Eddie Dean
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This movie rules. Chang is maybe the coolest character of the past decade.
6/10
I was really looking forward to this and felt confused after viewing it. I loved how beautifully the film was shot, the acting and cinematography was great. There were scenes I liked but overall the film was so drab and dark without one tad bit of any positive vibe that it made it overall a disturbing dark place to go, with no light to shine through or anyone to root for.
I love dark films, I also love crazy violent films, but something about this one just didn't work for me.
The movie was just too strange, I am going to watch it again just to get a better handle of my rating, which I do with all movies, but I wouldnt say I am looking forward to watching it again.
The silent scenes worked in Drive because Gosling's character always had someone else in the room reacting to him, here he was often on his own and it just came across as weird and pointless.
Completely agreed. The silent scenes in this are more brutal than the violence in the film itself. There's a shot at the dinner table with Julian's mother that must have been a solid half a minute before she started talking (I thought the film was frozen at that point, everyone I was watching it with laughed when it started up again), the whole 30 seconds you're just sitting there and looking at her face, it's pointless and amateurish filmmaking. I hate how every character, besides the mother, is monotone as well, there was never much energy displayed in the performances.
I saw it yesterday. this is probably the best comedy of 2013. I laughed A LOT.
Haha, yeah... I watched this with a couple of my friends and we pretty much MST3K'd the whole thing. I hated this movie but it was good for a laugh. WARNING: Do not watch the Chang karaoke scenes while drinking something or else it will be coming out of your nose.
Another good example is when the cops tell Julian about the murder of the guy who killed his brother. It just freezes on his face for a few moments and we can see in his face what he's thinking. The cogs are turning in his head "Dammit mother!" haha
Where is your avatar from?
No one is good at movie riffing. Not a single person. Its the worst.
Haha, yeah... I watched this with a couple of my friends and we pretty much MST3K'd the whole thing. I hated this movie but it was good for a laugh. WARNING: Do not watch the Chang karaoke scenes while drinking something or else it will be coming out of your nose.
And yet MST3K ran for like 11 years and Rifftrax has been going strong ever since.
I'm not going to pretend I'm even 1/10 as good as they are, but you're assertion that "not a single person" is good at it is a pile of crap.