rarematters

The reviewers have gotten quite philosophical on this site, it seems!! Trying to dissect this film as though it were... Gone With The Wind! This is classic, but advanced Vaughn. Very subtle, fairly subtle and blatant humor and all out character comedy. Fine mix indeed. I loved it. It wasn't meant to be Shakespeare snooties. Advice: Watch it with captions. I don't normally like doing this as it throws off some of the timing, but these lines are hilarious and you need to see some of them to catch them. A little work, but this movie is worth the thought it takes to laugh yer can off. If you are distracted at all this movie won't work for you. You need to be in it...Daddy.

Some of my favorite movies are The Butterfly Effect, Vanilla Sky, and Minority Report - because they take the viewer on a dreamy ride and test our perception and our desire to control the future. Premonition takes you into a confusing restless ride and let's you keep wondering when you will awake. Maybe you don't.. not everyone does. I'm very surprised by the reviewers who must have just sat there and analyzed this movie instead of letting it take them away. I loved the movie. Good moviegoers are good dreamers. Who says you are entitled to wake up from a bad dream and everything makes perfect sense when the sun shines in the morning? What if it doesn't? Those who say they guessed the plot are not being truthful - at all - with themselves. There's nothing to guess. Like any dream - there is no plot through which you can drive a nail. When you're dreaming - just when you think there's a plot - something flat-out plot-less occurs. This movie successfully touches on many slippery and difficult to corral feelings experienced through many peoples lives... like dreaming... like going insane.. like mixed degrees of reality... like uncontrollable paranoia... and like thinking you know the plot of something, where it's headed, and where it should wind up - when you can't possibly.

The negative reviews really seemed to flow on this movie. I think many people felt duped by the inclusion of Quentin Tarantino's name on this film (I still have not figured his true affiliation with this movie). It may have originally been a ploy to salt the trail and lead viewers - like keyword spamming on ebay - therefore critics are retaliating by overly harsh criticism. This is an interesting movie. Well written and acted. It's a shocking ride. If you are expecting Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, why? Because somebody mentioned QT's name? Forget it. This is a different movie and certainly NOT trying to be like any other. Many people didn't seem to understand the soft porn galore, but the movie takes place in Amsterdam. Prostitutes REALLY DO advertise by dancing in glass windows along the street and absolutely anything goes. It's for real. Roth didn't invent this stuff he's bringing you in on the real deal. We are in Amsterdam folks. It sets up the premise for the rest of the movie... that... money can get you whatever you desire... and be careful what you wish for. This is a raw, potent and extreme film, not for those afraid to be deeply shocked by things they probably have never imagined... they could imagine. What movies are for anyway!