Burning Annie

This movie is really good. The first time I saw it, i laughed nonstop. A great humorous look at different relationships among college students. This movie gives an indepth look at living away at college and really makes you feel like you are back there with the characters. A great movie for anyone who has gone away to college!! And Im not just saying all this cause....

showed this film at our film festival. good characters with a good storyline made this film a crowd favorite. i liked it as well. funny, sweet, romantic; in short, great date night film.

the only thing that bothered me was the actor who played tommy. ugh. i can't stand that guy. he's the same guy who played the annoying "flair" restaurant guy in office space. thankfully he wasn't in much of this film, but he was in it enough to annoy me. other than this guy, i thought the film was really good. (yes, i am petty. sue me.)

i look forward to seeing what else van flesher directs. we'd love to have him back at the oxnard indie film festival. :)

I just saw Burning Annie in a private screening and was impressed. It plays like a smarter, nerdier version of your standard Hollywood college-age hookup movie. These people think, talk, and act much like me and my friends do -- their lives center as much around pop culture references and video games as they do love. The humor comes from a dead-on portrayal of all the types of people you meet in college; they're slightly exaggerated but always ring true. This is the kind of movie you watch, enjoy, leave feeling good, then find you're remembering funny scenes and bits of dialog days later. This is definitely a film that deserves a wider audience than it's enjoyed so far.

I'm not a big fan of long winded reviews, technical blathering, unabashed praise for "breaking new ground" or endlessly cheering another cinematic innovation when these elements disguise a weak story.

Thankfully, BURNING ANNIE is anything but that. It's a somber, somwhat bipolar view of what it's like at College for THE REST OF US. You know, the one's who didn't have that AMERICAN PIE experience in the "best years of our lives", the one's who, more often than not, didn't get the girl, and ultimatly, the ones who still examine our lives, wondering what more we can get from it. That said, BURNING ANNIE holds more in tune with THE RULES OF ATTRACTION than VAN WILDER or any recent college film in memory. It's not entirely uplifting, but it's true to life, and it's humor is found through these moments, the ones we all can relate to. While the copy of BURNING ANNIE I saw wasn't 100% complete, and the festival venue was less than stellar, it was truly one of the gems out there. Few times have I heard more people discussing it over a post-film cigarette.

Will BURNING ANNIE be a smashing success like AMERICAN PIE? Probably not.

Does BURNING ANNIE break new ground? Not exactly.

Are it's characters rich, fully fleshed out, with real flaws and real pains? Yes, yes and YES!

And that's it's strongest point. Everything else, from the moody rag-tag indie label music, to the subdued somber lighting, paints a beautiful portrait of REAL people struggling with REAL problems trying to find their places in the REAL world. From the direction to the acting and everything in between, it's a solid, consistent production that, despite a few minute hiccups, has earned a place among my favorites.

But it's not a movie for everyone, and if it doesn't get distribution (which would be a shame) few will have a chance to disagree with me. In an age of target marketing and mindless gross out targeted at the village idiots, it's a breath of fresh. And to those who like thoughtful well paced character studies about the transitions in life and the prices we pay, this is a film for you!

As a first time movie, few films rival it, so it's with great excitement that I look foreward to another production by the same cast and crew.

I saw this movie in a film festival this past Saturday and it was a lot of fun! Hopefully it will get picked up and distributed soon so more folks can see it. It's basically about this college guy who decides that his obsession with the movie Annie Hall is a curse on his love life. I'm usually pretty picky about comedies but this one got a lot of giggles out of me, and it had a great reception at the film festival, so keep your eye out for it!