Reviews

I loved the nostalgia and modern freshness mixed together an atmosphere of a female dream soft and impossible and a Tim Roth that how many miles has he gone all these years from pulp fiction to this ethereal joyful dream thank you for such diversity and for the colors and the odors of a summer dream in an swedish island under the overimposing figure of Bergman and the mystique of Bergman films intermingled with this much simpler summer dream in a swedish island. The biographical element of a selfish self centered Bergman who mistreats his lovers lurks just like one of the ghosts of Bergman movies. Unknown to me this element transpires in the selfishness of Tim Roth's character that is set in contrast with the lovely female ghosts in the house.

I detest series so much time for a movie so many segments too much space for characters... But this one is in cre di ble the plot the Development of the characters the story the acting all is to perfection. Acting is stellar cheers to Jennifer Aniston. I regret I already watched it.

I had watched this movie back when it came out. I am usually very afraid to watch again movies that i liked very much many years before, because time does leave its marks on many great movies. This was a shocker: not only i still remembered the story lines after all this time, but it's still that great, yes it is: we empathize with many characters, the acting itself is absolutely top notch, the explosion of colors on the screen is not empty forms: the contents are just as beautiful. i think one of the threads of the movie is how the different characters feel and express love along with the drama that comes with this soaring feeling that's love. I am only a small amateur, but i witness the use of the camera is absolutely timeless: the camera is held in such a manner that makes the events come out on your screen in a more realistic way. This style of using the camera mimicking an amateur taking the shooting is still used today, 17 years after the movie was made! i want to tell people who liked this years ago, fear not and watch it again, tears will come out freshly!

I was completely owed all along, i loved every dialogue, the characters are so very well pictured, every nuanced sense of humour spoke to me clearly, like if it was my own life in the movie. it's another girl-coming-of-age movie, like girl interrupted or also and Ghost World- which was equally absolutely great. I was thrown in a kaleidoscope of memories, moments i lived, situations, things i wish i had done differently. CHristine/lady bird is definitely a lot more smart than i was at that age, and to my children i will teach to always be outspoken, to always say what you think, never to be ashamed of your own thoughts. I will never forget this film, it will always stay with me.

Just a heap of common places, clichés and overall unrealistic depiction of southern Sudanese people, Africans in general. I confidently watched the movie seeing all these good reviews but could not really even watch it all. I am unsure if anyone who has liked this has ever lived in Africa. and I can't believe people would believe African are so naive and aloof.

this thought provoking, hallucinated, greatly written comedy is so funny you will hold your guts. I have watched it perhaps 7 times, and it still is not only entertaining but really funny and just great time to spend watching a movie.

Jeff bridges at his best ever, i think, it is so funny this man the dude should be everyone's hero. the movie is also about peace in his own intrinsically and curiously unusual way. Looking at it after now 10 years after it was made is not only still a great laugh, but also inspiring. It's good now and then to get back in to rock and roll. I think the movie tackles important questions about life, in an intensely comical and intelligent way. I live in Europe and it might just be that people who are not so familiar with the American culture would not be able to catch the great humor, but I feel blessed to be able to understand the hero that the dude is playing. i truly wish i was like him.

For those of you who have liked American beauty, this movie is a much more sophisticated and intense version of that sort of outlook. At the end of the movies, what really stays with you is not a story, or a movie character. What really penetrates into you is a pleasant and almost relaxing mix of colors and atmosphere. Like if you went into your shrink lab and talked the entire hour about your childhood, about some impressions you have from your adolescence and so on. It's funny how the movie sort of crystallizes a split second of regular American life, into a place without space but especially without time. the guache of music and colors that extrinsecated by the movie made me think of the years seventies, especially. Coming out of the theater you will find yourself in the perfect mood to go back to bed, and feel reconcilitated with the world around you. I also want to add that the director could have easily fallen into a series of common places, which she brilliantly escaped. There is no bad guy and good guy in the movie, this is just a piece of art, like a poetry, or a painting, or both.

Oh, how saddening to see Stephen King putting his name under this third quality movie. As usual when i go to see a movie, I was all excited and was expecting to be thrilled. However, after half an hour it was clear to all the audience that acting was poor and so were the scripts. The plot was uninteresting and unoriginal. After half an hour, the audience was moking the actors, and everyone was laughing. I payed 12.50 to see this very low quality movie. I think it's a scandal that the market allows for this to happen: good movies are often disregarded by the large audiences, and bad movies get so much publicity that everyone goes to see them. Absolutely a no no no movie, wait and rent it at a block buster so you can shut it off when you are sleepy.

I was just reading other comments made about this movie, and they were so negative that made me want to try and say a couple of words to say that the movie is great, entertaining, interesting, funny, original. A perfect plot, mastered with capacity and played at perfection. If you want to see a movie that shows how the magic of life beats the magic of christmas, go to see the movie, and be ready to face entangled plots of lives humoristically interwined.

I am probably the last person who should write anything about this movie. I am a profound deep admiror of Schnitzler, and am very fond of Austrian decadentism. I was so amazed, happy, thrilled to find out at the end of the movie that the story was actually taken from Schnitzler, a writer whom I have always admired. The decadence of The Male is very well conveyed in this movie. I hope I am not forcing the interpretation, but I thought that Tom Cruise was very well chosen as his role is certainly that of a pathetic loser. Cruise's character is a sort of Ulysses restlessly traveling through the most trivial masculine sexual depravations. It is in the nature of things that most of the public didn't like the movie. It became so famous thanks to Kubrik's name and that of Cruise and Nicole Kidman. However, it's not typical Hollywood movie, and it's difficult to like it without some background. Personally it was a great experience, and I didn't have to put any effort to let myself navigate into the dreamy atmosphere. The part of the masuquerade was superbous. The musics, the masks, a perfect Freudian nightmare. Also, there is no room for women in the movie. They are represetned simply as the object of male's desires and aspirations. Nothing is dedicated to the explanation of their own world. It's a film all in the masculine gender, but extremely autocritical. I loved to watch the movie, I felt I was looking in a mirror, or sitting at a psychanalist who choses nice words to explain your own pathetic selfconscious

I am proably biased by my European background, but I think that movies like this are worth of all consideration. I considered Panic intellectually stimulating and funny, which is more than enough as far as I am concerned to ask from a movie. The acting is great for this surreal comedy. The story is minimal, a killer on commission is at odds with his dad, and finally they come to a clash when the father orders him to kill his own shrink. This movie is a mirror reflecting a dull life without values or sensations when your job is to kill under commission.

A leap of fantasy into the future: a lone voyager observes astonished the dark rainy skies of a futuristic LA brilliantly represented as China Town in NY. Difficult to summarize the inspiration behind Harrison Ford's character Blade Runner: perhaps Michelangelo, Joyce, and Homer. After the movie is over, a few things stay with you: the doubtful, puzzled expression of Harrison Ford, Homerun hero plunged into the future; dozens of open-ended expressions and quotes from the movie; the gothic atmosphere; the Michelangeaolesque glowing astonishingly enormous Geishas made of pixels waving from above the dark skies. And the lovely replicants, sensible souls captured in synthetic yet perfect and beautiful bodies. If you grew up in the eighties, you will recognize Siouxie in one of them. The movie is a prism, and the story is enrapturing. It takes concentration, and a mature, sober mind. I personally watched it the first time while I was a stoned 14 years old, and couldn't understand anything about it. I had to watch it again and again before slapping my forehead for not having understood before what a masterpiece it is. Harrison Ford is the reluctant agent chosen to capture 5 replicants escaped from a far away colony, where they were sent to conquer land for the swarming terrestrials. The replicants are perfect imitation of humans, and are programmed to last only a number of years. But these have decided to rebel to their programmed destiny. As Harrison Ford begins to inquire further and deeper, he understands that the fear of these replicants is in fact human. Living in fear. What an atrocious destiny that of the replicants. The dramatic final is perfectly cathartic in that salvation and optimism lies in one established uncontroversial truth: technology.

The movie is good especially because it fits very well the sociological context in which it was conceived: California. The fragmentation of the story into a whirlpool of stories, at times breathtaking, reminded me of the patchwork-style a la Altman. It's great for all those who have an interest in post-modernity because of the fragmentation of the events and the endless research of a moral ending to existence reminds of the post-modern philosophical debate. I think it's enjoyable to everyone because the story is meant to never leave the viewer one second to think about what is going on. Besides, don't worry, if you get bored the final scene will re-generate you.