hepasto
Joined Jan 2002
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I've heard all the goods about this movie....so I decided to see it and I wasn't disappointed. Although I don't really like it this much but the acting (especially Robin Williams) is superb and the plot is well driven. (Though I can't agree with the reaction of that police guy after Sy keep saying "you're a good father" and stuff like that....thanks to Robin William's great acting we could see how socially dysfunctioned Sy but I still think that part sucked major time)
I'll give it a 7/10 (above average)
I'll give it a 7/10 (above average)
The film start off with a very interesting promise as the young and good hearted william witnesses his rebellious sister's departure and how he was introduced to rock'n'roll.
The plot gets more interesting as he meets Penny Lane and the band Still Water. We get to see people living in a world without 'substance' (as william's mother describes it), and how some of them are blinded by money and fame. While only a handful of soulful ones can see through (e.g. Russel).
Each of them have a story to tell, but only to people who are "real". The film spent some time focusing on the shallow social exchange between people. William, while a friend of Russel but also an aspiring rockstar journalist, had to decide what to tell to the Rolling Stone magazine. Russel also tried to use William to get all famous cause he knows hes a journalist. Simply put their friendships are all put to test upon vanity and greed as they know more and more about each other.
Overall I think the first half of the movie is really good, but gets a little 'clichy' later on, couldve been better. There are also a few forced dialogues but those are just minor and doesnt matter too much.
The charactors and their developments I think are what make this film so brilliant. Acting is superb especially Kate Hudson, she really stole the show from the start to the end.
The plot gets more interesting as he meets Penny Lane and the band Still Water. We get to see people living in a world without 'substance' (as william's mother describes it), and how some of them are blinded by money and fame. While only a handful of soulful ones can see through (e.g. Russel).
Each of them have a story to tell, but only to people who are "real". The film spent some time focusing on the shallow social exchange between people. William, while a friend of Russel but also an aspiring rockstar journalist, had to decide what to tell to the Rolling Stone magazine. Russel also tried to use William to get all famous cause he knows hes a journalist. Simply put their friendships are all put to test upon vanity and greed as they know more and more about each other.
Overall I think the first half of the movie is really good, but gets a little 'clichy' later on, couldve been better. There are also a few forced dialogues but those are just minor and doesnt matter too much.
The charactors and their developments I think are what make this film so brilliant. Acting is superb especially Kate Hudson, she really stole the show from the start to the end.
Good directing, screenplay, and acting (except bjork, where she over-acted/mis-acted in several shots) but very poor and shallow plot.
Basically you see this woman named Selma suffering in the whole movie and some of her friends tried to help her. Some parts are just basically stupid and childish for example why would that guard suddenly love selma so much it almost make it seem like a movie for children.
And Selma is just selfish and stupid, she thinks some $2000 is more important than 2 human lives. If she really cared for her son then she should work something out with her friends. I doubt that her son would trade his mother for some surgeries.
Besides did she really need that money in such a rush? Well she looks like 40 something when she completely lost her sight and her son is only like 6.
Not only that, some of the "musicals" that are forced into the film are just overlong and hard to stand, not that i dont like bjork's music but i just dont think it fits in like that.
Basically you see this woman named Selma suffering in the whole movie and some of her friends tried to help her. Some parts are just basically stupid and childish for example why would that guard suddenly love selma so much it almost make it seem like a movie for children.
And Selma is just selfish and stupid, she thinks some $2000 is more important than 2 human lives. If she really cared for her son then she should work something out with her friends. I doubt that her son would trade his mother for some surgeries.
Besides did she really need that money in such a rush? Well she looks like 40 something when she completely lost her sight and her son is only like 6.
Not only that, some of the "musicals" that are forced into the film are just overlong and hard to stand, not that i dont like bjork's music but i just dont think it fits in like that.