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In Reply to: Just seen the worst film of the decade, I will make very short : Adaptation. nt posted by patrickU on May 31, 2003 at 13:11:17:
What a marvelous script about writers block and bogus Hollywood artificiality. Convoluted, multi-layered and philosophical, it really had NOTHING to do with "The Orchid Thief". It's sure not a linear and smoothly obvious movie, but I like that. It was more of a mind warp that "Being John Malkovich" (same writer).One of my favorites from last year.
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The script was " a would be " pretentious without any reason to be, pseudo intellectuel, and on top this double play, entirely laughable...so badly played from Cage , a Cage like an ape with a touch of Marlon Brando .
Being John, was just funny for the first twenty minutes.
Never again!
I thought this was such a funny movie I laughed out loud quite often. That is not common. I thought the script was extraordinarily clever. Self-referential...never knew where it was headed. I found that very captivating. I even like the multiple meanings of the title. I found this very playful and refreshing.
For me as said before one of the worst ....ever.
...at least a thousand other candidates for "worst film" of the decade...Daddy Day Care and Kangaroo Jack, to name just two.Be thankful you haven't seen them.
Well, with this kind of names..I would not be tempted....
( hehe )
Some people feel that the ending cheated them by subjecting them to pure hollywood drivel, a sort of cheap trick. But one knew something fantastical was going to happen, all signs pointed to that, and the characters even told us. A anti-hollywood film a relatively new genre, but a worthwhile one, even if it too is formulaic. I liked it in a very non-philosophical way, an entertaining look at how something strange could happen to seemingly normal people. I was surprised, and the fact that I knew I would be surprised, didn't negate my enjoyment of it.
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. . . ending as perfect. The cop-out was completely intentional. It was his real life and yet it was exactly what he was saying all film long about how bogus contrived, Hollywoody movie endings usually are. It ended exactly how he didn't want it to end, even though it really happened (in the context of the film).The irony and knowing wink was obvious . . . to me anyway.
Lots of people aren't going to get this movie, but that's ok.
This film failure was that it has to be anti-Hollywood, for the sake of beeing.
It is confuse, mixed like a potpourri.
A great occasion ( writer blocade )definitively lost.
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