simply kept him as this shy, withdrawn character, not some crappy cookie-cutter tragic hero. And moreover, why is M.N.S. obsessed with domestic death? In every movie he does, there's a family member who has been killed that has some profound effect on the protagonist. Anyway, for a long list of reasons, this movie fell really flat. The writing was surprisingly bad, and MNS has a lot of narcissism to cast himself as the "world changing" prophet. Give me a break. And the chick looked like Data from Star Trek.

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nooo way, Garden State! What I did find kind of funny was that the 'instrumental' dramatic music in Requiem was the same music they decided to use in LOTR: ROTK. I remember I saw the LOTR trailer and was like "hmmm i recognize this instrumental..." Kind of a strange pair to share a song.

Yeah, the amputation i can even excuse, if somewhat overdramatic. But the psychiatric clinic at the end was really ridiculous, and almost cartoonish. I thought the movie just got too cliched by the end and I really lost the ability to care about the characters after all was said and done. I've been told (have yet to see the movie myself) that Pi is the better of the director's movies by far.

really? I dont know. The acting was okay, but the story was extremely weak in my opinion. I mean, since when is Brian Cox an expert with a gun? And why is the woman hanging out at magazine stand, instead of getting the hell out of the airport? Like why hide when your father is about to be killed? And why doesnt Murphy just use a pay phone to call in the hit? Or how about shootin the guy from a window with a sniper rifle instead of this elaborate plan that relies on one girl's cooperation? And a rocket launcher? Overkill anyone? There were a bunch of things that fell through at the end, and I was totally let down. There was way too much 'coicindence' and I also felt that it was silly that she stabs him with a dull pen, and then stabs him with a dull shoe. I mean, if that's how she works with dull objects, what about a knife? She'd kick some serious ass. I found those parts silly, and the struggle between the two(since murphy is a HITMAN) was also silly, because, really, he couldnt take her? Plus I always feel ripped off paying 13$ for a movie that was shorter than the Dukes of Hazard. It was like an hour long on the dot. I dont know. Just my opinion, but I can understand the acting comment, and even the style one too. Just the plot really ruined this for me, which is pretty crucial.

Did anyone actually like this movie? I saw it a few months ago with my girlfriend and both of us found it abhorrently stupid.

haha okay bud, whatever you say.

You're just made of maturity, aren't you saturnine?

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Haha. If your lives are really that dry that you need to sit there and patronize someone who didn't (God forbid) agree with your opinion, I say go for it. PS: There's a fairly large distinction between the hallucination of the fridge and the intended seriousness of the end that was not at all probable. But, I should stop, before one of the ten year olds hanging out at this post decide to make fun of me more.

thus the "I liked it until the last twenty minutes". If you're going to criticize me, at least fully read my messages. I enjoyed it, because yes, it is realistic, until the end when I think the writer ran out of ideas.

Well, if they're going to present a quasi-realistic view of drugs, I would expect a quasi-realistic view of drugs. But the condescending tone and sarcasm are extremely mature.

infection is one thing, amputation is another. You'd have to infect a vital artery to necessitate amputation. The kind of infection he had, you can't get from just using a dirty needle or whatever. And yes, an 'open wound' would do it, but on the other hand, a needle point is hardly an open wound, even a repeatedly used needle in approximately the same spot (i somehow doubt he managed to find the same hole every time, a little impossible). It would shut too fast (probably a couple of hours if that) before one could actually perpetually keep it open. That is why you can walk around after a vaccination. Even if there is SOME merit to that scene, the insane-asylum scene was absolutely ridiculous.

This was a TERRIBLE movie. Hammers in this cliched point, very overdramatic, not at all realistic (last I heard--i've studied medicine--you cannot lose your arm from doing what he did), and the ending was ridiculous. A mental patient signing her own forms? Uh huh. Right. I liked it until the last twenty minutes.

This movie was really not that great. They dialogue was terrible throughout the movie. The cinematography and plot were pretty great, even the acting wasn't all that bad, but they lost me with their attempts at being witty (i.e. doing this damn reverse comment like 10 times in the movie, for example "didnt you get the memo?", "mind your surroundings" etc. They repeat crap in different contexts to be clever, but just look stupid.) I've seen far better.

It's a remarkably unrealistic show, but it's entertaining.

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well, then I do request address and telephone number.

definitely.

Because Layton is important enough for it.

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