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KCPhaid
Reviews
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Excellent Piece of work!
Excellent Piece of work!
I am not a surfer nor a skate board fan, but work this good about sorting sock drawers would have been riveting. A must see!
There is a lot to enjoy here. Excellent Visuals. Great sound track mix. Huge body of documentary work both pictures and film.
The life work and love of the subject is captivating.
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Not a comedy and no romance in it. This movie failed.
Some have called this the worst movie ever. at this time I have to agree with this opinion. I thought 'I'm losing you' was bad, but this was worse.
1) It is listed a romantic comedy. Nothing in this movie is funny. No opinion here mentions any aspect of humor or comedy existing in this movie. 2) The story line is not Romanic. There is no romance nor does the movie put you in nor add to a romantic mood.
Therefore, this movie bad or good can be agreed upon to be a failure in its mission to be a romantic comedy. If romantic or comedy that is what you are looking for, this is not the movie.
What it is, is a poor portrayal of a glimpse into mental illness and poor social skills. It does not even handle that subject with reality nor believability. See Rainman if that is your interest.
The only thing it does do is have symbolism, for the sake of symbolism. It does succeed at this slightly as it has generated a lot of 'I know more than you, because I noticed blah blah blah' talk. The kind of black turtleneck in the coffeehouse talk that is tripe. If you are interested in symbolism, visit your local coffee house and ask the beatnik reading Catcher In The Rye.
The only 2 interesting thing that it could have done, but did not, was; 1) Explain his metal issues by telling us, what happened that day in his childhood with the hammer. We might then know, what the origin of his trouble was, but I believe this type of character depth to be beyond this screenplay. 2) Explain why the girl was interested in him after seeing the picture of him with all of his sisters? Was it because she was a lonely only child and really just wanted to be one of the sisters? Again even this simplistic character depth would be too much for this story.
In summary good, bad, or ugly this movie is a definitive failure. I am glad I bought it used. Now if I can just give it away before everyone catches on. Yes that is a little bit of a hammer, but they introduced it, and I was the only one who figured out how to use it.
KCMojo