You people MUST be kidding.
This movie was a snore-a-thon! I heard so much about it so I decided to rent it on DVD.
Patrick Fugit was a good lead for this movie, but he spent most of his time just looking at everything with the same look of "wonder", whether it be a pretty girl or a plate of food...not the greatest acting.
Kate Hudson was serviceable, but the director spent an AWFUL lot of time in the first half of the movie doing close-up face shots of Patrick and Kate instead of advancing the story...I guess he was fascinated by these two actors.
The atmosphere of the movie was great. Having lived in a rock-and-roll environment in the early 70's it was kinda fun to be taken back to that era.
However, in the end, that's not enough reason to give the film such high marks as it's gotten. It was very slow to develop, too much time was spent on atmosphere and not enough on story. The movie was only watchable from the "airplane incident" on.
Sheesh, people sure are quick to jump on a bandwagon and give a very mediocre film undeserved credit.
I'd give this one a pass.
James
This movie was a snore-a-thon! I heard so much about it so I decided to rent it on DVD.
Patrick Fugit was a good lead for this movie, but he spent most of his time just looking at everything with the same look of "wonder", whether it be a pretty girl or a plate of food...not the greatest acting.
Kate Hudson was serviceable, but the director spent an AWFUL lot of time in the first half of the movie doing close-up face shots of Patrick and Kate instead of advancing the story...I guess he was fascinated by these two actors.
The atmosphere of the movie was great. Having lived in a rock-and-roll environment in the early 70's it was kinda fun to be taken back to that era.
However, in the end, that's not enough reason to give the film such high marks as it's gotten. It was very slow to develop, too much time was spent on atmosphere and not enough on story. The movie was only watchable from the "airplane incident" on.
Sheesh, people sure are quick to jump on a bandwagon and give a very mediocre film undeserved credit.
I'd give this one a pass.
James