In Reply to: eyes wide shut posted by late on March 12, 2000 at 16:40:42:
My wife and I rented both EWS and SOS over the weekend. EWS is boring, pretentious, and bizarre. While nicely filmed, I think reviewers were offering respects to a great director when giving it good marks.Summer of Sam I thought was very good, although disturbingly violent. Great buildup of tension, claustrophobia, and paranoia among a group of New Yorkers who know little beyond their immediate sphere of influences. A great study of how saying something enough, combined with some paranoia, can incite people to a lynchmob frenzy.
I also found the orgy scene in SOS far more interesting than the one in EWS.
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- Agree, boring ... check out Summer of Sam - jackrandom 14:43:21 03/13/00 (5)
- Re: Agree, boring ... check out Summer of Sam - caa 23:57:30 03/14/00 (4)
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- Re: Agree, boring ... check out Summer of Sam - gregM 11:02:04 03/15/00 (1)
- Re: Agree, boring ... check out Summer of Sam?!@? - Bill Leebens 06:55:01 03/22/00 (0)