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Tishala
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08-01-2000
| Sunday, October 03, 2004 - 10:51 pm
OK, so I went to see this film today and I needed a couple hours to decide what to say about it. It has a strange cast--Dustin Hoffman married to Lily Tomlin [as "existential detectives"] is slightly crazier than his upcoming marriage to Barbra Streisand in Meet the Fockers--and a strange concept that is both existential in its most vulgar incarnation and wholly interested in the particular inanity embraced by "Angelinos," at least in the popular imaginary. So the film is good, but not great. It has some adventurous filmmaking, but not a great script, which feels like it was written by some of my undergrads after a particularly grueling 20th Century Philosophy class in which they learned Sartre's joys but not Nietzsche's hammer [or Heidegger's nuance]. Jason Schwartzman is very good in the lead role as a part-time environmental activist; Jude Law and Naomi Watts are also adequate; but the real comic joy comes from Mark Wahlberg. The film wants to ponder life's big questions, but I wondered whether it was really just a ruse to show the failings of philosophical pursuits.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, October 03, 2004 - 10:52 pm
Mods! Ooops! The Weird symbol in the title should be a heart....can you change it? Or at least change it to "Heart"?
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 9:26 am
This flick was majorly twisted. I could have gone my whole life without the "feeding" scene.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 10:50 am
I saw the first part of this movie then shut it off. Found it annoying and tiresome. Not my cup of tea.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 1:14 pm
I finally saw this, or part of it, and also turned it off. The cast was so good but the whole thing just went over my head.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 12:10 pm
I stuck it out....it was a movie that provoked thought for me. The ending was interesting....loved Mark W.'s character...was so funny. My guy didn't like it that much, found it boring except when Mark was on the screen. Loved Lily Tomlin & Dustin Hoffman...they were pretty funny too but not as funny as Mark W.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 4:52 pm
Having not heard a thing about this movie and not knowing what it was about at all I have to say, we literally cracked up laughing at it. It's just one of those so ridiculous campy movies that we just had to laugh at the quirkyness of it!
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 11:26 pm
Ok, I love quirky humor. I thought I would LOVE this film...Boy, was I wrong. There were funny parts. Most came from Lily Tomlin or Mark Walberg. Maybe it tried too hard. I don't know. It was just bad. We thought to turn it off but I felt the need to see it through. It didn't get better.
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Fiat
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10-07-2004
| Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 9:08 pm
I just watched this tonight. (thank you, Netflix) LOVED IT! Very interesting philosophical ponderings.
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Danzdol
Member
04-21-2001
| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 8:02 am
Darn, see I should have turned it off but watched the ENTIRE thing wanting it to get better. The only thing that kept us going was Mark Wahlberg. Now it's my turn to wear the "i can't choose a Netflix movie again" crown in my house!
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