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Don Jon (2013)
Did he just stroke his own ego!?!
Seriously all this guy seems to want to do in his movie is show himself as much as he can working out, having his shirt off, getting the hottest girls and really trying to look like the coolest dude. Its worse than the bathroom mirror pictures on facebook and this one lasts for two hours.
The movies only strong attribute is when the main character talks about the addiction of pornography what the mind set is like and how it effects him. By the end it even tries to give a solution to this problem.
Also we already had to endure people on jersey shore and now Joseph just seems like he wants to be like them).
Slipstream (2007)
See kids its fun to have dementia...
Okay there are a couple things you need to know and realize before watching this movie:
A: This is a film made by a guy who's entire life has been synthesized through movies and acting and being told what his emotion for a scene is.
B:There is a theory that some dreams are actually are a glimpse into one of our past lives.
C: This is a story written by a man who possibly knows he doesn't have much time on this earth left and wanted to get his voice out and maybe his own confusion out before the end
And finally D: the entire concept of the story is explained when the woman tells him about the slipstream towards the beginning of the movie right down to the man saying a dream within a dream. What if he is dead and is cycling back and forth through his time lines, with no apparent beginning or end just a rush of images he can not control. He is dead and trying to make sense of all that he has seen and is probably going a little insane because of it. This idea would also attribute to the movie being played backwards really fast at the end of the movie.
In the end do not take this movie too seriously, or try to think of some big meaning of it just sit back and enjoy the fun photography, of actors playing crazy actors and just having fun being each other in that sense it is definitely good for a watch.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Worst Hollywood farce ever created!
It should be said that one of the additional causes of my distaste for this movie stems from the blatant lack of regard for the original source material. As such this film is also a Stanley Kubrick film and for some god awful reason people seem to think that his crap is gold.
The film itself was denounced by the author of the book, he was horrified that this was to be the book he would be remembered by. Thus it's being taken from another mans words, so less than 25% of this movie is unoriginal work taken from another and throwing the author into the trash much like he did with Stephen King's the shining and most of his so called symbolism and symmetry isn't anything different than what any film school grad student loves to experiment with. He skips some of the best parts in the book including WHY THE MOVIE IS CALLED CLOCKWORK ORANGE! In fact the story's ending itself is completely destroyed by Stanly reading the American version of the book which has one less chapter that explains the pinnacle point of the entire body of art. The movie itself has become something of controversy by the amount of disturbing material but really it's just plain annoying he completely loses the whole message and symbolism of the violence choosing instead to just suffocate us with this crap. (including choosing to show the titular character getting a cavity search instead of the whole experience of him in jail!) Really that's all the director adds is just more senseless boring innuendo. I'm not going to sit here and explain more since all of you who will read this probably are Kubrick worshipers and think I'm completely wrong. If I could talk to you I would but I can only write a review about it and I don't want to waste words to a deaf audience. If you want to know what I'm talking about than you can pick up the book, the new one with all chapters that is now being sold in the U.S.A. And has an insightful forward about the failure of the movie.
This is the first review I've written and I just had to because of the cult icon and classic this has become and it's pathetic! I can't believe people could think that this movie had anymore validation than crap. Please PLEASE someone remake this film so i can erase this film from my mind, you could do a lot worse as far as remakes have gone.